Project Controls Officer

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential 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 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:
We are seeking an experienced Project Controls Officer to join our Mining Studies team. This is a residential position based in Pinjarra. Reporting to the Mining Studies Manager, the role offers a standard Monday to Friday work schedule, complemented by a paid leisure day every four weeks, allowing you to spend more time doing the things you love

As a Project Controls Officer, you'll be instrumental in planning, organising, and controlling resources, procedures, and timelines for a variety of projects. You'll be the backbone of our project teams, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:
- Organise project teams, assign responsibilities, develop schedules, and determine resource needs.- Monitor and report on project status, including budget, schedule, and resourcing, providing regular updates to stakeholders.- Ensure adherence to quality standards, including ISO certifications, and proactively resolve obstacles impacting timelines and budgets.- Integrate vendor tasks into project plans, track deliverables, and manage multiple interrelated projects, including business transformation initiatives.- Align survey priorities with business demand, manage new environmental requests, and continually improve processes.

What’s on offer:
- Career development opportunities to pursue your passion- Monthly Leisure Day- 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:
- Proficiency in developing and managing detailed project schedules, including resource allocation and timeline management.- Experience in monitoring project costs, tracking budgets, and providing accurate financial reporting.- Ability to effectively monitor project progress, identify variances, and generate comprehensive status reports.- Understanding of quality standards and experience in ensuring adherence to internal and external compliance requirements, such as ISO certifications.- The ability to identify and help to mitigate project risks, and to work to resolve issues that arise during project progression.- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and provide actionable insights. Proficiency in relevant software and tools (e.g., MS projects, Excel, project management software).

Additional information-
About the Location

Pinjarra Hub is our centralised Mining Hub, which supports our two mine sites, Huntly and Willowdale. The location also hosts, separately, other departments who provide support to our WA Refineries. This office is situated on the Bindjareb land of the Noongar people, in the Shire of Murray, just east of the Pinjarra town site. We pride ourselves on fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace where new ideas are embraced, and everyone has an 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.