Power Plant Area Supervisor-Maintenance

Alcoa • Newburgh, IN

17h • Onsite

About The Position

Alcoa is seeking a Power Plant Area Supervisor for Maintenance at its Warrick facility. This role involves advising the activities of Team Leaders, Control Operators, Plant Operators, and Maintenance Personnel to ensure the production of electricity, potable water, smelting steam, and high-temperature water for the smelting plant. The supervisor will be responsible for coordinating activities with both internal suppliers and external customers, ensuring that team members have the necessary equipment, parts, and tools. Additionally, this professional will supervise activities that interface with related areas such as maintenance, coal handling, other production groups, and customers.

Requirements

• High school diploma/GED required.
• 5+ years of mechanical maintenance experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or power generation environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead in a union environment and work effectively within a labor agreement.
• Strong safety leadership with experience enforcing high-risk work controls.
• CMMS experience managing work execution (work order quality, scheduling coordination, closeout discipline).
• Strong organizational, leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to work on other shifts and/or come in early or stay late as needed.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office products.

Responsibilities

• Lead safe execution of mechanical maintenance, enforcing site safety procedures and high‑risk work controls.
• Supervise and develop a union mechanical workforce, assigning work, managing priorities, and applying the labor agreement consistently.
• Own the mechanical work order lifecycle in Oracle EAM, driving schedule compliance, backlog health, and quality documentation.
• Coordinate troubleshooting, forced outage response, and reliability improvement efforts, including PdM findings and basic RCA.
• Partner with the Warehouse to ensure material availability, kitting, and critical spare readiness.
• Oversee contractor work and support outage and major maintenance planning and execution.
• Manage labor, overtime, and costs while communicating execution risks and corrective actions.

Benefits

• 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, 10 holidays including 1 flexible holiday of your choice, 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees