Job Description

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Job Title: Emergency Response Lead

Ready to evolve an industry?

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 Health, Safety and Risk Team support all levels of the organization ensuring our people, processes and management systems support our main value, \xe2\x80\x9cLife matters most,\xe2\x80\x9d. We are on a journey to reach zero fatalities and zero life-changing injuries at Vale.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking Emergency Response Leads to join the VNL Health, Safety and Risk Department operating in Long Harbour, NL. This permanent position will be on a 4x10s schedule (Monday to Thursday OR Tuesday to Friday) working at the Long Harbour Operations site in Long Harbour, NL.

The Emergency Response Leads will be responsible for the execution of the site Emergency Response Plan at the Long Harbour Operations site. As a team you will provide uninterrupted continuity of the emergency response plan ensuring incident command is in place for a broad range of response scenarios including fire, gas response, loss of containment of hazardous materials, and dam/water retaining structure failure.

In this position, you will

• Adhere to the site Emergency Response Plan for all response scenarios at the Long Harbour Operations site and lead a team of Auxiliary Emergency Response Team (AERT) members in all emergency scenarios including but not limited to, fire, gas response, loss of containment of hazardous materials, dam/water retaining structure failure, environmental response, etc...
• Provide leadership and technical support to all AERT members on shift ensuring necessary resources are on site and available to respond. Also train and check competency of the AERT members in accordance with the AERT training program. Also, responsible to enter training records in Vale Education System (VES).
• Conduct announced and unannounced drills in accordance with site drill response plan including emergency evacuation and shelter-in-place.
• Ensure readiness of all emergency response assets through daily, weekly, monthly, and annual checks and inspections. Maintain emergency response equipment to applicable legislative requirements.
• Check and troubleshoot fire alarm panel issues. Support third party testing of fire alarm equipment and systems.
• Ensure 24-hour continuity of Emergency Response Incident Command on site through shift hand over and on call support.
• Provide technical support and guidance for out of service fire protection equipment or system.

About You

Education

• College Diploma - 1021 Fire Officer or NFPA or equivalent is preferred.
• Post-secondary education in Occupational, Health & Safety, or related technical discipline is considered an asset.

Experience:

• A minimum of 3 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in a similar role.

Skills

• Supervisory experience in an industrial high paced work environment.
• Competent knowledge of applicable OH&S and NFPA legislation.
• Familiar with NFPA codes based on fire protection systems.
• Experience delivering in class and practical training in an industrial environment.
• Excellent communication (written and oral).
• Able to work independently, as well as part of a team.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal skills, analytical thinking, and leadership qualities.
• Able to work effectively in a collaborative environment.

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, parental).
• Bus service departing from the St. John\xe2\x80\x99s vicinity.
• 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 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.

Accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation to enable you participate in our recruitment process, please email us at .

Job Grade: F6T

Apply by: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023

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