Controlled Documents Specialist

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

We currently have an opportunity for an innovative and experienced Controlled Documents Specialist to join Alcoa’s Business Improvement team based at the WA Mining Hub with site travel required across the Huntly & Willowdale operations., Working Monday to Friday each week, with a monthly Leisure Day, you can achieve work-life balance in this role while enjoying all the Peel and Murray regions have to offer.

This role will be offered as a 6-month limited term contract, commencing as soon as possible.

In this role, you will be developing and maintaining technical documents to a high standard, thus contributing to ensure that our WA mining operations personnel are trained, informed and able to perform their roles safely and proficiently.

Key responsibilities include:


* Documentation for all aspects of WA Mining, working closely with multidiscipline (projects, operational, maintenance, electrical, planning, etc) stakeholders from both the Huntly and Willowdale mine.

This role will liaise with subject matter experts (SME’s) to ensure technically accurate content that meets Alcoa’s documentation standards.

The SME’s may include Engineers, Supervisors, Superintendents, Tradespeople and Mine Workers as required.

The incumbent must be a proficient technical writer.


* Management, review and governance of documents in our Controlled Document System (CDS)


* Actively seeking opportunities to consolidate documents in Alcoa’s Controlled Document Management System to reduce the overall number of documents to as few as practicably possible, eliminating the ambiguity associated with having multiple documents covering the same or similar topic.


* Overseeing and coaching operations personnel on updating, revising, and producing documents that are concise and pitched for readers for training and instructive purposes.

This includes Standard Work Instructions (SWIs), user guides, training materials, isolation procedures, technical specifications, and checklists.


* Leading the process to lift the competence of Document Owners and Document Reviewers, who are developing SWI’s within an approved standard framework.

What’s on offer


* Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.


* Family friendly rosters that allow you to be home each night.


* Flexible hybrid working options available.


* Paid employee volunteering hours within our community.


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

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