Environmental Advisor - Ground Disturbance

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:

Alcoa is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Environmental Advisor to join our team and play a crucial role in shaping the future of sustainability.

This exciting opportunity will involve developing and implementing ground disturbance assessment programs across Alcoa’s Mining Operations in Western Australia.

Reporting into the Environmental Compliance Specialist, this position will be offered on a family friendly Monday to Friday roster, based at the WA Mining Hub, located onsite at the Pinjarra refinery, and will require ad hoc site travel to all our WA Mining locations.

Key Responsibilities:


* Prioritising and managing permit assessments to ensure they align with the established mine plan schedules.


* The role requires a strong understanding of WA Mining compliance commitments to ensure that all activities adhere to relevant regulations.


* The incumbent will be responsible for training personnel in the ground disturbance permit process requirements, ensuring consistent understanding and adherence.


* Utilising geographical information systems, the role will assess permit activity areas against compliance requirements to identify any potential issues or discrepancies.


* The role will also involve supporting projects to implement new ground disturbance permit software, contributing to the efficiency and effectiveness of the permit assessment process.

The Environmental Advisor will provide expert advice on activities identified as part of permit assessments, drawing on their knowledge and experience in the field.

What’s on offer:


* Career development opportunities to pursue your passion


* Monthly Leisure Day


* 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:


* Ideally you will hold a bachelor’s degree in environmental science, environmental engineering, or similar – or have equivalent hands-on experience in a similar role.


* Strong analytical expertise in assessing ground disturbance activities against compliance criteria.


* A solid understanding of the mining process and its operations.


* Proven experience in working collaboratively with mine planning and mining operations teams.


* A strong background in GIS and its applications.


* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and ideally the successful candidate will have a passion for ...