Senior Environmental Consultant

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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

An opportunity exists for a Senior Environmental Consultant that is seeking to utilise their expertise in air quality management and compliance and contribute further towards protecting our environment, our people and the surrounding communities of which Alcoa operates.

Reporting into our Environmental Governance and Compliance Manager and joining our corporate environmental function located at our head office in Booragoon, you will be supporting our WA refineries, mine sites and VIC smelter with continuous environmental performance improvements initiatives.

Your proactive approach and ability to influence at all levels will enable you to design and successfully deploy relevant environment corporate systems and value-driven solutions across a varied portfolio inclusive of Air Quality, Odour and Noise.

In this role, your key activities and purpose will be:


* Providing guidance and technical support to the Australian operating locations on regulatory requirements and standards, corporate standards and systems requirements, external benchmarking and State and Federal policy, as they relate to ambient air quality (point source fugitive and ambient), odour and noise emissions.


* Assist the mines, refineries and smelters with continuous environmental performance improvement facilitating the maintenance of current operational baseline data sets, air quality and noise models and health risk assessments.


* Supporting locations to assess compliance performance against requirements of their operating licences and where necessary, assist to identify and implement technically sound monitoring, management and mitigation strategies.


* Provide technical support the to Part IV and Part V approvals on requirements and strategies to develop and undertake supporting studies as they relate to air quality, noise and odour impacts


* Track and interpret the external regulatory and political environment including federal and state environmental legislative changes and changes in government policy within the areas of air quality and noise Identify potentially applicable headwinds, raising concerns and challenges to internal stakeholders, Support the development of negotiation, gap analysis, multidisciplinary plans and compliance strategies to mitigate or address these risks.


* Assisting in coordination of Corporate and regulatory compliance reporting processes, ensuring data are accurate and reports are written to a high standard.


* Engaging with location environmental teams to enable the successful deployment of global corporate systems and programs.

What’s on offer:


* Career development opportunities to pursue your passion.


* An attractive remuneration package that recognises the skills and expe...