Ready to build a rewarding career in an industry that is transforming the future?
Who We Are
We are Vale Base Metals – a global supplier of the critical minerals transforming the future.
With industry-leading reserves of copper and nickel in Canada, Brazil, and Indonesia, and state-of-the-art infrastructure in the U.K., Canada, and Japan, VBM delivers a secure and responsible supply of high-quality products to customers across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Global demand for critical minerals is growing exponentially. From energy to aerospace, batteries to magnets, robotics to artificial intelligence, a secure and responsible supply of critical minerals is fundamental to power modern technologies. And at Vale Base Metals, we are transforming our business to provide a secure and responsible supply of these minerals.
Join our diverse team of 13,000 talented individuals committed to providing mineral security to a world in transition. We invite you to put your skills to work, driving meaningful and enduring change while enjoying a rewarding career.
The Opportunity
We are currently seeking a Senior Specialist Engineer, Asset Management, to join our Asset Management and Engineering team in Toronto, ON.
This is a permanent position.
The Senior Specialist Engineer, Asset Management is responsible for improving the predictability and effectiveness of maintenance, inspection, planning, scheduling and execution across Vale Base Metals. This role is accountable for ensuring that maintenance work is consistently planned, scheduled, and controlled using a common enterprise approach, resulting in improved asset reliability, safer execution, and more efficient use of maintenance resources across 17 VBM operations.
Additionally in this position you will
- Ensure predictable and effective maintenance execution across Vale Base Metals by establishing and governing a consistent enterprise approach to maintenance work: inspections, planning, scheduling, execution, and control.
- Provide enterprise governance for maintenance work management, ensuring common standards, roles, decision rules, and expectations are applied consistently across all operations.
- Enable alignment between maintenance and operations, ensuring maintenance work priorities support production stability, safety, and asset reliability.
- Consolidate and communicate maintenance execution performance (Indicators and KPIs) across operations, providing leadership with visibility of execution discipline, backlog health, schedule adherence, and systemic improvement needs.
- Act as a technical authority and advisor to site and regional leaders on maintenance work management practices and performance improvement.
- Ensure maintenance management systems and supporting tools are used consistently and effectively, with clear data standards and governance to support decision‑making.
- Strengthen organizational capability in maintenance work management by supporting planners, schedulers, supervisors, and leaders through coaching, guidance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Communication in two languages fluently, English and Portuguese, to have a strong approach with all site level, to the field crew until managerial level.
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
About You
Education:
- Undergraduate degree in related field
- Specialization in Asset Management and/or Reliability Engineering
- P.eng
Experience:
- 8-10 years of expertise in Asset Management
Skills:
- Enterprise and systems thinking with the ability to align asset management strategies to business objectives
- Technical authority and credibility in maintenance, reliability, and asset management practices
- Proven ability to influence and lead across functions without direct authority
- Expertise in driving standardization while respecting site‑specific and local operational requirements
- Strong leadership presence with advanced communication, coaching, and change leadership capabilities
- Extensive experience in Asset Management and Maintenance, including Operational Excellence frameworks
- In‑depth knowledge of the Vale Production System (VPS) and Vale PNRs
- Solid command of asset management standards and frameworks including ISO 55000 series, ISO 31000, and GFMAM Landscape
- Advanced CMMS expertise with proven hands‑on experience as an SAP PM user
- Ability to balance strategic, tactical, and operational execution, effectively translating strategy into actionable plans and deliverables
- Strong understanding of end‑to‑end maintenance, reliability, cost, and process safety management processes
- Demonstrated capability in cost management, ESG principles, and process safety management
- High resilience with a track record of guiding teams toward sustained high performance
- Highly effective communicator with strong analytical thinking, negotiation, time management, adaptability, and collaboration skills
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 can act like owners, being their authentic selves and empowering them to deliver results. Vale Base Metals 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.
Vale uses artificial intelligence to screen, assess, and/or select applicants for this position.
Pay Grade: F2T
Minimum Starting Salary: $130,000
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