Reliability Engineer – Fixed Plant

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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 a Fixed Plant Reliability Engineer, you will be a key contributor to the Willowdale Mining team, providing technical expertise and support to optimise equipment performance and reliability.

This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders across all stages of asset lifecycle, from conception to decommissioning. 

 

Reporting to the Senior Reliability Engineer, this position offers a Monday to Friday work schedule at our Willowdale Mining operations.

Alcoa prioritizes work-life balance and provides flexible working arrangements. 

 

Key Responsibilities: 


* Provide technical guidance and problem-solving solutions to the Willowdale Fixed Plant team. 



* Enhance equipment reliability through Alcoa’s Reliability Excellence (REX) processes, data analysis, root cause analysis, and implementation of best practices. 



* Downtime analysis and defect elimination across the Willowdale site. 



* Conduct reliability studies to improve reliability, asset health, production, cost-efficiency, and safety. 



* Create and review equipment management strategies and spares strategies to support asset heath across the Willowdale fixed plant system. 



* Support capital and maintenance projects for the system, including conveyors, crushers, stackers, reclaimers, hydraulic systems, and pumping systems. 

 

What’s on offer


* Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.


* 18 weeks Parental leave for primary caregivers.


* One additional paid Alcoa Flexi Day.


* 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.

 

What you can bring to the role


* Degree-qualified Engineer with a strong background in reliability and asset management.


* Several years of proven experience delivering reliability improvement initiatives in heavy industrial or materials handling environments.


* Strong understanding of reliability engineering methodologies, including FMECA, defect elimination and root cause analysis.


* Experience leading plant management of change (MOC) and risk management processes.


* Technical knowledge of fixed plant equipment such as conveyors, crushers, stackers, reclaimers, hydraulic and pumping systems.


* Proficient in data analysis and reliability tools, with exposure to softwar...