Chief Specialist Acceleration Asset Ramp up

About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is recognized as one of the fastest-growing mining companies globally and the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company plays a key role in developing the mining industry to become the third pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy, building a world-class, integrated mining value chain. This full-time role is based in Riyadh.

Role Overview: Chief Specialist – Acceleration Asset Ramp-up

The Chief Specialist – Acceleration Asset Ramp-up is responsible for expediting the transition of Ma’aden's mining and processing assets to stable, productive operations. This role integrates technology, operational expertise, data, and analytics to address constraints that hinder commissioning, stabilization, and early operational performance. It focuses on identifying high-impact opportunities across throughput, recovery, uptime, cost, and production readiness, translating them into practical interventions to accelerate performance improvement. The role provides an enterprise-wide perspective, enabling the reuse of successful approaches across different operations and strengthening the transition from commissioning to reliable operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement 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 facilitate targeted 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 leadership for prioritizing 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 collaboration 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 for 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 suitable for various asset classes and operating environments.
• Convert lessons learned from asset ramp-ups into reusable organizational knowledge to improve subsequent commissioning and stabilization.
• Build organizational capability through technical coaching, knowledge transfer, and the adoption of proven ramp-up practices.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required.

Measures 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 the 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, Saudi Arabia.