Job Description

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Job Title: Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Student

Ready to lead with your engineering skills?

Who We Are

Welcome to Vale. Our purpose is to improve life and transform the future. Together. We value our workforce and strive to offer continuous training and career development opportunities for our people.

Vale Base Metals is one of the world\'s largest producers of high-quality nickel and an important producer of copper and responsibly sourced cobalt. With headquarters in Toronto, Canada, and operations in Newfoundland & Labrador, Ontario, Manitoba, UK, Indonesia, and Brazil, we are delivering the critical building blocks for a cleaner, greener future.

Applying the latest technologies to sustainably mine the critical minerals that power electric vehicles, build renewable energy solutions, and help develop life-saving medical equipment is at the heart of what we do.

We invite you to be part of our evolution.

Our Team

Our Newfoundland and Labrador Operations are an integrated mining, milling, and processing operation. Nickel concentrate from the fly-in, fly-out Voisey\xe2\x80\x99s Bay operation is shipped to our state-of-art Long Harbour Processing Plant where it is refined into low-carbon and high-purity nickel rounds, cobalt rounds and copper cathodes.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a MECHANICAL OR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING student for the Winter 2024 semester to join our Vale Newfoundland and Labrador Operations. This is a fixed term 4 \xe2\x80\x93 month position. The position will be on a 4x10s schedule (Monday to Thursday OR Tuesday to Friday) working between a home office location and the Long Harbour Operations site in Long Harbour, NL.

As a Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Co-op Student, you will have the opportunity to further your development by providing day-to-day support for various projects and initiatives within the IAM - Projects Department. From operations to leadership development, diversity & inclusion, and culture, you will have a holistic and enriching experience like no other.

Additionally, In this position, you will:

Gain exposure to all aspects of capital project delivery and assist the team in managing a Capital portfolio. Your duties will include:

• Safety, Risk & Quality Assurance

• Support the Safe Production Model of risk and hazard management and lead by example.
• Providing input to project risk management.
• Assisting with periodic internal audits to ensure written procedures stay relevant and up to date and conducting periodic audits of construction contractors.
• Project Scoping, Planning and Tracking

• Project scoping documentation and budget development.
• Project schedule development during the planning phase by soliciting input from the project team, engineering, vendors, contractors, etc.
• Monitoring & controlling schedule progress during all project phases. This includes contractor and vendor oversight to ensure all schedules are aligned and their schedule reports meet Vale requirements.
• Providing input to change management documentation.
• Monitoring & controlling costs during all project phases. This includes assisting with monthly project forecasts.
• Engineering Design

• Working with the discipline engineers and document control to manage the development, review, and approval of mechanical, piping, electrical & instrumentation drawings and specifications.
• Maintaining project deliverable lists and participating in reviews of engineering deliverables and hazard identification processes.
• Working with Document Control to ensure deliverables are properly issued and handling the transmission of formal communications to/from external contractors.
• Procurement & Contract Coordination

• Assisting in preparation of procurement scopes of work for tendering.
• Entering project requisitions in SAP as required.
• Working with procurement buyers to ensure POs are generated on time.
• Coordinating with vendors on delivery schedules, deliverables, and quality assurance issues. Expediting materials where required.
• Coordinating with the warehouse to ensure materials are properly received.
• Construction Coordination, Commissioning & Handover

• Interfacing with contracts coordinators and other vale groups to ensure contractors are mobilized to site.
• Coordinating the day-to-day interface with construction contractors, including ensuring project timelines, safety and any other contractual requirements are being met by all parties.
• Assisting with project commissioning, walkdowns, handovers and as-building as required.

About You

Education:

• Currently enrolled as a student in a Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (Co-op) Program.

Skills:

• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal communication, analytical and problem-solving skills and a proven safety record are essential.

What We Offer You

• Competitive Salary
• Flexible work schedule and bus service departing from the St. John\xe2\x80\x99s vicinity.
• All Personal Protective Equipment is provided upon hire. Employees are given a safety boot allowance and receive a 100% reimbursement for prescription safety glasses.
• Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth.
• Opportunities to grow your career in a large global company, and mining industry leader.
• Online training and career development opportunities

Include to Transform

At Vale, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive work environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. Vale encourages everyone to express their ideas and opinions and values the plurality of individual profiles. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome \xe2\x80\x93 they are critical to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or any other personal consideration that makes us different.

Vale is an equal opportunity employer seeking to increase diversity across our operations and improve equal opportunity at Vale and in the mining industry.

Interested applicants must submit their application online at .

Apply by: Wednesday, September 27th, 2023

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