CAPEX Leader

Novelis

$100K — $120K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, or related technical field.
  • 7 to 10 years of experience leading capital projects in manufacturing or heavy industrial environments.
  • Strong knowledge of CAPEX budgeting, project controls, cost tracking, and procurement processes.
  • Experience in developing project scopes, business cases, and execution plans.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage the CAPEX process from project initiation to completion.
  • Maintain project portfolio including budgets, schedules, risks, and statuses.
  • Support long-term capital planning for safety, reliability, and continuous improvement projects.
  • Develop project documentation such as charters, scopes of work, and risk assessments.
  • Lead capital projects through all phases from planning to handover to operations.
  • Collaborate with Procurement to manage vendor selection and performance.
  • Ensure project execution aligns with safety and environmental standards.

Benefits

  • Paid parental leave and Adoption Assistance.
  • Employee Assistance Programs for mental health and financial guidance.
  • Incentives for wellness activities and a wellness spending account.
  • Tuition assistance and career development programs.
  • Unique offerings such as pet insurance and identity theft protection.
Full Job Description
Position Overview

Novelis Bay Minette is seeking a CAPEX Leader to lead the site capital expenditure process for its new facility dedicated to aluminum reclamation and rolling operations in Bay Minette, Alabama! This role owns thee site’s capital investment program and supports both annual and long-range capital planning. It is responsible for managing the capital projects designated to it. The role ensures projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and meet commissioning, startup, operational readiness, and long-term reliability requirements.

 

The CAPEX Leader will engage multi-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Procurement, Finance, EHS, OEMs, contractors, and site leadership to convert business needs into executable capital projects and ensure completed assets are transitioned optimally into plant operations.

Responsibilities
  • Own and run the Bay Minette CAPEX process from project identification through approval, execution, commissioning, handover, and closeout.
  • Maintain the master capital project portfolio, including scope, budget, forecast, committed cost, actual spend, schedule, risks, owner, and project status.
  • Support annual and multi-year capital planning for safety, reliability, environmental compliance, infrastructure, utilities, production support, and continuous improvement projects.
  • Develop or support project charters, scopes of work, cost estimates, business justifications, schedules, procurement strategies, and risk assessments.
  • Lead assigned capital projects through planning, procurement, installation, commissioning, startup support, documentation, and turnover to Operations and Maintenance.
  • Partner with Procurement to develop bid packages, evaluate proposals, support contractor selection, and handle vendor and contractor performance.
  • Work with Finance to support capital approval routing, spend tracking, accruals, forecasts, cash flow, capitalization timing, and variance reporting.
  • Ensure project execution aligns with Novelis safety expectations, site EHS standards, applicable codes, environmental requirements, and contractor management requirements.
  • Coordinate asset handover requirements, including SAP/CMMS asset setup, BOMs, PMs, critical spares, drawings, manuals, training, and closeout documentation.
  • Lead post-project reviews to confirm scope completion, collect lessons learned, validate business benefits, and improve future capital project execution.
  • Adhere to and support company quality, environmental, health & safety, and certification standards, including ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018, IATF 16949:2016, and ASI Certifications, where applicable.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, or related technical field.
  • 7 to 10 years of experience leading capital projects in manufacturing, heavy industrial, metals, aluminum, steel, chemical, energy, automotive, pulp and paper, mining, or similar environments.
  • Strong knowledge of CAPEX budgeting, project controls, cost tracking, forecasting, procurement, scheduling, contractor coordination, and project reporting.
  • Experience developing project scopes, business cases, cost estimates, schedules, risk registers, and execution plans.
  • Demonstrated ability to run numerous projects at different stages while maintaining safety, cost, schedule, quality, and customer alignment.
  • Strong communication, leadership, problem-solving, planning, and decision-making skills.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in aluminum rolling, recycling, remelt, casting, hot mill, cold mill, finishing, or metals manufacturing.
  • Prior experience supporting a greenfield plant startup, major plant expansion, or large industrial construction project.
  • PMP, PE, CAPM, Six Sigma, or other project management / engineering certification.
  • Experience with SAP, Prometheus, MS Project, Primavera P6, Power BI, Excel-based project controls, or similar systems.
  • Knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance, asset management, spare parts strategy, PM development, Management of Change, and commissioning processes.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

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 by the marketplace, and affordable. In addition to core benefits, we provide these unique to the industry benefits:

  • Family Growth Programs: Paid parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Treatment, Childcare Discount and Nursing Mom Support
  • Employee Assistance Programs: free resources available 24/7 to you and your family in the areas of mental health, family life, and career and financial guidance
  • Wellness Programs: incentives for wellness activities, wellness spending account, programs for building healthy habits, virtual physical therapy for joint, back, and pelvic health, health management programs and more.
  • Diabetes Management Program
  • Pet insurance
  • Identity Theft Protection
  • PerkSpot Discount Program
  • Tuition assistance and career development programs
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.

 

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