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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.
At Alcoa, youre an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. This is an opportunity for you to bring 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:
- Providing day-to-day technical advice, problem solving and support to operations and maintenance
by applying engineering principles and reliability tools to derive problems to root cause
- Initiating and/or implementing improvement projects including engineering solutions to eliminate safety and quality concerns, repetitive equipment failures and other major and minor issues
- Managing capital and expense project requests, schedules, costs, etc
- Ensuring compliance of project work with appropriate engineering standards
- Identifying and implementing new ideas and cost reduction opportunities
- Identifying and addressing obsolescence issues with existing equipment
- Creating, maintaining, and updating equipment files and drawings using AUTOCAD and other software packages
- Manages/owns preventative/predictive programs and systems to improve process and equipment performance
- Works closely with Asset Integrity Center of Excellence to meet guidelines for reliability excellence
- Manage lubrication best practices
- Coordinate NDT Thermal, vibration, and oil analysis
- Work closely with 3rd party mechanical contractors for fabrication and repair equipment
What you can bring to this role:
- Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- 2 or more years experience working in an industrial environment preferred
- Communication skills and partners in the work
- Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with team members and management.
- Ability to train employees on current and new processes.
What we offer:
- Competitive compensation packages, including pay-for performance variable pay, recognition and rewards programs, and stock-based compensation awards (3-year vesting schedule)
- Flexible spending accounts and generous employer contribution to the HSA
- 401(k), employer match up to 6%, additional employer retirement income contribution (no vesting period), and a nonqualified deferred compensation plan
- Holiday Pay: 11 holidays and one flexible holiday of your choice.
- 8 hours of Paid annual volunteer hours
- Alcoa has been chosen as one of Americas Greatest Workplaces 2023 by Newsweek
About the Location
Just about halfway from Houston and New Orleans Alcoa's Lake Charles Carbon Plant is located in historic Lake Charles, LA. The city of
Lake Charles
is a growing city with a vibrant art, cultural and dining scene. Parks scattered throughout the city, and easy access to shimmering Lake Charles, via our beautiful Lakefront Promenade, call to outdoor enthusiasts of all kinds. One of the most prominent aspects of Cajun culture and Southern charm is the natural willingness for people to go out of their way to treat company or complete strangers like family. 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.
If you have visited our website in search of information on U.S. employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Alcoa Recruiting via email at
gssrecruiting@alcoa.com.
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.
