Planning Superintendent

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.

As a leader within Alcoa, you can help fulfill our purpose and realise our vision to build a legacy of excellence for future generations.

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

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

About the Role

Do you love achieving results through others? Can you utilise your highly collaborative leadership style to build effective relationships to deliver on maintenance strategies? Then we want to hear from you!

We have a position at our Portland Smelter for a Planning Superintendent.

Reporting to the Maintenance & Reliability Manager, you will provide leadership and management expertise to the planning department enabling it to effectively progress towards achieving Portland’s strategic operational objectives.

As the Planning Superintendent you will be responsible for driving continuous improvement of maintenance activities, through supporting, coaching, and leading the planning team to drive effective continuous improvement and delivery of efficient maintenance planning activities.

Key responsibilities include:


* Contributing to achieving sustainability and cost control by identifying and implementing improvements on equipment and work procedures.


* Establishing maintenance schedules, work procedures, downtime, critical items list and spare part requirements in conjunction with the planners and reliability team.


* Accountability for budgeting, cost control, planning and the training and development of employees within the department.


* Supplying cost information to the Maintenance & Reliability Manager to assist in developing the maintenance budget, and producing long-term schedules of equipment activities.


* Establishing, improving and monitoring work standards of the planning team members as well as providing technical advice and assistance that may relate to department, individual employees or a combination of both.

What’s on offer


* Employee growth and development opportunities.


* Parental leave support for all caregivers


* Employee assistance program for personal support services.


* Alcoa Live Well program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.


* Salary packaging for a novated car lease, employee share plan and superannuation options.


* Connect and be part of a community that celebrates diversity through our employee inclusion groups.

What you can bring to the


* A highly collaborative leadership style where you have the ability to drive a high performing culture engaging and developing our people to become their very best.


* An electrical or mechanical qualification or trade along with v...