Alcoa Australia
Graduate Geotechnical Engineer (Jan 2026)
Perth
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 90,000 - 140,000 / Year
- 1 vacancy
- Apply by 28 Mar 2025
- Start date 12 Jan 2026
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 Geotechnical Engineer at Alcoa, you to learn, grow, and develop hands-on experience and expertise in:
- Supporting residue team and site Civil and Senior Geotechnical Engineers in handling dam safety, preparing facility plans and applying standard methodology engineering technology.
- Providing engineering input into the design and maintenance of the residue storage facilities.
- Contributing towards the refinery and residue EH&S and provide insight into problem resolution for bauxite residue assets.
- Providing input towards the WA residue capital planning, approval and review process.
- Monitoring civil engineering design and construction QA.
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 passion for growth to shape the future of our business.
If you are on the path to graduate by the end of 2025 or have recently completed tertiary qualifications in Civil or Geotechnical Engineering 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.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
I enjoy monitoring the process in my area and optimising where I can. Often little things have high impact when fixed or implemented which I enjoy.
Good mix of long-term projects and day to day work. Site exposure allows for more hands-on work experience and implementation of ideas.
My current role sees me responsible for all engineering in an integral part of the refining process. Ensuring equipment is adequately maintained, creating solutions to problems that arise, and looking at future improvements.
About the employer
Alcoa Australia
3.9
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Mining, Oil & Gas
Alcoa thrives by developing best practices that improve our bauxite, alumina and aluminium business units. Join us on our journey!
Pros and cons of working at Alcoa Australia
Pros
Getting to rotate between different roles and experience different parts of the company.
Training and career development Great support structure Flexible working arrangements.
Leisure days off are a great perk.
I like the flexibility to work from home twice per week, and the ability to flex hours based on commitments if needed.
The variety of work keeps things interesting and engaging.
Cons
The lack of structure and care for the Graduate Program. Especially with no emphasis to the managers/supervisors to set a mentor and a training schedule.
Sometimes it feels like you're just a number.
Old systems and technology used.
The offices need upgrading as well as the equipment in the offices.
The business promotes inclusion, but they continue to hire and promote people in the business whose values do not align with the message they are trying to convey.