Job Description

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Job Title: Study Manager

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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 Sudbury Operations have been in existence for more than 100 years. With five mines, a mill, a smelter, a refinery and nearly 4,000 employees it is also one of the largest integrated mining complexes in the world. Sudbury is also home to several administrative sites serving both the Ontario Operations as well as all our North Atlantic Operations.

Port Colborne is home to our Nickel Refinery where raw materials from our Sudbury operations are processed into electrocobalt and precious metals and serves as a distribution centre for finished nickel products.

The Opportunity

The Project Study Manager role is responsible for managing, coordinating and overall administration of a project or multiple projects. The projects include FEL 3 studies and support during transition to Project Execution. The Study Manager is responsible to deliver their projects within scope, cost, and schedule baseline, while ensuring the projects are delivered within the safety and quality objectives agreed for the project.

As a member of the Project Team the incumbent will be responsible for managing and leading FEL 3 studies through a structured process aligned with Vales Project Delivery System. The study Manager is accountable for defining and delivering studies to refine the Projects technical and commercial attributes while developing the detailed execution plan for successful project execution. Additionally, in this position you will:

• Leads and actively promotes behaviors with Vales safety goals and is accountable for achieving outcomes by participating in the design and site inspections in their project area and ensuring all foll-up actions are carried out.
• Carries clear responsibility and accountability for delivery of the Project objectives for the FEL 3 study as agreed by the Manager of Studies taking into consideration the full project lifecycle including engineering, procurement, project controls, contract management and quality.
• Educates team members and peers on the Project Delivery System (PDS) deliverables.
• Manages and ensure compliance to project procedures including the management of project documentation and ensuring these are received, reviewed, commented, responded, and incorporated in project archives.
• Manages and coordinates the outputs of their assigned project team or teams in line with the detailed scope, cost, and schedule control baselines and manages any project changes in terms of this agreed baseline. This includes interfacing with Operations for environment, community relations, operational readiness and the project quality governance requirements.
• Ensures that the study considers all of the Vale critical initiatives on Safety, Environment and Governance within the study design
• Primary interface with other Project Managers and Operations Managers/Supt to ensure no aspect of the project is overlooked or lags in progress, develops and implements recovery plans.
• Leads, co-ordinates and monitors project team members performance and influences their activities as necessary to ensure project requirements are achieved.
• Oversees Contract Management of their assigned contract packages to ensure timely submission and approval of all Contract Changes.
• Mitigates project delays by coordinating the different functions and establishing priorities.
• Functionally accountable for positions supporting their projects.
• Recommends to the Manager of Studies any requirements for additional resources and strategies to maintain the schedule.
• Responsible to ensure the successful Setup, Execution, Control, Evaluation and Close Out of each study as required.

About You

Education:

• Undergraduate degree is required.
• P. Eng. certification is required.

Experience:

• 11-15 years of experience in a similar subject area

How can Vale grow your career?

The Study Manager 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 lifes 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
• Opportunities to advise and oversee the design, budget and construction of new mines and expansions.

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 - 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: GRG

Apply by: Tuesday 12th December, 2023

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