Maintenance Scheduler - Hot Mill
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 23, 2026.
Position Overview
Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together, we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.
Responsibilities & Qualifications
The Novelis Bay Minette, AL team is seeking Maintenance Schedulers to work in the Bay Minette facility. The responsibility of the Maintenance Scheduler requires the planning and scheduling of maintenance jobs for electricians and mechanics, as well as contractors. The Scheduler also works directly with Maintenance Leaders, Reliability Planners, and Schedulers in other areas to plan and develop schedules for maintenance and expense project work. In addition, the Scheduler provides materials, drawings, work orders, work schedules, instructions, and maintenance manuals as required.
Responsibilities:
- Embrace the Novelis Safety Absolutes to build a zero-injury culture and the Novelis cultural beliefs of Be Authentic, Say Anything, Be Open and Built Trust
- Own all maintenance work in schedulers' backlog and continuously work towards improving work management metrics
- Reconcile all work orders from uptime and downtime, working with appropriate maintenance supervisors
- Assist crew leaders and associate leaders in finding the right maintenance work to fill production holes.
- Report metrics as requested.
- Develop and coordinate Gantt chart schedules for semi-annual and annual outages.
- Determine workforce availability and identify resource gaps for accomplishing required work
- Conduct schedule review meeting with operations, engineers and maintenance coordinators / crew leaders
- Develop rough schedule at least 2 weeks in advance with required labor hours identified
- Conduct backlog review and assign priority based on the equipment that need to be service and the nature of the work
- Coordinate shared resource needs with other manufacturing maintenance departments and central maintenance to support plant priorities and needs
- Communicate maintenance schedules (draft and final) with operations, maintenance leaders (incl. associates), and engineers as required
- Develop and publish final maintenance schedules and print work orders (min. 1 weekday in advance for down day)
- Availability to routinely work before and after standard work hours, particularly on shutdown days, typically 1-2 days a week.
Minimum Qualifications:
- HS Diploma/GED or 5 yrs industrial experience
- Previous experience in SAP
- Ability to work with operations, maintenance, engineering, other departments, and leadership (all levels of the organization)
- Department specific experience in maintenance, engineering, or operations (5 or more years preferred).
- Demonstrated passion for getting the right maintenance work done at the right time.
- Ability to learn SAP specific transaction requirements
- Ability to follow standard procedures on scheduling process
- Ability to communicate effectively across all subject areas in the department
- Communication and organization skills
- Experience with excel
- Public speaking skills for holding meetings
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 Year Degree in a related field
- General mechanical/electrical experience
Physical Requirements:
- Near constant standing with frequent walking and occasional sitting
- Occasional below waist level work, climbing, balancing, carrying, reaching over 15” away from the body, reaching above shoulder, fine motor skills, use of forceful motion, push/pull and lifting up to 35 lbs
- Ability to meet the physical requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation
- Able and willing to work at heights
What We Offer:
Novelis' benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have many different needs. As a result, our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality, driven in the marketplace, and affordable. These are a few of the benefits we offer to support you and your family’s well-being:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Health savings accounts - Company Funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
- Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
- Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
- 401(k) savings plan with company match
- Retirement savings plans - medical and prescription drug coverage through private exchange
- Employee assistance programs - available 24/7 to you and your family
- Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance
Location Profile
Novelis' newly announced Bay Minette facility will be located 35 miles northeast of Mobile AL and 45 miles west of Pensacola FL and is expected to create approximately 1000 high-paying advanced careers in modern manufacturing. This highly advanced rolling and recycling facility will be the first of its kind. It will primarily serve our customers in the beverage can and automotive markets. Novelis is committed to the community and will actively build partnerships in Baldwin County focused on recycling STEM education and workforce development. At Novelis we believe our culture of collaboration is our competitive advantage and we would love for you to consider building a career with us.
Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.
Disclaimer
We encourage all potential candidates to follow the protocols below and to be diligent when sharing any personal information:1. Check the job posting is live and valid via our careers page: Careers - Novelis2. Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis