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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 a Senior Reliability Engineer to join our Reliability team in Sudbury, Ontario. This is a permanent position

Accountabilities:

In this role you will:

• Work collaboratively with Operations, Maintenance and Project teams to develop and optimize service strategies to monitor and manage the performance, integrity, safety and reliability of assets ensuring cost-effective lifecycle management.
• Perform FMEAs and reliability studies to support development and implementation of solutions to optimize asset performance.
• Collaborate with management teams and key stakeholders in development of asset budgets as well as production and maintenance multi annual plans.
• Develop loss profile and associated routines including conducting root cause analysis on critical failures and chronic bad actor assets.
• Management of master data for critical assets including setting service strategy and monitoring/evaluating/escalating risks associated with maintenance on the assets.
• Identify critical spare parts required for assets and develop associated Bills of Materials.
• Evaluate life-cycle costs and determine the best scenarios for minimizing the impact of the asset maintenance costs and optimizing the assets utilization.
• Monitor and drive improvement opportunities on asset maintenance.
• Develop, standardize and share knowledge on best practices through the operations

About You

Education:

• Undergraduate degree required (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or Civil/Structural).
• PEng. certification or eligible for licensed professional Engineer in Ontario
• Reliability or Maintenance Management designations are preferred

Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in a reliability or maintenance related role in heavy industry such as Mining, Pulp & Paper or Oil & Gas.
• Other combinations of education and experience in Maintenance and Reliability will be considered.

Skills:

• Experience with developing asset service strategies and improving reliability of assets
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in leading and participating in root cause analysis using 5Why's, fishbone, Fault Tree Analysis, etc.
• Strong analytical, planning, organizational and time management skills.
• Software skills in of MS Office products and CMMS systems (SAP).
• Ability to influence reliability culture within the organization

How can Vale grow your career?

The Sr. Engineer, Reliability position 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 life's 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 projects, in mining, milling and smelting plants

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: F5T

Apply by: July 29th

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