Job Description

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Mining Engineer

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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 Mine Technical Services team is integral to employee safety and the creation and execution of sound mining plans. Members of this teamwork across a variety of engineering functions including: planning, ground control, surveying, ventilation, scheduling, infrastructure and capital coordination.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a Mining Engineer to join our Mines Technical Services team at our Coleman Mine in Sudbury. This is a permanent position.

Reporting directly to the Divisional Supervisor, the Mining Engineer will complete work within the 0 to 24 month planning window. This may include providing short and mid-range plans and designs to support the mining team and the 24 month rolling schedule, as well as the annual life of mine plan submission.

Additionally, in this position you will:

• Provide technical services as required/requested by the MTS team to support Coleman Mine.
• Able to perform more complex professional or technical work at an advanced level in areas such as preparation of mining proposals, mine development, drilling, blast design, backfill, and cost evaluations.
• Provide 20 scale development layouts, as required.
• Provide mid-range block plans, as required.
• Complete Management of Change (MOC) as required for changes to mine design.
• Update and maintain prints and digital drawings to reflect current mining activity status.
• Participate and provide material for both planned and unplanned production and safety meetings.
• Provide technical support for site safety and/or efficiency initiatives.
• Effectively interact with colleagues and operations personnel at the site to optimize communication and efficiency.
• Perform site visits underground as required.

About You

Education:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree or equivalent in Mining Engineering.

Experience:

• Minimum of 4 to 8 years of related experience, P. Eng. is preferred.
• Mining Engineer-in-Training (EIT) applications are also welcome

Skills:

• Underground mine design, mining engineering, scheduling, and high level of understanding of underground mining activities.
• Knowledge of engineering planning software (Deswik) is an asset.
• Knowledge of cash flow modeling techniques and mineral economics is an asset.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and familiar with spreadsheet manipulation in Excel.
• Be creative, not only use past practices but promote new ways of doing things in order to maximize the value of our mineral resources.

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

Apply by: Friday, August 25, 2023

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