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:
Are you seeking a role that encompasses reliability analysis and maintenance improvement of a wide range of equipment, working with world class smelting technologies? We have the opportunity for you!

Our Portland Smelter is looking for a suitably qualified and experienced Mechanical Reliability Engineer to join our team on a permanent basis.

You will be required to work Monday to Friday  and be on the on call roster, with one flexi leisure day every four-week period you will enjoy the challenges of a technical site role coupled with work life balance.

You will play a key part in supporting our operations through:


* Identifying long term opportunities for improvement through the provision of technical expertise with a focus on equipment reliability and improving plant capacity,


* Providing single point accountability for engineering support in the day-to-day operations,


* Being a catalyst for change and contributing to improvements in Operation Area performance in both the short and long term.

Your role as a Reliability Engineer will be challenging and diverse, and require a strong customer focus with contribution to:


* Leading root cause analysis investigation of failures,


* Developing work scopes for major equipment repairs using fitness for service approaches


* Developing and improving equipment management strategies using a suite of reliability approaches,


* Implementing improvements and driving to completion,


* Involvement with Capital Projects, and


* Safety leadership; the corner stone of Alcoa operations!


* Sound business acumen to contribute to overall Smelter successes, and


* Passion and commitment to Environment, Health and Safety in the workplace.

What’s on offer:



* Career development opportunities to pursue your passion


* Monthly Leisure Day (remove if not applicable – full time employees only)


* Benefits allowance


* Performance related bonus (variable)


* 16 weeks paid parental leave scheme


* Paid annual volunteer hours


* Social and diversity focused engagement opportunities

What you can bring to the role:

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


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


* An understanding of risk management, quality improvement and reliability excellence processes.


* The ability to build relationships and influence...