General Manager, Integrated Operations, Iron Ore Company of Canada - Labrador City, Canada - Rio Tinto

Description

General Manager, Integrated Operations, Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC)

• Unique opportunity to create and articulate a vision for the future evolution of Integrated Operations in a way that will inspire others.
• Apply your leadership and experience in one of the most influential GM roles at Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC). Decisions made within the Operations Centre have a direct impact on safety, production, revenue, cost, quality and our ability to meet our customer needs.
• Permanent role based in Labrador City, N.L., Canada.

Being one of Rio Tinto's senior leaders means helping to run a company that drives human progress. You are writing the next chapter of our story. You lead some of the industry's best and brightest minds, working to solve the challenges of the 21st century. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop are broad and exciting.

About the role:

We are looking for a General Manager, Integrated Operations Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC), who will play a key leadership role in optimizing business value, while prioritizing safety through the integration of the planning and decision-making functions carried out in key operational areas of the business. This person will also support operations to achieve or exceed 'the plan' through transparent monitoring and initiation of business improvement opportunities.

This role provides networking opportunities directly related to the key accountability of oversight of the entire value chain at IOC, which includes an open pit mine, processing plants, rail, and port facilities and is an incredible development opportunity for someone seeking broader business exposure who is interested in continuing to eventually progress to an executive level role.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer IOC, you'll be accountable for:

• Focusing on execution and delivery, using all inputs from across the business, to deliver safe tonnes for our customers within specification
• Exercising decision rights using information available from across the value chain to prioritize and sequence work to deliver the best outcome for IOC
• Delivering the optimized production plans (annual, 10 year etc.) that will support the achievement of immediate business targets while ensuring that longer-term objectives are met
• Overseeing the overall asset management plan to ensure assets are effectively managed over their entire lifecycle in order to achieve the best balance between productivity, cost, and risk performance as required by the business strategy
• Using influence to develop strong relationships with peers to drive appropriate behaviours to support the delivery of the plan
• Participating in community of practice (COP) to share learnings and continue to optimize the functioning of the Operations Centre
• Developing a clear understanding of customers and value chain to drive returns through understanding of how their role/team impacts our position within the market
• Navigating internal relationships and maximizing impact by fostering strong peer relationships

Key functions within team include: Operations Centre, Integrated planning, Asset management (including planning, reliability & assurance), Operational growth & innovation (including automation & control), Process safety, and Performance improvement.

What You'll Bring

1. Essential areas of knowledge - The individual will be required to provide problem solving leadership within their own team and with GM peers. A core area of problem solving will be identifying the changes required to local plans to optimise short and medium term value creation including:

• Changes in quantity or quality of production as required to balance product mix, or balance supply with demand
• Changes in the allocation of resources as required to support required changes in throughput/quality
• Changes in priority of BI initiatives (capex and opex) resulting in shifts in the allocation of BI resource, as required to deliver the optimal short/medium term mix of capability improvement across volume, quality and cost

Solving these problems will require strong analytical capabilities, as well as a thorough understanding of system value drivers, and significant technical expertise. The application of lateral thinking to supply chain issues will be required to drive improvement over time.

The individual will possess a solid understanding of operational activities at a complex mining operation and have an ability to analyse a situation and then translate that complexity into clear objectives for their team in a simple and engaging way. They will be required to problem solve around the constraints identified by local stakeholders (e.g. mines, rail, ports) and use negotiation and influencing skills to negotiate outcomes that create system value while being operationally sound.

1. Leadership competencies

• Achieving results:
  • Ability to develop trust and empower the team to make decisions and deliver at level within their role
  • Deliver on business objectives by prioritizing and optimizing the use of capital and assets across our value chain
• Managing people:
  • Optimize people resources by ensuring alignment with the operating model and leverage resources across the organization where appropriate
  • Give people opportunities to contribute to the business beyond their typical roles and provide coaching support to enable their success
• Preparing for the future:
  • Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to find a mutually beneficial way of working to improve the sustainability of operations
  • Translate the strategic and business objectives into long and short-term plans that clearly communicate business targets, the key drivers required to achieve these and their key risks.
• Developing capability:
  • Identify successors to business critical roles and facilitate connections with other teams to benefit each other's learnings and enhance individual and organisational performance
  • Ensure that appropriate processes are in place to acquire, develop, or mobilize talent and that identified talent needs are determined based upon a thorough understanding of the business strategy

1. Qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in mining, mechanical or industrial engineering, commercial or related degree; post graduate business studies an advantage
• Minimum of 15 years experience in an operations, infrastructure, commercial or asset management leadership roles
• Ability to communicate in both French & English is an asset
• The ideal candidate would have diverse leadership and industry experience in a variety of operating areas.

About Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC)

We are a leading North American producer and exporter of premium iron ore pellets and high-grade concentrate with average iron grades greater than 66%. With a team of over 2,400 employees, IOC is committed to providing value and continuity for our customers, employees, communities and shareholders through our unique mine to port approach, taking advantage of our full integration and wholly owned infrastructure to deliver our high-quality concentrate and pellets to our customers across the globe.

IOC's operations include a mine with five operational pits, a concentrator and a pelletizing plant located near Labrador City in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. We also operate a wholly-owned 418 km railway, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway (QNS&L), that links our Labrador operations to Company-owned port facilities in Sept-Iles.

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers - generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium - the world's first to be certified "responsible" - helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Every Voice Matters

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. 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 anything else that makes us different.

Application Deadline

Applications close on October 01, 2023.

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

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