Reliability Engineer

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. **Job Description** Are you passionate about improving equipment performance, analyzing data, and finding solutions that make a difference? We are seeking a technically minded individual with strong analytical capabilities and a results-oriented mindset to contribute to the operational excellence of our production facility. As a Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in defining, developing, and optimizing maintenance strategies, ensuring maximum equipment performance and the best possible efficiency from a total cost of ownership perspective. **What Will Be Your Mission?** You will collaborate with maintenance, operations, and engineering teams to identify improvement opportunities, reduce risks, and increase asset availability and reliability. **Your Key Responsibilities:** Risk and Priority Management * Identify long-term improvement opportunities to enhance equipment reliability. * Analyze asset criticality and prioritize risks with the greatest impact on safety, production, and costs. * Review historical and performance data to detect recurring or high-cost failures. Maintenance Strategy Development * Design and implement maintenance strategies aimed at maximizing equipment availability and performance. * Conduct technical-economic analyses and cost-benefit studies to support proposed actions. Monitoring and Continuous Improvement * Monitor performance indicators and losses associated with critical assets. * Drive preventive and improvement actions based on data. * Measure and document the impact of implemented improvements, including economic savings where feasible. * Define reliability metrics and standards to evaluate equipment performance. Failure Analysis and Problem Solving * Lead root cause investigations to eliminate recurring and critical failures. * Develop sustainable solutions that improve reliability and reduce incident recurrence. Participation in Investment Projects * Collaborate on capital projects related to reliability and maintainability improvements, as well as the introduction of new equipment. * Provide reliability-related technical input across design and implementation phases. **What Are We Looking For?** * University degree in Industrial Engineering or equivalent. * Minimum 2 years of professional experience, preferably in process industry or heavy industrial environments. * Familiarity with CMMS tools (e.g., Oracle), and/or maintenance and reliability methodologies. * Experience with international technical standards and regulations (e.g., UNE, ASME, API) is desirable. * Advanced level of English. * Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively across various organizational functions. * Analytical, proactive profile focused on problem solving through root cause identification and implementation of effective solutions. **What Do We Offer?** The opportunity to join a demanding and technologically advanced industrial environment, where you can lead improvement initiatives with tangible impact on safety, productivity, and business sustainability. You will have the chance to advance your professional career by participating in strategic projects and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams committed to continuous improvement. If technical challenges, data analysis, and continuous improvement of industrial performance motivate you, we want to meet you. **About the Location** Recognized as an industry pioneer, Alcoa is an international company with operations across 6 continents. Our Spanish portfolio includes a Corporate office in Madrid and the San Ciprian operation which consists of an Alumina Refinery, and an Aluminum refinery. Alcoa is recognized as a key economic player in the region and our aluminum smelter continues to operate and supply customers in Spain and across Europe with foundry ingots, extrusion billets and rolling plates. Wherever you choose to join us, you'll be joining a global team committed to advancing sustainability and delivering 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.**