Spatial 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

Alcoa’s WA Mining operations manage the largest rehabilitation estate globally, spanning 24,000 hectares with areas ranging from newly rehabilitated to over 50 years old.

Due to this immense scale and complexity, we are excited to announce a unique and exciting opportunity for a Spatial Ecologist to pioneer industry-leading rehabilitation monitoring programs for the Northern Jarrah Forest.

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Spatial Ecologist to join our team, reporting to the Rehabilitation Monitoring Superintendent.

This pivotal role is responsible for the strategic design, execution, and compliance oversight of spatial data and systems crucial to Alcoa’s rehabilitation monitoring program.

You will be instrumental in demonstrating rehabilitation performance against Completion Criteria for our WA Mining Rehabilitation Estate and providing essential evidence for the handback of rehabilitated land to the State.

This role will be offered on a family-friendly Monday to Friday roster with a paid leisure day off every 4 weeks, allowing you more time doing the things you love.

You will be based predominantly at the WA Mining Hub, with ad hoc site travel to both our Huntly and Willowdale Mine sites as required.

There will be some flexibility to work from home, and our standard hours of operation are 7:30 am – 3:30 pm – but these are flexible to ensure you are able to balance your work and life commitments.

Key responsibilities will include:


* Lead the design and implementation of advanced spatial monitoring standards and methodologies for assessing rehabilitation outcomes.


* Drive the development of cutting-edge, automated spatial analysis software integrating diverse remote sensing data.


* Manage remote sensing survey data collection, QA/QC, geospatial data collation, and database uploads.


* Compile and analyse spatial and non-spatial environmental data to assess rehabilitation performance against Completion Criteria.


* Conduct ecological field surveys to gather essential data and corroborate remote sensing approaches


* Oversee the design and ongoing management of WA Mining’s Rehabilitation Database, providing expert technical advice in spatial ecology

What’s on offer


* Flexible hybrid working options available.


* Employee growth and development opportunities.


* Parental leave support for all caregivers.


* One Paid Leisure day off every 4 weeks.


* Paid employee volunteering hours within our community.


* Em...