Smelter Health & Safety Specialist

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.

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:

This role will lead all aspects of Health and Safety initiatives for the various Smelter areas.

This position works closely with location manufacturing, maintenance, engineering, and support staff personnel to develop and deploy a wide-range of comprehensive Health & Safety systems that support Alcoa's dedication to zero non-compliances, eliminating fatality and serious injuries and driving Critical Risk Management (CRM).

Crucial Job Duties:



* Manages the Health & Safety systems for the assigned area of responsibility.

The successful incumbent will play a key leadership role in reducing risk of incident and injury and will drive implementation of Human Performance systems.


* Own the H&S training coordination and implementation for hourly and salaried employees, performs internal self assessment activities (ASATs), monitors, tracks, and reports key Health & Safety metrics, and ensures compliance with federal, state, local and corporate regulatory programs.


* Assist with incident investigations to ensure completeness and accuracy, develop and track corrective actions, act as a change agent for the area, and lead multi-disciplinary teams to make process improvements and reduce risk of injury.


* Apply problem solving methodology, work with data analysis tools to identify trends, identify root causes of problem areas, generate potential action plans and supervise progress in significant and critical areas, as well as track continuous improvement.

Additional Duties:



* Implementation of Regulatory and Corporate Engineering Standards


* Lead joint plant safety committee and serve as member of the Plant Safety and Health Steering Committee and Warrick Safety Lead Team


* Coordinate department health/medical surveillance programs


* Conduct floor observation, housekeeping, and compliance audits


* Participate in training of new employees on department specific hazards


* Lead various projects to promote continuous improvement and safety initiatives

 

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:


* A Bachelor of Science degree in Safety Management, Safety Engineering or related field preferred, or the equivalen...