Jobs at Alcoa Corporation

Prepare and process high-volume payroll accurately; validate payroll data and ensure tax, legal, and regulatory compliance; investigate discrepancies; support HR, accounting, employees, and personnel clerks; monitor legislative changes; and improve payroll processes and tools. The role requires collaboration, discretion, organization, French fluency, and the ability to meet tight deadlines while working primarily remotely with weekly office attendance in Deschambault.

Support the Carbon sector technical team by developing KPI dashboards, digital data-collection forms, and information technology tools that improve operations and operator efficiency. The intern will use Power BI, SQL, Power Apps, PI DataLink, and related Microsoft tools to analyze data and support continuous improvement in an industrial environment.

Industrial engineering intern supporting the technical team with production optimization, workplace ergonomics, operational safety, continuous improvement, and problem-solving projects in an aluminum production plant. Responsibilities include analyzing and implementing process improvements, developing work methods, supporting 5S initiatives, and researching tools and equipment to improve efficiency, ergonomics, and safety. The internship runs January 4 through April 30, 2027, Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week.

Supervises maintenance and operation of NERC-registered bulk electric, rectifier, high-voltage, and water utility systems. Leads a 10–14-person multi-trade team, coordinates contractors, supports planned and emergency outages, and ensures reliable 24/7 power delivery. Provides technical direction, manages maintenance priorities and projects, supports training and safety initiatives, and maintains compliance with corporate, OSHA, and electrical safety standards.

Leads the HR function at Alcoa’s Deschambault site and serves as a strategic partner to plant leadership. Responsibilities include workforce and succession planning, leader coaching, employee relations, compliance, culture and engagement initiatives, organizational effectiveness, change management, and using HR and business metrics to guide decisions. The role also leads and develops the site HR team and supports operational and financial performance.

Develops, maintains, and optimizes industrial automation and process control systems for Alcoa facilities. Diagnoses automated-system issues, deploys updates, improves equipment reliability, and maintains PLC and HMI standards and documentation. Supports PLC, HMI, SCADA, instrumentation, and potentially OT networking and industrial cybersecurity. The role requires a relevant engineering degree or equivalent experience, at least five years in automated manufacturing environments, technical project coordination, SQL knowledge, and strong operational and safety practices.

Leads Alcoa’s site social performance strategy in San Ciprian, Spain. Responsibilities include stakeholder and community engagement, social risk and impact management, grievance processes, community investment programs, compliance with social performance standards, assurance support, cross-functional collaboration, and social performance reporting. The role advises site leadership and builds relationships with local authorities, community organizations, and other external partners while ensuring community perspectives inform business decisions.

Graduate Hydrogeologist developing expertise through a three-year rotational program across bauxite mines, refineries, powerhouses, and corporate offices. Responsibilities include supporting mine planning, groundwater monitoring, groundwater evaluation drilling, monitoring-well installation, drainage-control plans, aquifer testing, and groundwater modeling. The role includes mentoring, professional training, increasing responsibility, and hands-on onsite experience.

Lead electrical engineering and reliability initiatives across a heavy industrial smelter operation. Provide technical direction on electrical standards, compliance, equipment performance, root cause analysis, defect elimination, capital projects, and continuous improvement. Lead and coach multidisciplinary engineering teams while partnering with operations, maintenance, and project stakeholders to improve safety, reliability, productivity, cost efficiency, and asset utilization.

Lead electrical reliability activities for a manufacturing plant, including installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, testing, and upgrades of systems up to 13.8 kV. Diagnose PLC, HMI, drive, motor, and control-system issues; develop control strategies; manage preventive and predictive maintenance programs; support condition monitoring, capital projects, shutdown planning, and equipment improvements. Collaborate with production, maintenance, vendors, contractors, and engineers while producing technical documentation and promoting safety, quality, and operational efficiency.

Leads casthouse process engineering and continuous improvement initiatives across safety, quality, reliability, throughput, cost, and customer performance. Analyzes process and equipment data, resolves root causes, develops operating practices and process controls, and drives projects from concept through sustained implementation. Partners with operations, maintenance, quality, and engineering teams while providing technical leadership, coaching, and training. Supports new technology, equipment, and product introductions in a complex manufacturing environment.

Supports engineering, programming, troubleshooting, integration, deployment, and lifecycle management of industrial automation and process control systems across global smelting operations. Applies electrical engineering and process control principles to improve safety, reliability, efficiency, and uptime. Coordinates technical teams, manages deployment and modernization projects, ensures compliance with standards, and develops common solutions involving PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, instrumentation, and manufacturing systems.

Supports moderately complex mechanical capital projects from development through execution. Defines requirements and deliverables, validates drawings and technical specifications, coordinates engineering firms, suppliers, contractors, and internal stakeholders, and contributes to feasibility studies, estimates, schedules, design reviews, risk assessments, and constructability reviews. Identifies technical issues and recommends safe, reliable, maintainable solutions. Requires regular travel to plants across the Northeast region and bilingual French and English communication.

Supports regional capital projects by defining electrical, automation, instrumentation, and controls requirements; validating engineering documentation; coordinating engineering firms, contractors, suppliers, and stakeholders; and contributing to feasibility studies, design reviews, risk assessments, systems integration, commissioning, and continuous improvement. The role requires regular travel to Northeast facilities and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams in English and French.

Serves as senior technical authority for electrical, automation, controls, and multidisciplinary capital projects across regional industrial operations. Defines project scopes, design criteria, interfaces, and deliverables; reviews designs, risks, estimates, schedules, vendor proposals, and phase-gate readiness. Integrates combustion systems, instrumentation, control logic, safety systems, and commissioning requirements. Develops engineering standards, improves project governance, and supports engineering-firm performance. Regular travel to Northeast regional operations is required.

Serves as the senior mechanical technical authority for regional capital projects, guiding project teams from early definition through phase-gate readiness. Reviews designs, specifications, estimates, schedules, tenders, execution plans, and supplier proposals; validates safety, environmental, regulatory, operational, maintenance, and engineering requirements; develops standards; supports audits and value engineering; and integrates lessons learned. Regular travel to Northeast facilities is required for onsite support and collaboration with project, operations, maintenance, reliability, EHS, and engineering partners.

Provides cybersecurity advice and assurance across IT, cloud, OT, ICS/SCADA, and IoT environments. Conducts threat modeling, security design reviews, risk assessments, and governance activities. Supports cloud security, Zero Trust, IAM, data protection, AI governance, incident response preparedness, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement. Partners with technical, operational, engineering, business, vendor, and external stakeholders to deliver secure-by-design outcomes.

Manage Alcoa’s U.S. litigation portfolio across commercial, employment, environmental, regulatory, safety, and other disputes. Develop litigation strategies, advise business leaders, oversee outside counsel, manage discovery and investigations, prepare executive updates, support reserves and insurance matters, and coordinate cross-border legal work with global teams.

Advises business, technology, and plant stakeholders on cybersecurity risks across IT and OT environments. Leads secure architecture reviews, threat modeling, risk assessments, control implementation, incident response planning, audits, compliance documentation, and policy improvements. Supports cloud security, IAM, Zero Trust, AI governance, and industrial cybersecurity initiatives while aligning controls with NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, and IEC 62443 frameworks.

Assists the technical team in monitoring and optimizing the aluminum casting process. Responsibilities include managing scrap, analyzing energy consumption and metal cleanliness, investigating off-specification casts, supporting safety compliance and ongoing projects, and developing PI historian tools for process tracking. The intern will work independently, communicate with operators and other departments, and conduct process tests after initial training.