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
Based at our Wagerup Refinery, the Development Chemist provides chemical, Bayer process and instrumental expertise across the laboratory and refinery. Reporting to the Chemical Services Manager, you will combine hands-on technical problem-solving with laboratory leadership to improve analytical capability, process performance and safe, reliable operations. This role is a M-F onsite position.
In this role, you will:
- Review laboratory and refinery process data to troubleshoot issues and identify improvement opportunities.
- Provide Bayer process chemistry expertise and technical support to refinery teams and improvement projects.
- Develop, standardise, implement and commission analytical methods and laboratory instrumentation.
- Lead laboratory and refinery-based investigations and improvement projects, coordinating resources, trials, timelines, reporting and costs.
- Support safe and effective laboratory operations, including business planning, equipment reliability, cost management and certification of results.
- Build capability across the team through technical coaching and training in Bayer process chemistry, analytical methods and instrument operation.
What’s on offer
- Parental leave support for all caregivers.
- 18 weeks Parental leave for primary caregivers.
- My Alcoa Benefits program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.
- Generous leave entitlements including a leisure a day off every 4-week period.
- Connect and be part of a community that celebrates diversity through our employee inclusion groups.
What you can bring to the role
- Strong chemical and analytical expertise, with the ability to interpret laboratory and process data and translate findings into practical solutions.
- Experience supporting laboratory method development, analytical instrumentation, commissioning and technical troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of the Bayer refining process, or the ability to apply chemistry expertise within a complex processing environment.
- A strong safety focus and the confidence to contribute to laboratory leadership, operational planning and continuous improvement.