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The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper & world-shaper.\nThis 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.\nAbout the Role\nBring your electrical expertise to one of Australia's largest aluminium smelters and play a key role in maintaining critical industrial infrastructure.\nYou'll be joining our Smelter Maintenance team as an Electrical Tradesperson, reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor. In this day shift role, you will be responsible for the installation, commissioning, maintenance and optimisation of electrical equipment across the Portland Aluminium Smelter.\nYou'll work closely with operations, maintenance and contractor teams to improve equipment reliability, maximise plant performance and uphold the highest standards of safety. 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