Capital Project 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.

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

Are you considering a change in your career? We have a rare opportunity for a Capital Project Engineer to join our WA Mining Capital Projects Team. In this role, you'll be a key part of our core mining operations, supporting both the Huntly and Willowdale sites. We've designed this position with a healthy work-life balance in mind, offering a family-friendly Monday to Friday roster and a paid leisure day off every four weeks so you can enjoy more of the things you love.

The role offers flexibility with your work location. We generally expect you to be based at the WA Mining HUB in Pinjarra two days a week, with two days on site, and scope to offer one day working from home. While your primary site will be Willowdale, you will also support Huntly. You'll join a collaborative, customer-focused team, and you'll have the chance to get involved in a huge range of projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

Reporting to the Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Provide technical direction and leadership to ensure mining capital projects are well-planned from the start.
• Lead the development of the most practical and effective solutions for a variety of project scenarios.
• Oversee project planning and approvals, guiding projects through their initial stages.
• Manage the full delivery, control, and closure of all approved projects.
• Monitor, forecast, and report on the capital plan, ensuring financial health and transparency.
• Ensure all projects strictly comply with project delivery and Alcoa's authorisation procedures.

Bring your advanced stakeholder management and interpersonal skills to this position. It provides you with an opportunity to gain exposure to key stakeholders within Alcoa and an insight into the entire bauxite mine operating process through a diverse range of work and projects.

What's on Offer

• Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.
• Employee growth and development opportunities.
• Parental leave support for all caregivers.
• 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

• An Engineering degree qualification, preferably in either mechanical, electrical or Structural/ Civil. Post Graduate Business or project management studies favourable.
• Ideally you will have experience working on both mechanical and electrical projects.
• Previous experience in mining, construction or heavy industry.
• Ability to communicate and engage with a wide range of stakeholders through a range of techniques including in-person, conducting presentations and regular reporting.
• A business improvement, customer focus perspective and an appreciation of engineering alliance relationship structures.
• Well-developed time management and organisational skills, providing you with the skills to manage multiple projects concurrently.

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.