Health and Safety Superintendent

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.

As a leader within Alcoa, you can help fulfill our purpose and realize our vision to reinvent the aluminium industry. Be part of the team that is helping shape a better workplace with a better work-life balance and the equal opportunities that help everyone thrive. You have the power to shape things and individuals to make them better.

About the Role

Do you have a passion for people and their interaction with the work environment? We have a rewarding opportunity based at our Wagerup Refinery for a suitably experienced professional in the role of Health & Safety (H&S) Superintendent working a Monday to Friday roster.

Our Health & Safety (H&S) team supports employees across Wagerup Refinery and Bunbury Port. Reporting to the Location H&S Manager, you'll help lead a dynamic, high-performing team, guiding operational personnel, contractors, and frontline leaders on H&S matters. Your focus will be on maintaining mine safety management system compliance and driving continuous improvement in safety performance.

You are accountable for and will undertake the following duties:

• Mentor and support the safety team through coaching, training facilitation, and career development planning.

• Provide strategic and operational advice to the H&S Manager to ensure that training and development is suitable for the operation and associated risks.

• Support the H&S Manager as required, including tracking and facilitation of Statutory Reporting, liaising with Corporate and Regulatory officials.

• Support implementation of the H&S management strategy, mine safety management system framework and H&S risk reduction programs, ensuring priority remains on critical risk management.

• Conduct trend analysis and interrogate governance systems, to identify continuous improvement focus areas, and value add by initiating and participating in special projects.

• Participate in and/or lead H&S critical functions for Wagerup and Bunbury Port, including risk management, auditing, change management and major incident investigations.

• Coordinate the implementation of Regional and Global HS initiatives and projects.

• Identify and initiate localised Fatal and Serious Injury Prevention initiatives and influence leaders to reduce risk and share best practice.

What's on offer

• Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.

• Parental leave support for all caregivers,

• Paid employee volunteering hours within our community.

• Employee assistance program for personal support services.

• One additional paid Alcoa Flexi Day.

• Alcoa Live Well program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.

• Generous leave entitlements including a leisure a day off every 4-week period.

• Salary packaging for a novated car lease, employee share plan and superannuation options.

• Connect and be part of a community that celebrates diversity through our employee inclusion groups.

What you can bring to the role

• Tertiary qualifications in H&S or related fields.

• Strong Health & Safety related experience, ideally in a heavy industry or industrial environment.

• Knowledge and application of legislative standards to ensure Alcoa's compliance to WHS requirements.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to lead people in the continuous improvement of health and safety systems, and performance.

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.

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About the Location

Alcoa's Wagerup Refinery is one of the world's most environmentally and technologically advanced alumina refineries, and produces approximately 2.9 million metric tons of alumina each year. Located approximately 150 kilometres south of Perth, it is located on the border of WA's picturesque Peel and South West regions. Our workplace is 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.