Superintendent, Eng

**Job Title: Superintendent, Engineering & Studies**

**Want to help Canada develop a sustainable future?**

**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 concentrates 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 Vale Newfoundland & Labrador (VNL) Reliability, Engineering, Operational Technology & Excellence team has accountabilities to deliver cost effective asset performance across the Vale mines and plants in the province.

**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 **Superintendent, Engineering & Studies** to join the **VNL Engineering & Reliability Department** supporting our operations in** Long Harbour and Voisey’s Bay, NL. **This **permanent** position will be on a Monday to Friday schedule working primarily from the St. John’s Office, with site visits as required to the Long Harbour and Voisey’s Bay operations.

In this position, you will:

- Accountable to lead and mentor a team of design Engineers, Designers and Coordinators to complete engineering designs and studies across our mines and plants in Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Responsible for Safety, Schedule, Scope, Quality and Costs associated with engineering design and studies (in house as well as outsourced).
- Responsible for integrity of designs produced under his or her technical direction and legally approves drawings as per the Professional Engineers Act.
- Applies sound engineering knowledge and ensures all designs comply with applicable codes, standards and regulations, and are economically feasible.
- Approves or reviews engineering estimates, drawings, calculations, functional specifications, data sheets, equipment specifications, scopes of work, FEL studies and detailed design packages.
- Identifies and prescribes best practices for the operations as it relates to Service Newfoundland & Labrador (SNL) regulations and requirements.
- Organizes development of new infrastructure studies for Vale’s plants/mines.

**About You**

**Education**:

- Undergraduate Degree in Engineering is required.
- P. Eng is required.

**Experience**:

- A minimum of 8 years’ experience in a similar role.

**Skills**:

- Strong leadership skills.
- Experience as a stamping design engineer.
- Experience in planning and estimating engineering hours for design projects.
- Experience writing equipment specification and construction scopes of work.
- Is familiar with latest codes, acts and regulations and keeps abreast of technology and latest developments in his or her design field.
- Ability to work independently to achieve outcomes with minimum supervision.
- Possesses excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Self-motivated.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite.

**How can Vale grow your career?**
- 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)
- 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

**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 p