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Who We Are
Welcome to Vale Base Metals. 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.
Applying the latest technologies to sustainably mine the critical minerals that power electric vehicles, build renewable energy solutions, and help develop life-saving medical equipment is at the heart of what we do.
We invite you to be part of our evolution.
The Opportunity
The Occupational Health and Safety (HSE) Advisor will provide support to ensure that all Vale Canada exploration programs operate within internal and external regulatory codes and policies.
The OHS Advisor will also lead incident investigations, analyze trends in the key performance indicators, report all OHS activities on a monthly basis and coordinate safety initiatives.
This individual will:
- Oversee all HSEC programs for Vale's North American Exploration Department.
- Ensure operational and procedural compliance with the Health and Safety Act and applicable Regulations and Codes.
- Provide technical advice and guidance to management on safety, health and environment issues
- Lead/facilitate all high severity incident investigations
- Monitor on an ongoing basis leading and lagging HSE indicators.
- Design and run emergency response drills.
- Develop safe work procedures based on needs identified through on-going risk assessments.
- Lead risk assessment workshops for all projects at their inception.
- Ensure risks are managed based on risk assessment outcomes, assessing the exposure, managing the risks and monitoring the effectiveness of controls.
- Compile legal requirement registries for all exploration projects.
- Identify, develop and implement training programs for Vale Exploration North America based on applicable regulations, corporate requirements, and job requirements
- Complete contractor prequalification and screening, monitor contractors' health and safety programs.
- Plan corporate safety initiatives.
- Assist with HSE audits including the implementation of Action Plans to address non-compliance items.
About You
Education:
- College diploma
Experience:
- A minimum of 5 years of professional experience.
- CRSP Certification (preferred)
Skills:
- Experience in hard rock exploration
- Knowledge of the OHS legislation
- Excellent communication skills,
- Analytical thinker
- Leadership qualities
What We Offer You
- 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)
- 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 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.
Grade: F5T
Apply By: June 27th
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