Graduate Chemist

1 week ago


Perth, Western Australia Gotafe Full time

This is your opportunity toshape your career through theskills andexperience you bring to the role now and by training for the roles you may want in the future. Our success depends ongreat teams, where you canthriveand do yourbest work in asupportive environment.

About the role

Express your interest in next year's graduate intake, pre-register now to be amongst the first to be notified of upcoming vacancies. This is a permanent opportunity starting with Alcoa's Graduate Program, a three-year customized graduate development program designed to shape your career.

You will collaborate with experienced professionals and rotate through our corporate offices, bauxite mines, and alumina refineries in the Peel and Upper Southwest regions. Stay connected with your community, hobbies, friends, and family Our sites are all within driving distance, enabling you to maintain a perfect work-life balance while gaining valuable hands-on site experience.

What's on offer?
  • A permanent job with long-term career development in our local or global operations.
  • Annual increases built into your compensation package with many benefits unique to Alcoa.
  • Monthly 'Graduate Days' and team building activities to build connections with your fellow graduates.
  • More time doing the things you love with a leisure day scheme offering 13 additional days leave
  • Working locally, in an onsite environment enabling you to return home to friends or family every night.
  • Inclusion and diversity networks; shaping a culture where everyone is welcome, respected and heard.
  • Be part of our commitment to sustainability, delivering world class technology and innovations that lead the aluminium industry
  • A workplace culture that strongly values your safety.
What you'll be doing

As a Graduate Chemistat Alcoa, you to learn, grow, and develop hands-on experience and expertise in:

  • Learn the intricacies of the Bayer process, one of the industry's most complicated chemical processes.
  • Be mentored by industry experts as you have access to our global technical centre of excellence based on site.
  • Develop and implement chemical methods and instrumental analytical techniques.
  • Take an active role in laboratory safety management.
  • Work collaboratively on laboratory and refinery based investigative and improvement projects.
  • Utilise your understanding of chemical processes to identify process improvement opportunities.
Development and mentoring

Throughout the program, you will be provided with:

  • Coaching, mentoring, hands-on and professional training.
  • Diverse experiences; from working in our corporate offices, to a local on-site environment within our 2 mine sites, 3 powerhouses and 2 alumina refineries.
  • An increasing level of responsibility
  • An opportunity to use your innovative thinking, your motivation to learn and passion for growth to shape the future of our business.
About you

To play a part in our ongoing success we are seeking someone who:

  • Is a self-starter with the ability to work autonomously.
  • Uses initiative and takes ownership of their work.
  • Has strong communication and well-developed people skills.
  • Thinks analytically and be open minded with a creative and collaborative approach to problem solving.
  • Drives positive outcomes with the ability to engage with and understand customers.

If you are on the path to graduate or have recently completed tertiary qualifications inChemistry or a related discipline, we want to hear from you

Become a valued part of the team that's reinventing the aluminium industry for a sustainable future, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies.

Recruitment Process
  • Submit online application* (resume, cover letter, transcript).
  • Complete 10-min video interview.
  • Finish psychometric testing (1hr).
  • Attend Assessment Centre (case study, team activity, interview) or Panel Interview.
  • Reference check.
  • Pre-employment medical.

*Please note that applications close midday Australian Western Standard Time of the posting end date.

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