Nurturing community & belonging

Our commitment to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace is supported through global inclusion groups, each sponsored by a member of Alcoa’s Executive Leadership Team. Globally, employees invest their time, talent and enthusiasm to make a positive impact and help to ensure that Alcoa is a welcoming environment for everyone. This includes events outside the workforce and in it, including educational sessions that broaden the perspectives of our global workforce.

Unlocking innovation through inclusion groups

With Alcoans working across continents, we know diversity drives our business and we’re proud to support and embrace company-wide inclusion groups.

Kevin Carter, Alcoa’s General Counsel and leader of Alcoans Working Actively for Racial-Ethnic Equality (AWARE) group said it best.

"With the global nature of business and the demographics of the talent pool and workforce becoming more diverse, the only way that the Alcoa’s of the world can survive long term is to fully embrace cultural diversity. Employee Resource Groups are extremely important to the short- and long-term success of the business."

Unlocking innovation through inclusion groups

With Alcoans working across continents, we know diversity drives our business and we’re proud to support and embrace company-wide inclusion groups.

Kevin Carter, Alcoa’s General Counsel and leader of Alcoans Working Actively for Racial-Ethnic Equality (AWARE) group said it best.

"With the global nature of business and the demographics of the talent pool and workforce becoming more diverse, the only way that the Alcoa’s of the world can survive long term is to fully embrace cultural diversity. Employee Resource Groups are extremely important to the short- and long-term success of the business."

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ABLE (Alcoans Moving Beyond Limited Expectations)

ABLE's mission is to create a work environment that promotes genuine and sustainable inclusion for people with disabilities, raise awareness in relation and ensure that everyone feels accepted, valued and treated fairly.

Why did we choose this name?
We are creating the environment, conditions, and possibilities to move beyond common biases, stigmas, perceptions, and stereotypes with a commitment to help people with disabilities widen their career expectations.

ABLE (Alcoans Moving Beyond Limited Expectations)

ABLE's mission is to create a work environment that promotes genuine and sustainable inclusion for people with disabilities, raise awareness in relation and ensure that everyone feels accepted, valued and treated fairly.

Why did we choose this name?
We are creating the environment, conditions, and possibilities to move beyond common biases, stigmas, perceptions, and stereotypes with a commitment to help people with disabilities widen their career expectations.

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Alcoans Working Actively for Racial-Ethnic Equality (AWARE)

AWARE encourages dialogue and action to raise awareness and foster a sense of belonging and equity for all races, ethnicities, and cultures, reflecting the communities in which we operate.

Alcoans Working Actively for Racial-Ethnic Equality (AWARE)

AWARE encourages dialogue and action to raise awareness and foster a sense of belonging and equity for all races, ethnicities, and cultures, reflecting the communities in which we operate.

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Alcoa Women’s Network (AWN)

Alcoa Women’s Network promotes a culture of gender diversity and equality in which women can feel safe to be bold and meet their career desires.

Alcoa Women’s Network (AWN)

Alcoa Women’s Network promotes a culture of gender diversity and equality in which women can feel safe to be bold and meet their career desires.

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Employees at Alcoa for LGBT+ Equality (EAGLE)

EAGLE serves to promote an inclusive and welcoming culture for the LGBT+ community based on respect, equality of opportunities and valuing diversity.

Employees at Alcoa for LGBT+ Equality (EAGLE)

EAGLE serves to promote an inclusive and welcoming culture for the LGBT+ community based on respect, equality of opportunities and valuing diversity.

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Monitoring our progress

Alcoa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to achieving gender balance throughout Alcoa and are working to define longer-term intentional actions to improve overall equity in earnings. More broadly, we continue to implement our overall inclusion and diversity strategies for the betterment of all.

Catalyst for Change Program

In 2020, Alcoa leaders pledge to promote inclusion and diversity through actions that can include championing or leading inclusion groups, mentoring diverse employees, promoting flexible work arrangements, leading awareness training in unconscious bias and more.

Gender Pay Gap Report

The report includes all global salaried employees and evaluates whether Alcoa has pay equity by gender, which involves calculating the average earnings for both men and women and making comparisons between the two.

Learn more in our Sustainability Report

In 2021, we continued to focus on increasing gender diversity, with a broader emphasis on improving workforce diversity of underrepresented groups related to ethnicity and disability.


