Environment Manager - Perth, Australia - Alcoa of Australia

Alcoa of Australia

Verified Company

Perth, Australia

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Olivia Brown

beBee Recruiter

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.

As a leader within Alcoa, you can help fulfill our purpose and realize our vision to reinvent the aluminium industry.

Be part of the team that is helping shape a better workplace with a better work-life balance and the equal opportunities that help everyone thrive.

You have the power to shape things and individuals to make them better.

About the Role:

Join us as the Environmental Manager, where your primary role will be to provide environmental and sustainability governance and leadership to our Australian mining, refining, and smelting operations.

This key position will focus on regional water stewardship, carbon and greenhouse gas management, and waste portfolios, aligning with our global environmental and sustainability goals and strategies.

The core activities of the role includes:

Providing strategic oversight, guidance, and technical support to Australian operating locations on corporate standards, external benchmarking, and policy and regulatory requirements related to climate change, carbon management, and sustainable water and waste stewardship.
Establishing and managing a program to develop our Regional Water Stewardship Strategy and position statement.
Track and interpret the external regulatory and political environment, including global and local changes in carbon, climate change, water, and waste policies.
Provide strategic guidance for sustainability performance across Australia, managing existing business risk.
Develop and coordinate the deployment of regional programs ensuring compliance with policy and regulatory requirements and alignment with Alcoa's global sustainability goals.
Collaborate with internal customers, industry bodies, and government agencies.
Manage the production of periodic environmental and sustainability reports and metrics.
Engage with location environmental teams to enable the successful deployment of global and regional systems and programs.
Support the development of location capacity to ensure improvement in environmental sustainability and operational risk management.
Connect with your regional counterparts to drive best practice globally.

What's on offer:

Career development opportunities to pursue your passion
Car allowance
Benefits allowance
Performance related bonus (variable)
16 weeks paid parental leave scheme
Paid annual volunteer hours
Social and diversity focused engagement opportunities

What you can bring to the role:
To play a part in our ongoing success we are seeking someone with:

Degree qualification in Environmental Science, Sustainability, Climate Change, or Environmental Engineering.
Expertise within the environmental sustainability field ideally within the resources sector.
Demonstrated knowledge of relevant State and Commonwealth climate change and carbon policies.
Advanced knowledge of State and Federal sustainability requirements in the bauxite mining and aluminium refining and smelting industry.
Ability to assimilate and analyse information from various sources to solve complex challenges.
Ability to travel domestically as required.
A highly collaborative approach working within both our local and global teams and an ability to engage effectively with both internal and external stakeholders.

This position is based on a 2 year fixed term contract.

Application Closing Date:31st December 2023

Additional information

You will only be contacted if you are shortlisted for an interview, this process can take up to four weeks from the closing date.

LI-CW1

LI-Hybrid

About the Location
As an Alcoan you are part of a global team committed to advancing sustainability and delivering excellence and innovation.

Join in and become an essential part of our purpose:
to turn raw potential into real progress. 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.