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About the role
This is a permanent opportunity starting with Alcoa's Graduate Program, a three-year customized graduate development program designed to shape your career.
You will collaborate with experienced professionals and rotate through our corporate offices, bauxite mines, and alumina refineries in the Peel and Upper Southwest regions. Stay connected with your community, hobbies, friends, and family! Our sites are all within driving distance, enabling you to maintain a perfect work-life balance while gaining valuable hands-on site experience.
What’s on offer?
- A permanent job with long-term career development in our local or global operations.
- Annual increases built into your compensation package with many benefits unique to Alcoa.
- Monthly ‘Graduate Days’ and team building activities to build connections with your fellow graduates.
- More time doing the things you love with a leisure day scheme offering 13 additional days leave
- Working locally, in an onsite environment enabling you to return home to friends or family every night.
- Inclusion and diversity networks ; shaping a culture where everyone is welcome, respected and heard.
- Be part of our commitment to sustainability, delivering world class technology and innovations that lead the aluminium industry!
- A workplace culture that strongly values your safety.
What you’ll be doing
As a Graduate Chemical Engineerat Alcoa, you to learn, grow, and develop hands‑on experience and expertise in:
- Reviewing Alumina product quality and process performance within the Bayer process.
- Working closely with our operators on site to understand key concerns and challenges.
- Driving process improvement efficiencies through investigatory projects.
- Identifying daily priorities and focusing on ways to minimise waste.
- Working collaboratively with the Operations and Technical teams.
- Exposure to improvement initiatives for decarbonisation and improving water efficiency.
Development and mentoring
Throughout the program, you will be provided with:
- coaching, mentoring, hands‑on and professional training.
- diverse experiences; from working in our corporate offices, to a local on‑site environment within our 2 mine sites, 3 powerhouses and 2 alumina refineries.
- an increasing level of responsibility
- an opportunity to use your innovative thinking, your motivation to learn and passion for growth to shape the future of our business.
About you
To play a part in our ongoing success we are seeking someone who:
- Coaching, mentoring, hands‑on and professional training.
- Diverse experiences ; from working in our corporate offices, to a local on‑site environment within our 2 mine sites, 3 powerhouses and 2 alumina refineries.
- An increasing level of responsibility
- An chance to use your innovative thinking, your motivation to learn and passion for growth to shape the future of our business.
If you are on the path to graduate or have recently completed tertiary qualifications in Chemical Engineering, Minerals Processing or a related discipline, we want to hear from you!
Become a valued part of the team that’s reinventing the aluminium industry for a sustainable future, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies.
Recruitment Process
- Submit online application* (resume, cover letter, transcript).
- Complete 10‑min video interview.
- Finish psychometric testing (1hr).
- Attend Assessment Centre (case study, team activity, interview) or Panel Interview.
- Reference check.
- Pre‑employment medical.
*Please note that applications close midday Australian Western Standard Time of the posting end date.
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