Global Director, Maintenance and Reliability Engineering

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Step into a high-impact leadership role where you'll drive innovation, modernize maintenance and reliability, and champion technology-driven change. As part of a global organization, you'll enjoy the autonomy and visibility of a central role—making a real difference locally while influencing globally. This is your opportunity to shape the future in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment that values proactive leadership and fresh ideas.

About the role

The Global Director – Maintenance and Reliability plays a pivotal role in shaping Alcoa’s operational excellence and long-term asset sustainability. This strategic leadership position is responsible for developing and executing global maintenance and reliability programs that span mechanical and electrical disciplines, capital execution, and performance metrics. With a clear mandate to elevate maturity and position maintenance and reliability as a competitive advantage, the role drives alignment and measurable improvements across all operations. Collaborating closely with regional leaders, engineering, digital systems, and capital teams, the Director ensures consistent execution and fosters a culture of continuous improvement. Success in this role requires navigating diverse cultural contexts, managing complex time zones, and embracing a significant travel component to maintain strong global and local connections.

Reporting to the Vice President, Asset Management, you will:

Lead global initiatives to improve asset performance and reliability across Alcoa’s operations, positioning maintenance as a strategic advantage.

Develop and embed reliability engineering standards, processes, and continuous improvement frameworks to drive consistency and effectiveness.

Establish and implement global loss accounting systems and time usage models to identify and quantify operational inefficiencies.

Deliver total cost of maintenance reporting to enable data-driven decisions and support strategic improvement programs.

Champion the deployment and optimization of digital tools such as eAM, REX, and Connected Worker to enhance field execution and data capture.

Ensure operational readiness standards are embedded into both new and existing assets to support long-term sustainability.

Define and monitor global maintenance and reliability KPIs to measure maturity, track trends, and drive performance improvements.

Provide technical and commercial oversight for maintenance-related capital projects to ensure alignment with reliability goals.

Guide tactical capital investment decisions through data-driven analysis and collaboration

Collaborate across regions and functions—including engineering, operations, digital, and capital teams—while navigating cultural protocols and global travel demands.

Lead strategic initiatives within the Asset Management Leadership Team to drive enterprise-wide transformation and change.

What you bring to the role

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or related engineering discipline is essential; postgraduate qualifications in Asset Management, Reliability, or Business are desirable.

Minimum 12 years in maintenance and reliability leadership roles within the resource or heavy industry sectors, including experience leading functions in a multinational company.

Proven ability to develop and embed reliability engineering frameworks, core business processes, and global reporting systems such as loss accounting and total cost of maintenance.

Strong technical expertise in maintenance systems, digital tools, and operational readiness, with experience integrating strategies into capital projects and asset performance reporting.

Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams, managing complex projects, and driving strategic outcomes across culturally diverse and geographically dispersed operations.

Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder engagement, and program management skills across mining, refining, and smelting environments.

This role may be open for candidates to be based at any of Alcoa’s Corporate Office locations. Note that the ad appears in multiple languages to support advertising across global platforms.

Additional information

Interviews may progress prior to the closing date, although all applications will be considered.

You will only be contacted if you are shortlisted for an interview, this process can take up to four weeks from the closing date

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