Chief Specialist Acceleration Asset Ramp up

About Ma'aden and the Role

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is a multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is focused on developing the mining industry to support Saudi Arabia’s economy by building an integrated mining value chain. This full-time role for a Chief Specialist – Acceleration Asset Ramp-up is based in Riyadh and requires over 10 years of experience.

Purpose of the Role

The Chief Specialist – Acceleration Asset Ramp-up is responsible for expediting the transition of mining and processing assets to stable, productive operations. This involves integrating technology, operational expertise, and data analytics to address constraints that hinder commissioning, stabilization, and early operational performance. The role focuses on identifying high-impact opportunities across throughput, recovery, uptime, cost, and production readiness, and translating them into practical interventions to accelerate performance improvement. It also provides an enterprise perspective to ensure successful approaches are scalable and reusable across different operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and embed an enterprise approach to asset ramp-up, aiming to shorten the path from commissioning to stable operations across mining and processing assets.
• Identify and activate critical levers for throughput, recovery, uptime, cost, and readiness 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 based on 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 enhance 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.
• 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

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience.

Indicators of Success

• 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 Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.