Power Plant Operations Coordinator

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About the role:

Alcoa Warrick is looking for a Power Plant Operations Coordinator to provide coordination of activities and services between the Maintenance and Fuels departments at AGC thereby improving the utilization of electrical and mechanical maintenance activities as well as maximizing available generation. The operations coordinator is the primary SPA for problem solving activities for operational issues. Utilizing ABS principles the professional will clearly define issues draw guidance from all plant functional areas deploy and test solutions to problems and bring up best practices to the entire plant. This coordinator will be SPA for continuous improvement critical reliability projects outage planning and will play the role of Help Chain for problem resolution. This person will lead activities to improve operational efficiency and eliminate waste among supervisory responsibilities for all operations Group Leaders.

Major activities/Key Challenges:

• Review plant emissions reports for trends and recent impact of changes in coal and make recommendations for process improvement to further reduce emission incidents.
• Coordinate with the Engineering Manager and Performance Engineers to evaluate Heat Rate Optimization system opportunities.
• Communicate best practices to the organization for the delivery of energy at the optimum cost.
• Coordinate activities with Maintenance Manager to optimally utilize the mechanical and electrical maintenance resources and with the Energy group to forecast and utilize available generation on a daily basis.
• Responsible for scheduling of 4 operating crews and that NERC Compliance requirements are met.
• Supervise all Group Leaders being responsible for ensuring that all training/qualification requirements are supervised and met for all hourly employees within Operations.
• Develop and maintain Generation plans for current year and tenyear generation plan; evaluate the generation plans to improve generation on a daybyday basis.

What you can bring to the role:

Our values act with integrity operate with excellence care for people & lead with courage are at the foundation of everything we do. To be successful in this role and to play a part in our ongoing success we desire the following background:

• Power Generation experience preferred BSME or comparable degree and/or minimum of 56 years experience in Power Generation or Manufacturing
• Proven leadership skills and a steward in demonstrating high safety standards
• Team building leadership ability and management skills are critical
• Union environment experience preferred
• Ability to communicate optimally with all levels of the organization.
• Experience with system operations.
• Be a change agent.
• Drive Operational Improvements

Whats On Offer:

• Competitive compensation packages including payforperformance variable pay as well as recognition and rewards programs
• Flexible spending accounts and generous employer contribution tothe HSA
• 401(k) employer match up to 6 additional employerretirement income contribution (no vesting period) and anonqualified deferred compensation plan
• Holiday Pay: 10 holidays and one flexible holiday of your choice.
• Alcoa has been chosen as one of Americas Greatest Workplaces2023 by Newsweek

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About the Location

Alcoa Warrick based in Newburgh Indiana just outside of Evansville IN has been present in the lives of many families in our community for over 60 years. Weve grown and weve matured together. Now we are looking for our next generation of Alcoans to bring us into the future. You can be one of them! Join us and get ready to experience endless opportunities!

We are values led vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real commitments to Inclusion Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe respectful and inclusive of all individuals free from discrimination bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.

As a proud equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer Alcoa is dedicated to providing equal opportunities and equal access to all individuals regardless of a persons gender age race ethnicity sexual orientation gender identity religion nation of origin disability veteran status language spoken or any other characteristic or status protected by the laws or regulations in the places where we operate.

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