Smelter Power Systems Electrical Engineer

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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 insure 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's on offer:
At Alcoa, our care for people philosophy is backed by our excellent total rewards package that we provide our employees effective on your date of hire, such as:

• Competitive compensation packages, including pay-for-performance variable pay, recognition and rewards programs.
• 401(k), employer match up to 6%, additional employer retirement income contribution (no vesting period)
• Healthcare benefits: medical, Rx, dental, vision, flexible spending account, health savings account (generous employer contribution), life and accident insurance
• Work-life balance programs: flexible work scheduling, hybrid/remote working
• Paid time off: 15 vacation days prorated in the 1st year based on hire date, 9 holidays, 7 illness days, Care for Family leave up to 40 days, up to 5 bereavement days, maximum of 30 jury duty days, and up to 10 days annual training for military leave

*This benefit information applies to US based applicant sonly. Alcoa reserves the right to change plans at its discretion.
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:
Minimum Qualifications:

• Proven experience in leading, managing and performing electrical projects including design, installation, and commissioning.
• Have interpersonal and problem solving skills, using both theoretical and practical methods to achieve improvements or fix identified problems.
• Must communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, have team and interpersonal skills to motivate change, ability to balance tasks.
• Possess digital literacy especially in Microsoft Office applications.
• Have a solid understanding of CMMS applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors' degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 5 years minimum of medium and high voltage maintenance and reliability experience within an industrial manufacturing or electrical utilities environment.
• Electrical Engineering Degree with emphasis on high voltage and power distribution systems.
• In-depth electrical and operational knowledge of high current power rectifier systems.
• 10 years of high voltage experience within an industrial manufacturing or electrical utilities environment.
• Understands short circuit, arc flash, load flow, and relay coordination studies.
• Knowledge of maintenance and operation of electrical equipment, can troubleshoot and has Root Cause Problem Solving experience.
• Basic mechanical expertise with high voltage switchgear and structures.
• Can evaluate equipment condition, understands and interprets testing results, and can perform reliability assessments.
• Familiar with transformer oil analysis, electrical testing and substation maintenance requirements.

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About the Location
Alcoa "Warrick" based in Newburgh, Indiana just outside of Evansville, IN has been present in the lives of many families in our community for over 60 years. We've grown and we've matured together. Now we are looking for our next generation of Alcoans to bring us into the future. You can be one of them! Join us and get ready to experience endless opportunities!
We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress. Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.
As a proud equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer, Alcoa is dedicated to providing equal opportunities and equal access to all individuals regardless of a person's gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, nation of origin, disability, veteran status, language spoken or any other characteristic or status protected by the laws or regulations in the places where we operate.
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