Laboratory Supervisor

Location
Job Typefull_time

About This Job

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.

About the role:

The Environmental Laboratory Supervisor role is crucial in supporting the development, implementation, and follow-through of environmental procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and meet site objectives through quality testing in a laboratory setting. This role will play a key role in supporting the compliance of environmental laws, regulations, and orders, and in providing efficient, technically sound solutions to environmental challenges. This position involves overseeing the Warrick facility's environmental wastewater sampling and analysis program, particularly in water sampling, and managing the casthouse spectrometer lab assets. We are looking for someone who is committed to effectively supporting and leading the implementation of all environmental standards and protocols, aiming to achieve a major environmental incident-free workplace in a challenging business environment.

Major activities/Key challenges:

Managing a team of laboratory staff and developing operating procedures to ensure that experiments and analyses are conducted according to established scientific standards.
Prioritizing and allocating laboratory operations and workflow so that the laboratory’s equipment and resources are used efficiently, and work schedules and targets are met.
Evaluating and recommending investments in technology, equipment, systems, or other assets that will enhance the laboratory’s performance.
Managing the maintenance, repair, and installation of laboratory equipment through manufacturer service contracts and help ensure environmental field monitoring equipment is accurately maintained, i.e. autosamplers, pH probes, flow meters.
Construct monthly, weekly, and daily schedules of available staff including the assignment of overtime duties.
Review/develop and implement lab training program to ensure adequate training across all personnel.
Responsible for maintaining supplies for the casthouse spectrometer lab and the calibration and maintenance of casthouse spectrometer.
Participate in environmental incident investigations including determining root cause analyses with follow-up on identified corrective actions.
Assist with routine water compliance inspections and identified facility routes.
Wastewater and potable water data compilation and potable water reporting.

What you can bring to the role:

Our values – act with integrity, operate with excellence, care for people, lead with courage – are at the foundation of everything we do. To be successful in this role and to play a part in our ongoing success we desire the following background:

Minimum Qualifications

:

Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, biology, science, or equivalent experience

3-5 years in NPDES permitting and wastewater treatment operations
Potable water sampling and analysis
Knowledge of laboratory instrumentation i.e. ICP, Hach analyzers, LECO, XRF, etc
Must be self-motivating with excellent facilitator and problem-solving skills.
Must have good knowledge of operations and procedures and be capable of communicating and consulting optimally with others.
Must have good relationship and teambuilding skills
Understanding of the following information system software applications: Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook.


Preferred Qualifications

:

>5 years in NPDES permitting and wastewater treatment operations

Active Indiana Class D Wastewater Operator License
Active Indiana Drinking Water Class DSS WT3 Operator License


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
Holiday Pay: 10 holidays and one flexible holiday of your choice.
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 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.

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.

If you have visited our website in search of information on U.S. employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Alcoa Recruiting via email at gssrecruiting@alcoa.com.

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.

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