Study Manager

**Job Title: Study Manager**

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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 Sudbury Operations have been in existence for more than 100 years. With five mines, a mill, a smelter, a refinery and nearly 4,000 employees it is also one of the largest integrated mining complexes in the world. Sudbury is also home to several administrative sites serving both the Ontario Operations as well as all our North Atlantic Operations.

Port Colborne is home to our Nickel Refinery where raw materials from our Sudbury operations are processed into electrocobalt and precious metals and serves as a distribution centre for finished nickel products.

**The Opportunity**

The Project Study Manager role is responsible for managing, coordinating and overall administration of a project or multiple projects. The projects include FEL 3 studies and support during transition to Project Execution. The Study Manager is responsible to deliver their projects within scope, cost, and schedule baseline, while ensuring the projects are delivered within the safety and quality objectives agreed for the project.

As a member of the Project Team the incumbent will be responsible for managing and leading FEL 3 studies through a structured process aligned with Vale’s Project Delivery System. The study Manager is accountable for defining and delivering studies to refine the Project’s technical and commercial attributes while developing the detailed execution plan for successful project execution. Additionally, in this position you will:

- Leads and actively promotes behaviors with Vale’s safety goals and is accountable for achieving outcomes by participating in the design and site inspections in their project area and ensuring all foll-up actions are carried out.
- Carries clear responsibility and accountability for delivery of the Project objectives for the FEL 3 study as agreed by the Manager of Studies taking into consideration the full project lifecycle including engineering, procurement, project controls, contract management and quality.
- Educates team members and peers on the Project Delivery System (PDS) deliverables.
- Manages and ensure compliance to project procedures including the management of project documentation and ensuring these are received, reviewed, commented, responded, and incorporated in project archives.
- Manages and coordinates the outputs of their assigned project team or teams in line with the detailed scope, cost, and schedule control baselines and manages any project changes in terms of this agreed baseline. This includes interfacing with Operations for environment, community relations, operational readiness and the project quality governance requirements.
- Ensures that the study considers all of the Vale critical initiatives on Safety, Environment and Governance within the study design
- Primary interface with other Project Managers and Operations Managers/Supt to ensure no aspect of the project is overlooked or lags in progress, develops and implements recovery plans.
- Leads, co-ordinates and monitors project team members performance and influences their activities as necessary to ensure project requirements are achieved.
- Oversees Contract Management of their assigned contract packages to ensure timely submission and approval of all Contract Changes.
- Mitigates project delays by coordinating the different functions and establishing priorities.
- Functionally accountable for positions supporting their projects.
- Recommends to the Manager of Studies any requirements for additional resources and strategies to maintain the schedule.
- Responsible to ensure the successful Setup, Execution, Control, Evaluation and Close Out of each study as required.

**About You**

Education**:

- Undergraduate degree is required.
- P. Eng. certification is required.

**Experience**:
**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, 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 de