Mechanical Reliability 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

As the Mechanical Engineer you will be responsible for providing support on various production equipment and supporting facilities.  You will use your mechanical and reliability experience and knowledge to perform daily troubleshooting, strategic improvements, problem investigation and mechanical design work.

Provide advice and assistance to maintenance personnel to improve uptime and equipment reliability, while adhering to regulatory and Alcoa EHS requirements.

Tasks are performed in a “hands on” setting which include, providing on-call response to restore flow and developing and implementing countermeasures to prevent problem recurrence.

This role will be based at the Wagerup Refinery on a Monday to Friday roster.

Duties include


* Initiating and/or implementing improvement projects including engineering solutions to eliminate safety and quality concerns, repetitive equipment failures and other major and minor issues.


* Develop preventative/predictive programs/systems to improve process and equipment performance and reliability.


* Create scopes of work for ad-hoc repairs and major overhauls.


* Ensure compliance of project work with appropriate engineering standards.


* Identifying and/or implementing new ideas and cost reduction opportunities as well as identifying and addressing obsolescence issues with existing equipment.


* Support capital and expense projects with your mechanical engineering skillset and highlighting risks to progress.


* Create, maintain, and update equipment files, drawings and documentation.

What’s on offer


* Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.


* My Alcoa Benefits program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.


* Generous leave entitlements including a leisure a day off every 4-week period.


* Salary packaging for a novated car lease, employee share plan and superannuation options.


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

What you can bring to the role


* A tertiary qualification in Engineering with previous experience in maintenance, reliability, heavy industry or plant engineering highly regarded.


* An understanding of reliability principles, risk management and continuous improvement.


* The ability to communicate at all levels of the organization, crucial within our dynamic and diverse team environment.


* Improvements to equipment management strategies with a focus on preventative...