Jobs at Kaiser Aluminum

Leads aluminum casting operations, overseeing safety, quality, productivity, cost, delivery, employee development, and continuous improvement. Supervises Cast House personnel, enforces EHS and 5S standards, manages process control and raw-material utilization, drives root-cause problem solving, and partners with Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and plant leadership to improve reliability and operational performance.

Provides administrative support in an aluminum extrusion facility, including communications, phone coverage, customer file maintenance, order document review, invoicing, shipping documentation, scanning, and records management. Supports management and office personnel while following environmental, quality, and safety procedures. Requires strong organization, communication, computer, typing, time-management, and attention-to-detail skills.

Improve plant equipment reliability and maintainability through failure analysis, preventive and predictive maintenance, spare-parts management, equipment upgrades, and cross-functional engineering support. The role provides technical expertise to production and maintenance teams, manages reliability projects, supports repair and redesign decisions, and reports performance to leadership. Work occurs onsite across office and manufacturing environments, with occasional domestic and international travel.

Corporate subject-matter expert for hydraulic systems across heavy industrial sites. Develop standards, improve reliability, lead root-cause analyses, support design and capital projects, implement predictive and condition-based maintenance, manage vendors, deliver training, and provide on-site/remote outage support with frequent travel.

Processes high-volume invoices, validates PO and non-PO transactions, resolves discrepancies, reconciles supplier statements, reviews uninvoiced receipts, and supports month-end accruals and journal entries. The role maintains vendor relationships, updates supplier records, audits employee expense reports in Concur, and promotes electronic invoicing and payments. It also requires accurate, timely work, strong communication, policy compliance, and collaboration with Purchasing, plants, suppliers, and Accounts Payable leadership.

Analyze, design, and optimize aluminum extrusion and drawing manufacturing processes to improve throughput, quality, and cost. Lead continuous improvement (Kaizen, Six Sigma), conduct time studies and root cause analysis, implement process controls and SOPs, support automation and capital projects, train staff, and ensure regulatory, safety, and quality compliance.

The Electrical Project Engineer manages electrical projects, ensuring scope, budget, and schedule compliance while coordinating installations and troubleshooting systems.

Machinists operate and maintain machining equipment, fabricate and repair tools, and perform precision work on critical equipment. They interpret blueprints, perform assembly work, and conduct inspections while ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.

This role focuses on improving manufacturing capabilities through control system design, troubleshooting, and process improvement initiatives.

The Plant Project Engineer will plan, coordinate, and execute engineering projects in a heavy industrial facility, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.

The CNC Machinist sets up, operates, and maintains CNC machines to produce precision parts, ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards.

The Lead Electrical/Controls Engineer optimizes manufacturing processes through automation, supports operations, leads projects, and mentors staff.

The Mechanical Project Engineer manages capital and process improvement projects, providing support through feasibility, cost estimation, and team coordination, ensuring compliance with regulations while optimizing mechanical systems.

Kaiser Aluminum seeks Production Technicians to perform tasks supporting production in an aluminum extrusion facility, ensuring smooth operations and adhering to safety standards.

Support and enhance the Jobscope ERP on IBM i (AS/400) by developing and debugging RPG/RPGLE programs, working with DB2 for i and SQL, customizing ERP modules, performing testing and deployments, troubleshooting production issues, optimizing integrations, and collaborating with business users and IT teams.

Serve as technical and quality liaison between customers and internal teams. Provide metallurgical support, quality assurance, investigations, specification compliance, qualification programs, vendor audits, and report analysis to ensure product quality and customer satisfaction.

The Electrical Manufacturing Engineer optimizes automated equipment and processes, leads reliability projects, provides technical support, and improves manufacturing operations.

Supervise tube mill and extrusion production on 12-hour shifts to meet schedules, enforce safety and quality, manage staffing and timekeeping, coordinate maintenance, record downtime, coach employees, and produce shift reports.

The Metallurgical Process & Product Development Engineer will lead R&D projects, collaborate with manufacturing for process improvements, and utilize data for product control enhancements.

Develop and improve manufacturing processes for aluminum production, support production/maintenance/engineering teams, lead continuous improvement and Six Sigma projects, perform data acquisition and statistical analysis, write technical reports, and ensure safety, quality, and environmental compliance in a plant environment.