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 Senior Quality Assurance / Quality Control (QA/QC) Coordinator to join our Engineering & Reliability Team in Long Harbour.
As the Senior QA/QC Coordinator, you are responsible for the review of the Quality Program, procedures, documentation, and records. You will be responsible to ensure proper review and acceptance of contractor's QC program including verification of effective QC Program implementation by conducting quality surveillance and audits.
In this position, you will:
Be committed to the goal of Zero Harm to people, the workplace, our community, and the environment.
Prepare repair reports, inspection reports, and other inspection documents;
Have working knowledge of welding processes and non-destructive examination techniques (RT, UT, PT, MT, Eddy Current, IRIS, etc.);
Complete in-service equipment inspection assessments utilizing visual and non-destructive examination techniques;
Assist maintenance in repair strategies by assessing the equipment's condition and necessary repairs, issuing repair requests to, co-developing welding repair and general repair strategies with engineering and supporting the successful management of equipment integrity;
Focus on identifying equipment condition, assist in determining failure modes and effects and assist engineering in defining corrective actions;
Assist in determining the appropriate disposition to nonconformance, ensuring that the appropriate corrective action to prevent recurrence is deployed with discipline;
Act as owner inspector for O.U.P. certified repairs and piping construction;
Verify proper storage, preservation, maintenance of all received material and equipment. Ensure material tracking and equipment logs are always up to date;
About You
Education
Post Secondary education in Welding Engineering Technician/Technologist or Mechanical Engineering Technologist;
- National Board Commission (In-service) Inspector Certification is a requirement (or will be required to acquire once in role);
Certification in C.Tech or C.E.T, API 510, API 570, API 653, NBIC, Level 2 CWB preferred.
Experience
8+ years' experience with hands-on technical maintenance work and/or supervision in a complex industrial environment preferred;
Experience with SAP an asset;
Knowledge of Service NL, Public Safety Act;
Demonstrated experience coordinating maintenance work planning activities an asset;
Quality Auditing experience based on ISO 9001-2000/ISO 19011 standards.
Skills
Excellent organization, communication (written and oral), as well as interpersonal skills;
Strong analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills;
Able to build and maintain strong positive relationships across multiple work groups.
What We Offer
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).
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.
Bus Service departing from St. John's to Long Harbour site daily.
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: G01
Apply by: Sunday May 19th, 2024.
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