Chief Specialist Accelerating asset ramp up

About the Role

Ma’aden is seeking a Chief Specialist, Accelerating asset ramp-up, to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role focuses on enhancing the speed and efficiency with which mining and processing assets achieve stable, productive operation. The specialist will integrate technology, operational expertise, data, and analytics to resolve constraints that hinder commissioning, stabilization, and early operational performance.

Role Purpose and Impact

The primary purpose of this role is to identify high-impact opportunities across throughput, recovery, uptime, cost, and production readiness. The Chief Specialist will translate these opportunities into practical interventions that accelerate performance improvement. This position provides an enterprise-wide perspective, facilitating the reuse of successful approaches across various operations and strengthening the transition from commissioning to reliable operations for current and future asset ramp-ups.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and embed an enterprise approach to asset ramp-up, shortening the path from commissioning to stable operations across mining and processing assets.
• Identify and activate critical throughput, recovery, uptime, cost, and readiness levers to accelerate early-stage asset performance.
• Diagnose systemic ramp-up constraints and enable focused interventions to address root causes and protect production value.
• Translate ramp-up opportunities into measurable value hypotheses, performance targets, and interventions with clear ownership and benefit tracking.
• Drive sustained improvements in ramp-up speed, asset utilization, and operational readiness through fact-based performance management.
• Provide actionable insights to enable leadership to prioritize interventions and investments against areas of greatest operational value.
• Accelerate the application of advanced analytics, digital twins, and predictive capabilities to improve commissioning, stabilization, and ramp-up decisions.
• Embed relevant digital capabilities into operational workflows to strengthen real-time visibility, decision quality, and performance management.
• Enable repeatable ramp-up use cases to scale across assets in partnership with technology, data, and solution teams.
• Orchestrate alignment across Operations, Technology & Innovation, Data & AI, projects, and commissioning stakeholders to resolve cross-functional dependencies and barriers.
• Establish consistent governance, performance measures, and executive-level visibility across priority ramp-up initiatives.
• Strengthen the transition between project, commissioning, and operational teams through clear performance expectations and integrated execution.
• Develop and embed scalable ramp-up playbooks, tools, and practices appropriate to different asset classes and operating environments.
• Convert lessons from asset ramp-ups into reusable organizational knowledge to improve subsequent commissioning and stabilization.
• Build organizational capability through technical coaching, knowledge transfer, and adoption of proven ramp-up practices.

Required Experience and Outcomes

Candidates for this role should possess over 10 years of relevant experience. The successful candidate will be instrumental in achieving the following outcomes:

• Reduced time from commissioning to stable and targeted operating performance.
• Improved throughput, recovery, uptime, and asset utilization during ramp-up phases.
• Measurable value realized from prioritized digital, analytics, and operational interventions.
• Reduced recurrence of ramp-up constraints through effective root-cause resolution and reuse of lessons learned.
• Increased adoption of standardized ramp-up methods, playbooks, and proven use cases across applicable assets.
• Stronger visibility of ramp-up performance, risks, and value realization to enable faster management decisions.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, focusing on cross-functional collaboration with Operations, Technology & Innovation, Data & AI, and project stakeholders to drive performance improvements across Ma’aden's assets.