IT Specialist - Health & Safety and Enterprise Risk Management (HSER)

Vale • Toronto, ON

5d • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a business‑oriented IT Specialist - Health & Safety and Enterprise Risk Management (HSER) professional to join our Information Technology organization in Toronto, ON supporting Vale Base Metals’ global operations. This role acts as a strategic business partner to Health & Safety and ERM functions, ensuring that HSER objectives are effectively supported and enabled through enterprise systems, digital solutions, and well‑aligned technology investments. The position serves as the primary interface between HSER stakeholders and the Technology organization, translating business needs into structured, scalable, and sustainable system capabilities. The role focuses on strengthening HSER processes through technology by aligning business priorities, governance requirements, and long‑term transformation objectives. This is not a traditional IT delivery role, but a business partnership role focused on shaping demand, guiding technology investment decisions, and ensuring IT initiatives deliver measurable business value. This opportunity is well suited for a professional who understands HSER processes end‑to‑end, operates effectively in complex and evolving environments, and recognizes how enterprise technologies enable compliance, risk visibility, operational excellence, and informed decision‑making across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or related fields.
• Strong knowledge of Health & Safety (H&S) and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) frameworks, processes, and governance models, including: SSMA Direction and Governance, Safe Operations Execution, Monitoring, Inspections, and Audits, Risk Context Definition and Risk Appetite, Risk Treatment, Monitoring, and Mitigation.
• Solid experience in understanding integrated business processes and corporate systems, particularly within digital transformation environments.
• Experience working with enterprise platforms such as ERP and management systems (e.g., SAP, Enablon), acting as an effective liaison between business stakeholders and IT teams.
• Proven experience in understanding, managing, and improving end‑to‑end HSER‑related business processes in complex and changing corporate environments.
• Strong communication skills, strategic thinking, business acumen, and sound judgment, including the ability to facilitate difficult discussions on constraints, priorities, and trade‑offs.
• Advanced English proficiency, with experience engaging global, cross‑functional stakeholder groups.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or postgraduate education in Risk Management, Health & Safety, Engineering, or related fields.
• Direct experience working with Business Process Owners (BPOs) and senior leadership.
• Experience in global or multicultural environments, with frequent interaction between corporate and operational teams.
• Prior experience in Health & Safety and/or Enterprise Risk Management domains.
• Knowledge of agile practices, incremental planning, and MVP‑oriented delivery approaches.
• Experience with demand, portfolio, budget, or Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) tools, serving as a focal point between business and IT.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a strategic business partner to Health & Safety and ERM functions, ensuring that HSER objectives are effectively supported and enabled through enterprise systems, digital solutions, and well‑aligned technology investments.
• Serves as the primary interface between HSER stakeholders and the Technology organization, translating business needs into structured, scalable, and sustainable system capabilities.
• Strengthens HSER processes through technology by aligning business priorities, governance requirements, and long‑term transformation objectives.
• Shapes demand, guides technology investment decisions, and ensures IT initiatives deliver measurable business value.
• Operates effectively in complex and evolving environments, recognizing how enterprise technologies enable compliance, risk visibility, operational excellence, and informed decision‑making.
• Supports Health & Safety and Enterprise Risk Management with a strong understanding of how enterprise systems and digital solutions support business processes, governance, and risk outcomes.
• Acts as a trusted partner to HSER stakeholders, representing end‑to‑end business interests while collaborating closely with IT and delivery teams.
• Shapes and maintains business‑aligned system roadmaps, ensuring initiatives are prioritized and sequenced in alignment with strategy, governance cycles, and delivery capacity.
• Translates HSER demands into structured initiatives, defining scope, dependencies, and priorities to support effective decision‑making.
• Supports budgeting, planning, and demand management processes, and ensures traceability between business needs, solution estimates, and realized value.
• Navigates constraints, trade‑offs, and dependencies while promoting shared accountability between business and technology teams.
• Acts as a reliable bridge between HSER functions and IT delivery teams, enabling clear communication, consistent system usage, and predictable engagement with Business Process Owners (BPOs).
• Contributes to workshops, governance forums, and roadmap reviews, preparing clear and structured materials that support discussions at multiple leadership levels.
• Identifies, maps, and communicates risks, dependencies, and critical impacts across HSER initiatives.
• Works in a collaborative, execution‑oriented manner, motivated by practical outcomes, scalability, and continuous improvement.
• Delivers sustainable solutions that strengthen health, safety, and enterprise risk awareness across the organization.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including a variable annual incentive plan
• Participation in a competitive Defined Contribution Pension package
• Comprehensive benefits package (company paid core coverage, health and dental coverage, flex accounts, disability plans, and optional insurances)
• Leave for all of life’s 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level