Global Risk and Planning Lead

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 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 shaping the future of aluminium, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies. Be part of it and shape your world.

About the Role

We have a rare opportunity within our Global Impoundments team for a Global Risk & Planning Lead – Tailings and Dams. This role is pivotal in strengthening Alcoa’s global risk management capability, ensuring that all tailings, residue, and water storage facilities are planned, designed, and operated in line with Alcoa Mandated Standards, leading industry frameworks, and regulatory requirements.

In this role, you will lead the development and application of global risk frameworks for tailings and dams, ensuring robust identification, assessment, and communication of dam safety risks. You will play a critical role in preventing tailings and dams failures by enabling clear, timely, and actionable risk reporting to senior leadership.

Key Purpose & Activities

• Lead global tailings and dams risk management, including identifying dam safety risks and developing, maintaining, and applying risk frameworks, tools, and processes to prevent failures.

• Lead the development and governance of Alcoa’s 25-year Tailings and Dams Master Plan, ensuring delivery of an optimal portfolio of projects to support safe, efficient storage through to closure.

• Oversee governance and assurance processes by verifying risk controls and validating outcomes from design, construction, audits, and other assurance activities across global operations.

• Prepare and deliver clear, concise risk and planning insights to senior leadership, including Executive and Board-level reporting on risk status, mitigation actions, and strategic implications.

• Lead long-term infrastructure and closure planning, ensuring sustainable, safe, and efficient tailings and dams development and rehabilitation across a 25-year planning horizon.

What’s on offer

• Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.

• Employee growth and development opportunities.

• Parental leave support for all caregivers.

• Alcoa Live Well program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.

• Salary packaging for a novated car lease, employee share plan and superannuation options.

What you can bring to the role

• Tertiary qualifications in Civil, Geological, or Mining Engineering, with demonstrated experience in civil engineering, risk management, or planning roles.

• Extensive experience in civil engineering, risk management, or strategic planning roles, ideally within a resources or heavy industry environment.

• Strong expertise in risk assessment and planning methodologies, including tools such as FMEA, Bowtie analysis, HAZOP, and Fault Tree Analysis.

• Demonstrated ability to identify, assess, and communicate critical business risks to stakeholders at site, regional, and executive levels.

• Solid working knowledge of international tailings standards and best practice guidelines (e.g. ICMM, ANCOLD, ICOLD, MAC/CDA, USBR).

• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across diverse cultures, work effectively with global teams, and travel as required.

Additional information

• Interviews may progress prior to the closing date, although all applications will be considered.

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

Be part of the early stages of our tailings and dams risk‑management transformation, bringing fresh thinking and a structured approach to building robust, sustainable practices.

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About the Location

Alcoa Australia’s company headquarters is located at 235 St Georges Terrace in Perth CBD, Western Australia, on Whadjuk Noongar land. The office is conveniently close to public transport and parking, and hosts employees from various business functions, including Commercial, Finance, Sustainability, Communications, and Human Resources, as well as expert teams supporting local and global locations. Our head office offers modern, open-plan working facilities and excellent end-of-trip amenities within a state-of-the-art building.

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.