Power Plant Operations Coordinator

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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.

As a leader within Alcoa, you can help us fulfill our purpose and realize our vision to reinvent the aluminum industry.

Be part of the team that is helping shape a better workplace with a better work-life balance and the equal opportunities that help everyone thrive.

You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the role:

Alcoa Warrick is looking for a Power Plant Operations Coordinator to provide coordination of activities and services between the Maintenance and Fuels departments at AGC thereby improving the utilization of electrical and mechanical maintenance activities as well as maximizing available generation.

The operations coordinator is the primary SPA for problem solving activities for operational issues.

Utilizing ABS principles, the professional will clearly define issues, draw guidance from all plant functional areas, deploy and test solutions to problems and bring up best practices to the entire plant.

This coordinator will be SPA for continuous improvement, critical reliability projects, outage planning and will play the role of Help Chain for problem resolution.

This person will lead activities to improve operational efficiency and eliminate waste, among supervisory responsibilities for all operations Group Leaders.

Major activities/Key Challenges:


* Review plant emissions reports for trends and recent impact of changes in coal and make recommendations for process improvement to further reduce emission incidents.


* Coordinate with the Engineering Manager and Performance Engineer’s to evaluate Heat Rate Optimization system opportunities.


* Communicate best practices to the organization for the delivery of energy at the optimum cost.


* Coordinate activities with Maintenance Manager to optimally utilize the mechanical and electrical maintenance resources and with the Energy group to forecast and utilize available generation on a daily basis.


* Responsible for scheduling of 4 operating crews and that NERC Compliance requirements are met.


* Supervise all Group Leaders, being responsible for ensuring that all training/qualification requirements are supervised and met for all hourly employees within Operations.


* Develop and maintain Generation plans for current year and ten-year generation plan; evaluate the generation plans to improve generation on a day-by-day basis.

 

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:


* Power Generation ...