Job Description

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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 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 Senior Mining Engineer to join our Mines Technical Services team at our Copper Cliff Mine Complex in Sudbury. This is a permanent position.

This role will work with mine operations and technical discipline to develop & implement a rock management strategy taking all stages of mine development, production, and concurrent mine expansion projects into account - maximize internal recycle of excavated material (not only use past practices but explore new ways of doing things to maximize the value of our mineral resources).

In addition, this position will be:

• Responsible to compile information and plan capital and operating requirements, scheduling and forecasting in a rolling 24-month period, integrating guidance from Integrated Business Planning, Operations, Reliability, Geology including diamond drilling, Ground Control, Seismic Risk Management and Ventilation.
• Accountable to ensure required changes to stoping and development plans, due to execution variances or other unforeseen changes, are immediately assessed and put into the plan.
• Providing mining engineering design support to an existing team of geologists, mining engineers, and geotechnical engineers.
• Participating in the design, evaluation, and support of underground mining operations.
• Responsible to generate the key drivers for the creation of the operating budget, based on company strategic guidance.
• Influencing project team members both internal and external performance and influences their activities as necessary to ensure project requirements are achieved.
• Ensuring that the activities of the project team members both internal and their activities are on target to have project requirements achieved.
• Confirming scope forecast of cost and schedule is updated as prescribed by the project requirements.

About You

Education:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree or equivalent in Mining Engineering.
• P. Eng. is preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar position is required.

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.
• Experience in preparing and managing FEL 1/2/3 level studies and execution projects.
• Communication skills and development of concise documents and presentation materials.
• Preparation of annual budgets, 5-year plans, capital planning and allocation of resources.
• 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 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: F5T

Apply by: Tuesday, November 14, 2023

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