Specialist, Technology Planning and Strategy

Ready to build a rewarding career in an industry that is growing?

Who We Are

We are a global mining company dedicated to safely delivering nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum group metals essential for the world’s energy transition.

Our mission is to improve lives and shape a better future together.

From utensils to cellphones to satellites, our operations simplify daily life and enhance connectivity. Our metals are integral to life-saving medical equipment and the electric vehicles driving the fight against climate change – our work truly matters.

Join our diverse team of 15,000 talented individuals committed to transforming critical minerals into prosperity and sustainable development in countries like Canada, Brazil, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, and Japan. We invite you to use your skills with us and contribute to something meaningful and enduring.

The Opportunity

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 supports governance, 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.
• Governance & Risk Management: Ensuring alignment with technology architecture standards, governance frameworks, and strategic plans; identifying risks and implementing preventive actions.
• 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 favors 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 operations 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 outcomes rather than software for software’s sake.
• You are comfortable 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 within complex, 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 maintenance planning and execution.
• Background is aligned to roles such as Maintenance Planner or Reliability Engineer, with a practical, operations‑first perspective.
• Deep exposure to rotating equipment, pumps, and core plant infrastructure, particularly in refinery‑based or process‑intensive operations.
• Proven ability to drive process optimization, analyzing current‑state ways of working and designing more reliable, efficient future‑state processes.
• Strong technology and systems acumen, including understanding of plant and operating hierarchies, real‑world maintenance execution, and SAP or equivalent EAM systems, with clear judgment on where technology genuinely adds operational value.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.

Skills

• Deep understanding of mining and metals industry operations.
• Project management experience.
• Ability to influence strategic decisions and engage with stakeholders.
• Experience with SAP Fiori and S/4HANA.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies.
• Proficiency in Lean or problem-solving methods.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office and Power BI.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams.

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)
• Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth
• Employee Family Assistance Program
• Virtual Healthcare online
• Online training and career development opportunities

Why Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada's easternmost province, is known for its rugged coastline, rich cultural heritage, and significant natural resources. The province's economy is bolstered by a robust mining sector, where our operations play a crucial role. At Long Harbour, we operate a state-of-the-art processing plant, which refines nickel concentrate from the Voisey's Bay mine into finished nickel, copper, and cobalt products. This plant is a cornerstone of our commitment to value-added processing in Canada. Meanwhile, the Voisey's Bay mine,

located in Labrador, is one of the world's most substantial nickel deposits. It provides high-quality nickel, copper, and cobalt, essential for the 21 st century economy.

Include to Transform

At Vale Base Metals, 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.

Next, priority will be given to Newfoundland and Labrador residents. We also welcome those who are willing to relocate back home and those looking to make NL their permanent home.

Accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.

Pay Grade: F3T

Apply by: Friday, May 01, 2026

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