AddressThrough innovation and hard work, we launched an industry and changed the way we live, build, move, and fly. From mine to finished metal, we produce our products with a focus on the environment and our communities. With global operations spanning across 9 countries, we are one of the world’s largest bauxite miners, are a world leader in Alumina production and a majority of our aluminum portfolio is powered by renewable energy.
About the Role
We are on the search for a strategic and innovative leader to bring an enterprise-wide vision in spatial information management that will implement and lead an organisation-wide spatial strategy for Alcoa’s operations.
As the Global Spatial Manager, you will work with business and operations leaders and their teams to understand gaps and build an enterprise-wide spatial roadmap with strong connections to the regions, including areas of planning, mining and refining operations, environment, community, heritage, and land tenure. You will work with the regional spatial teams to implement these key priorities, develop governance and standards, and monitor performance to track progress against operational priorities, strategic business alignment, systems currency, and compliance.
This new role will report to the Global Planning Director in the Operations team. Your key activities and areas of accountability will be:
- Define and govern the direction of Spatial capability to support business requirements.
- Define spatial information architecture and analysis methodologies to provide various resource groups and departments with effective support services.
- Manage budget and resources to achieve business goals, developing work plans and organising workloads.
- Develop and implement data quality control and stewardship measures for all Alcoa GIS products, services, and procedures.
- Provide GIS guidance, training, and planning support to all departments, including regular consultations with management regarding existing and planned projects both locally and globally.
- Keeping current with GIS best practices in the industry.
- Promote use of GIS, through effective presentations across various Alcoa stakeholders, including coordination of training and upskilling the broader organisation as needed.
What’s on offer
- Career development opportunities to pursue your passion.
- An attractive remuneration package that recognises the skills and experience you will bring to the team.
- A yearly performance bonus (variable) to reward your contributions.
- Generous paid parental leave with 16 weeks for primary carer.
- Make a difference in our local communities with paid employee volunteering hours.
- Social and diversity focused engagement opportunities.
What you can bring to the role
- Tertiary qualifications in Spatial, Land Survey, Geosciences, Engineering, Environment, or other relevant fields.
- Practical experience in implementing and managing a Spatial Information management practice, planning global solutions and strategy development within a large organisation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including developing presentations for impact.
- Effective budget planning for spatial services, forecasting, and vendor management experience.
- Working knowledge of ESRI ArcGIS or similar toolset and associated skills and training requirements.
- A collaborative work approach that embraces diversity of thinking, teamwork and cultivating innovation across global locations.
- Ability to surface, prioritise, and balance multiple stakeholder requirements.
- Track record of solving complex technical problems and communicating clear expectations to achieve optimal outcomes.
As a leader within Alcoa, you can help fulfill our purpose and realize our vision to reinvent the aluminium industry. At Alcoa, we value flexibility too – as this role will be collaborating with a global team, there will be a requirement for occasional evening calls providing an opportunity to balance your workday hours as needed along with utilising our work-from home options to create a better work-life balance that helps you thrive.
Application Closing Date
Sunday, 9 June 2024
Additional information
- This role could either be based in our Poços or São Paulo locations or from our HQ in Booragoon in Western Australia servicing our global operations.
- Interviews may progress prior to the closing date, although all applications will be considered.
- You will only be contacted if you are shortlisted for an interview, this process can take up to four weeks from the closing date.
