Senior Specialist Full Potential Identification

About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Senior Specialist, Full Potential Identification to join its team in Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is central to identifying, validating, and accelerating performance improvement opportunities across Maaden’s assets, contributing to operational value creation. The position requires 5-10 years of relevant experience.

Role Purpose and Impact

The Senior Specialist will enable business units to achieve their full potential through structured diagnostics, value-based prioritization, and data-driven performance optimization. This involves improving throughput, reliability, recovery, cost efficiency, energy performance, safety outcomes, and sustainability performance. The role ensures that identified improvement opportunities translate into measurable business impact and sustained value realization, supporting Ma’aden’s operational excellence agenda and technology-enabled mining ambitions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead operational diagnostics to identify high-value opportunities across production, reliability, cost, recovery, energy, safety, and operational performance.
• Quantify improvement potential through data-driven analysis, benchmarking, and structured assessment methodologies.
• Develop robust value cases to support prioritization and informed decision-making.
• Drive measurable business outcomes by monitoring improvement initiatives and value realization plans.
• Identify risks, performance gaps, and value leakage factors, implementing corrective actions to maximize benefits.
• Strengthen accountability for delivery through transparent performance tracking and reporting mechanisms.
• Leverage operational data, performance indicators, and analytical insights to identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities.
• Translate operational challenges into practical process, technology, automation, and digital improvement initiatives.
• Improve decision quality through fact-based insights and performance intelligence.
• Facilitate collaboration between operations, maintenance, finance, technical, digital, and data teams to accelerate improvement outcomes.
• Coach teams on performance management, continuous improvement, root cause analysis, and value tracking practices.
• Build ownership and accountability to sustain improvements and replicate successful practices across assets.
• Maintain visibility of opportunity pipelines, implementation progress, realized value, risks, and lessons learned.
• Enhance methodologies, maturity assessment frameworks, KPI standards, and value realization processes.
• Strengthen governance mechanisms to improve consistency, transparency, and effectiveness of improvement initiatives.

Indicators of Success

• Significant improvement opportunities are identified, quantified, and converted into actionable initiatives.
• Approved initiatives consistently deliver measurable operational and financial value.
• Throughput, recovery, reliability, energy efficiency, and cost performance improve across supported operations.
• Performance improvement programs demonstrate sustained value realization and reduced benefit leakage.
• Site teams adopt stronger performance management and continuous improvement practices.
• Data-driven decision-making becomes embedded within operational and improvement activities.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Demonstrated operational expertise and analytical insight.
• Proficiency in continuous improvement methodologies.

Application Information

This is a full-time position with Maaden in Saudi Arabia. Salary details will be discussed during the recruitment process.