Vacation Student - Mechanical Engineer VIC null

Shape your career by joining Alcoa’s Vacation Student program! 

Based in Victoria at our Portland Aluminium Smelter, this is your opportunity to help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies.

Become a valued part of the team that’s reinventing the aluminium industry for a sustainable future, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies. 

About the role

Shape your potential with a 12-week paid summer placement as a Mechanical Engineer Vacation Student where you'll experience professional growth, technical expansion, and become an integral part of our vibrant community, where inspiration and daily challenges await.

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
• Working locally, in an onsite environment enabling you to return home to friends or family every night.
• 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 a Mechanical Engineering Vacation Student at Alcoa, you will be:

• Based at our Portland Aluminium Smelter.
• Assigned a project that delivers real value to the business and provides you with hands-on industry experience, within one of our Reliability & Maintenance, Powerhouse or Asset Management teams.
• Exposed to various technical problems and work collaboratively to identify solutions to support the business.
• Involved in audits of mechanical equipment design and maintenance to ensure compliance with relevant standards.

If you are currently studying tertiary qualifications in Mechanical Engineering, 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 the Portland Smelter each work day.

Application and Recruitment process

• Submit your online application via the link provided or the Alcoa Careers website, and include a cover letter, resume and academic transcript.
• Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete:
  • A short online video interview.
  • Psychometric testing
  • Reference checking
  • Pre-employment medical assessment