Senior Civil Engineer - Capital Projects

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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.
At Alcoa, you’re an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. 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:
We are currently seeking a highly skilled Senior Civil Engineer to join our Capital Projects team on an initial 12 month contract working across our mining projects including haul road construction.
Working closely with the Project Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for driving fit-for-purpose solutions and ensuring the delivery of high-quality engineering outcomes for assigned projects. This is a project-based role that involves collaboration with construction, commissioning, and asset owner teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Define and challenge project and engineering scopes to ensure they are fit for purpose.
Prepare scope documents for the execution of engineering services.
Lead or support the management of engineering deliverables through third-party providers.
Maximize value from Engineering Service Providers (ESPs) by proactive monitoring of performance and reducing variations.
Assist in the preparation of operational readiness deliverables.
Ensure engineering design quality through experience and adherence to standards.
Ensure compliance with specifications and minimize excess scope items.
Prepare responses to contractor technical queries within contractual time targets.
Maximize re-usability of engineering design.
Assist and validate in the construction, commissioning, and handover phases of the project.
Core Activities include:
Engineering and Design:
Contribute to safe, timely, cost-effective, and technically sound designs.
Maximize design re-usability to reduce future costs.
Ensure project design alignment with specifications and contracts.
Design Management:
Align design plans with project phases and optimize deliverables before design begins.
Manage the design change process and ensure design deliverables are returned.
Contribute to operational readiness by reviewing spares, maintainability, and operational costs.
Safety and Environment:
Consider safe construction methodologies during the design phase.
Participate in hazard identification and risk assessment processes.
Contribute to a total safety culture within the Capital Group.
Technology & Standards:
Apply current best technology and standards to design and maintainability.
Ensure compliance with Engineering Standards and Statutory Regulations.
Procurement & Contracting:
Manage engineering consistent with specifications and contracts.
Review, assess, and prepare engineering specifications.
Ensure alignment of engineering deliverables with overall procurement plan and contracts.
Construction, Commissioning, and Handover:
Assist in developing construction plans and ensuring constructability of the design.
Monitor cost impact related to construction-initiated design changes.
Define and ensure required as-builts are completed and returned.
What’s on offer:
12 month contract
Competitive hourly rate
What you can bring to the role:
To play a part in our ongoing success we are seeking someone with:
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Civil Engineering.
Experienced in working in a project environment.
Experience in haul road and mining related projects would be highly desirable.
Design execution and management, contract management, construction quality control, and commissioning support.
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills with ability to communicate with a broad range of stakeholders both internal and external to Alcoa.
About the Location
As an Alcoan you are part of a global team committed to advancing sustainability and delivering excellence and innovation. We invented the industry and today we are redefining what it means to be a sustainable aluminium company from mines to metal. Join in and become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. We believe in inclusion, diversity and enabling all employees to grow and develop their careers with us, where they can pursue their passions. The power is in your hands to shape the things that matter to us all.
We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress. Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.
This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!
Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.