Graduate Chemical Engineer (2025) (Jan 2025)

This is your opportunity to help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies.

Become a valued part of the team that’s reinventing the aluminium industry for a sustainable future, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies. 

About the role

This unique permanent opportunity empowers you to shape your career in an exciting three-year customised graduate program allowing you to contribute to a more sustainable world. You will rotate across our WA locations based in the Peel and Upper Southwest regions. 

What’s on offer?

• A permanent job with long-term career development in our local or global operations.
• An attractive compensation package with many benefits unique to Alcoa.
• Monthly ‘Graduate Days’ and team building activities to build connections with your fellow graduates. 
• More time doing the things you love with a leisure day scheme offering 13 additional days leave
• Working locally, in an onsite environment enabling you to return home to friends or family every night.
• Inclusion and diversity networks; shaping a culture where everyone is welcome, respected and heard.
• Be part of our commitment to sustainability, delivering world class technology and innovations that lead the aluminium industry!
• A workplace culture that strongly values your safety.

What you’ll be doing

As a Graduate Chemical Engineer at Alcoa, you to learn, grow, and develop hands-on experience and expertise in:

• Reviewing Alumina product quality and process performance within your assigned area of responsibility.
• Working closely with our operators on site to understand key concerns and challenges.
• Driving process improvement efficiencies through investigatory projects.
• Identifying daily priorities and focusing on ways to minimise waste.
• Working collaboratively with the Operations and Technical teams.

Development and mentoring

Throughout the program, you will be provided with:

• coaching, mentoring, hands-on and professional training.
• diverse experiences; from working in our corporate offices, to a local on-site environment within our 2 mine sites, 3 powerhouses and 2 alumina refineries. 
• an increasing level of responsibility
• an opportunity to use your innovative thinking, your motivation to learn and your passion for growth to shape the future of our business. 

If you are on the path to graduate by the end of 2024 or have recently completed tertiary qualifications in Chemical Engineering, Minerals Processing or a related discipline, we want to hear from you!

About you

To play a part in our ongoing success we are seeking someone who:

• Is a self-starter with the ability to work autonomously.
• Uses initiative and takes ownership of their work.
• Has strong communication and well-developed people skills.
• Thinks analytically and be open minded with a creative and collaborative approach to problem solving.
• Drives positive outcomes with the ability to engage with and understand customers.