Chief Specialist Asset Reliability

About Maaden

Maaden, established in 1997, is one of the largest multi-commodity mining and metals companies in the Middle East. The company is focused on developing the mining industry to become a key pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy by building an integrated mining value chain. This role contributes to Maaden's growth and its objectives within the mining sector in Riyadh.

Role Summary

The Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability, strengthens Maaden’s capacity to optimize asset performance, availability, and lifecycle value. This role provides enterprise leadership for asset reliability, integrating operational priorities, maintenance strategies, asset health insights, and technology capabilities across business units and sites. The position aims to shift reliability decisions from reactive interventions to proactive, predictive, and risk-based approaches, translating challenges into scalable business and technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape enterprise asset reliability priorities, KPIs, and value outcomes to enhance asset performance and lifecycle value across business units.
• Establish consistent reliability and maintenance decision principles, focusing investment on high-value asset risks and opportunities.
• Provide technical authority on asset reliability, influencing strategies and solutions among operational and technology stakeholders.
• Translate asset performance, maintenance, and cost challenges into improvement opportunities with measurable value hypotheses.
• Enable proactive, predictive, and risk-based maintenance decisions to improve reliability, maintainability, availability, and total cost of ownership.
• Use asset performance insights to identify recurring reliability constraints and focus improvement initiatives on sustainable performance.
• Shape end-to-end solutions that connect asset health monitoring, diagnostics, maintenance planning, and operational execution.
• Establish closed-loop approaches that use asset performance and maintenance outcomes to continuously improve reliability decisions.
• Ensure reliability solutions are scalable, interoperable, and aligned with operational requirements and enterprise technology direction.
• Align Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain stakeholders regarding asset criticality, reliability priorities, and performance outcomes.
• Partner with analytics, AI, monitoring, and digital teams to translate reliability needs into deployable technology solutions.
• Integrate reliability initiatives and technical designs to minimize fragmentation and accelerate enterprise adoption.
• Advance enterprise reliability practices by applying proven methods, technology, and data-driven approaches to priority asset challenges.
• Build reliability capability through technical guidance, knowledge transfer, and the adoption of consistent practices across relevant teams.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in asset reliability.

Success Metrics

Success in this role is measured by the consistent definition and application of asset reliability priorities, KPIs, and value outcomes across business units. This includes improvements in asset reliability, availability, and maintainability through data-driven interventions, and a shift towards proactive, predictive, and risk-based maintenance decisions. Contributions to lower avoidable disruption and optimized total cost of ownership are key, alongside effective closed-loop decision-making in asset health, maintenance planning, and operational execution. Scalable reliability solutions and technology investments that deliver measurable operational value are also indicators of success.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh.