Quality Assurance Coordinator

Transform Your Career

At Alcoa, you will become an integral part of our mission to turn raw potential into real progress. Every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, and world-shaper.

This is an opportunity for you to bring your wealth of experience to the team and help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies. You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the Role:

An exciting opportunity exists for a Quality Assurance Coordinator at our WAO Workshop located at our Pinjarra Refinery. Reporting to the Senior Manufacturing Engineer, this role will provide support to the WAO workshop line management team by leading the development, coordination, and implementation of Quality Assurance systems, ensuring they are audited and strategically aligned with Alcoa's Quality Policy and Standards (ISO 9001).

This position is offered Monday through Friday with a flexible leisure day to take once every four weeks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advance system design and sustainability within the WAO Workshop for processes related to equipment overhauls, fabrication, and machining.
• Work with internal resources to ensure products are produced to standard, and where required, develop and embed standards.
• Conduct system audits to identify and correct weaknesses to ensure quality is maintained.
• Provide training, coaching, and problem-solving expertise to leaders, direct reports, and employees to enhance quality systems and processes leading to improved compliance.
• Develop and manage an engagement plan with internal customers, external suppliers, and contract managers.
• Lead a team as part of the WAO Workshop Engineering organization to test samples and improve maintenance methods, work practices, and quality standards.
• Lead problem-solving activities for the WAO Workshop and customers.
• Drive improvements to systems, processes, standards, maintenance methods, reliability, mechanical design, and drawings.

What's on Offer:

• Career development opportunities to pursue your passion.
• Benefits allowance.
• Performance-related bonus (variable).
• 16 weeks paid parental leave scheme.
• Paid annual volunteer hours.
• Social and diversity-focused engagement opportunities.

What You Can Bring to the Role:

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

• Work experience within the Alumina, Resource, Manufacturing, or Heavy-Duty Industry (desirable).
• Demonstrated experience employing a strategic and analytical mindset to lead a small team to support day-to-day activities in a large production workshop.
• Success in implementing and improving systems and processes; Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001), Asset Management Systems ISO 55000, or IT/digital platforms.
• Demonstrated experience in Business Analysis and Improvement, Lean Six Sigma, or Change Management.
• Ability to communicate and engage with a diverse workforce.

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

Additional Information:

• Interviews may progress prior to the closing date, although all applications will be considered.
• You will only be contacted if you are shortlisted for an interview, this process can take up to four weeks from the closing date.

About the Location:

As one of the world's largest alumina refineries, our Alcoa Pinjarra Refinery produces approximately 4.7 million metric tons each year. Located within the Shire of Murray in the Peel region of WA, just east of the Pinjarra town site, our workplace offers an inclusive and respectful environment, where we embrace change, new ideas, and equal opportunity to succeed.

We are values-led, vision-driven, and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress. Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful, and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying, and harassment, and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.

This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career.

Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.