Power Plant Area Supervisor-Maintenance

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.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Power Plant Area Supervisor for Maintenance at Alcoa Warrick and this new addition to our team will be responsible to advise the activities of Team Leaders, Control Operators, Plant Operators, and Maintenance Personnel to produce electricity, potable water, smelting steam, and high temperature water for use in the smelting plant. The supervisor will coordinate activities with internal suppliers and external customers, while ensuring that members have the vital equipment, parts, and tools to perform their jobs. This professional will also supervise activities with related areas, such as maintenance, coal handling, other production groups, and customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead safe execution of mechanical maintenance, enforcing site safety procedures and high‑risk work controls.
• Supervise and develop a union mechanical workforce, assigning work, managing priorities, and applying the labor agreement consistently.
• Own the mechanical work order lifecycle in Oracle EAM, driving schedule compliance, backlog health, and quality documentation.
• Coordinate troubleshooting, forced outage response, and reliability improvement efforts, including PdM findings and basic RCA.
• Partner with the Warehouse to ensure material availability, kitting, and critical spare readiness.
• Oversee contractor work and support outage and major maintenance planning and execution.
• Manage labor, overtime, and costs while communicating execution risks and corrective actions.

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:

• High school diploma/GED required.
• 5+ years of mechanical maintenance experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or power generation environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead in a union environment and work effectively within a labor agreement.
• Strong safety leadership with experience enforcing high-risk work controls.
• CMMS experience managing work execution (work order quality, scheduling coordination, closeout discipline).
• Strong organizational, leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to work on other shifts and/or come in early or stay late as needed.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office products.

What’s on Offer

At Alcoa, our care for people philosophy is backed by our excellent total rewards package that we provide our employees effective on your date of hire, such as:

• Competitive compensation packages, including pay-for-performance variable pay, recognition and rewards programs.
• 401(k), employer match up to 6%, additional employer retirement income contribution (no vesting period)
• Healthcare benefits: medical, Rx, dental, vision, flexible spending account, health savings account (generous employer contribution), life and accident insurance
• Work-life balance programs: flexible work scheduling, hybrid/remote working
• Paid time off: 15 vacation days prorated in the 1st year based on hire date, 10 holidays including 1 flexible holiday of your choice, 7 illness days, Care for Family leave up to 40 days, up to 5 bereavement days, maximum of 30 jury duty days, and up to 10 days annual training for military leave

*This benefit information applies to US based applicants only. Alcoa reserves the right to change plans at its discretion.

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About the Location

Recognized as an industry pioneer, Alcoa has established itself as an international company with operations across six continents. Alcoa’s U.S. portfolio includes Alcoa's corporate headquarters, Alcoa's Technology Center,  two smelters, and a calcined coke plant. While some roles are based on-site, Alcoa also offers a flexible working model for certain positions. Wherever you choose to join us, you'll be joining a global team committed to advancing sustainability and delivering excellence and innovation.

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 person’s 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.