Integrated Remote Operations Centre

**Integrated Remote Operations Centre (iROC) Operational Lead**

**Want to help Canada develop a sustainable future?**

Welcome to Vale in Canada. As a leader in the mining industry, our responsibility is to positively impact our people, communities and the environment. We value our workforce and offer continuous training and career development opportunities for our people.

With our global headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and approximately 125,000 employees in over 30 countries, Vale is constantly growing and changing. We invite you to be part of our evolution.

Our Sudbury Operations have been in existence for more than 100 years. With five mines, a mill, a smelter, a refinery and nearly 4,000 employees it is also one of the largest integrated mining complexes in the world. Sudbury is also home to several administrative sites serving both the Ontario Operations as well as all our North Atlantic Operations.

Port Colborne is home to our Nickel Refinery where raw materials from our Sudbury operations are processed into electrocobalt and precious metals and serves as a distribution centre for finished nickel products.

**Our Team**

Vale continues to invest in innovation and technology to transform its business by improving safety and productivity and strengthen its reputation in mining leadership. One of Vale’s boldest investments and commitments to innovation is the new Integrated Remote Operations Centre located at its North Atlantic Operations Centre in Sudbury, Ontario.

Through new digital connectivity, this state-of-the-art centralized control centre - better known as iROC - will connect leaders and frontline workers across all seven of Vale’s Canadian mines. Not only will the iROC team strengthen communications across our mining operations, iROC will also be a cornerstone in real-time data collection and analytics to support robust decision making in planning and execution. This 24/7 continuous data feed will drive agile action plans in real-time, improving shift productivity and adherence to plans. iROC will also improve safety by reducing emergency response time through enhanced location awareness and by facilitating the active monitoring of hazards such as seismicity.

**The Opportunity**

We are currently seeking two (2) **iROC Operational Leads **to join our **iROC Control Center team **in **Sudbury, Ontario **. These are **permanent **positions.

You will be working on a 5-4 12-hour shift schedule, days and nights. As an iROC Operational Lead, you will monitor, develop and support the execution of planned work across our integrated mining and processing operations by collecting and analyzing real-time data, prioritizing critical work and recovery plans and assisting our frontline workforce at site to drive our mining operations productivity and safely.

In addition, you will:

- Follow Vale’s Safety Policies, Programs and Legislative Standards
- Understands the key stakeholders at the site and engages them as directed by the iROC Management Operating System (MOS).
- Develops and issues shift plans and confirms resources available for shift activities with site frontline leaders.
- Monitors the 24/7 progress of all in-shift activities including delays, equipment breakdown, mine heading status and task start and end time. Interacts and provides guidance to frontline leaders and frontline workers.
- Prioritizes and creates action plans for execution teams to achieve shift rotation and daily shift targets to drive plan compliance.
- Works closely with the assigned plant leadership teams to react to unforeseen events by providing recommendations to priorities/planned work through iROC’s real-time visual line of sight (data) to deliver on divisional results.
- Escalate decisions or variances to plan to the necessary stakeholders. Issues end-of-shift reports and metrics.
- Inputs work orders, mechanical breakdowns for in shift repairs and maintenance.
- Coordinate and collaborate with support groups (e.g. Maintenance, Mines Technical Services, Engineering) as required for mine plan development and execution.
- Provide oversight for assigned plant on divisional planned work, safety systems, data analytics and reporting, and understanding how core business activities (value drivers) impact safety, production and cost at site.
- Maintain and manage current and next-shift schedules for crews based on progress and in-shift variances, including the addition of urgent work.
- Ensure planning, scheduling and execution processes at site sustainably follow MOS and remain continuously integrated with iROC resulting in safe mine productivity increases for our Vale’s North Atlantic Operations.
- Responsible for integrity of data coming from the iROC.
- Assists with emergency response procedures, including working alone and fire response.
- Monitors seismic systems, providing abnormal ground activity information and recommendations to frontline crews.

**About You**

**Education**:

- Bachelor’s