Technical Leader,

1 month ago

Thompson, Canada Vale Full time

Job Title: Technical Leader (Active + Inactive Tailings + Dams)

Headline: Join Vale today. Continuously learn throughout your career.

Who We Are

Welcome to Vale Base Metals. 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.

The Opportunity

The successful candidate will support the Manitoba team to ensure the integrity of the tailings facility by performing the scope of work for key aspects of tailings and pond management, with a focus in process safety for the operation, surveillance, ongoing construction of tailings facilities, and liaising with the Engineer of Record and other internal teams.

As the Technical Leader, your responsibilities will include:

  • Maintenance of design, construction, operations, maintenance, monitoring and surveillance records.
  • Tailings deposition planning.
  • Ensuring adherence to and actively supports the site-wide water management strategy.
  • Overseeing the implementation of the design intent during construction and operations.
  • Support of risk assessment of structures.

Additionally, in this position you will:

  • Maintain construction and performance records, ensuring its appropriate control to make relevant and up-to-date information accessible:
    • Work with the engineering, environmental, and processing teams to develop and execute short- and long-term construction and maintenance plans and schedules.
    • Provide civil construction monitoring and project management.
    • Review the preparation of design reports, drawings and technical specifications.
  • Interpret and verify monitoring data:
    • Analyze monitoring and surveillance data, report on routine dam inspections, and approve recommendations for improvement of structure conditions.
  • Collaborate with Engineer of Record to analyze data and report on findings:
    • Support risk assessments and provide recommendations to treat/mitigate identified risks.
  • Monitor compliance to the tailings deposition plan.
  • Implement and periodically review and update site-wide water management strategy.
  • Provide oversight for the design, construction and overall management of tailings and water retaining facilities.
  • Provide budgetary inputs to meet operational, research and development, and capital expenditure needs.

About You

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
  • Master’s degree with specialization in geotechnical engineering preferred.
  • Registration to a professional Engineer designation.

Experience:

  • A minimum of 10 years of geotechnical and tailings experience, including tailings storage facility design, construction, operations and closure of tailings and water storage facilities, and related experience in technical and operational roles.
  • Experience in geotechnical engineering for tailings facilities, water storage facilities and slope management, including dam analysis, tailings characterization and instrumentation technologies.
  • Experience of influencing senior business leaders.
  • Experience managing teams of employees and contractors.

Skills:

  • Experience with different mineral, tailings and water processing and handling technologies.
  • Expertise in managing tailings storage facility governance (deep knowledge of MAC, CDA, ANCOLD, ICOLD, other guidance documents).
  • Ability to lead teams focused on dam safety and guide others in the application of critical thinking.

What We Offer You

Thompson is known as the "Hub of the North.” The town was developed in the 1950s around our mine and is now a thriving community. Our home boasts a close-knit and involved community with a vibrant arts and music scene and is known for its hospitality and welcoming nature.

Thompsonites, as we call ourselves, are always ready to welcome new people to town and excited to share its gems with them. Above all, the main draw to Thompson is its unspoiled wilderness filled with waterfalls and wildlife, making it the perfect place for the adventurous soul.

From the Northern Lights to ice fishing, skating, skiing, hockey, sledding, hunting and every winter sport you can imagine, if you love the outdoors, Thompson is the perfect place for you and your family.

Other benefits include:

  • 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, parental).
  • 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 – 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 Manitobans Act, accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.

Job Grade: GRH

Apply by: September 23rd, 2024

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