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Monitoring our progress

Alcoa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to achieving gender balance throughout Alcoa and are working to define longer-term intentional actions to improve overall equity in earnings. More broadly, we continue to implement our overall inclusion and diversity strategies for the betterment of all.

Catalyst for Change Program

In 2020, Alcoa leaders pledge to promote inclusion and diversity through actions that can include championing or leading inclusion groups, mentoring diverse employees, promoting flexible work arrangements, leading awareness training in unconscious bias and more.

Gender Pay Gap Report

The report includes all global salaried employees and evaluates whether Alcoa has pay equity by gender, which involves calculating the average earnings for both men and women and making comparisons between the two.

Learn more in our Sustainability Report

In 2021, we continued to focus on increasing gender diversity, with a broader emphasis on improving workforce diversity of underrepresented groups related to ethnicity and disability.


Search Available Jobs

Alcoa has open positions across the globe, from Australia to Iceland to Spain and more. Find your next career with Alcoa.


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Allow us a humble brag. We’re so honored to be recognized.

We believe great companies begin and end with great teams. That’s why we act with integrity, operate with excellence, care for people and lead with courage. We’re grateful for the recognition and are continuing our efforts to be the place where everyone can contribute and do their best work.

#59 in Fortune’s Top 100 World’s Most Admired Companies list – At Alcoa, we’re honored to be a trusted brand that delivers for customers, communities, shareholders and Alcoans. To determine the best-regarded companies, Korn Ferry sought a range of input about companies including investment value, quality of management, product, social responsibility and the ability to attract talent. A company’s score must rank in the top half of its industry survey to be listed.

Forbes has named Alcoa one of the Best Employers for Diversity 2021.

We believe in creating a culture where everyone can do their best work and we’re honored to be recognized by Forbes as a Best Employer for Diversity. The recognition was based on their research from Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider.

The Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) tracks the performance of public companies committed to disclosing their efforts to support gender equality. Since 2020, Alcoa has been included for the Company’s efforts to attract, retain and advance qualified women. Alcoa is one of 418 companies included on the list.

Alcoa has been named to Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index 2022. We respect and value our LGBT+ employees and celebrate our listing alongside 1,271 major U.S. businesses for efforts to support a culture of inclusion. In addition, Alcoa Brazil was named as one of the best companies in Brazil for LGBT+ professionals earning 100 on the index!

Great Place to Work is a global consultancy that supports organizations to achieve better results. Those identified as a best company in Brazil are ones that offer opportunities for growth, alignment of values, stable operations and competitive compensation and benefits.

Best Company in Diversity in the Mining Sector (Brazil)

We create trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful, inclusive and ones that reflect the diversity of our communities in which we operate. Brazil Alcoa earned recognition from the Exame Diversity Guide 2020 as a top diversity employer.

The Australian Workplace Equality Index is the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQ workplace inclusion. The AWEI comprises the largest and only national employee survey.

Named to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency Employer of Choice for more than 20 consecutive years (Australia). The distinction is for those who encourage recognize and promote an active commitment to achieving gender equality in Australian workplaces.

The S&P Global Platts Global Metals Awards Industry Leadership Award recognized our leadership in improving the sustainability of mining and processing raw materials, while continuing to position the company for long-term growth and greater market share. The award highlighted our year-over-year performance improvements including production increases, reductions in energy and emissions intensity.

Named in DJSI North American Index – Only the most sustainable companies in each industry are considered for inclusion on the list. Alcoa can be found in the materials category of the North American index of the DJSI - the world’s leading provider of ratings that evaluate publicly listed companies against environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.

EcoVadis, an independent sustainability rating agency, ranked Alcoa 'platinum' in the 2022 scorecard released. This achievement puts Alcoa in the top 1% of companies across 200 industries globally and 90,000 companies. Since 2018, Alcoa was listed as a 'gold' supplier. Read more about Alcoa's sustainability rating from EcoVadis here. EcoVadis is one of the world’s most trusted providers of business sustainability ratings and performance improvement tools for global supply chains.

Alcoa was among a select group of 631 companies who achieved top scores on sustainability assessments. The inclusion in the prestigious Sustainability Yearbook follows a competitive review and assessment of more than 7,000 companies.

Our Pinjarra Refinery in Australia earned designation as a waterwise business. As part of its Advance Sustainably commitments, the alumina refinery uses a 24/7 water consumption monitoring program as part of its normal business processes, to ensure that any unusual freshwater use is promptly investigated. The complexity of the water balance around the refinery means even small operational changes can have significant impacts.

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