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This is your opportunity to help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies. Become a valued part of the team that’s shaping the future of aluminium, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies. Be part of it and shape your world.
About the Role
Join our WA mining hub, where you’ll play a critical role in supporting biological studies that underpin mining approvals. As a Spatial Data Analyst reporting to the Mining Studies Manager, you’ll take ownership of the spatial data that drives our environmental and mining insights, ensuring it is accurate, compliant, and accessible across the business. This role is offered on a 12 month fixed term contract working a Monday to Friday roster, based at the WA Mining Hub in Pinjarra.
Key Responsibilities:
1. You will manage, validate, and maintain spatial data within Alcoa’s enterprise geodatabases, ensuring compliance with spatial data standards.
2. You will support the Mining Studies team through spatial analysis, data processing, visualisation, and creation of new spatial datasets.
3. You will engage with internal and external data suppliers to ensure high‑quality, consistent, and relevant spatial data is available across the business.
4. You will develop and maintain documentation, metadata, training materials, and user‑friendly resources (including videos) for Alcoa’s GIS systems.
5. You will troubleshoot spatial data system issues, assess their impacts, and drive continuous improvement of workflows and technology use.
What’s on offer
6. Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.
7. Parental leave support for all caregivers.
8. Employee assistance program for personal support services.
9. Alcoa Live Well program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.
10. Generous leave entitlements including a leisure a day off every 4-week period.
11. Salary packaging for a novated car lease, employee share plan and superannuation options.
What you can bring to the role
12. You hold a bachelor’s degree in Spatial Sciences, Environmental Science, or a related discipline.
13. You bring at least five years of hands‑on experience working with spatial data.
14. You have strong capability with Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Pro, and you’re confident supporting customers and other GIS users.
15. You ideally have experience with Python for spatial data, database management and/or SQL, though these are not essential.
16. You have experience uploading IBSA data.