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Kick Start Your Career with Alcoa!
 
In the past 40 years Alcoa has given thousands of young people their head-start through our youth opportunity and training programs.
 
We are now offering YOU the chance to kick-start your career and join a leading Australian employer, while working right where you live!
 
As an Alcoa apprentice, the training you receive is first-rate.  Your on-the-job training takes place in an exciting heavy-duty environment with exposure to a variety of tasks to keep things interesting!
 
You will also receive help developing your personal skills to broaden your career opportunities in the future.
 
All of this, while working for a company with a safety record better than even the Australian retail trade industry.
 
Your training at Alcoa will give you a real competitive edge in the job market, leading to a nationally recognised trade certificate that will take you anywhere.  So what are you waiting for?
 
WA Apprenticeships 2009
Applications have now closed for WA Apprenticeships.
 
Victorian Apprenticeships 2009
Every year, Alcoa takes on apprenticeships at Point Henry Works and Portland Aluminium. Alcoa apprentices start work in January, but recruitment starts five months earlier from June/July onwards.
 
To find out more about the apprenticeships on offer at Alcoa, download our Victorian Kick Start Your Career brochure here .
 
About Alcoa
Alcoa is a global company and Australia's leading producer of aluminium, employing more than 7,500 people across the country, mostly in regional areas.
 
A leader in training and development, Alcoa invests over $22 million in training each year and runs a range of youth opportunity and training programs that directly affect more than 20,000 young Australian lives.
 
Alcoa draws apprentices from local communities around its operations and builds strong links with neighbouring schools to ensure training and development opportunities for young people.
 
Alcoa's apprentice training has been recognised by the Federal Government with an Award for Excellence.
 
Alcoa's commitment to Health and Safety
Safety is Alcoa's key focus.  We have a long-standing commitment to establishing and maintaining injury-free workplaces through the control of hazards and elimination of risk.
 
As an Alcoa apprentice you will learn how to establish safe working habits and procedures and comply with all of Alcoa's safety rules and instructions.


Applications have now closed for WA apprenticeships





Click here to find out about the Portland Aluminium's apprenticeship opportunities for 2009! Applications for our Point Henry smelter in Geelong have now closed



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