Mechanical Reliability Engineer - Bunbury Port and Kwinana Port (12-month fixed term)

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 provide mechanical and reliability engineering support across production equipment and supporting facilities between Bunbury Port and Kwinana Port.

In this 12-month fixed-term role, you will apply your technical knowledge to daily troubleshooting, strategic improvements, problem investigation and mechanical design work.

You will 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 and may include providing on-call response to restore flow, as well as developing and implementing countermeasures to prevent problem recurrence.

This role will work across both port locations on a Monday to Friday roster.

Duties Include


* Develop and optimise equipment reliability strategies, preventative and predictive maintenance programs, and compliance with OEM and engineering standards.


* Investigate equipment issues and implement engineering solutions to eliminate safety and quality concerns, recurring failures and other operational risks.


* Develop and maintain equipment bills of materials, critical spares, files, drawings and technical documentation across both Port sites.


* Prepare scopes of work and provide mechanical engineering support for repairs, major overhauls, and capital and expense projects, proactively identifying delivery risks.


* Identify and implement continuous improvement, cost reduction and equipment obsolescence initiatives that enhance safety, performance and reliability.

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...