Specialist, IT - Strategy and Planning; St John's

Position: Specialist, IT - Strategy and Planning (St John's)
Location: St. John's

Your Newpany
Our client is a global miningpany dedicated to safely producing nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum group metals—critical resources powering the world’s energy transition.

With a mission to improve lives and shape a better future together, Vale Base Metals plays a vital role in modern life. Their metals are found in everyday technologies, life‑saving medical equipment, and the electric vehicles advancing climate‑change solutions.

With more than 15,000 employees worldwide, the organization operates across Canada, Brazil, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, and Japan. They aremitted to transforming critical minerals into long‑term prosperity and sustainable development—making this an opportunity to contribute to work that truly matters.
Your New Role
We are currently seeking a Specialist, Technology Planning and Strategy to join our Information Technology team in St. John’s, Newfoundland. This is a permanent, full-time position, working Monday to Friday in a hybrid model between the St. John’s office and a home office.

As a Specialist, you will strategically align technology capabilities with business objectives across production, maintenance, and technical services. You will play a critical role in driving digital transformation, improving operational efficiency, and enabling seamless technology integration.

The position also supportsernance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring technology investments deliver maximum value for Vale Newfoundland & Labrador operations.
In this role, you will be responsible for:

Strategic Alignment:
Developing technology operational strategies and roadmaps for systems such as ERP, MES, PIMS, LIMS, controls, and automation.

Value Delivery:
Ensuring technology initiatives are aligned with business strategies to maximize operational and financial value.

Budget Management:
Planning, managing, and executing OPEX and CAPEX budgets.

IT/OT Integration:
Acting as a bridge between technology teams and operations by developing a strong understanding of production, maintenance, and technical services.

Digital Transformation:
Driving the adoption of technology solutions to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and generate data-driven insights.

Business Process Optimization:
Supporting the development, optimization, and transformation of business processes enabled by technology solutions.

Stakeholder Engagement:
Building strong relationships with operational and technical stakeholders by embedding within the business to understand strategies, priorities, and challenges.

This role favours candidates with an operations‑first mindset and direct exposure to asset‑intensive environments.
About You

You are excited by the opportunity to help build and shape a function from the ground up in an asset‑intensive environment. You are an operation and process expert who understands how physical assets run, how they fail, and how they are repaired—and how technology should support that reality.

You are deeply technology‑curious. You value practical, fit‑for‑purpose technology that improves reliability, uptime, and maintenance oues rather than software for software’s sake.

You arefortable working close to the assets. Your mindset bridges operations, maintenance, and technology, enabling better decisions across the full asset lifecycle—from ore extraction through processing and shipping to market.

Reliability matters to you. You understand that in asset‑heavy environments—where capital investment is significant—uptime, maintenance discipline, and operational excellence are critical to value creation.

Experience & Education

Demonstrated understanding of the end‑to‑end asset lifecycle, spanning ore extraction, processing and refining, and shipping through to route‑to‑market operations.

Experience working withinplex, asset‑intensive environments such as mines, refineries, and process‑heavy industrial facilities.

Strong appreciation for operational contexts where reliability, availability, and uptime are critical to business performance and value creation.

Hands‑on experience designing and supporting reliability and maintenance strategies, including predictive maintenance, asset monitoring, and…