Reliability Engineer – Fixed Plant

Alcoa of Australia Ltd; Shire Of Waroona, Cookernup; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remuneration & bonus

Parental leave 18 weeks

Flexi day

Benefits program (My Alcoa)

Generous leave incl leisure day every

Salary packaging & share plan

Job summary

Alcoa of Australia Ltd invites applications for a Fixed Plant Reliability Engineer based at Willowdale Mining, WA. You will provide technical reliability expertise to optimise performance and asset health across the fixed plant—conveyors, crushers, stackers and pumps—through lifecycle collaboration.

Reporting to the Senior Reliability Engineer, this role is a Monday–Friday on-site position offering a strong merit-based remuneration package, bonus plans, and flexible work arrangements within a

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified Engineer with reliability and asset management background.
• Several years of proven reliability improvement experience in heavy industrial environments.
• Solid knowledge of reliability methodologies including FMECA, defect elimination, and root cause analysis.
• Experience leading plant MOC and risk management processes.
• Technical knowledge of fixed plant equipment (conveyors, crushers, stackers, reclaimers, hydraulics, pumping).
• Proficient in data analysis and reliability tools; Power BI/REX exposure advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to Willowdale Fixed Plant team and stakeholders.
• Improve equipment reliability using reliability processes, RCAs, and best practices.
• Conduct downtime analyses and eliminate defects across the Willowdale site.
• Run reliability studies to improve asset health, production, safety and cost-efficiency.
• Create and review equipment and spares management strategies for the fixed plant system.
• Support capital and maintenance projects for conveyors, crushers, stackers, reclaimers, hydraulics and pumping systems.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Root cause analysis

FMECA

Data analysis

Asset management

Plant MOC leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Power BI

Availability Workbench

RealityCharting

Job description

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 As a Fixed Plant Reliability Engineer, you will be a key contributor to the Willowdale Mining team, providing technical expertise and support to optimise equipment performance and reliability. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders across all stages of asset lifecycle, from conception to decommissioning. Reporting to the Senior Reliability Engineer, this position offers a Monday to Friday work schedule at our Willowdale Mining operations. Alcoa prioritizes work-life balance and provides flexible working arrangements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and problem-solving solutions to the Willowdale Fixed Plant team.
• Enhance equipment reliability through Alcoa's Reliability Excellence (REX) processes, data analysis, root cause analysis, and implementation of best practices.
• Downtime analysis and defect elimination across the Willowdale site.
• Conduct reliability studies to improve reliability, asset health, production, cost-efficiency, and safety.
• Create and review equipment management strategies and spares strategies to support asset heath across the Willowdale fixed plant system.
• Support capital and maintenance projects for the system, including conveyors, crushers, stackers, reclaimers, hydraulic systems, and pumping systems.

What’s on offer

• Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.
• 18 weeks Parental leave for primary caregivers.
• One additional paid Alcoa Flexi Day.
• My Alcoa Benefits program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.
• Generous leave entitlements including a leisure a day off every 4-week period.
• Salary packaging for a novated car lease, employee share plan and superannuation options.

What you can bring to the role

• Degree-qualified Engineer with a strong background in reliability and asset management.
• Several years of proven experience delivering reliability improvement initiatives in heavy industrial or materials handling environments.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering methodologies, including FMECA, defect elimination and root cause analysis.
• Experience leading plant management of change (MOC) and risk management processes.
• Technical knowledge of fixed plant equipment such as conveyors, crushers, stackers, reclaimers, hydraulic and pumping systems.
• Proficient in data analysis and reliability tools, with exposure to software such as Power BI, Availability Workbench or RealityCharting considered advantageous.

About the Location

Willowdale is one of our two bauxite mines in Western Australia, and is located in the Darling Scarp east of Waroona and Cookernup. It supplies bauxite ore to the Wagerup Alumina Refinery via a direct overland conveying system and helps to produce almost half of Australia’s alumina and approximately 19 per cent of Australia’s aluminium.

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