Senior Electrical Engineer – North America
Main Responsibilities
Provide leadership in delivering improvements to all aspects of Alcoa’s Electrical equipment and systems via the transfer of best equipment, operating, engineering and maintenance practices
Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) technical support for Alcoa’s Electrical equipment and systems to ensure optimal asset availability to support continuous operations
Provide Electrical SME input to the Asset Management Capital annual and long-term planning process for Electrical equipment and systems and decarbonisation projects
Lead communities of Best Practice, set objectives for these teams and lead problem solving/solution development activities to support the target state
Support Electrical Safety policies and initiatives including High Voltage, Low Voltage, Arc Flash and Potroom DC systems
Participate in the development of Reliability and Maintenance strategies for electrical equipment and systems with Reliability, Engineering and Maintenance Managers/Engineers within both the Asset Management functional groups and at each of Alcoa’s facilities
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 – in particular for the management of high voltage assets across smelter switchyards and substations but also inclusive of low voltage
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
Participate in the Asset Management engineering and maintenance help chain to provide problem solving and troubleshooting service to locations for critical events
Build relationships that deliver the support and engagement of plant Electrical teams in executing Maintenance and Engineering objectives
Establish, maintain and manage strategic equipment supplier and engineering service provider relationships
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree: Electrical Engineering
- Minimum 10 years’ experience as an Electrical Engineer
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in an Electrical Engineering Leadership role
- High Voltage experience (highly desirable)
- Smelting engineering experience (highly desirable)
- High level of written and verbal skills in English / French (highly desirable)
- Post Grad Degree: Master’s in engineering, Management or related area (desirable)