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 3 (three) Senior Mining Engineers to join our Mines Technical Services teams at our Coleman, Cooper Cliff Mine Complex, and Creighton Mines in Sudbury. These are permanent positions.

This role will work with mine operations and technical disciplines to make sure that our long term mine planning processes are developed and operated in a safe, efficient, and cost-effective manner.

Additionally, in this position you will:

• Provide mining engineering design support to an existing team of geologists, mining engineers, and geotechnical engineers.
• Participate in the design, evaluation, and support of underground mining operations.
• Design stoping boundaries for long-term evaluations based upon guidance from the geotechnical department to maximize recovery of ore.
• Mentor others in the Mines Technical Services team.
• Review work and provide feedback to others in the Mines Technical Services team.
• Work with operations to ensure plans are safe, efficient, and realistic.
• Create schedules for development and production by sequencing stopes and development headings with guidance and approval from all parties involved.
• Maintain a focus on safety for the work being implemented in conjunction with MTS Safety Plan.
• Identify, analyze, recommend, and bring into action opportunities for safety, productivity, and cost improvements.

About You

Education:

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

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years mine engineering experience 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.
• 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).
• Flexible work arrangements.
• 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: Wednesday, August 30, 2023

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