Production Maintenance Coordinator

Alcoa; Massena Springs (NY); On-site; USD 77,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Alcoa in Massena, NY, invites applications for a Production Maintenance Coordinator role. This position drives the maintenance and operations strategy to improve equipment reliability, coordinating ReX processes and contractor work to ensure safe, efficient production.

The role partners with Reliability Excellence, maintenance, and operations teams to plan, prioritize, and execute maintenance activities, while leading development of safe work plans and ensuring timely completion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred- Engineering, Operations, or related industrial specialty.
• 3 years’ work experience preferably within an operations/maintenance function in an industrial process environment.
• Strong mechanical aptitude, with mechanical and electrical experience.
• Experience coordinating, planning, and scheduling maintenance activities across functions.
• Experience in developing maintenance and operations plans to support business goals.
• General understanding of operational and maintenance KPIs.
• Familiarity with risk management and process safety principles.
• Ability to communicate effectively, influence others, and collaborate with peers, stakeholders, and customers.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Reliability Excellence, maintenance, and operations teams.
• Lead contracted project work; scope, planning, timelines, safe work plan.
• Coordinate all maintenance and operational activities and ensure alignment between stakeholders.
• Support/Lead the department teams to ensure adherence to the total planning process.
• Develop safe work pre-Plans for maintenance work (isolation, testing, welding, grinding).
• Review maintenance work requests daily and ensure quality & priority.
• Work with Planners to provide input to work scope, schedules, and priorities.
• Ensure resources are available and maintenance tasks are completed as planned.
• Monitor production activities to support planned work and intervene when needed.
• Attend planning meetings providing input to scope, priority, and schedule.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Maintenance coordination

Communication

Team collaboration

Structured execution

Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred- Engineering/Operations

Tools

Visio

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

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.

Join our electrode team in Massena, New York, as a Production Maintenance Coordinator! This individual will develop an executable plan and measure success to ensure residual life and operational efficiency. This professional will have the opportunity to be the focal point for the maintenance and operations strategy to ensure equipment health and reliability. The role will encompass the successful reliability excellence (ReX) implementation and coordination of all maintenance activities to support operations. In this role, you provide single-point responsibility for coordinating and communicating all maintenance activities scheduled through the ReX process, drive an increase in equipment reliability and lead contractor project work.

About the Role:

• Partner with the Reliability Excellence, maintenance, and operations teams
• Lead contracted project work; scope, planning, timelines, safe work plan
• Functional responsibility for coordinating all maintenance and operational activities and ensure alignment between all stakeholders.
• Support/Lead the department teams to ensure adherence to the total planning process applying standardized work processes
• Develops safe work pre-Plans for maintenance. work (e.g., isolation, functional testing, welding, grinding etc.)
• Reviews all maintenance work requests daily and ensures maintenance work request quality & priority
• Works with Planners to provide input to work scope, schedules, and priorities
• Ensures resources are available and operational maintenance tasks are completed to support maintenance plans.
• Monitors production activities required for planned work and intervenes when needed.
• Attends all planning meetings providing input to work scope, priority, and schedule development.
• Assists in resolving work management and execution issues.
• Provide support and coaching to the Shift Supervisors and production teams in the importance of disciplined execution of all planned work
• Develop and provide support for operator care of key process equipment and train operators, shift supervisors on the proper use and care of equipment
• Leads reliability functions to ensure optimal equipment health and decreasing operational unplanned downtimes.
• Supports process engineers with OEE improvement initiatives, specifically in the availability of the equipment.

What you can bring to this role:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred- Engineering, Operations, or related industrial specialty.
• 3 years’ work experience preferably within an operations/maintenance function in an industrial process environment
• Strong mechanical aptitude, with mechanical and electrical experience
• Experience coordinating, planning, and scheduling maintenance activities across functions.
• Experience in developing maintenance and operations plans to support business goals.
• General understanding of operational and maintenance key performance indicators
• Familiarity with risk management and process safety principles.
• Ability to communicate effectively, influence others, and collaborate with peers, stakeholders, and customers.
• Energetic and detail-oriented, with the ability to work systematically, structurally, and efficiently
• Advanced proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Familiarity with computerized maintenance or integrity management systems and databases.

What we offer:

• 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
• Paid time off: 15 vacation days pro-rated in the 1st year based on hire date, 10 paid holidays.
• This benefit information applies to US based applicants only. Alcoa reserves the right to change plans at its discretion.

Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Base Salary: 76,700 - 115,400 USD annually

Total rewards packages listed, including base salary and bonus eligibility, applies to US based applicants only. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on a range of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies in conjunction with multiple components of the Employee Total Rewards Package. Alcoa reserves the right to change plans at its discretion.

About the Location

Our Massena facility in New York State, established in 1902, is home to the longest continuously operating smelter in the world. Located on the St. Lawrence River, Massena, NY is the center for commercial, industrial, and manufacturing success in St. Lawrence County. Massena’s caring sense of community, affordable cost of living, and extremely low-cost locally supplied energy, coupled with four public and private universities nearby, make Massena a great place to call home. And within a two hour drive (or less) are cosmopolitan and historic Montreal and Ottawa, Canada to the north, and to the south are the tall, beautiful views of Adirondacks and within it is Lake Placid The Olympic Village.

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 [e-mail].

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.

Application close date is: 1 October 2026, however Alcoa reserves the right to change this date at its discretion.