Employee Health Specialist
Apply NowCompany: Vale
Location: St. John's, NL A1A 0A1
Description:
Job Title: Employee Health Specialist
Join Vale today. Continuously learn throughout your career.
Who We Are
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.
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.
Our Team
Our Newfoundland and Labrador Operations are an integrated mining, milling, and processing operation. Nickel concentrate from the fly-in, fly-out Voisey's Bay operation is shipped to our state-of-art Long Harbour Processing Plant where it is refined into low-carbon and high-purity nickel rounds, cobalt rounds and copper cathodes.
The Vale Health, Safety, and Risk Team is a vital part of the VNL Operations. Together, we monitor, check, and continually improve our health and safety systems to create an environment where we can all successfully achieve zero harm and go HomeSafe.
The Opportunity
We are currently seeking an Employee Health Specialist to join our Health, Safety, and Risk Department in St. John's, NL. This permanent position will be a Monday to Friday schedule working at the St. John's Corporate Office in St. John's, NL with regular travel to both Long Harbour and Voisey's Bay as required.
As an Employee Health Specialist, you will a member of Vale's Health, Safety, and Risk team reporting to the HSR Manager. In this role, you will support employees who are missing or performing modified work duties due to a health issue by connecting them with appropriate resources and facilitate their return to work. Duties will include ensuring appropriate classification and reporting (internal and external) of injuries. Other duties include the promotion of health and wellness within the Vale Newfoundland and Labrador (VNL) Operations by interacting directly with site personnel and advising on health and wellness programs such as mental health, fatigue, medicals & medical surveillance, disability management, worker's compensation, and Drug & Alcohol Program administration.
Additionally, in this position you will:
About You
Education:
Experience:
Skills:
How can Vale grow your career?
The Employee Health Specialist is a critical part of Vale's Health, Safety, and Risk team that will allow the right candidate to grow their skillset and career within our operations.
Additionally, Vale offers a series of benefits including:
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.
Interested applicants must submit their application online at https://vale.eightfold.ai/careers
Accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation to enable you participate in our recruitment process, please email us at [redacted].
Pay Grade: F5T
Apply by: Sunday, June 16th, 2024
#ValeBaseMetals
Join Vale today. Continuously learn throughout your career.
Who We Are
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.
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.
Our Team
Our Newfoundland and Labrador Operations are an integrated mining, milling, and processing operation. Nickel concentrate from the fly-in, fly-out Voisey's Bay operation is shipped to our state-of-art Long Harbour Processing Plant where it is refined into low-carbon and high-purity nickel rounds, cobalt rounds and copper cathodes.
The Vale Health, Safety, and Risk Team is a vital part of the VNL Operations. Together, we monitor, check, and continually improve our health and safety systems to create an environment where we can all successfully achieve zero harm and go HomeSafe.
The Opportunity
We are currently seeking an Employee Health Specialist to join our Health, Safety, and Risk Department in St. John's, NL. This permanent position will be a Monday to Friday schedule working at the St. John's Corporate Office in St. John's, NL with regular travel to both Long Harbour and Voisey's Bay as required.
As an Employee Health Specialist, you will a member of Vale's Health, Safety, and Risk team reporting to the HSR Manager. In this role, you will support employees who are missing or performing modified work duties due to a health issue by connecting them with appropriate resources and facilitate their return to work. Duties will include ensuring appropriate classification and reporting (internal and external) of injuries. Other duties include the promotion of health and wellness within the Vale Newfoundland and Labrador (VNL) Operations by interacting directly with site personnel and advising on health and wellness programs such as mental health, fatigue, medicals & medical surveillance, disability management, worker's compensation, and Drug & Alcohol Program administration.
Additionally, in this position you will:
- Re-evaluate and revamp a VNL Disability Management Program. Proactively establish and execute early and safe return to work plans with Site Management, monitor trends in disability claims and recommend proactive measures to reduce workplace injuries to VNL leadership. Ensure all legal and legislative requirements are met as per the appropriate compensation board's standards. Administer program and act as lead on program.
- Manage worker's compensation cases and maintain strong relationships with Workplace NL and medical providers.
- Act as the Program Administrator and provide oversight of VNL's Drug and Alcohol Program.
- Lead an initiative to establish and administer Physical Demands Analyses (PDAs) for roles within VNL.
- Review and maintain VNL pre-employment and periodical medical Policy for alignment with Vale North Atlantic and industry best practice.
- Work closely with site HSR team members, medical service provider contractors and Human Resource Business Partners.
- Monitor health data and identify trends to determine areas of focus for VNL leadership that will emphasize the right work to promote health and wellness of all employees.
- Regularly travel to VNL sites to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, provide support to our operational team by participating in risk assessments, providing health/wellness sessions, and assisting as other needs arise.
- Identify ways to firmly establish mental health as part of the business routines.
- Advise on fatigue management best practices through monitoring trends, reviewing industry best practices and provide recommendations for improvements/advancements to programs. Once a program is established, act as owner.
About You
Education:
- Bachelor of Nursing Degree or a Registered Nurse License is required.
- Certification in Occupational Health, Wellness, Disability Management, or other general Health Profession would be an asset.
Experience:
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in nursing is required.
Skills:
- Demonstrate knowledge and experience in injury and disability management, as well as, provide technical expertise and consultative services to management.
- Possess a strong work ethic with effective problem-solving, communication (listening, oral and written), decision making and analytical skills.
- Be an effective team player who excels at building trusting relationships with clients and coworkers but also able to work independently.
- Possess knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations in the occupational health and safety and human resources fields is required.
- Excellent computer skills - Word, Excel & Power Point, Adobe.
- Experience with SAP.
- Provide effective Wellness sessions.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to achieve goals related to program.
- Support Strategic priorities that relate to health, wellness, and disability management.
How can Vale grow your career?
The Employee Health Specialist is a critical part of Vale's Health, Safety, and Risk team that will allow the right candidate to grow their skillset and career within our operations.
Additionally, Vale offers a series of benefits including:
- Competitive salary.
- Opportunity to earn an annual Employee Bonus.
- 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, sick, top up for maternity/parental).
- Employee Family Assistance Program.
- Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth.
- Opportunities to grow your career in a large global company, and mining industry leader.
- 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.
Interested applicants must submit their application online at https://vale.eightfold.ai/careers
Accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation to enable you participate in our recruitment process, please email us at [redacted].
Pay Grade: F5T
Apply by: Sunday, June 16th, 2024
#ValeBaseMetals