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:
Make a real difference in a thriving mining environment!
Alcoa's Mining Operations is seeking a motivated and goal-oriented individual to join our Technical Services team during an exciting period of growth.
You'll play a pivotal role in our site's performance by developing detailed mine designs and providing essential technical expertise. Benefit from a Monday to Friday schedule with an attractive leisure day off every four weeks, promoting excellent work-life integration.
While initially based at our Huntly Mine site, this role will involve periodic travel to our various WA Mining locations.
Key responsibilities will include:
1. Develop detailed mine designs for development, production, and rehabilitation, ensuring we meet and exceed our performance targets.
2. Leverage your expertise to advise on strategies that maximise the value of our mine resources.
3. Create precise pit designs and associated ore/waste extraction plans.
4. Develop initial rehabilitation profiles and final landscaping designs, contributing to responsible mining practices.
5. Effectively communicate mine plans and schedules to stakeholders across all levels.
6. Assist in the development of long-term (Life of Mine), medium-term (36-month rolling), and short-term (up to 12-week) plans.
7. Provide detailed performance analysis against the annual plan for the mine site.
What’s on offer:
8. Career development opportunities to pursue your passion
9. Monthly Leisure Day
10. Performance related bonus (variable)
11. 16 weeks paid parental leave scheme
12. Paid annual volunteer hours
13. Social and diversity focused engagement opportunities
What you can bring to the role:
14. Ideally you will hold a Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering, Geology, Mine and Engineering Surveying, or a closely related field, coupled with demonstrated experience working in large open-cut mining environments.
15. Exceptional analytical skills with a keen eye for detail and a proactive approach to identifying and driving continuous improvement.
16. Proficiency in mine planning CAD (ideally Surpac or something similar).
17. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively within multi-disciplinary technical teams.
18. Strong team player with the ability to communicate clearly across all organisational levels and tailor content/reports to the audience.