Senior Regional Mechanical Project Engineering Specialist

Alcoa; Baie-Comeau; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Alcoa in Canada invites a Senior Regional Mechanical Project Engineering Specialist to act as the technical authority for capital projects across multiple sites. You will ensure quality, maturity, and compliance of project deliverables from FEL through phase-gate readiness, guiding PMs, site teams, and engineering firms.

You will travel regularly to plants in the Northeast, collaborate with stakeholders, challenge designs and cost estimates, and uphold health, safety, and environmental standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant engineering, industrial project management, or capital projects.
• OIQ membership in good standing or eligible.
• Functional bilingualism in French and English.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical reference for project managers on mechanical and integration matters.
• Define and validate project boundaries, design criteria, discipline interfaces, and deliverables through FEL phases.
• Participate in project reviews, design reviews, audits, value engineering workshops, and phase-gate decisions.
• Challenge technical solutions, cost estimates, schedules, execution strategies, and supplier proposals.
• Validate the quality of technical documentation, tenders, specifications and plans to minimize risks.
• Ensure proposed solutions meet health, safety, environmental, regulatory, maintenance and standardization requirements.
• Travel regularly to plants across the Northeast region to provide onsite support.

Skills

Capital project management

Engineering leadership

Communication skills

Health & safety compliance

Bilingual French/English

Heavy industrial experience

Machine safety

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

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.

About the Role

Reporting to the Regional Capital Projects Engineering Manager, the Senior Regional Mechanical Project Engineering Specialist serves as the technical authority and key partner for project managers, site teams, engineering firms, and subject matter experts. The role is responsible for ensuring the quality, consistency, and technical maturity of capital projects, from early project definition through phase-gate readiness. The incumbent helps clarify required deliverables, challenge proposed solutions, validate technical compliance, and support decision‑making for complex projects involving multiple sites, disciplines, and stakeholders.

General Responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical reference for project managers on mechanical, multidisciplinary, and integration‑related matters.
• Work closely with capital project teams, site capital managers, engineering firms, operations, maintenance, reliability, SMEs, and EHS teams.
• Define and validate project boundaries, design criteria, discipline interfaces, and required deliverables throughout each FEL phase.
• Participate in project reviews, design reviews, audits, value engineering workshops, and phase‑gate decisions.
• Challenge technical solutions, cost estimates, schedules, execution strategies, and supplier proposals to ensure safe, robust, and business‑aligned outcomes.
• Validate the quality of technical documentation, tenders, specifications, cost estimates, schedules, and execution plans to minimize risks, change orders, and rework during execution.
• Ensure proposed solutions meet health and safety, environmental, regulatory compliance, maintenance, operational, and standardization requirements.
• Capture, share, and integrate lessons learned to continuously improve engineering standards, practices, and regional project performance.
• Develop, review, and revise Alcoa engineering standards.
• Review and enhance KPI review processes with engineering firms.
• Travel regularly to plants across the Northeast region to provide onsite support and maintain a strong field presence.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Member in good standing of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ) or eligible for membership.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of relevant experience in engineering, industrial project management, or capital projects.
• Significant experience working with engineering firms, multidisciplinary projects, and heavy industrial environments.
• Functional bilingualism (French and English), both spoken and written, is required due to the nature of the position and interactions with English/French‑speaking partners, clients, or colleagues.

Required Competencies

• Strong knowledge of FEL processes, capital project management, and key engineering deliverables.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to influence decisions without direct authority.
• Ability to structure complex issues, challenge assumptions, and provide clear recommendations.
• Collaborative leadership, autonomy, rigor, and a strong sense of accountability.
• Excellent communication skills with technical, operational, and management stakeholders.
• Strong commitment to health, safety, environmental stewardship, compliance, and risk management.
• Knowledge of aluminum smelting operations, industrial mechanical equipment, and continuous production environments is a significant asset.
• Experience in machine safety.

Key Interactions

• Project Managers (PMs)
• Capital Project Managers (CPMs) and Site Capital Leaders (6 sites)
• Internal project stakeholders (Reliability, Maintenance, SMEs, Health & Safety, Environment, etc.)
• Engineering firms (key contacts and project managers)

Travel Requirements

This position requires regular travel to facilities throughout the Northeast region to maintain a field presence and provide effective support to local teams.

Alcoa is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.

Alcoa also supports global inclusion groups, including AWARE, AWN, EAGLE, and ABLE.

Only candidates selected for the process will be contacted.

About the Location

Established as an industry pioneer, Alcoa is a world‑class company with operations on six continents. Alcoa’s operations in Canada are concentrated in four locations: a Canadian headquarters in Montréal and three aluminum plants in the cities of Baie‑Comeau, Bécancour and Deschambault.

Throughout our history, our employees have deployed game‑changing innovations and developed best practices that have led to efficiency, safety, sustainability, global career development and stronger communities. Wherever you choose to join us, you will join a global team committed to advancing sustainable development and ensuring excellence and innovation.

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.