Senior Electrical Engineering Manager - #662596

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.

As a leader within Alcoa, you can help fulfill our purpose and realize our vision to build a legacy of excellence for future generations. Be part of the team that is helping shape a better workplace with the flexibility and equal opportunities that help everyone thrive. You have the power to shape things and individuals to make them better.

About the Role:

As a Senior Electrical Engineering Manager at Alcoa, you will provide maintenance and engineering functional leadership within Alcoa’s Regional Asset Management Teams, Refineries, Smelters and Mines for all aspects of Electrical Systems (High Voltage (HV), Low Voltage (LV), Instrumentation and Control System) maintenance and engineering.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Provide leadership in delivering improvements to all aspects of Alcoa’s Electrical Systems via the transfer of best equipment, operating, engineering and maintenance practices
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) technical support for Alcoa’s Electrical Systems to ensure optimal availability to support continuous operations
• Provide Electrical Systems SME input to the Asset Management Capital planning process for Electrical Systems and decarbonization projects
• Provide leadership and support for implementation of the Asset Management target state through the leadership of communities of Best Practice, setting objectives for these teams and leading problem solving/solution development activities to support the target state
• Participate in the development of Electrical Systems Reliability and Maintenance strategies with Reliability, Engineering and Maintenance Managers/Engineers within both the Asset Management functional groups and at each of Alcoa’s facilities
• Work closely with Reliability and Engineering Systems functional teams to provide expert-level Maintenance and Engineering technical knowledge, skills and experience to support best practice application of these capabilities to all aspects of asset management
• Conduct Electrical Asset Integrity Assessments as part of the Asset Management Electrical Systems SME team, working with locations to identify, classify and develop mitigation strategies and solutions to identified risks
  
  

What you can bring to the role:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. Postgraduate degree: Master’s in Engineering, Management, or a related field (highly desirable)
• Solid experience working as an Electrical Engineer
• Solid experience within an Electrical Engineering Management/Leadership role
• Mining, Refining and/or Smelting reliability experience (highly desirable)
• Proficient in English and Brazilian Portuguese
• Multi-location/Global experience in technical Reliability leadership role
• Detailed knowledge and expertise in Power Generation and Distribution
• Knowledge and experience in instrumentation and control systems
  
  

What’s on offer:

• Competitive remuneration and benefits packages;
• Performance related bonus (variable);
• Recognition as one of the Best Companies to Work For by Great Place to Work.
  
  

About the Location

The Alumar Consortium, managed by Alcoa, located 25 kilometers from the center of São Luís - MA, began its operations in 1984. It is made up of companies with a tradition in the areas of alumina and aluminum production, with different participations in the two factories that make up the Complex.

At Alcoa, we are committed to generating value in our relationships with all stakeholders in our business, communities and environment. We build inclusive and secure environments so that our people can live and express themselves as they please. With the aim of attracting and retaining diverse talent, the company maintains the inclusion groups that promote internal and external activities to value human diversity and plurality as a way of enriching one's own values.

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.   

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.