Principal Advisor, Operational Technology - Servers, Systems and Networks

• REFERENCE:
  HR0225091
• CONTRACT:
  Full-time
• PRIMARY LOCATION:
  Montréal, Quebec, Canada
• DATE POSTED:
  29 Nov 2013

Rio Tinto is a leading international mining group headquartered in the UK. Rio Tinto'sbusiness is finding, mining and processing mineral resources. Major products are aluminium, copper, diamonds, energy (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc) and iron ore. Activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and Southern Africa.

Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) is the global leader in the aluminium business and one of five product groups operated by Rio Tinto Group, a leading international mining group, combining Rio Tinto plc, a London listed public company headquartered in the UK, and Rio Tinto Limited, which is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The two companies are joined in a dual listed companies (DLC) structure as a single economic entity, called the Rio Tinto Group.

 

RTA operations are divided into three (3) business units – Bauxite & Alumina, Primary Metal and Commercial – and four (4) functions: Finance, Human Resources & Health, Safety and Environment, Business Development and Technology.  RTA is a global supplier of bauxite, alumina and primary aluminium, with an annual production of 31.4 million tonnes of bauxite, 7.0 million tonnes of alumina and 2.2 million tonnes of aluminium (2012 ).

 

RTA posted revenue of US$10.1 billion and total net operating assets of US$20 billion (2012, including JVs). RTA has over 16 500 employees (prorated to share base ownership in JVs) and is active on 5 continents and in 27 countries (including R&D, Technology sales, equipment sales and other offices), with a significant presence in Australia, Canada and France.  Rio Tinto Alcan’s global headquarters is in Montreal, Canada.

 

RTA is currently in its second stage transformation of the business following the acquisition by Rio Tinto in October 2007, leveraging portfolio management, business improvement as well as modernization and growth in order to drive most assets into first and second quartile, with a clear path towards delivering a minimum of US$1 Billion of incremental EBITDA and 40% EBITDA margin by 2015.

 

Our Primary Metal business unit consists of smelters that use alumina to produce aluminium. We own, operate or have interests in 17 aluminium smelters (including 7 non-managed joint ventures) and 6 power generating plants. Our portfolio of joint ventures, with varying business models and structures, is located in Canada, Sweden, Cameroon, Norway, UK, and Oman.  Total combined sales of approximately US$1 billion and combined net assets of approximately US$1.5 billion. 

 

Primary Purpose

The Principal Advisor – Servers, Systems and Networks is primarily responsible for managing the overall demand, strategy, asset lifecycle planning, risk management and benefits realisation for RTA’s portfolio of site based site based servers, systems and networks (e.g. site computer rooms, servers, LANs) across RTA’s 20 operating sites.

This role will also support GBS IS&T in managing RTA demand, providing input into GBS IS&T strategy and managing the ongoing embedding and benefits realisation strategy for corporate equivalents of servers, systems and networks (e.g. global data centres, virtualisation, wide area networks etc…)

Without this role:                                                                                 

• RTA’s ability to take advantage of leading, fit for purpose technology would be hindered
• Technology investment decisions would be done ad-hoc across RTA sites resulting in an increase to overall total cost of ownership
• RTA would have no “voice of customer” representing it in shared service technology decisions to ensure shared services were fit for purpose for RTA

VP IS&T would be pulled into manager level work on detailed technology discussions

 

Role Accountabilities

• Manage the overall (global) RTA Demand, Strategy, Asset Lifecycle and Risk Planning for RTA’s Operational IS&T Technology (Site/Production focused) in the Servers, Systems and Networks domains through continuous engagement and planning with site organisational and thought leaders and their IS&T representatives and suppliers
• Act as RTA’s “Voice of the customer” to GBS IS&T Plan/Build/Operate for corporate equivalents of Operational IS&T Technologies in the Servers, Systems and Networks domain
• Optimise proposed solutions based on global and local best fit and needs basis by working with IS&T delivery and support stakeholders

Key activities to achieve these objectives include:

 

·         Engage with BU, site and IS&T leadership to understand priorities and top-down/operations demand

·         Gather and manage overall (global) IS&T demand across all RTA sites and BU’s (regardless of end system)

·         Influence and validate the GBS IS&T Strategy based on RTA demand

·         Create and drive the strategy for non-GBS IS&T related demand (in close collaboration with GBS IS&T)

·         Develop plans, roadmaps and budgets for achieving the strategy and demand

·         Manage, optimise and track RTA’s IS&T investment portfolio (with the business)

·         Participate in solution design discussions as the overall RTA “voice of the customer”

·         Participate in GBS IS&T project delivery and assurance as the RTA “voice of the customer”

·         Drive the support, embedding and training strategy to extract the most value from IS&T investments

·         Influence and validate the GBS IS&T continuous improvement pipeline based on RTA demand

 

Technical Compentencies & Skills

Business and domain knowledge

•      RT and RTA Function Stakeholders and processes: RTA PG portfolio of business, RT support model, IS&T and RTP stakeholders etc.

•      RT and RTA Function Strategy, priorities and capability gaps

•      RT and RTA Technology maturity models and benchmarks

•      RT and RTA internal decision making processes (e.g. ACRA, RTP, capital planning)

•      Key business capabilities that can be transformed via use of technology

IS&T environment knowledge (for Servers, Systems and Networks domain)

•      IS&T existing assets base and service catalogue for RTA functions: Including functionality and usage, business “fit”, IS&T support model and risk

•      Existing IS&T demand, continuous improvement pipeline and projects portfolio  for RTA functions (GBS and RTA)

•      GBS and RTA IS&T solution strategies and roadmaps

•      Industry market leaders and solution directions

•      RTA IS&T related risks and risk management processes

•      Good understanding a wide range of IS&T Technology domains (e.g. Networking, Storage, Communications etc…) and their usage at operating sites

 

 

Education & Qualifications

College/University Education: Bachelor degree in a relevant discipline (minimum)

 

Location : to be negotiate 

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