Environmental Science Vacation Student

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.

About the Role

Shape your career by joining Alcoa’s Vacation Student program! Based in VIC at our Portland Smelter, you’ll have the chance to put your university knowledge into practice, propelling you toward a career path that exceeds your wildest expectations.

Throughout your 12-week paid summer placement, you’ll experience professional growth, technical expansion, and become an integral part of our vibrant community, where inspiration and daily challenges await.

During the program, you will be matched with a senior specialist who will offer hands-on training, mentoring, and coaching.

The program is designed to support you in becoming a creative problem solver, assisting you in completing meaning projects that will be assigned to you.

What’s on offer


* Exposure to industry and a future career at Alcoa. 


* An attractive hourly rate of pay for the hours you work.


* Meaningful project work that provides you with valuable hands-on work experience


* Increased opportunity to gain a place in the Alcoa Graduate Program after you have completed your degree


* Working locally, in an onsite environment enabling you to return home to friends and family every night.


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

What you’ll be doing


* Based on site at our Portland Aluminium Smelter


* Assigned a project that both delivers real value to the business and provides you with hands-on industry experience.


* Assisting to deliver the smelter environmental management systems and associated improvement projects.


* Working on the identification and execution of gap analysis projects, including being involved in task scheduling and prioritisation, stakeholder consultation, solution development, staff training and presentations.


* Be exposed to environmental monitoring and sampling, data entry and analysis.


* Assisting in investigations of, and addressing environmental incidents and complaints.


* Coordinating periodic environmental reports and metrics to meet Alcoa’s regulatory compliance and obligations.

You will be given an appropriate level of responsibility to handle assigned project(s), utilizing your innovative thinking, eagerness to learn, and passion for growth to make meaningful contributions to the business.

In our open-minded workplace, your ideas will be highly valued within a supportive environment that encourages creative thinking.

If you are currently studying tertiary qualifications in Environmental Science or a related discipline, we want to hear from you!

What you can bring to the role  

We are interested in hearing from curious university students who are:


* Ideally, in their penultimate year of study, however we ...