Manager Smelting Technology

Shape Your World

At Alcoa you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it every Alcoan is a work-shaper team-shaper idea-shaper world-shaper.

The Manager Smelting Technologys role consists of supporting Alcoas aluminum smelters around the world mainly in Europe. It is an opportunity for you to help fulfill our purpose and realize our vision to reinvent the Aluminium industry.

At Alcoa youre an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. This is an opportunity for you tobring your wealth of experience to the team and help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low carbon technologies. You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the role: Reporting to the Smelting Manufacturing Excellence Director you will make sure that your assigned sites are operating at optimal levels by determining the gaps between best practices and actual practices in primary aluminum production.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide operations support to ensure location plan attainment.
• Assure General oversight of site performance.
• Review leading indicators to ensure problems are captured early and enablers applied.
• Support the strategic planning process for Smelting.
• Engineering delivery and commissioning of new processes.
• Encourage rollout of new process technology.
• Give technical support for Growth and new ventures.
• Deploy best practices & Create/Improve best practices documents.
• Ensure location planning assistance and review.
• Facilitate best practice transfer between Smelting sites.
• Facilitate development of Roadmaps and improvement for the locations.
• Identification of enablers and support required to achieve plans.
• First level support for dedicated locations for operational and process issues and support ad hoc for the other locations.

What you can bring to the role:

• Degree in Engineering and 9 years of experience in the potrooms technical environment with at a minimum of 1-2 years in technical leadership roles in a process manufacturing environment.
• Extensive knowledge of Manufacturing Excellence.
• Extensive knowledge of manufacturing/production operations in Smelting.
• Extensive experience in leading change building relationships and working collaboratively through people without direct line authority.
• Extensive knowledge of the pot control system
• Strong analytically with a strategic mindset.
• Speaking and writing in English is essential since its a Global role.
• Travel up to 25%

Whats on offer:

• To support you and your family beyond the workplace Alcoa provides an outstanding benefits package effective day one of the employment.
• In addition to medical benefits we believe in flexibility first.
• We have a variety of social engagement activities.
• Competitive retirement benefits.
• Competitive vacation policies.

About the Location

Alcoa is an international company with multiple locations and joint ventures across six continents. Wherever you choose to join us youll be joining a global team committed to advancing sustainability and delivering excellence and innovation. As industry pioneers we are redefining what it means to be a sustainable aluminum company bridging the journey from mines to metal.

We are values led vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress. Our 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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This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work be your authentic self and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!

Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.