Job Description

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Job Title: Senior Tailings Management Engineer (RTFE) \xe2\x80\x93 Long Harbour

Ready to lead with your engineering skills?

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 Tailings and Dams group is part of Vale North Atlantic Operations reporting through the corporate Base Metals organization. The Tailings and Dams group at our Long Harbour site is an integral part of Vale\xe2\x80\x99s Operations and aligned with the Tailings Dams Management System, Vale\xe2\x80\x99s short and long-term dam safety strategy. This team has a group of experienced engineers who support the dam construction, maintenance, surveillance, and deposition in the containment dams.

The group also provides monitoring and implements tailings management systems to ensure compliance throughout our operations. Members of this team work collaboratively to support the operations including dam monitoring and tailings deposition, project support, closure planning, waste management, internal and external reporting, as well as community and government liaison.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a Senior Tailings Management Engineer (RTFE) to join our North Atlantic Tailings & Dams team in Long Harbour, NL. Priority will be given to Newfoundland and Labrador residents and those who are willing to relocate to Newfoundland and Labrador.

This permanent position is based at the Long Harbour site, on a 4x10 or 5x8 schedule.

Reporting to the Tailings & Dams Manager, the Senior Tailings Management Engineer (RTFE) will take on the role of the Responsible Tailings Facility Engineer (RTFE) and is accountable for the integrity of the tailings facility by performing the scope of work for key aspects of tailings and pond management, with a focus in process safety for the operation, surveillance, ongoing construction of tailings facilities, and liaising with the EoR, other internal teams and the Accountable Executive.

Additionally, in this position, you will:

• Review detailed Construction Records Report in collaboration with EoR during the construction phase of a tailings structure or when there is a material change to the tailings facility, its infrastructure or its monitoring system;\xe2\x80\x8b
• Maintain construction and performance records, ensuring its appropriate control to make relevant and up-to-date information accessible;
• Analyze monitoring and surveillance data, report on routine dam inspections, and approve recommendations for improvement of structure conditions;
• Periodically review and update as required an Operations, Maintenance and Surveillance (OMS) Manual and performance reports that supports effective risk management
• Support tailings and pond management Operations and maintain dam safety in accordance with specifications, performance indicators, limits, standards and procedures;
• Implement and periodically review and update site-wide water management strategy;
• Support with developing SOWs for FEL studies, Engineering Studies, DSI, DSRs, ITRBs;
• Implement and maintain EPRP and system, prepare training materials, support testing programs;
• Provide budgetary inputs to meet operational, research and development, and capital expenditure needs;
• Update, review and monitor compliance to the tailings deposition plan;
• Develop and maintain technical databases related to instrumentation, tailings deposition & management to monitor compliance to the tailings deposition plan.

About You

Education:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree in Engineering (Civil, Geotechnical or Environmental discipline).

• Master of Science in Geotechnical Engineering would be considered an asset.
• Professional Engineering Designation (P.Eng.) designation is required.

Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years geotechnical and tailings experience; including tailings storage facility design, construction, operations and closure of tailings and water storage facilities.
• Experience with slope management; including dam analysis, tailings characterization and instrumentation technologies.

Skills:

• Knowledge of MAC, CDA, GISTM, ANCOLD, ICOLD or other guidance documents to manage tailings storage facility governance.
• Strong focus on dam safety with the ability to lead teams in the application of critical thinking.
• Ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary project teams for the delivery of construction projects.
• Proven ability to build relationships within the organization and with external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Knowledge and experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Knowledge and experience in using Goldsim, AutoCAD and Slope stability software is an asset.

How can Vale grow your career?

Vale Canada offers a series of benefits including:

• Competitive Salary
• Opportunity to earn an annual Employee Bonus
• Attractive pension and benefits (company paid core coverage, flex health and dental coverage, flex accounts, disability plans, and optional insurances)
• Flexible work schedule and bus service departing from the St. John\xe2\x80\x99s vicinity
• Leave for all of life\xe2\x80\x99s reasons (vacation, flex, sick, top up for maternity/parental)
• All Personal Protective Equipment is provided upon hire. Employees are given a safety boot allowance and receive a 100% reimbursement for prescription safety glasses
• Employee Family Assistance Program
• Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth
• Opportunities to grow your career in a large global company, and mining industry leader
• 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.

Interested applicants must submit their application online at .

Pay Grade: F3T

Apply by: Wednesday, September 27th, 2023

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