Job Description

: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:The Health, Safety, and Risk North Atlantic Operations Team provides leadership in terms of execution of the health, safety, and operational risk management strategies for our Ontario Operations. In doing so the team enables the operations to meet business objectives and achieve outstanding outcomes focused on prioritizing, planning, and delivering on performance improvement areas.The OpportunityWe are currently seeking a Sr. Engineer, Process Safety to join our Health, Safety and Risk North Atlantic Operations team in Sudbury, Ontario at the Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery. This is permanent position. The successful candidate will be a champion of process safety management, this role will focus on helping the Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery improve through risk identification and reduction on established projects or new projects at the plant.This role will support the development and implementation of the necessary management systems to achieve a step change in process safety performance, reduce the catastrophic risks to the business, address the challenges facing our organization in achieving our goal of zero harm. This role will also involve being the leader in the sites Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis (HIRA).As a Process Safety Engineer you will

• Work to identify risks and problems and work to reduce or eliminate where possible.
• Inspect facilities, machinery, and safety equipment to identify and correct potential risks and work to ensure safety regulation compliance.
• Review safety programs and plans for building of new machinery to find out if all safety needs have been met, as required.
• Recommend process and product safety features that will reduce employee\xe2\x80\x99s exposure to work hazards.
• Participate in incident investigations, focusing on root cause and providing recommendations into preventing reoccurrences.
• Provide risk assessments through the use of risk analysis techniques and tools
• Maintain and apply knowledge of current policies, regulation and industrial processes.
• Conduct or coordinate worker training in areas such as safety laws and regulations, hazardous condition monitoring and use of safety equipment as required.
• Increasing overall process safety competencies at the plant through generic and specific training and facilitating hazard analysis and risk assessments (ICAM, 5-why, root cause analysis etc.)
• Provide guidance to site personnel and management on overall process safety strategy, standards and guidelines and execution.
• Utilize process/chemical engineering skills to identify issues and designs and controls requiring improvement.
• Provide technical leadership assistance and monitor and report Process Safety Management (PSM) system performance effectiveness and realign accordingly.

About YouEducation:

• Professional Engineering Designation in the Province of Ontario.
• Preferably in chemical or mechanical engineering

Experience:

• 8-10 years of relevant work experience, including 3 years in Process Safety Management

Skills

• Understanding of operational site process safety systems and programs
• Operational experience (specifically oil and gas, nuclear or chemical sectors)
• Experience with Risk Assessments
• Experience with Quantitative Risk Assessments considered an asset
• Experience with Incident investigation tools considered an asset
• Demonstrated time management, attention to detail, and meticulous analysis is required
• Able to travel to the field for multiple day trips
• Strong communication skills are essential

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, 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 TransformIn accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.Vale is an equal opportunity employer seeking to increase diversity across our operations and improve equal opportunity at Vale and in the mining industry.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.

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