Chief Specialist Accelerating asset ramp up

About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Chief Specialist – Acceleration Asset Ramp-up to join their team in Riyadh, Riyadh. This full-time role focuses on accelerating the transition of mining and processing assets to stable, productive operations. The specialist will integrate technology, operational expertise, data, and analytics to address constraints that hinder commissioning, stabilization, and early operational performance.

Role Purpose and Value Creation

The Chief Specialist identifies high-impact opportunities across throughput, recovery, uptime, cost, and production readiness. The role translates these opportunities into practical interventions that accelerate performance improvement. It provides an enterprise perspective, enabling the reuse of successful approaches across various assets rather than independent problem-solving at each operation. This position strengthens the transition from commissioning to reliable operations and embeds repeatable methods for 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.

Qualifications and Experience

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

Performance Indicators

• Reduced time from commissioning to stable and targeted operating performance.
• Improved throughput, recovery, uptime, and asset utilization during ramp-up.
• 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.

Application Process

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply for this full-time position in Riyadh.