Process Control Engineering Graduate (2025 Intake) (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 Process Control Engineer at Alcoa, you to learn, grow, and develop hands-on experience and expertise in:

• Undertaking training in both the Bayer Process and Control.
• The development, implementation and maintenance of Advanced Process Control (APC) and Advanced Regulatory Control (ARC) schemes. This work varies from small local modifications to large scale control system projects, maintenance of existing schemes, new hardware applications and control scheme configuration following plant upgrades.
• Use of standard tools and applications to improve control systems and enhance the operator and engineer control experience.
• Daily process analysis to identify problem areas and opportunities for control improvement.
• Contributing to production efficiency by training operators, group leaders and technical personnel in existing and new Process Control schemes.

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 2024 or have recently completed tertiary qualifications in Instrumentation and Process Control, Industrial Computer Systems, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Chemical 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.

Additional information 

• Please submit your online application by attaching your current resume, cover letter and academic transcript.
• Our graduate opportunities are available to people who are eligible to work in Australia. Please state this information clearly in your application.
• You will only be contacted if you are shortlisted for an interview, this process can take up to four weeks from the closing date.