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.

You as a Mechanical Engineer will be accountable for Mechanical Engineering researches, plans, designs and develop mechanical products and systems such as instruments, controls, robots, engines, machines and mechanical, thermal hydraulic or heat transfer systems for production, transmission, measurement, and use of energy. You will apply research to the planning, design, development, and testing of mechanical and/or electromechanical systems, instruments, controls, engines, and/or machines.

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.

Daily activities will typically evolve around below 5 main areas:

Risk and priority management

·         Identify long-term opportunities for improvement through a focus on equipment reliability. Identifies and prioritizes top risks related to major production/equipment criticality current capability vs bottlenecks/gaps/loss/high-cost contributors to the area.

·         Use data collected by Operations and help establish top priorities and to identify and target equipment bad actors.

·         Analyze equipment performance data, equipment history, to identity repetitive and/or costly failure modes.

Strategy Development

·         Developing Asset Management Strategies (EMS) with a proactive approach aimed at minimizing total cost, including downtime and capital-related costs.

·         Key inputs and part of the Operational and Maintenance Strategy (OMS) process

·         Provides detailed cost/benefit analysis to support recommended equipment maintenance strategies.

·         Links the outputs of all activities and ongoing performance reviews through the asset strategies, reviewing, updating and improving regularly with a continual improvement mindset.

·         Train operators in the why and how on operator prevention and condition monitoring tasks.

Results review

·         Tracking and evaluating loss and performance data on agreed priority assets and systems to proactively initiate actions and evaluating effectiveness of ongoing improvement efforts.

·         Communicating losses and performance to both process- and technical departments.

·         Tracks/monitors/records effect of completed improvement actions, including $ saved where practical, and communicate the result.

·         Defines equipment reliability performance requirement and metrics, required equipment/process availability.

·         Monitors equipment health and audits compliance to the equipment management strategies and relevant standards.

Failure Mode & Reliability Engineering Analysis

·         Identifies and develop strategies to eliminate repetitive and major failures.

·         Actively supports the registration of value creation in the DI-system.

·         Apply reliability-based tools and processes to investigate to root cause (RCA) equipment failures and provide recommendations for elimination, ensuring corrective actions are linked back to equipment strategies.

·         Leads and facilitates failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) for prioritized equipment, identifying specific failure modes and corrective actions.

·         To fulfill the responsibility of analysis the reliability engineer shall apply data analysis techniques and statistics and may include statistical process control, reliability modeling and prediction, fault tree analysis and Weibull analysis.

Modification and capital projects

·         Initiates/assists in business case development and current condition identification for equipment reliability, maintenance improvement & new equipment capital projects

·         Participates in capital & maintenance project teams as an asset owner representative responsible for ensuring the application of reliability principles is incorporated into appropriate capital projects, providing total life cycle cost (LCC) analysis.

About the Location

Recognized as an industry pioneer, Alcoa is an international company with operations across 6 continents. Our Spanish portfolio includes a Corporate office in Madrid and the San Ciprian operation which consists of an Alumina Refinery, and an Aluminum refinery. Alcoa is recognized as a key economic player in the region and our aluminum smelter continues to operate and supply customers in Spain and across Europe with foundry ingots, extrusion billets and rolling plates. 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.   

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.