Job Description

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Maintenance Engineer

Ready to evolve an industry?

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

The Coppe Cliff Mine Complex Team is integral to the success of the operation in becoming a safe, predictable, and reliable producer. The Maintenance Engineer will work closely with the Reliability, Maintenance Planning and Execution teams which include Supervisors and Superintendents. The Maintenance Engineer forms part of the reporting structure to the offsite Maintenance Manager and on-site Integrated Planning Superintendent.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a Maintenance Engineer to join our team at the Copper Cliff Mine Complex in Sudbury, Ontario. This is a permanent position.

In this role, you will be responsible for on-site technical maintenance support, engineering, screening/scoping, repair scopes of work and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives at the site(s) they support.

In this position you will:

• Provide on-site, maintenance engineering technical support when failure symptoms have been detected, to develop the actions required to prevent a failure and have assets returned to running condition if failure occurs.
• Conduct/coordinate engineering field assessments and/or integrity assessment to make sure the assets are running without defects and coordinate with Operations, Procurement, Maintenance, Project Engineering, OEMs as required.
• Support operations and execution teams to conduct Continuous Improvement Projects related to operating or maintaining assets. Makes recommendations for improving the repair cycle on assets. This includes applying existing engineered solutions or Vale engineering standards.
• Conduct initial engineering screening and scoping for engineering requests at the site.
• Support execution teams to improve productivity and repair cycle times through continuous improvement projects, research of change in technology. As well as support the maintenance management teams to ensure that work packages are executed as per design.
• Evaluate equipment design improvements and new technologies for condition monitoring programs/initiatives.
• Apply value analysis (cost vs. benefit) in making maintenance decisions concerning repair, replacement, or redesign of equipment and systems.
• Review and promote/reject all new notifications into your work center through the group approval process and identify and escalate all critical issues that threaten the successful execution of work orders for completion by their Required End Date.
• Monitor KPIs and actively strive towards plant targets.

About You

Education:

• Engineering degree in a related discipline.
• Registered Professional Engineer.

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in Maintenance or Plant Engineering related roles.

Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical, planning, organizational and time management skills
• Software skills in MS Office products and CMMS systems (SAP)

What We Offer You

• Competitive salary
• Attractive pension and benefits (company paid core coverage, flex health and dental coverage, flex accounts, disability plans and optional insurances)
• Leave for all of life\xe2\x80\x99s reasons (vacation, flex, sick, top up for maternity/parental)
• Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth
• Grow your career in a large and global company, and mining industry leader
• Employee Family Assistance Program
• 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 essential 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.

In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.

Pay Grade: F6T

Appy by: Tuesday, November 14, 2023

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