Process Engineer (f/m/d)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 28, 2026.
Position Overview
Who we are
Novelis is driven by its purpose to shape a sustainable world together.
As a global leader in innovative products and services and the world's largest recycler of aluminum, we partner with customers in the automotive, beverage can, aerospace and specialties industries to deliver solutions that improve the benefits of balanced lightweight aluminum.
We have a coordinated network of technically sophisticated rolling and recycling plants as well as foundries across 29 facilities in 9 countries throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia with 12,750 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, USA.
Our customers include some of the largest and best-known brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Airbus, Boeing, Nespresso, Samsung, and others. In addition, Novelis is leading the industry with its sustainability and recycling efforts.
Become part of our mission to create a sustainable world and start as soon as possible at our location in Latchford as:
Process Engineer (f/m/d)
Responsibilities & Qualifications
What awaits you:
Working with the local senior management at Latchford, the post holder will provide support and expertise to ensure safe production in their area of responsibility, supporting daily operations to reach operational targets through defined processes, leading the area in productivity improvements while maintaining the right quality standards.
Accountabilities include:
- Providing technical support for fault-finding and process development for scrap pre-treatment, melting, metal treatment and/or casting.
- Maintaining reporting of KPIs to ensure the Plant moves in the right direction.
- Understanding and utilising Continuous Improvement Problem Solving techniques in line with the Novelis Operating System.
- Participating in Safety, Continuous Improvement, and Energy focused GEMBAs.
- Establishing close relationship with the site stakeholders and internal customers.
- Maintaining statistical data for area of responsibility.
- Ensuring compliance to Novelis manufacturing and quality standards.
- Utilising site Pi system and data analysis to form Process/Operating Standards.
- Continuously improving processes to optimise operations whilst maintaining a stable process.
How you convince us:
Individuals are expected to have a relevant engineering or metallurgy degree with 5+ years of industrial experience, preferably in a similar industry or process. In addition, they should have:
- A thorough technical grounding and knowledge of quality processes, with knowledge of ISO 9001 desired.
- Desirable previous experience of working with molten metal treatment operations.
- An open communicative style with the ability to build cooperative relationships and networks at all levels of the business.
- The potential to grow in the role with the capacity and leadership to eventually become a senior expert and/or manager in this area of expertise.
- Good understanding of safety practices.
- Advanced Microsoft skills, and experience of SAP and Power BI.
- Can do attitude, strong work ethic and able to organise and plan their own work schedule.
Engineering graduates will also be considered as a development role.
What Novelis offers you:
#leisuretime: Time for personal activities and relaxation is essential! Enjoy a 37-hour work week and 25 days of holiday plus 8 bank holidays
#pensionplan: Your future matters to us! Enjoy a company pension scheme with matching contribution by Novelis, ensuring your financial security
#health: We prioritize your security and well-being! Benefit from our employer liability coverage and occupational health, including frequent check-ups. Enjoy our Employee Assistance Programme with a telephone number for external advice
#development: Eager to enhance your knowledge and skills? Our individual training programs are designed to help you reach your full potential
Have we caught your interest?
Then become part of our team! We are looking forward to your application!
You can apply easily with your resume via our application system in less than 5 minutes.
Please note that postal applications cannot be processed and considered.
We live diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, and identity.
Location Profile
The Novelis Latchford plant a suburb of Warrington Cheshire in England employs approximately 200 employees. It is one of Europe’s largest aluminium used beverage cans recycling plants and Europe’s largest closed-loop recycling operation for automotive aluminium rolled products with an annual recycling capacity of up to 195000 tonnes. The plant is an essential part of Novelis’ European production and collaborated with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to create the first closed-loop system in Europe with a dedicated railway service to efficiently deliver aluminium between Novelis and JLR’s production site in the UK.
The Latchford plant is committed to its community in supporting math and science education to local schools as well as sharing the value of safety and works with a local charitable foundation to sponsoring health. In addition Novelis UK supports the program “Every Can Counts” to actively promote can recycling across Europe.