Darryl Decker
Labrador City
Summary
An experienced and passionate leader who is results-driven. A management professional with a proven ability to lead teams to success. My focus on strategic initiatives, team collaboration, operational efficiency and achieving measurable outcomes has been key to my teams achievements. I am well known for my effective employee motivational strategies and removing silos.
Throughout my career, my passion for onboarding teams to build best practice operations through continuous improvement, my experience in industrial regulatory stakeholder engagement and operational leadership roles have consistently delivered results tailored to our organizational needs
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager - Energy & Loadout
Iron Ore Company of Canada
01.2020 - Current
- Strategic Focus: relationship building and stakeholder engagement with Government NL Regulatory Services as the owner of multiple Government NL pressure regulated facilities and Power of Authority assignment.
- NL Hydro Account owner - supporting study work for additional power capacity in Lab West. Leading maintenance and outage collaboration and forecasting power demand based on production targets ($65M annually budget)
- Sponsored IOC's largest GHG reduction project (>5KT Co2 reduction) with a 40WM Electric Arc boiler delivering ~$7.5M/annum in fuel savings.
- Delivery of multiple life cycle improvement projects that transformed our operations: Championed >10+ energy efficiency projects driving operational effectiveness (IOC's Energy Dashboard recognized as Best Practice), a significant increase in car factor delivered additional rail capacity, reduction ($$$) of rental HME by >50%, implementation of Work Management processes and reduction in MTBF for fossil fuel boilers
- Pillar Lead and Auditor for Safety Maturity Model (SMM). Prioritizing SMM embedding within Energy & Loadout enabled our team to achieve and sustain an AIFR 0.0 over the last 30 months
Superintendent Operations - Pellet Plant
Iron Ore Company of Canada
02.2017 - 01.2020
- Accountable for the performance of 130+ front line work force and ~14 staff members providing leadership to reach a common goal while maintaining a +$220M annual budget.
- Lead Operational and Mechanical teams through implementation of Work Management processes. Delivering robust maintenance schedules with thorough work ID and stakeholder engagement resulted in reduced downtime and increased productivity.
- Led continuous improvement initiatives with multiple stakeholder teams (warehousing, Operational Center, procurement, project engineering, etc) resulting in enhanced operational excellence and cost savings.
- Selected as Team lead for CRM Task Force implementation and lead implementation of PMC shift start in Pellet Plant
- Successfully facilitated onboarding of first Control Room Operators transitioning to our Operations Center functions
Shutdown Coordinator - Pellet Plant
Iron Ore Company of Canada
06.2016 - 02.2017
- Utilize Shutdown Management frame work to successfully build and execute plans for critical plant outages in the Pellet Plant.
- Lighthouse team selected for initial onbaording of RT Shutdown management process at IOC as well as amalgamate Shutdown management process and capital investment projects.
- Key focus to reduce outage downtime through rigorous planning and supporting the execution throughout the process.
- Prepared accurate reports on the progress of scheduled work, contributing to better decision-making processes during the shutdown period.
- Evaluated vendor performance during contract negotiations to ensure that qualified contractors were selected for specific tasks.
- engagement with stakeholders key to shutdown process, including engineering, procurement, quality control, safety personnel to streamline operations during aasset shut down.
Maintenance Shift Superintendent - Pellet Plant
Iron Ore Company of Canada
05.2015 - 06.2016
- Pellet Plant Maintenance department lead.
- As a Maintenance Superintendent, main objective was mentoring staff workforce so they could deliver clear, effective leadership for safe and efficient work direction of 85+ unionized personnel in a fixed equipment environment.
- Reduced equipment downtime by establishing a proactive maintenance program for all machinery.
- Streamlined processes for increased productivity, identifying areas of improvement and implementing solution such as kitting and staging
- Co-managed an $80 million dollars MTCE budget within the Pellet Plant.
- Prioritize and scheduling of all Maintenance resources. Including day-day and extended outages.
Education
Diploma - Electrical Engineering Technologist
Nova Scotia Institute of Technology
Halifax, NS08-2004
BA Degree - Major in History - Minor in Business
Dalhousie University
Halifax, None06-2002
Skills
- Rio Tinto Impeccable ESG Rockstar Award 2025 Recipient
- Experienced Safety Maturity Model (SMM) auditor with passion for invoking maturity uplift
- Dedicated to fostering collaboration from leaders to frontline teams and breaking down silos
- Progressive leadership development as a customer, client and partnership
- Proficient in verbal/written English and French
- Continuous education: Masters Certificate in Project Management and Professional Coach assigned
Languages
English
French
Timeline
Manager - Energy & Loadout
Iron Ore Company of Canada
01.2020 - Current
Superintendent Operations - Pellet Plant
Iron Ore Company of Canada
02.2017 - 01.2020
Shutdown Coordinator - Pellet Plant
Iron Ore Company of Canada
06.2016 - 02.2017
Maintenance Shift Superintendent - Pellet Plant
Iron Ore Company of Canada
05.2015 - 06.2016
Diploma - Electrical Engineering Technologist
Nova Scotia Institute of Technology
BA Degree - Major in History - Minor in Business
Dalhousie University
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