Join Vale today. Continuously learn throughout your career.

Who We Are:

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.

Vale is a global leader in the production of iron ore and one of the largest producers of nickel. Active in Canada for over 100 years, Vale employs nearly 6,000 people across our corporate office in Toronto and sites in Manitoba, Ontario, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Applying the latest technologies to sustainably produce nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum group metals, gold and silver is at the heart of what we do.

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 Team:

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.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a Regional Projects Control Manager to join our North Atlantic Projects team in Sudbury, ON . This is a permanent position.

As a manager, you will lead all aspects of the project and ensure that the Project Control routines (Systems and Processes) in place follow Vale's Project Governance model. You will observe all project costs (discipline, WBS and working packages) and have a team reporting Cost Control, Scheduling and Planning functions. You will assist the Sr Project Manager in establishing Project budgets work plans schedules and other cost control measures as required to ensure data reports are accurate and timely. Additionally, in this position you will:

• Support the standardization of the North Atlantic Project Group(NAPG) Project Controls, ensuring full implementation of company processes and procedures
• Lead cross-functional team, ensuring members are collaborating with Procurement, Engineering, and Contracts group on concepts and relationships to the scope of work, forecasting and ensure adherence to baseline plans.
• Lead development of budget estimates to support project sanctions and the change management routine.
• Handle the preparation of indirect costs, including owner's cost budgets.
• Define project baseline process for cost & schedule, and ensure all project systems are implemented according to Vale's Project Governance Model (standards and procedures);
• Lead change management process and communicate and suggest corrective actions.
• Lead project schedule development, review and update processes and to ensure accuracy and alignment with the overall master schedule (scope);
• Lead daily, weekly, and monthly reporting routine by developing reports, power BI dashboards to communicate cost and schedule (forecast) performance in real-time.
• Lead Project direct and indirect costs, ensuring accurate and on-time reporting of data
• Use company business systems (SAP, PRISM/Ellipse-Oracle/Primavera P6);
• Ensure RFQ/RFPs have an accurate budget allocation,
• Lead collaboration with all Project Areas to provide inputs to the contract formation process concerning payments terms, measurement criteria and rules of credit.
• Providing advice on applying effective planning techniques and controls (earned value, cost and schedule variance, estimates at completion, critical path analysis).;
• Lead cost control function and ensure the integrity of the data being processed.
• Lead risk management routine, which includes identification, documentation, mitigation, and tracking of the Project's potential risks. In addition, discover potential cost and schedule/progress impacts of potential risks as they are identified.
• Collaborate with Company PMO offices, FP&A and other corporate groups to review governance as required

About You

Education :

• Undergraduate degree required
• CGA/CA/CMA or PMP certification an asset

Experience:

• 11 to 15 years of experience in Project Controls for large projects

Skills:

• Excellent leadership and people management skills
• Experience working on major Capital Projects
• Experience and in-depth knowledge and understanding of Project Management and Project Controls concepts including estimating, cost/cash, scheduling and earned value management.
• Knowledge of Asset capitalization
• Experience and knowledge of mining & construction processes and procedures.
• Develop and support relationships with a diverse range of professionals in a mining & construction atmosphere.

How can Vale grow your career?

The Manager, Regional Project Controls is a management position that will allow the right candidate to shape our mining operations as well as a team of direct reports. Additionally, Vale Canada offers a series of benefits including:

• Competitive salary
• 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, flex, sick, top up for maternity/parental)
• Flexible work arrangements
• Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth
• Grow your career in a large and global company, and mining industry leader
• Employee Family Assistance Program
• Online training and career development opportunities
• Opportunities to advise and oversee the design, budget and construction of new mines and expansions

Difference Makes All the Difference

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 essential 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.

In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.