Senior Specialist, Infrastructure Engineer

Copper Cliff, ON, CAN

ID: 1088458

Job Description

Ready to build a rewarding career in an industry that is growing?

Who We Are

We are a global mining company dedicated to safely delivering nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum group metals essential for the world’s energy transition.

Our mission is to improve lives and shape a better future together.

From utensils to cellphones to satellites, our operations simplify daily life and enhance connectivity. Our metals are integral to life-saving medical equipment and the electric vehicles driving the fight against climate change – our work truly matters.

Join our diverse team of 15,000 talented individuals committed to transforming critical minerals into prosperity and sustainable development in countries like Canada, Brazil, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, and Japan. We invite you to use your skills with us and contribute to something meaningful and enduring.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking an, Senior Specialist, Infrastructure Engineer to join our Strategic Mine Planning Team.

This is a permanent position.

As the Senior Specialist, Infrastructure Engineer, you will be involved in developing and/or apply skills aligned with the specific objectives of the different operational and corporate areas including Mining Engineering (includes tracks for Mine Projects & Reserves, Mine Planning & Design, Mine Production, Mine Ventilation), Geomechanics and Geotechnical (includes tracks for Ground Control, Backfill and Geomechanics Studies).

Additionally, in this position you will:

- Responsible for strategy and direction for infrastructure system designs, modeling, technical compliance, technology application and best practice, and provides specialist oversight of Front-End Load (FEL) studies, long range packages, system operation and troubleshooting to achieve efficient, cost effective and reliable operation adhering to legal requirements and regulations.

- Responsible to create designs appropriate for the application and system function to meet mine demands and strategy.

- Responsible to conduct design trade-offs for optimization and continuous improvement initiative.

- Responsible for selection of technology and establish strategy for long range designs and provide direction to operating sites on best practice and solutioning to ensure quality of systems for all mines and may act as a technical authority.

- Provide expert technical support to the business, studies, operations and/or maintenance teams, to ensure reliable operation of systems, controls and equipment.

- Develops scopes of work and participates in project specification development, design adherence, reviews, signoffs, system start-up and commissioning activities.

- Reviews and/or approves study designs within area of responsibility.

- Communicates regularly and effectively with mine design, mine planning, mine operations and maintenance and peer engineering groups and recommends to leadership for alignment on solutions, gap closure, opportunities, and recommendations

- Contributes to creation of ‘How to’ manuals and technical standards/procedures.

- Responsible to adhere to competencies and boundaries of the discipline and ensure compliance with standards and regulations.

- Embrace empowerment with Accountability through feedback and initiation of own personal development as well as the development of others through training, mentoring, design, correct data acquisition, tool use practices and management of systems.

About You

Education:

- Bachelors in Mining Engineering

- P.Eng is required

Experience:

- 10+ years’ of work experience

Skills:

- Scope: recognized master in their professional discipline; national business expert in their field; keeps informed of new developments and requirements affecting the organization for the purpose of recommending changes; technically supervises the most complex work; contributes to development of industry standards; provides strategic guidance to the business unit in their field of expertise; communicates with Senior Levels of Leadership in their work; contributes to occasional publications; acts as a company advocate on national code/policy committees; initiates and maintains extensive contacts with key engineers and officials or other organizations and companies.

- Problem Solving: problems are complex and multidimensional; develops new and novel approaches for solving problems; involved in problem solving for both short-term and long-term solutions; applies expertise to resolve crucial issues and/or unique conditions

- Technology management: contributes to direction on adoption or development of new technology at the plant level. Potentially leading the development of new technologies.

- Autonomy: limited direction; leads development of technical guidelines.

- Direction provided: direction to more junior engineers, EITs. Acts as technical authority.

What We Offer You

- Competitive compensation including a variable annual incentive plan.

- Participation in a competitive Defined Contribution Pension package.

- Comprehensive benefits package (company paid core coverage, health and dental coverage, flex accounts, disability plans and optional insurances).

- Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation, personal, sick, parental).

- Flexible work arrangements.

- Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth.

- Employee Family Assistance Program.

- Virtual Healthcare online.

- Online training and career development opportunities.

Why Sudbury

Greater Sudbury is a vibrant city in northeastern Ontario, renowned for its rich mining history and significant role in Canada's mineral production. The city sits atop one of the world's largest and oldest meteorite impact sites, the Sudbury Basin, which is exceptionally rich in nickel, copper, and other critical minerals that are needed for the green economy. The mining sector is a cornerstone of Sudbury's economy, driving both employment and economic growth, and Vale Base Metals plays a pivotal role in this regard. Our commitment to the community is as deep as our mines.

Include to Transform

At Vale Base Metals, 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 Ontarians with Disabilities Act, accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.

Pay Grade: F2T

Apply by: Aug 23, 2025

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