Laboratory Supervisor

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:

The Environmental Laboratory Supervisor role is crucial in supporting the development, implementation, and follow-through of environmental procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and meet site objectives through quality testing in a laboratory setting.

This role will play a key role in supporting the compliance of environmental laws, regulations, and orders, and in providing efficient, technically sound solutions to environmental challenges.

This position involves overseeing the Warrick facility's environmental wastewater sampling and analysis program, particularly in water sampling, and managing the casthouse spectrometer lab assets.

We are looking for someone who is committed to effectively supporting and leading the implementation of all environmental standards and protocols, aiming to achieve a major environmental incident-free workplace in a challenging business environment.

Major activities/Key challenges:


* Managing a team of laboratory staff and developing operating procedures to ensure that experiments and analyses are conducted according to established scientific standards.


* Prioritizing and allocating laboratory operations and workflow so that the laboratory’s equipment and resources are used efficiently, and work schedules and targets are met.


* Evaluating and recommending investments in technology, equipment, systems, or other assets that will enhance the laboratory’s performance.


* Managing the maintenance, repair, and installation of laboratory equipment through manufacturer service contracts and help ensure environmental field monitoring equipment is accurately maintained, i.e.

autosamplers, pH probes, flow meters.


* Construct monthly, weekly, and daily schedules of available staff including the assignment of overtime duties.


* Review/develop and implement lab training program to ensure adequate training across all personnel.


* Responsible for maintaining supplies for the casthouse spectrometer lab and the calibration and maintenance of casthouse spectrometer.


* Participate in environmental incident investigations including determining root cause analyses with follow-up on identified corrective actions.


* Assist with routine water compliance inspections and identified facility routes.


* Wastewater and potable water data compilation and potable water reporting.

What you can bring to the role:

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