Job Title: Senior Piping Engineer

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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 Central Engineering department provides design engineering services to the Newfoundland and Labrador Operations. The multi-discipline team consists of engineers, designers, and document controllers located in Long Harbour, Voisey's Bay, and St. John's, who are primarily responsible for developing design packages for repairs and OPEX/CAPEX funded modifications.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a Senior Piping Engineer to join our Central Engineering department in Long Harbour, NL. This is a permanent position.

This permanent position will be on a 4x10s schedule (Tuesday to Friday) working at the Long Harbour Operations site in Long Harbour, NL.

The Senior Piping Engineer will provide innovative engineering design solutions to operating and maintenance problems, technical support to operating plants and mines, technical direction to external engineering consultants & construction contractors and technical guidance and mentoring to other members of the Central Engineering team. The engineer will focus on work of their own discipline. Additionally, in this position, you will:

• Prepares engineering packages (i.e. drawings, specifications, scopes of work, risk assessments and cost estimates) for operations, maintenance, and capital projects, utilizing good engineering practices and considering risk, while minimizing costs.
• Provides technical support to the operations and maintenance teams to ensure reliable operation of equipment and recommendations for safety when required under relevant Acts and Legislation.
• Understands and can apply risk assessment and risk management processes.
• Provides technical direction to construction contractors and assesses the quality of their work in the field.
• Effectively schedules, prioritizes, and manages tasks to meet commitments with customers.
• Has strong working knowledge with Piping design codes, acts, regulations (mainly ASME, API, and CSA standards). Experience with piping design, analysis, and repair of various types of equipment (pumps, storage tanks, pressure vessels, piping, etc.).

About You

Education:

• Undergraduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng)

Experience:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in a similar role.
• Work within mining and/or industrial facilities.

Skills:

• Experience in a complex industrial setting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, planning, organizational and time management skills.
• Uses software for analysis.
• Audits compliance of mechanical design codes, acts, regulations
• Designs engineered solutions for mechanical projects and problems.
• Applies practical experience with mine, mill and surface equipment to design packages.

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)
• Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation, flex, sick, top up for maternity/parental)
• 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. Innu Nation members and Nunatsiavut beneficiaries can also submit their application to their Vale Aboriginal Employment Coordinator.

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: F5T

Apply by: Tuesday May 21st, 2024

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