Senior Reliability Engineer - Electrical

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.

About the Role:

We currently have an opportunity for a suitably qualified and experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to be part of the team at Portland Aluminium. This is a permanent position, working Monday through to Friday.

In this role you provide functional leadership support across operations and maintenance for equipment reliability, with the technical expertise to resolve complex issues that arise. You provide the direction for other Engineers when it comes to applying reliability engineering principles and standards to equipment in an effort to uphold best practice and improvement of our environmental, health and safety performance.

Your responsibilities will be challenging and diverse! It will require a strong customer focus with contribution to:

• Leading, empowering and encouraging the electrical engineering team to develop their knowledge and abilities.
• Facilitation and participation in improvement activities to ensure an effective focus of engineering resources on cost reduction, asset utilisation, continuous improvement and waste reduction.
• Developing work scopes for major equipment repairs using a suite of reliability approaches in an effort to improve equipment management strategies.
• Optimising production by applying reliability engineering principles to equipment performance and solutions to equipment-based problems through failure and root cause analysis techniques.
• Taking on a consulting and advising role in the area of Regulatory Changes and Compliance requirements.
• Lastly but just as importantly; safety leadership to our people and 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:

To play a part in our ongoing success we are seeking someone with:

• A tertiary qualification in Electrical Engineering.
• Previous experience in Maintenance, Reliability or Plant Engineering is highly regarded.
• A dedicated commitment to Environment, Health and Safety of people and processes.
• Facilitative approach to problem-solving activities and leadership in the implementation of change and innovation.
• Willingness to coach, guide and impart knowledge on others.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills within multi-disciplinary technical teams!

At Alcoa, you’re an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. 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.

Application Closing Date: Wednesday 7 August 2024

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

Our Portland Smelter is a joint venture between Alcoa of Australia (55%), CITIC (22.5%) and Marubeni Aluminium Australia (22.5%). Alcoa manages the day-to-day operations at the smelter and we produce approximately 19 per cent of Australia’s total aluminium production in Portland. We are proud of the long-standing relationships we have within our local community and are committed to supporting social and diverse causes.

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.