Analyst, RBS Release Management (Contract)

Closing Date: January 31, 2025

Teck is a leading Canadian resource company focused on responsibly providing the metals essential for global development and the energy transition while caring for the people, communities and land that we love.

Teck's two regional business units, North America and Latin America, oversee Teck's assets through all phases of safe, sustainable development, operation and closure. The business units are supported by enterprise-wide functions that set strategic direction, establish standards and provide governance, as well as supporting the business through shared services, centers of excellence and business partnering.

Reporting to the Lead, RBS Releases, the Analyst is responsible for collaborating with Product, Platform and Practice Delivery Leads to coordinate and implement the release process across the company RBS program enabling the delivery of an ever-growing suite of capabilities and services. This outstanding individual is a driven, high performing teammate that can effectively communicate and work across many teams and develop effective relationships with Delivery Leads!

Don't miss out on this outstanding opportunity to be part of one of Canada's leading mining companies and join our team!

Responsibilities

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures

• Coordinate across Product, Platform, and Practice teams to implement the release process according to the Centralized Release Calendar

• Provide overarching management support to virtual cross-functional release teams to resolve dependency conflicts and ensure smooth delivery of releases

• Generate end-to-end release communications to both internal and external partners pre, during, and post release

• Perform release post-mortems and retrospectives to ensure successful release completion, learn from setbacks, and manage any post-release fixes

• Maintain and enhance the release process documentation repository

• Maintain an Environment Calendar and manage all environment activity

• Handle conflicts on environment matrix usage and availability

• Generate release deployment plan for review meetings, including definition and tracking of release achievements

• Understand the business and facilitate communication with other program/project managers and partners efficiently and effectively

• Direct, manage, and coordinate team members including other project managers, business and technology resources, user groups, consultants, contractors, and vendors

• Ensure alignment between values and behaviors that fosters diversity and inclusion

• Regularly connect work to Teck purpose, set aspirational goals, define expected outcomes, and ensure clear accountability

• Assess any cross impacts with multi-platform application and vendor changes

• Understand any interdependencies and potential conflicts between squads and releases

• Identify release risks/issues and establish mitigation plans to resolve identified items

• Ensure submission and approval of Change Requests for Change Authorization Board (CAB) meeting from all teams involved in a release

• Prepare release fallback approach and ensure approach is certified by QA

• Monitor release key performance indicators and provide status updates to Lead, RBS Releases

• Function as a gate keeper to ensure all Production changes follow release and change governance

• Continuously look for improvements in release and change process

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in Release Management with deep understanding of the DevOps software release cycle

• Demonstrated excellent leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to coordinate across multiple teams to ensure release plans are completed safely, on time, and on schedule

• Project management experience

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in driving appropriate and timely partner management

• Demonstrate a high level of motivation, be detailed oriented, quick to learn, and the ability to implement with high quality and minimal supervision

• Can learn from failure and tenaciously seek improvement in all areas of the release process

• Excellent Analytical and critical thinking skills

• Collaboration & team skills; with a focus on cross-group collaboration

• Data driven decision making

Why Join Us? 

At Teck, we offer more than just a job – we provide a pathway to personal and professional enrichment. With captivating projects set against stunning backdrops, a culture of inclusivity and collaboration, and boundless opportunities to learn and grow, joining us means embracing a fulfilling and dynamic career adventure. 

As a contractor, you’ll add your expertise and work alongside experienced professionals on projects that challenge and inspire. We’re dedicated to fostering your growth through coaching, training, and a commitment to safety. Your contributions will make a difference, not just in your career, but in our ongoing success. Teck offers a wide array of permanent career opportunities and your role as a contractor can be a stepping stone to exploring different positions within our organization. We’re committed to helping you chart a dynamic and rewarding career path.  

The actual wage rate offered is determined based on the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, and competencies and considers internal equity. 

About Teck 

At Teck, we value diversity. Our teams work collaboratively and respect each person’s unique perspective and contribution. 

Teck is one of Canada's leading mining companies, focused on providing products that are essential to building a better quality of life for people around the globe. Our commitment to our people is why Teck has been named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for seven consecutive years, listed as one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People and named to the 2024 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. The pursuit of sustainability guides Teck's approach to business and we are proud to be recognized as one of the 2024 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations by Corporate Knights. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, its shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbols TECK.A and TECK.B and the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TECK. 

Learn more about Teck at www.teck.com or follow @TeckResources.

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for the position; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.