Your Newpany Our client is a global miningpany dedicated to safely producing nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum group metalscritical resources powering the worlds 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, lifesaving medical equipment, and electric vehicles advancing climatechange 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 longterm prosperity and sustainable developmentmaking this an opportunity to contribute to work that truly matters.

Your New Role We are seeking a Technical Leader Lean, Continuous Improvement (CI) & ITernance to join our Information Technology organization, based in Toronto/Sudbury, ON.

This is a permanent position with an enterprisewide scope, focused on enabling wellerned, efficient, and continuously improving ways of working across IT.

This role operates crossfunctionally, influencing delivery, operations, architecture, andernance practices without direct people leadership.

It is ideal for a senior practitioner who thrives at the intersection of Lean thinking, operational excellence, and IT delivery discipline.

You will report to the Head ofernance and Architecture and collaborate closely with architecture leaders, IT finance, vendor management, and delivery teams across the organization.

About You: You are a Lean and Continuous Improvement leader with a deep understanding of how workflows through modern IT organizations.

You see beyond individual teams and tools, focusing instead on value streams, system-level bottlenecks, and sustainable improvement.





You arefortable challenging legacy practices, coaching senior leaders, and introducing structured problemsolving approacheswhile maintaining a pragmatic, businessfocused mindset.

You balanceernance and guardrails with speed, innovation, and autonomy.

In This Role, You Will Lean & Continuous Improvement Lead value stream mapping and analysis across the IT delivery lifecycle, from ideation to production Identify and remove bottlenecks, delays, rework, and systemic inefficiencies impacting flow and business value.

Drive reduction of waste and technical debt, including redundant processes and manual hand-offs Embedding a sustainable Kaizen culture, ensuring retrospectives and postincident reviews result in tangible improvements.

Champion an automationfirst mindset to improve reliability, reduce risk, and free teams to focus on highervalue work Act as a mentor and role model for Lean thinking, root cause analysis, and problemsolving across IT Process Design & Optimization Define the rules of the road for how engineering teams, IT operations, andernance functions interact Design and simplify endtoend IT processes across build, operate, and manage layers.

Balance standardization with flexibility to support diverse delivery models and operational contexts ITernance Establish and maintainernance guardrails that ensurepliance, auditability,



and risk management Enable teams to remainpliant without slowing innovation or delivery Support consistent application of standards, practices, and controls across IT Contribute to cost awareness, benefits realization, and valuebased decisionmaking Experience & Education: 1115 years of experience in IT delivery, operations, continuous improvement, orernance roles Solid experience applying Lean, CI, and systems thinking in knowledgework or technology environments Proven ability to work across large,plex enterprise IT organizations Experience influencing oues across teams and senior leaders without direct reporting lines Undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field College Diploma considered with equivalent experience Certifications

Mandatory Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt, or equivalent enterprise continuous improvement training Preferred Additional training in Agile, Dev

Ops, ITSM, or operational excellence frameworks Skills: Advanced problemsolving and root cause analysis skills Strong understanding of flow efficiency, demand vs. capacity, and bottleneck management Ability to analyze and optimize endtoend IT value streams Strong coaching, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills A clearmunicator able to articulate CI insights, tradeoffs, and rmendations to senior leaders.

Costaware mindset with experience building business cases and benefits evaluations Fluency in English; Portuguese, French, or Spanish is an asset.

What We Offer You Participation in apetitive Defined Contribution Pension package Leave for all of lifes 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

📌 Technical Leader Lean, CI and Governance (Toronto)
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