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Vacation Student - Occupational Hygienist (VIC) Apply locations Australia, VIC, Portland time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id Req-25740

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.

Shape your career by joining Alcoa’s Vacation Student program! Based in Victoria at our Portland Aluminium Smelter, you’ll have the chance to put your university knowledge into practice, propelling you toward a career path that exceeds your wildest expectations. Throughout your 12-week paid summer placement, you’ll experience professional growth, technical expansion, and become an integral part of our vibrant community, where inspiration and daily challenges await.

With best-in-class bauxite mining and rehabilitation practices, the lowest-carbon alumina refining system on the planet, game-changing innovations in aluminium smelting, and the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of low-carbon products, Alcoa is working to reinvent the aluminium industry for a sustainable future, and we want you to join us!

Throughout the program, you will be paired with a senior specialist that will provide you with the hands-on training, mentoring, and coaching to support you in becoming a creative problem solver, helping you towards completing the meaningful projects that you will be assigned.

What’s on offer?

• Exposure to industry and a future career at Alcoa. 

• An attractive hourly rate of pay for the hours you work.

• Meaningful project work that provides you with valuable hands-on work experience.

• Inclusion and diversity networks; shaping a culture where everyone is welcome, respected and heard.

• Be part of our commitment to sustainability, delivering world class technology and innovations that lead the aluminium industry!

• A workplace culture that strongly values your safety.

• Increased opportunity to gain a place in the Alcoa Graduate Program after you have completed your degree.

What you’ll be doing

As an Occupational Hygienist Vacation Student at Alcoa, you will be:

• based on site at our Portland Aluminium Smelter.

• assigned a project that both delivers real value to the business and provides you with hands-on industry experience.

• involved in conducting ongoing surveillance programs including workplace exposure monitoring.

• exposed to hazardous materials risk assessment and management.

• assisting in the identification and verification of exposure controls for chemical, physical and biological hazards.

You’ll receive a suitable level of responsibility to tackle assigned project(s), leveraging your innovative thinking, motivation to learn, and passion for growth to make meaningful contributions to the business. In an open-minded workplace, your ideas will be highly valued within a supportive environment that encourages thinking outside the box.

If you are currently studying tertiary qualifications in Occupational Health & Safety, Industrial Hygiene or a related discipline, we want to hear from you!

About you

We are interested in hearing from curious university students who are:

• Ideally, in their penultimate year of study, however we do accept applications across all year groups.

• Self-motivated and passionate for their chosen discipline, eager to learn and expand their knowledge.

• Capable of working independently with the ability to communicate and engage with multiple stakeholders to obtain a project outcome.

• Strong team players with effective time management, organisational and problem-solving skills.

• Available to commence end of November 2024 for a full-time 12-week period ending February 2025.

• Have the ability to travel to and from your work location each day.

Applications close
Friday 31st May 2024

How to apply

• Please submit your online application by attaching your current resume, cover letter and academic transcript.

• Our vacation student opportunities are available to people who are eligible to work in Australia. Please state this information clearly in your application.

• Find out more about working for Alcoa in Australia at

Please note that no agency applications will be accepted at this time.

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About the Location

Our Portland Smelter is a joint venture between Alcoa of Australia (55%), CITIC (22.5%) and Marubeni Aluminium Australia (22.5%). Alcoa manages the day-to-day operations at the smelter and we produce approximately 19 per cent of Australia’s total aluminium production in Portland. We are proud of the long-standing relationships we have within our local community and are committed to supporting social and diverse causes. We embrace change and provide equal opportunities to all, where you can thrive, and do your best work in a supportive environment. Join in and shape your career, the environment and industry, with us!

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. 

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