Business Performance & Integrated Scheduling Director

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.

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

Are you a strategic powerhouse who thrives at the intersection of operations, data‑driven decision making and business transformation?

Do you lead with clarity, influence with confidence, and solve big, complex problems with precision?

Alcoa is seeking a Business Optimisation & Integrated Scheduling Director, a role that sits at the centre of our mines‑to‑refinery‑to‑port value chain and leads our internal consulting capability.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the performance of a fully integrated industrial system while solving the most critical challenges across our Australian operations.

You will be the architect of our end‑to‑end integrated schedule, ensuring stability, efficiency and value creation across our operations.

At the same time, you’ll lead a high‑performing team of problem‑solvers tackling complex, business‑critical issues that simply cannot slip.

This is a role for someone who wants to influence the whole system, not just one part of it. 

While the position is varied, key responsibilities include:


* Lead internal consulting to solve critical business problems and drive performance.


* Own integrated value chain scheduling to optimise throughput and reliability.


* Manage enterprise performance reporting and provide executives with timely insights.


* Align senior stakeholders to ensure coordinated planning and execution.


* Lead and develop a high‑performing, multidisciplinary team.

What’s on offer


* A competitive executive salary that reflects the strategic impact of your role.


* Flexible arrangements that support work-life integration at the executive level.


* Access to training designed for senior executives


* Visibility across senior leadership and potential progression into corporate or operational executive roles.


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


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

What you can bring to the role


* Deep experience in heavy industry, operations, or complex industrial systems


* Strong analytical, strategic problem‑solving and communication capability


* A background in consulting or internal strategy/operations roles


* The ability to influence, align and lead across diverse senior stakeholders


* A mindset geared toward optimisation, simplification and disciplined execution

Additional information


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