Eng - Maintenance (Vb)

**Job Title:Maintenance 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.

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 Mine Maintenance department is responsible for the maintenance on all mobile equipment at the Voisey’s Bay Mine Site. The department attends to a variety of surface and underground equipment including but not limited to Dozers, Excavators, Haul Trucks, Drills, Loaders, Jumbos, Bolters, LHD’s, etc. Additionally, the department is responsible for supporting the entire light vehicle fleet including Pick-Up Trucks, Semis, Forklifts, and other equipment. The Mine Maintenance department is comprised of highly skilled Heavy Duty Equipment Technicians, Automotive Technicians, Truck and Transport Technicians, Welders, and Engineers.

**The Opportunity**
- Vale recognizes the Impacts and Benefits Agreements with the Innu Nation and the Nunatsiavut Government in which Innu and Inuit workers have first preference for employment at the Voisey’s Bay Mine Site. This is guided by an adjacency principle that first gives preference to those who live on the coast of Labrador, followed by those residing in the rest of Labrador, those residing on the island of the province, followed by the rest of Canada_.
- Next, priority will be given to Newfoundland and Labrador residents. We also welcome those who are willing to relocate back home and those looking to make NL their permanent home._

We are currently seeking a **Maintenance Engineer** to join our **Mobile Maintenance department** in **Voisey’s Bay, NL**. This is a permanent position.

This position is based at the Voisey's Bay mine site in Labrador, a fly-in-fly-out operation. This position is on two weeks on, two weeks off rotation.

Reporting to the Mine Maintenance Superintendent, the Maintenance Engineer will provide expertise in the Mobile Maintenance department encompassing all mobile equipment. They will act as a leader in improving the overall equipment performance and reducing costs through establishment and implementation of proactive and reactive maintenance programs. They will, lead the development of maintenance team skills in improvement related activities, continuously monitor and analyze equipment performance, and facilitate improvement projects based on this data. Additionally, in this position, you will:

- Increase equipment availability and efficiency.
- Identify and capture opportunities for improvement in equipment maintainability and reliability.
- Keep current with latest equipment, technologies, and maintenance methods.
- Help manage planning for equipment and maintenance resources.
- Provide technical support and troubleshoot equipment issues.
- Conduct Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA). Analyze historical data to improve asset use, mitigate defects, and reduce the likelihood of failures.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement of equipment reliability.
- Contribute to elaborate the maintenance schedule to minimize equipment down time and optimize reliability.
- Support mobile maintenance department with his technical specification internal process development and implementation.

**About You**

**Education**:

- A bachelor’s degree in engineering
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng) designation with PEGNL; eligible or obtained

**Experience**:

- A minimum of 5 years working in a role of similar experience in a related field.
- Experience working in an industrial environment such as mining or construction is preferred.
- Experience with underground mobile equipment would be an asset.
- Experience with Drilling Equipment (Surface and Underground) considered strong asset.

**Skills**:

- In depth knowledge of heavy equipment (manufacturing, laws and regulations, technical specification, maintenance, etc.).
- Knowledge of diesel power generation would be an asset.
- Strong skills in SAP would be an asset.
- Strong knowledge of MS office products (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint).
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to make focused, quick decisions and perform under pressure.
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