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Miriam Lyons-Stanborough started with Alcoa over 2 years ago as a Chemical Engineer. Since then, she has been promoted to Calcination Area Supervisor at Pinjarra Refinery, and has also been rewarded with a number of awards from Government and Industry organisations.
“I enjoy working at Alcoa because every day I am faced with different challenges and a variety of tasks. Chemical Engineers are recognised as more than simply a technical resource to the organisation and we have the opportunity to contribute to a variety of aspects of the refinery’s operations.” Miriam said.
Without a doubt, the most satisfying part of my job is the interaction I have with a wide variety of people on site. This offers me a great opportunity to learn from others.”
In 2001, Miriam was a recipient of the 2001 national awards for Women of the Year in Non-Traditional Areas of Work and Study. In the same year she also received the Outokumpu’s Travel Grant for Young Metallurgists from the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM).
Miriam was the recipient of the Johnson Matthey Gold Medal for the best graduating student in Curtin University's master's degree in mineral economics, and previously completed honours degrees in Arts (majoring in Japanese) and chemical engineering at Monash University.
Miriam was invited to speak at the Australian WomenSpeak 2003 conference, run by the Commonwealth Office of the Status of Women in Canberra. She spoke about her experiences as an engineer and as a woman in the mining industry.
Her career highlights include visiting South America on the travel grant to see another Alcoa site and a number of large copper mines high up in the Andes in South America and also in the middle of the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile.
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