Senior Projects Engineer

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

Are you an experienced engineer with the drive and passion to deliver capital projects? We have an opportunity for a senior project engineer to join the team at Alcoa's Wagerup refinery. The working roster available is Monday to Friday with a leisure day off in every four-week period.

As the senior project engineer, you will provide technical direction and leadership for Alcoa's capital projects to ensure the refinery capital projects have adequate front end loading including the development of best practical solutions for the opportunity or problem defined as well as the commissioning management of the project. You will also be accountable for project performance during the Basic Engineering, Detailed Engineering and Construction Phases of the project.

Other responsibilities of the role:

• Leading the owner's team for each project to develop cost effective, operable and maintainable solutions to well defined problem or opportunity statements.
• Ensuring the stakeholders understand and contribute to the progress of projects through the front-end loading phase and that issues that create potential for causing delays or cost overruns are well managed and raised appropriately.
• Facilitate longer term opportunities for improvement through the sharing of knowledge and development of resources within Alcoa and preferred engineering houses.
• Facilitate the delivery of timely and cost-effective project outcomes by meeting the refinery's business needs.
• Ensuring projects align with statutory, Alcoa and plant requirements for design, construction, commissioning, and operation.
• Engage the technical development group and other appropriate external resources to ensure best practice design and implementation is achieved and to provide practical, cost-effective solutions aimed at minimising capital intensity.
• Provide Technical, Operational and Maintenance input into the Project Execution Plan with a focus on safety, environment, operability, maintainability, and ergonomics.

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.
• 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 an engineering field coupled with relevant experience in a project management field in capital projects and asset delivery.
• Additionally, the ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of engineering design experience in brownfields installation..
• Business and customer focus perspective and an appreciation of engineering alliance type relationships.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills coupled with previous engineering supervisory experience.
• Alumina, heavy industry or refinery experience is preferred.

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

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.