At Alcoa, you're 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:
The Fuels Group Leader will be responsible for scheduling, directing work, collaboration with other departments and leading the hourly fuels team at Alcoa Warrick power plant. This job entails a lot of coordination of time off, shift switches, and vacation planning for the team members to ensure the basic jobs of the department are covered daily. Ensuring that coal goes to the silos every day is the primary goal of the fuels department. The group leader will be responsible for the safety and well-being of their team in their work assignments. Toolbox talks, safety meetings, tracking metrics, hours on jobs, and keeping up with work completed and to be completed will be key components of this role. A basic understanding of mechanics, mobile equipment, the coal combustion process, and conveyors is required.
Major activities/Key challenges:
- Schedule hourly job assignments, overtime, vacations, hours on jobs daily for crew
- Keep organized, detailed and up to date records of the coal processing done daily
- Understand roadblocks of team and find ways to reduce downtime and improve efficiency of team and equipment
- Attend calls and regularly connect with planner, logistics coordinator and fuels coordinator to discuss ongoing and future work for the department.
- Develop budget, timeline, project details and communicate updates to management for assigned projects
- Collaborate with internal and external teams including suppliers, contractors, and colleagues to meet objectives and improve processes and communications
- Identify critical metrics and own development of dashboard or transparency method to clearly and concisely share these metrics on a timely basis
- Communicate regularly with hourly and salaried personnel on status of equipment, projects, information, and feedback from meetings
- Compliance with all related health, safety and environmental rules and regulations pertaining to areas of the fuels department
- Conflict resolution for operational and human relations issues, striving to boost morale and retain positive team mentality
- Communicate expectations and give timely and construction feedback of performance, workmanship and company goals
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:
Minimum Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED
- 3+ years' experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment, preferably in a coordinator, superintendent or supervisory role
- Meticulous and detail-oriented record keeping and organization skills
- Capability to use Microsoft Excel and the Microsoft suite of software
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Good time management and self-motivation in driving results and discerning priorities
- Excellent data management, analysis, and timeliness in providing data requests and updates
- Ability to work as a team member and to be a leader of a team
- Lead by example when pertaining to health, safety and environmental related awareness, principles, and adherence to company and government related rules
What's on Offer:
- Competitive compensation packages, including pay-for-performance variable pay as well as recognition and rewards programs
- 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: 10 holidays and one flexible holiday of your choice.
- Alcoa has been chosen as one of America's Greatest Workplaces 2023 by Newsweek
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