Senior Tailings Engineer

Job Responsibility:

Closing Date: June 6, 2024

Reporting to the Manager Tailings, the Senior Tailings Engineer is responsible for leading a team of tailings engineers who act as the primary site-based technical resources for operations, maintenance and surveillance of Tailings and Water Retaining Structures (TWRS).This role focuses on optimising allocation of tailings engineering resources across multiple sites, advising and assisting operational leadership to achieve TWRS objectives, and coordinating governance and stewardship needs with the TWRS leadership team, the QP/RTFEs and the EoRs. This role may also fulfill on-site needs such as supervising field activities related to tailings systems.

To be successful in this role, we require a self-motivated individual with strong interpersonal and communication skills, who can collaborate and excel in a technical team-based environment; someone who has a demonstrated ability to influence others, lead a team, and has strong time management skills.

In this role you will have the opportunity to build relationships across departments through professional development, engagement, empowerment, autonomy, and building internal expertise and capacity. You will have opportunities to work on multiple sites in the valley, gaining experience and relationships along the way. This is an exciting chance to build your career in tailings, with the potential for career progression through our enterprise.

Join us in the breathtaking Elk Valley of British Columbia. Here you will find outdoor adventure at your fingertips. Whether it's biking and skiing, or the laid-back atmosphere of fishing and hiking, there is something for everyone! Come experience what work life balance is all about!

Responsibilities:

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures
• Mentor and guide a team of engineers in support of their professional development
• Allocate adequate resources to implement the surveillance, inspection, monitoring, and maintenance plan (OMS) for TWRSs
• Support updates to operating, maintenance, and surveillance manuals, along with emergency preparedness and response plans, and other management system documents
• Support short-and long-range plans for tailings and water management facilities, including mass balances, tailings deposition plans, and water balances
• Work in compliance with regulatory requirements, HSEC Standards, and relevant guidelines
• Implement organizational change processes
• Report on performance and connect with site leadership
• Support project execution on site
• Coordinate activities with Tailings Qualified Professional (QP/RTFE), Consultants, Project Engineering, Processing, Environmental, necessary Teck corporate entities, contractors, and Government Regulators as required
• Develop budgets and track costs on tailings related activities

Qualifications:

• Degree in Civil, Geotechnical, Mining, or Geological Engineering, or equivalent
• Minimum of eight years operational, construction, or design work experience in the mining industry, including experience with tailings storage facilities
• Registered, or immediately eligible to register, as a Professional Engineer with the Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia
• Experience working on project teams; leadership/supervisory experience is an asset
• Understanding of tailings behavior, technologies, geotechnical investigation methods and analyses, soil mechanics, and surface and subsurface monitoring systems.
• Experience working with external specialists, such as regulators and Engineers of Record, and familiar with tailings guidelines and regulations

Benefits:

Teck employees receive a competitive compensation package that includes, but is not limited to, base salary plus the following benefits:

• Two Annual Bonus Plans
• Comprehensive Benefits Plan
• Retirement Package
• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Health Lifestyle Account

Salary Range: $117,000- $144,000

The actual base salary offered is determined based on the successful candidate's relevant experience, skills, and competencies and considers internal equity.

Successful candidates must be willing to satisfy the pre-employment requirements of a pre-employment drug screen and three professional references.

About Teck

At Teck, we value diversity. Our teams work collaboratively and respect each person's unique perspective and contribution.

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for the position; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

Teck is a diversified resource company committed to responsible mining and mineral development with major business units focused on copper, steelmaking coal and zinc.

Teck has been named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers and is one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People.

The pursuit of sustainability guides Teck's approach to business. Teck has been recognized as one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations by Corporate Knights and is ranked #1 in the Metals and Mining industry on the S&P Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI).

Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, its shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbols TECK.A and TECK.B and the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TECK.