Regional Manager – Major Projects Management

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.

Joining Alcoa means contributing to large-scale projects that shape the industrial future in a responsible and sustainable way. In this high-visibility strategic role, you will lead a portfolio of major projects across our North American operations, with direct impact on operational performance, safety, and value creation.

About the Role

Reporting to regional leadership for projects and capital investments, you are responsible for the governance, strategic direction, and delivery of a portfolio of major industrial projects.

You ensure disciplined execution by balancing EHS, costs, schedules, quality, and value creation, while harmonizing practices across sites and contributing to the evolution of the major projects program.

Key Responsibilities

Project Strategy and Governance

• Define and deploy execution models (EPC, EPCM, multi-package), governance frameworks, and organizational structures
• Lead strategic decision-making (including FID) and challenge business cases
• Prepare and present executive reviews (status, risks, trade-offs, impacts)

Multi-Site Portfolio Leadership

• Lead and engage multidisciplinary project teams across multiple sites (Quebec / U.S.)
• Ensure consistency of practices and foster best practice sharing
• Align priorities and performance across sites

Overall Performance and Risk Management

• Ensure overall performance (EHS, cost, schedule, quality)
• Embed EHS requirements in all decisions
• Ensure compliance with internal and external standards (quality, regulatory)
• Lead risks, issues, and change management with robust mitigation strategies

Stakeholder and Supplier Management

• Manage relationships with internal teams (operations, maintenance, finance, procurement)
• Oversee external partners (EPC/EPCM, contractors)
• Supervise contract performance, changes, and claims management
• Ensure rigorous integration and tracking of vendor deliverables

Execution Excellence

• Validate the robustness of execution plans (PEPs), schedules, estimates, and construction plans
• Ensure constructability, commissioning, and operational readiness
• Manage complex interfaces and inter-project dependencies
• Resolve resource conflicts and competing priorities

Close-Out and Continuous Improvement

• Oversee structured project close-out
• Capture lessons learned and strengthen organizational standards
• Contribute to the maturity and continuous improvement of the major projects program

What You Bring

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field
• MBA or Master’s degree (asset)
• Project and risk management certifications (PMP, PMI-RMP or equivalent) (asset)

Experience

• 12–20 years of experience managing major industrial capital projects (multi-million CAPEX)
• Experience with EPC/EPCM projects in complex, high-risk environments
• Proven experience in multi-site leadership, including geographically distributed teams and projects
• Experience in cross-border environments (Canada / United States)
• Demonstrated experience in executive governance, strategic decision-making (FID), and contract management

Technical and Operational Expertise

• Strong knowledge of execution models (EPC, EPCM, multi-package)
• Deep expertise in integrated planning and project controls (cost, schedule, risk)
• Solid understanding of heavy industrial environments, including:
  • EHS and regulatory requirements
  • Quality and compliance (internal and external standards)
  • Constructability, commissioning, and operational readiness
• Ability to challenge and optimize business cases and secure value creation throughout the project lifecycle
• Expertise in contract, supplier, change, and claims management, including tracking of critical deliverables

Leadership and Influence

• Recognized executive leadership and strong credibility
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and align diverging interests
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
• Strong strategic judgment and ability to make decisions in complex, high-pressure environments
• Results-driven with an exemplary safety mindset

Additional Key Assets

• Proficiency in both French and English is required due to the nature of the role, particularly for interactions with stakeholders who do not speak French in a North American context
• Willingness to travel frequently between sites in Quebec and the United States
• Experience managing large-scale project portfolios and complex interfaces concurrently
• Ability to operate effectively in a highly visible, matrixed organization

The use of masculine terms in this posting is intended solely to simplify the text.

Alcoa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and a company committed to affirmative action.

We are also part of global inclusion networks (AWARE, AWN, EAGLE, ABLE).

About the Location

Alcoa’s Canadian headquarters in Montreal is located in the economic lung of Quebec, in the heart of a dynamic city young, and at the forefront of innovation. Working for Alcoa in Montreal means getting to the heart of issues in the Quebec, Canadian and international context. Our company supports career development and there are many opportunities for our team to progress.

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.  

This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!  

Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.