Reliability Engineer

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 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:

Are you seeking a role that encompasses reliability analysis and maintenance improvement of a wide range of equipment, working with world class smelting technologies? We have the opportunity for you!

Our Portland Smelter is looking for suitably qualified and experienced Electrical Reliability Engineer to join our team on a permanent basis.

Working Monday through Friday, with one flexi leisure day every four-week period you will enjoy the challenges of a technical site role coupled with work life balance.

You will play a key part in supporting our operations through:


* Identifying long term opportunities for improvement through the provision of technical expertise with a focus on equipment reliability and improving plant capacity,


* Providing single point accountability for engineering support in the day-to-day operations,


* Being a catalyst and contributing to improvements in Operation Area performance in both the short and long term.

Your role as a Reliability Engineer will be challenging and diverse, and require a strong customer focus with contribution to:


* Leading root cause analysis investigation of failures,


* Developing work scopes for major equipment repairs using fitness for service approaches,


* Developing and improving equipment management strategies using a suite of reliability approaches,


* Implementing improvements and driving to completion,


* Involvement with Capital Projects, and


* Safety leadership; the corner stone of Alcoa operations!


* Sound business acumen to contribute to overall Refinery successes, and


* Passion and commitment to Environment, Health and Safety in the workplace.

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, with previous experience in maintenance, reliability, heavy industry or plant engineering.


* An understanding of risk management, quality improvement and reliability excellence processes.


* The ability to build relationships and influence at all levels of the organisation with a custom...