Environmental Ecologist

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 a dedicated Ecologist ready to make a significant contribution to biodiversity conservation within a leading global company? Alcoa is seeking a talented and proactive Ecologist to join our WA Mining Compliance and Systems team for a 12-month limited term contract.

This is a unique opportunity to lead critical ecological and hydrological monitoring programs within our Huntly and Willowdale bauxite mining operations, situated in the ecologically rich Northern Jarrah Forest.

This role will be based prominently at the WA Mining Hub, with ad hoc site travel as required.

Reporting to the Environmental Superintendent – Compliance and Systems, you will play an integral role in delivering Alcoa's environmental management objectives.

This position demands strong project management and contractor engagement skills, as you will be responsible for leading, supervising, and coordinating external consultants for biodiversity assessment and monitoring.

This role will be offered on a family friendly Monday to Friday roster with a paid Alcoa leisure day off every four weeks, allowing you to spend more time doing the things you love and promoting excellent work-life balance.

You'll develop and implement comprehensive monitoring and management frameworks and action plans, providing essential advice to site-based teams and driving change management to ensure new environmental requirements are effectively communicated and adopted across our WA mining sites.

Your work will directly enhance our ecological knowledge and support robust risk management strategies related to key biodiversity factors.

Key responsibilities include:


* Develop and coordinate ecological and hydrological monitoring programs.


* Engage with, supervise, and coordinate external contractors for environmental surveys, monitoring, and pre-clearance works.


* Review, monitor, analyse, and verify data and information to identify learnings and improve performance.


* Support the review and implementation of protocols and procedures for monitoring and managing key biodiversity factors and understanding mining-related impacts.


* Support WA Mining in change management, effectively communicating and ensuring new procedures and requirements are followed and rolled out across sites.


* Review and manage monitoring data and reports, supporting the effective communication and reporting of results to internal and external stakeholders.


* Work closely with the Environmental Specialist – Biodiversity to provid...