Graduate Environmental Scientist

This is your opportunity to shape your career through the skills and experience you bring to the role now and by training for the roles you may want in the future. Our success depends on great teams, where you can thrive and do your best work in a supportive environment.

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.

• 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.

As a Graduate Environmental Scientist at Alcoa, you will learn, grow, and develop hands-on experience and expertise in:

• Developing, implementing, and maintaining an Environment Management System with a focus on regulatory compliance, risk reduction, and best practices.
• Assisting with the coordination of environmental risk assessments.
• Assisting with the identification of potential environmental impacts and helping to develop and implement mitigation strategies to reduce those risks.
• Supporting regional and site environmental teams through data entry, review, analysis, reporting, review and update of manuals and procedures, and report submission.
• Assisting with coordination of internal and external environmental audits.

Throughout the program, you will be provided with:

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

To contribute to 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 is open-minded with a creative and collaborative approach to problem solving.
• Drives positive outcomes with the ability to engage with and understand customers.

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.

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

• Submit online application* (resume, cover letter, transcript).
• Complete a 10-minute video interview.
• Finish psychometric testing (1 hour).
• 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.