Jobs at Kaiser Aluminum

The Process Metallurgist manages quality systems, laboratory testing, ISO 9001 certification, calibration and pyrometry programs, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives. Responsibilities include investigating nonconformances, applying Lean Six Sigma, optimizing product quality, supporting new product assessments, managing customer issues and technical trials, tracking KPIs, leading quality training, and supporting ERP and shop-floor reporting integration. The role also contributes to project planning, safety initiatives, export control compliance, and product liability requirements.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The Technical Manager oversees aluminum manufacturing processes, ensures product quality, conducts supplier audits, and manages technical support and compliance activities.

The Controls Engineer is responsible for optimizing manufacturing processes focusing on PLC-based controls, electrical systems, and technical project management within a safety-compliant environment.

Design, build, and maintain near real-time manufacturing dashboards and decision-support tools. Translate plant needs into intuitive visualizations, create reusable components, ensure data reliability and performance, collaborate with OT/IT and operations, and provide documentation, training, and governance-aligned deployment.