Chief Specialist Smart & efficient manager and Productive & Safe Worker

About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Chief Specialist, Smart & Efficient Manager and Productive & Safe Worker to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is central to enhancing how technology supports Ma’aden’s managers and frontline workforce, enabling more effective decision-making and safer operations. The position requires over 10 years of experience and involves providing enterprise technical leadership across two interconnected domains.

Role Purpose and Impact

The Chief Specialist translates workforce and operational challenges into scalable technology-enabled solutions. This involves simplifying work processes, reducing inefficiencies, and improving access to timely information. The role leverages digital, automation, and data capabilities to strengthen workforce productivity and safety, ensuring solutions address business needs and integrate into daily operations. As an enterprise domain authority, this position aligns Operations, HSE, HR, Engineering, and Technology teams to achieve shared outcomes, enhancing workforce effectiveness while maintaining safety and operational discipline.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape enterprise strategies and roadmaps for Smart & Efficient Manager and Productive & Safe Worker domains, aligning with operational priorities and Technology & Innovation objectives.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to simplify work, remove process inefficiencies, and improve manager and frontline workforce effectiveness.
• Establish clear value drivers and performance measures connecting technology-enabled interventions to productivity, efficiency, and workforce outcomes.
• Embed safety and risk considerations into the design of workforce technology and operational improvement initiatives.
• Enable technology solutions that strengthen safe work practices, workforce awareness, and risk-based decision-making.
• Integrate productivity and safety requirements to ensure efficiency improvements reinforce safe operations.
• Translate manager and frontline workforce needs into integrated solutions spanning people, process, data, and technology.
• Shape scalable solutions using digital, automation, analytics, and AI capabilities to improve decisions and execution.
• Ensure solutions are practical for operational environments and designed for effective adoption, integration, and scale.
• Utilize workforce, operational, and safety insights to identify performance gaps and prioritize high-value improvement opportunities.
• Establish outcome measures, dashboards, and value-tracking approaches to demonstrate the impact of interventions.
• Use performance evidence and user feedback to refine initiatives, improve adoption, and strengthen sustained value realization.
• Align Operations, HSE, HR, Engineering, and Technology stakeholders around shared priorities, solution requirements, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide enterprise technical guidance on workforce productivity, manager effectiveness, and technology-enabled safe work.
• Build organizational capability through knowledge transfer, reusable solutions, and adoption of proven practices across appropriate operations.

Desired Outcomes

• Managers and frontline workers spend less time on inefficient activities and more time on value-adding work.
• Technology-enabled interventions deliver measurable improvements in workforce productivity, operational efficiency, or decision effectiveness.
• Workforce solutions strengthen safe work and risk awareness while meeting operational requirements.
• High-value solutions achieve sustained adoption and can be replicated or scaled across applicable operations.
• Managers and frontline teams have improved access to relevant information and insights for timely decision-making.
• Business, HSE, HR, and Technology stakeholders align around common workforce outcomes, priorities, and value measures.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required for this role.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves collaboration with various enterprise teams including Operations, HSE, HR, Engineering, and Technology.