Chief Specialist Asset Reliability

About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability, to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role is critical for maximizing asset performance, availability, and lifecycle value across the organization. The Chief Specialist will provide enterprise leadership for asset reliability, integrating operational priorities, maintenance strategies, asset health insights, and technology capabilities across various business units and sites.

Role Purpose and Impact

The primary purpose of this role is to transition reliability decisions from reactive interventions to proactive, predictive, and risk-based approaches. The Chief Specialist will translate reliability and maintenance challenges into scalable business and technology solutions designed to enhance equipment performance, minimize avoidable disruptions, and optimize the total cost of ownership. As the enterprise domain authority, this position ensures that reliability outcomes, decision logic, and technology priorities are aligned across all assets, focusing initiatives on high-value opportunities that can be effectively scaled throughout Maaden.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape enterprise asset reliability priorities, KPIs, and value outcomes to enhance asset performance and lifecycle value across business units.
• Establish consistent reliability and maintenance decision principles, directing investment and intervention towards high-value asset risks and opportunities.
• Provide technical authority on asset reliability, influencing strategies, priorities, and solutions among operational and technology stakeholders.
• Translate asset performance, maintenance, and cost challenges into clear improvement opportunities with measurable value hypotheses.
• Enable proactive, predictive, and risk-based maintenance decisions to improve reliability, maintainability, availability, and total cost of ownership.
• Utilize asset performance insights to identify recurring reliability constraints and focus improvement initiatives on sustainable performance.
• Shape end-to-end solutions that integrate asset health monitoring, diagnostics, maintenance planning, and operational execution.
• Establish closed-loop approaches that leverage asset performance and maintenance outcomes for continuous improvement of reliability decisions.
• Ensure reliability solutions are scalable, interoperable, and aligned with operational requirements and enterprise technology direction.
• Align Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain stakeholders on asset criticality, reliability priorities, and performance outcomes.
• Partner with analytics, AI, monitoring, and digital teams to translate reliability needs into deployable technology solutions.
• Integrate reliability initiatives and technical designs to minimize fragmentation, strengthen reuse, and accelerate enterprise adoption.
• Advance enterprise reliability practices by applying proven methods, technology, and data-driven approaches to priority asset challenges.
• Build reliability capability through technical guidance, knowledge transfer, and the adoption of consistent practices across relevant teams.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in asset reliability or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and implement enterprise-wide reliability strategies.
• Strong technical knowledge in asset health monitoring, diagnostics, and maintenance planning.
• Experience in integrating technology solutions for reliability improvements.

Success Metrics

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Consistent definition and application of asset reliability priorities, KPIs, and value outcomes across business units and assets.
• Improvement in asset reliability, availability, and maintainability through targeted, data-driven interventions.
• Increased use of proactive, predictive, and risk-based insights in maintenance decisions.
• Contribution of reliability improvements to lower avoidable disruption and optimized total cost of ownership.
• Effective closed-loop decision-making across asset health, maintenance planning, and operational execution.
• Scalability of reliability solutions and technology investments, aligned with business priorities and delivering measurable operational value.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a dynamic environment focused on maximizing asset performance and operational efficiency.