Job Description

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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.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a Senior Specialist Engineer, Mining to join our North Atlantic Projects team in Sudbury. This is a permanent position.

The Senior Specialist Engineer, Mining role is responsible for undertaking mine design & planning, trade-off studies, cost estimation, technical reviews, and project evaluations across several projects in multiple locations within the North Atlantic Operations. The Sr specialist Mine Engineer is responsible to identify and implement improvement ideas of value engineering, while ensuring the projects are delivered within scope, cost and schedule while ensuring the safety and quality objectives agreed for the project are met.

Additionally, in this position you will:

• Educate peers on the Engineering Standardization System (SPE) work;
• Collaborate with Base Metals Technical Assurance, Quantitative Risk Analysis, and Maturity Assessment teams to present project breakthrough progress and to ensure study compliance with standard deliverables are achieved;
• Communicate and collaborate regularly with project team and consultants with respect to the outcomes of the mine work and to ensure that goals and priorities are clearly understood;
• Recommend to the Manager Underground Projects opportunities for project de-risking and cost optimization such as scheduling improvement, mine development innovations, safer mining techniques, etc.;
• Coordinate the use of and liaise with consultants where required for specialist work, input, or review of mine designs;
• Lead the mine design input for the project Technical Assurance Reviews, Quantitative Risk Assessments, Engineering Assessments and Maturity Assessments and ensures follow-up actions are completed;
• Lead mine studies and co-ordinate & monitor consultants within their responsible area to ensure project requirements are achieved;
• Lead the preparation of Mining Scopes of Work and oversees Contract Management to ensure accurate work submission and approval of all Contract Changes;
• Delivery of mine designs, mine plans, operating costs, capital costs and schedules
• Review and provide inputs to budgets, forecasts and resourcing plans for projects and studies;

About You
Education:

• Undergraduate degree required.
• Professional designation as P.Eng required
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification considered an asset

Experience:

• 15+ years of similar engineer experience.

Skills:

• Unwavering commitment to safety
• Experience in delivering FEL 1/2/3 level studies
• Extensive experience in the study, design, development and/or operation of underground mines
• Must have proficiency in mine planning software packages, (i.e, Deswik)
• Strong understanding of mine dewatering, ventilation, geomechanics and mining infrastructure
• Knowledge of industry standards in mineral resource and mineral reserve estimation and
• compliance with public disclosure regulations
• Good communication and organization skills
• Ability to present detailed and complicated concepts and information succinctly
• Ability to evaluate alternative options and recommend preferred solution while outlining benefits
• and downside risks
• Ability to work with various groups and gain alignment
• Flexibility for domestic travel

How can Vale grow your career?

The Senior Specialist Engineer, Mining, is a management position that will allow the right candidate to shape our mining operations as well as a team of direct reports. Additionally, Vale Canada offers a series of benefits including:

• 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)
• 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 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.

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

Grade: F2T

Apply by: September 4, 2023

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