Smelter General Mechanic

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.

At Alcoa, you’re an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. This is an opportunity for you to bring your wealth of experience to the team and help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies. You have the power to shape things to make them better.

Purpose:

To design, fabricate, install, repair, revise, modify, and maintain machines, equipment, structures, and facilities.

Materials used, processed, and handled:

Machine parts, metal stock, pins, tubing, fittings, mechanical hardware, compressed gases, oil, grease, paint, acids, fiber optics, specialty metals.

Tools and Equipment used:

Hand tools, measuring devices; power tools such as drill presses, saws, abrasive cutoff wheel, grinders and shears; pipe fitting equipment; welding and burning equipment; hoists, overhead and mobile cranes, trucks; forging hammer, mechanical and hydraulic presses, forming equipment, ironworker, scaffolding, computer, laser, vibration analysis equipment, ultrasonic tester, transit and electronic optical alignment equipment, dynamic/electronic balancing equipment.

Duties and working procedure:

Design, fabricate, install, clean, inspect, maintain, repair, revise, modify, and lubricate machines, equipment, structures, and facilities.

Diagnose trouble, dismantle, repair, reassemble and test all types of mechanical equipment

Install and repair piping systems and associated fixtures, including insulation

Perform layout, cutting, certified welding and brazing work with various types of metal stock.

Assemble EMS molds

Perform heating, forging, working, grinding, and tempering operations

Do necessary painting in conjunction with repair work.

Operator cranes and other power-driven equipment

Revise, update, and work from blueprints, sketches, charts, and manuals

Order parts and materials

Record failure analysis/root causes.

Conduct and record tests such as ultrasonic inspection, vibration analysis, lubrication analysis and laser alignment.

Qualifications High school diploma or GED5 years of mechanical maintenance experience in the following areas: welding, millwright, pipe fitting, plumbing, mechanical print reading, hydraulics, blacksmith work, sheet metal

Hiring process will include hands-on testing, involving welding/cutting, hydraulics, parts identification, and machine alignment

What’s on Offer Competitive compensation packages, including pay-for-performance variable pay as well as recognition and rewards programs

Flexible spending accounts and generous employer contribution to the HSA
401(k), employer match up to 6%, additional employer retirement income contribution (no vesting period), and a nonqualified deferred compensation plan Alcoa has been chosen as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces 2023 by Newsweek About the Location Alcoa “Warrick” based in Newburgh, Indiana just outside of Evansville, IN has been present in the lives of many families in our community for over 60 years.

We’ve grown and we’ve matured together. Now we are looking for our next generation of Alcoans to bring us into the future. You can be one of them! Join us and get ready to experience endless opportunities!

We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress.

Our commitment s 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.

As a proud equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer, Alcoa is dedicated to providing equal opportunities and equal access to all individuals regardless of a person’s gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, nation of origin, disability, veteran status, language spoken or any other characteristic or status protected by the laws or regulations in the places where we operate.

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