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Alcoa thrives by developing best practices that improve
our business of mining, refining, smelting, casting and
rolling aluminium. Just as important, we develop best
practices for meeting environmental goals and support-
ing our communities, and we implement all of these ide-
as with consistency and precision across a global, mul-
ticultural organization. This kind of operating excellence
takes a special kind of team, made up of special people.
Alcoa cherishes its partnerships with Norwegian educa-
tional institutions, manufacturing and process industry
expertise, and its work together with talents across the
educational value chain; from helping local kindergar-
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ALCOA
tens create an interest in STEM, to supporting master
and doctoral theses, postdocs, and knowledge hubs.
One important initiative to drive innovation and devel-
opment in the Aluminium industry, is the SFI for Metal
Production at NTNU. Continuous improvement of our
operations also requires continuous refill of knowledge;
we therefore also enjoy hosting trainees and master
students at our primary plants, as they provide us with
new and fresh perspectives and up-to-date expertise.
We also encourage employees to pursue additional ed-
ucation – to meet our need for diverse and multi-skilled
employees.
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ERAMET NORWAY AS
Eramet Norway is operating seven furnaces and two
refining units in Norway. We consider ourselves to be
among the world leaders in this business when it comes
to process understanding, process control, efficiency
and environmental performance. Consequently, we have
a strong demand for highly skilled people. Today, Eramet
has over 20 highly qualified people with a scientific back-
ground working within our metallurgy department. The
knowledge they possess is crucial to the optimal perfor-
mance of our processes and enables our goal of contin-
uous improvement across our operations.
When recruiting today, Eramet places a strong emphasis
upon high qualifications within the disciplines connected
to metallurgy and is interested in candidates possessing
an MSc or, in certain circumstances, a PhD. The compe-
tency that one finds within organizations such as NTNU,
SINTEF, FFF and SFI is of great importance to our or-
ganization with regard to recruiting and with regard to
research within our projects.
Eramet offers exciting job opportunities where the-
oretic knowledge is being used to develop and drive
world-leading processes. Although there are many tools
available today in the form of IT systems and programs
that assist industry, Eramet believes that a fundamental
understanding of theory and processes is vital for con-
tinuous improvement.
Eramet offers successful candidates the opportunity to
develop within their chosen field, or towards a manageri-
al career. Eramet has a philosophy that our research and
development arm (R&D) shall have a close connection
to our processes and operations at our plants. Eramet’s
participation in the research environment in Trondheim
represents an important part of the total research pro-
gram of the manganese division of Eramet. Eramet also
uses the knowledge base found in Trondheim for further
development and education of its own employees.
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