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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

Our Newfoundland and Labrador Operations are an integrated mining, milling, and processing operation. Nickel concentrate from the fly-in, fly-out Voisey's 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 Opportunity

We are currently seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Superintendent to join our Maintenance Department in Long Harbour, NL. This permanent position will be on a 4x10s schedule working at the Long Harbour Operations site.

The Mechanical Maintenance Superintendent is responsible for one of the mechanical maintenance areas of the plant for the Long Harbour site. The superintendent will lead a team of supervisors and their crews consisting of several trade disciplines. Additionally, in this position you will:

• Lead and ensure Safe Production behaviors are exhibited by team members.
• Lead Vale programs like Leadership in the Field and Critical Control Verification for area of responsibility.
• Lead quality and continuous improvement programs like Kaizen, 5-S's and cost reduction for the area of responsibility.
• Coaching and mentoring supervision and teams through practical visible leadership and personal safety plan execution. Be courageous in taking corrective action when necessary to address noncompliance issues.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills to engage team members and celebrate building a strong reliability team in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Ensure coordination of all mechanical maintenance work for the facility through the Vale Asset Management Framework using work management principles and engaging the Reliability, Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Material Coordination personnel.
• Facilitate adherence to the work management systems to build effective executable schedules that meet the asset reliability requirement while balancing the needs of operations and reducing unscheduled work.
• Ensure that all work is carried out effectively and efficiently, on time, on budget and in compliance with all safety policies and procedures and that all work is of the highest quality.
• Manage and maintain the assigned shop facilities to ensure that all equipment and tooling that is required to complete work effectively and efficiency is procured, maintained, and calibrated as required.
• Ensure that interface is maintained with work management personnel on a regular basis to ensure that equipment data, spares requirements, and PM procedures and documentation are modified as necessary.
• Provide input on budget requirements for area of responsibility to the Maintenance Manager.
• Work closely with the Operations group to ensure maintenance schedules and activities balance the production requirement.
• Participate in planned outage scheduling and lead execution of activities for area of responsibility.
• Contribute to the development, as well as monitor and support CSP (Career & Succession Plans), both personal and for direct reports.

About You

Education:

• Undergraduate Degree in Engineering or Diploma in Engineering Technology, or a Red Seal certification in a relevant maintenance trade.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation is considered an asset.

Experience:

• 8-10 years' experience within maintenance and/or supervisory roles.
  • Mechanical discipline, fixed plant processing and/or piping experience preferred.
• 2-6 years' experience within precision machinery, lubrication or predictive maintenance preferred.
• Planning and/or scheduling, or work management experience considered an asset.
• Experience with CMMS systems (SAP preferred).
• An equivalent combination of education and experience will also be considered.

Skills:

• Proven leadership capabilities.
• Demonstrated mentoring and coaching skills.
• Excellent communication (verbal & written) and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of the Safe Production model of risk and hazard management.

What We Offer You

• 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)
• A bus service departing from the St. John's vicinity
• Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation, 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 – 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 https://vale.eightfold.ai/careers.

Accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation to enable you participate in our recruitment process, please email us at [email protected].

Pay Grade: 15V

Apply by: Tuesday, May 21st, 2024

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