Learning and Development Consultant

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

Do you have a passion for training and developing others? Alcoa's WA Mining Operations is seeking an experienced and qualified Learning and Development professional to join our team. Reporting directly to the Human Resource Manager, this role offers a unique opportunity to optimise learning and development activities, directly supporting the business plan and enhancing efficiency across our WA mining locations.

In this key role, you will be responsible for assessing our Training and Development programs across both the Huntly and Willowdale mining operations. This involves evaluating current programs to identify strengths and areas for improvement, ensuring alignment with best practices and business objectives. The position will be primarily based at the WA Mining HUB, with regular travel to both mine sites required for effective stakeholder engagement and understanding operational training needs.

Recognising the importance of work-life balance, this role offers a family-friendly Monday to Friday, days-only roster. Additionally, you will benefit from a paid leisure day every four weeks, providing valuable time for personal pursuits and well-being. This is an excellent opportunity to make a significant impact on our workforce development while enjoying a supportive and flexible work environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Complete a L&D Assessment of our existing operations, including a gap analysis and goal matrix of our WA Mining operations.

• Providing functional leadership in the deployment of standard training methods and measures across the location, in the areas of safety, process, mechanical, business improvement, interpersonal, mobile skills, technical, apprentices and traineeships.

• Sharing and implementing best practice processes across WA Operations and ensuring that training processes align to WA Operations standards and legislative requirements and are correctly deployed into the operating areas.

• Holding accountability for measuring the health of training within mining and facilitate continual improvement in the pursuit of operational excellence.

• Designing, developing and facilitating learning and development programs.

• Providing strong leadership ensuring continual improvement and achieving consistent high standards at all levels.

• Working with a network of L&D Consultants and training support functions across multiple locations to ensure the Refinery transfers best practice initiatives.

What's on offer

• Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.

• Employee growth and development opportunities.

• Parental leave support for all caregivers.

• Employee assistance program for personal support services.

• 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.

What you can bring to the role

• Tertiary qualification HR/Learning and development related, and proven experience as a Learning and Development professional, with a strong background in a similar industry, preferably mining.

• Demonstrated ability to perform comprehensive L&D assessments, including conducting gap analyses and creating a goal matrix to identify and address training needs.

• Experience in the full cycle of L&D, including designing, developing, and facilitating various training and development programs.

• Knowledge and experience in sharing and implementing best practice processes to ensure training programs align with operational standards and legislative requirements in Western Australia.

• Proven ability to provide strong functional leadership and guide a team of L&D consultants and support functions across multiple locations.

• Expertise in measuring the effectiveness of training programs and a commitment to continual improvement to achieve operational excellence.

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

Huntly is one of our two bauxite mines in Western Australia. Established in 1976 and located east of North Dandalup in WA, it is the world's second largest bauxite mine, supplying ore to Alcoa's Pinjarra alumina refinery. Bauxite ore from Alcoa's Huntly and Willowdale mines helps to produce almost half of Australia's alumina and approximately 19 per cent of Australia's aluminium. 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.