Engineer - Maintenance

at  Vale

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are currently seeking a Maintenance Engineer to join our team at the Copper Cliff Mine Complex in Sudbury, Ontario. This is a permanent position.
In this role, you will be responsible for on-site technical maintenance support, engineering, screening/scoping, repair scopes of work and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives at the site(s) they support.

In this position you will:

• Provide on-site, maintenance engineering technical support when failure symptoms have been detected, to develop the actions required to prevent a failure and have assets returned to running condition if failure occurs.
• Conduct/coordinate engineering field assessments and/or integrity assessment to make sure the assets are running without defects and coordinate with Operations, Procurement, Maintenance, Project Engineering, OEMs as required.
• Support operations and execution teams to conduct Continuous Improvement Projects related to operating or maintaining assets. Makes recommendations for improving the repair cycle on assets. This includes applying existing engineered solutions or Vale engineering standards.
• Conduct initial engineering screening and scoping for engineering requests at the site.
• Support execution teams to improve productivity and repair cycle times through continuous improvement projects, research of change in technology. As well as support the maintenance management teams to ensure that work packages are executed as per design.
• Evaluate equipment design improvements and new technologies for condition monitoring programs/initiatives.
• Apply value analysis (cost vs. benefit) in making maintenance decisions concerning repair, replacement, or redesign of equipment and systems.
• Review and promote/reject all new notifications into your work center through the group approval process and identify and escalate all critical issues that threaten the successful execution of work orders for completion by their Required End Date.
• Monitor KPIs and actively strive towards plant targets.

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 essential 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.

Please refer the Job description for details