Civil 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 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

Are you seeking a role that encompasses reliability, analysis, and maintenance of civil and tailings dam assets, interaction with diversely skilled teams, and the career satisfaction of working in a close-knit leadership team? We have the opportunity for you!

Our Pinjarra Refinery is looking for a suitably qualified and experienced Residue Civil Engineer to join our team on a permanent basis.  The working roster is a day role Monday through Friday, with one leisure day every four-week period – this is just one of the ways we encourage a work-life balance.

Your main duties will include routinely inspecting, risk assessing, scoping, and maintaining the infrastructure tailings and associated assets on the Pinjarra facility, this will include:


* Inspecting infrastructure assets and assess condition.


* Risk assessing, prioritising, and advising on fitness for use or temporary controls to make safe and/or repairs to return to service.


* Developing scopes of work, including design, sketches and steps for repairs and modifications to our civil assets and surrounds. 


* Reviewing existing structural reports and drawings, perform calculations, and advising on risk, temporary controls, and priority for repairs. 


* Answering technical queries relating to scopes of work when they arise during tender and/or construction.


* Reviewing work methods to confirm that they are aligned with the intent of the scope of works. 


* Providing advice on structural integrity or defects when required.


* Management of an annual embankment construction capital project.

What’s on offer


* Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.


* Employee growth and development opportunities.


* One additional paid Alcoa Flexi Day.


* Alcoa Live Well program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.


* Connect and be part of a community that celebrates diversity through our employee inclusion groups.

What you can bring to the role


* Tertiary qualifications in Civil Engineering, with post graduate opportunities considered for the right candidate.


* Post graduate business or project management studies are seen as favorable.


* Previous relevant experience working in the mining, metals, mineral processing industry in a similar role, with a high level of technical expertise in this discipline.


* Ability to work both independently and within a team, with highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.


* Strong ...