Smelter Mechanical Maintenance Planner

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 Smelter Mechanical Maintenance Planner is responsible for the planning and scheduling of all maintenance work performed in the area to which they are assigned.

The main focus is to maintain liaison and coordination between the production and maintenance organizations; maintain appropriate records and file to permit meaningful analysis and reporting of results or work done.

If you feel you have the determination to be a phenomenal planner, join us and be part of our team!

Key Activities:



* Daily management of area(s) back log.


* Work with area craft an in order to develop complete job packages, including: job plan (work instruction and required safety documentation), kit content, required equipment/special tools, required labor, required permits and drawings and requisitions required parts.


* Complete work orders in the Alcoa CMMS to facilitate equipment histories.


* Updates PM/PdM activities and incorporate requested changes/revisions, and/or improvements into the Alcoa CMMS.


* Uses Bill of Materials (BOM’s) and other work instruction to initiate kits; daily management for kit status and tracking.


* Coordinate with warehouse personnel and procurement to ensure kit is complete within the required time line.


* Verify completed kit for content accuracy.


* Provide support to Reliability Engineers as needed.

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:


* Two-year technical degree or 4-year apprenticeship program or 8 years relevant industrial experience preferred


* Minimum 3 years Mechanical Maintenance experience.


* Supervisory experience is a plus


* Aptitude for required use of computer applications (e.g.

SAP, CMMS, Microsoft Office, etc.)


* Interpret technical drawings & specifications (including minimum use of AutoCAD & ability to make sketches)


* Have adequate craft knowledge to estimate work hours and materials and to visualize the job to be performed


* Good oral/written communication skills


* Good administrative and mathematical skills with willingness to handle paperwork


* Have good planning and organizational skills; ability to bring about order


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