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.

Our Team

The Reliability team is integral to the success of the operation in becoming a safe, predictable, and reliable producer.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking TWO Reliability Superintendents to join our North Atlantic Reliability Team at our Sudbury operations. These are permanent positions.

This Reliability Superintendent is accountable for delivering improved performance of assets and reliability across the sites they support. This role will work directly with the site teams in the development, implementation, and optimization of the reliability strategy. The Reliability Superintendent will also support the Reliability Manager and Site Managers in the development of the strategic and tactical reliability objectives, plans and priorities to improve overall results.

The Reliability Superintendent must be a collaborative, energetic individual who, through leadership and coaching, will foster a culture where reliable design, operation and maintenance of the assets is key to improving safety and production for the business. The role leads a reliability team that is integrated with the operations sites they support within the North Atlantic Operations. In this role, you will:

• Lead the implementation and optimization of a reliability program, which encompasses systems, processes, procedures, standards, KPIs, analysis and tools that will maximize business value for fixed and mobile assets for the sites they support.
• Identify and address asset reliability issues in the operations ensuring best practices for asset uptime are standardized and shared with peers across the business.
• Provide recommendations on strategic investment in equipment, technology, and initiatives to optimize asset value at the sites they support.
• Collaborate with management teams and key stakeholders in development of budgets as well as production and shutdown plans.
• Responsible to supervise and assign reliability work to team, ensuring that all work is properly documented and communicated to stakeholders through established Management of Change policies and procedures.
• Regularly review reliability programs to ensure that they are performing effectively and efficiently and to develop KPIs that quantify this performance that can be used to continuously improve all reliability systems and assist in the prioritization and allocation of resources and personnel.
• Interface with Maintenance Planning personnel on a regular basis to ensure that equipment data, spares requirements, and procedures and documentation are modified as necessary because of additions, deletions, or modifications to the plant processes or configuration.

About You

Education:

• Undergraduate Degree.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) Designation
• Reliability Professional and/or Maintenance Management Professional is considered an asset.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 to 7 years in reliability or maintenance leadership role.

Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to motivate, coach, influence and collaborate with others to build effective working relationships.
• Experience with development and implementation of reliability programs and metrics such as OEE, MTBF, and MTTR in a mining or industrial environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, planning, organizational and time management skills.
• Software skills in MS Office products and ERP systems (SAP).

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 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: 15V

Apply by: March 6, 2024

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