Principal Specialist Operations - Aluminium Recycling

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership across the aluminum recycling process, including scrap receiving, melting, alloying, refining, casting, and finished product handling.
• Support operational readiness, commissioning, startup, and plant ramp-up while establishing operating procedures and best practices.
• Optimize production performance by improving metal recovery, reducing melt losses, increasing throughput, and enhancing product quality and energy efficiency.
• Monitor operational KPIs, troubleshoot process issues, implement corrective actions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with Maintenance, Metallurgy, and Technical teams to improve plant reliability, safety, and operational performance.
• Coach and mentor operational teams, transfer technical knowledge, and promote a strong culture of safety and operational excellence.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Metallurgical, Chemical, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline (Master's preferred).
• 12+ years of industrial manufacturing experience, including 7+ years in aluminum recycling operations.
• Proven experience in secondary aluminum melting and casting, with startup, commissioning, or ramp-up experience highly advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of recycling processes, furnace operations, alloying, casting, process optimization, and continuous improvement.
• Fluent in English.