Senior Mechanical Engineer

5 days ago


Pinjarra, Western Australia Alcoa Full time

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become a crucial part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress.

The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

This is your opportunity to help share the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies.

About the Role:

We are currently seeking a highly skilled Senior Engineer to join our Capital Projects team on an initial 12-month contract working across a portfolio of brownfield projects.

As Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for driving fit-for-purpose solutions and ensuring the delivery of high-quality engineering outcomes for the project.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Define and challenge project and engineering scopes to ensure they are fit for purpose.
  • Prepare scope documents for the execution of engineering services.
  • Lead or support the management of engineering deliverables through third-party providers.
  • Maximize value from Engineering Service Providers (ESPs) by proactive monitoring of performance and reducing variations.
  • Assist in the preparation of operational readiness deliverables.
  • Ensure engineering design quality through experience and adherence to standards.
  • Ensure compliance with specifications and minimize excess scope items.
  • Prepare responses to contractor technical queries within contractual time targets.
  • Maximize re-usability of engineering design.
  • Assist and validate in the construction, commissioning, and handover phases of the project.

Core Activities include:

Engineering and Design:

  • Contribute to safe, timely, cost-effective, and technically sound designs.
  • Maximize design re-usability to reduce future costs.
  • Ensure project design alignment with specifications and contracts.

Design Management:

  • Align design plans with project phases and optimize deliverables before design begins.
  • Manage the design change process and ensure design deliverables are returned.
  • Contribute to operational readiness by reviewing spares, maintainability, and operational costs.

Safety and Environment:

  • Consider safe construction methodologies during the design phase.
  • Participate in hazard identification and risk assessment processes.
  • Contribute to a total safety culture within the Capital Group.

Technology & Standards:

  • Apply current best technology and standards to design and maintainability.
  • Ensure compliance with Engineering Standards and Statutory Regulations.

Procurement & Contracting:

  • Manage engineering consistent with specifications and contracts.
  • Review, assess, and prepare engineering specifications.
  • Ensure alignment of engineering deliverables with overall procurement plan and contracts.

Construction, Commissioning, and Handover:

  • Assist in developing construction plans and ensuring constructability of the design.
  • Monitor cost impact related to construction-initiated design changes.
  • Define and ensure required as-builts are completed and returned.

What's on offer:

  • This position is based on an initial 12-month contract/secondment.
  • Competitive hourly rate.
  • Flexible working options across a Monday to Friday working week.
  • Enjoy the opportunity to blend office and site-based work whilst being home every night.

What you can bring to the role:

  • Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • Experienced in working in a brownfields project environment.
  • Background in reclaimer or mining associated projects.
  • Design execution and management, contract management, construction quality control, and commissioning support.
  • Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills with ability to communicate with a broad range of stakeholders both internal and external to Alcoa.


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