Smelter Power Systems Electrical Engineer

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 Power Systems Electrical Engineer is responsible for the 24/7 support of Warrick’s rectifier station and plant-wide high voltage power system.

The engineer will be accountable for providing engineering expertise to the electrical crews, contractors, production centers, and plant management to insure the safe and reliable operation and upkeep of a large high voltage infrastructure to insure continuous and reliable power delivery to the Warrick aluminum production areas.

Major Activities/ Key challenges:



* Provide electrical engineering expertise to ensure equipment reliability and system improvement support for the Warrick smelting aluminum plant as pertaining to both high and medium voltage applications.


* Supervise all Plant high voltage power operation, including system line-up, production center requirement, and collaborate with all areas of the plant.


* Develop and provide clear, concise switching orders for all system changes as well as provide direction for establishing electrical safe work zones for persons working near electrical hazards.


* Provide 24/7 failure response (in the event of a system issue, provide immediate response through in-house and contract resources to return system to support full efficiency in expedient manner).


* Provide detailed analysis on all high voltage related incidents.


* Lead capital budget initiatives for the high voltage power system (prepare funding requests, provide expenditure projections, implement actions, and track execution).


* Develop and implement multi-year maintenance plans.


* Own the design, rebuild, install and commission equipment including, but not limited to high current rectifier systems, transformers, high voltage switchgear, high voltage transmission line, and metering for the smelting aluminum plant (voltages include 138KV, 15KV, 4160V, and 480V)


* Safety Protocol SPA across the Warrick Enterprise – Power Plant, Smelter and Fabricating on electrical safety, high and medium voltage.


* Be an active participant in the Alcoa Electricals Safety Standards Team and Power Engineers network.

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:

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