Location: Vancouver
Employment Type: Contractor
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Recruiter: Simon Dean

About our Vancouver Office

Located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, between the Pacific Ocean and the Coast Mountains, Teck’s Corporate Office sits in one of Canada’s most culturally diverse cities. 

Surrounded by world-renowned nature and globally inspired cuisine, the office brings together many of Teck’s corporate functions - all working toward Teck’s purpose of providing the essential resources the world relies on.

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, centres of excellence and business partnering.

Reporting to the Director, Strategy, Planning and Performance the Program Manager, Technology Transformation is responsible for establishing a transformation to standardize our core operational processes, and simplify our technology landscape.

Technology Transformation is a multi-year strategy to evolve our technology operating model to support Teck’s Growth strategy. Teck has the potential to develop 10 new mining operations in the next decade. This program ensures we have a scalable organization to operate in a cost effective, consistent and scalable way.

The Program Manager, Technology Transformation role is multi-faceted requiring experience delivering multi-year, complex technology-based programs, orchestrating significant company change, interacting with senior executives, and leading a multi-year $20M+ budget.

Responsibilities:

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhering to and sponsoring safety and environmental policies and procedures as well as providing visible leadership to other areas aligned to Teck’s core values such as Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop and implement a comprehensive technology transformation roadmap aligned with the company's business goals.
• Program Management: Oversee the execution of technology projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Governance Structures: Define and implement governance structures, including steering committees and working groups, to oversee project progress and decision-making.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with senior leadership, department heads, and external partners to ensure on-going alignment for transformation initiatives.
• Change Management: Lead change management efforts to ensure smooth adoption of new technologies and processes across the organization.
• Risk and Issue Management: Identify, assess, and manage risks and issues that could impact the success of technology transformation projects. Develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
• Performance Monitoring: Establish metrics and KPIs to measure the success of technology transformation initiatives and report progress to stakeholders and other governance groups.
• Team Leadership: Lead and manage a large distributed team of internal and contract project and technology professionals.
• Financial management: including coordinating budgets, forecast and capital allocation processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in technology transformation, IT management, or a related role.
• Proven program delivery of greater than US$5M, experience in industrial environments considered an asset.
• Strong program & project management skills with a proven track record of delivering complex technology programs & projects.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships, and use influence and negotiation to drive alignment or resolve conflict.
• Ability to think critically, solving problems that may arise systematically at their root cause.
• Ability to apply successful partner, vendor management and governance strategies.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills at both technical and executive level.
• Experience with coordinating change management for significant organization change and leading cross-functional teams.

Why Teck

At Teck, your work matters—to the world, to our communities and to your future.
As a leading Canadian resource company, we focus on responsibly providing the metals essential for global development and the energy transition while caring for the people, communities and land that we love. We do this guided by our values that, together, form The Teck Way. At Teck, you’ll find purpose-driven work, a culture of respect and inclusion, and the opportunity to grow your career while helping build a better world.

Apply with us 

Take the next step in your career by applying for the Program Manager, Technology Transformation role. We review applications on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply, even if your background doesn’t match every requirement. We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, barrier-free hiring process. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

Requisition ID: 52509 | Job Category: Technology | Employment Type: Contractor | Location: Vancouver | Workplace Type: #LI - Hybrid