Chief Specialist Smart & Efficient Manager and Productive & Safe Worker

About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, the Saudi Arabian Mining Company, established in 1997, is a rapidly expanding multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is instrumental in developing Saudi Arabia's mining industry, aiming to establish it as a key economic pillar through a fully integrated mining value chain. This role contributes to Ma'aden's growth and the future of mining in the Kingdom.

Role Overview

The Chief Specialist, Smart & Efficient Manager and Productive & Safe Worker, is responsible for leveraging technology to enhance the effectiveness, decision-making, and safety of Ma'aden's managers and frontline workforce. This role provides enterprise technical leadership, translating operational and workforce challenges into scalable, technology-enabled solutions. The position focuses on simplifying work, reducing inefficiencies, improving access to information, and utilizing digital, automation, and data capabilities to strengthen workforce productivity and safety. It ensures that solutions integrate people, processes, technology, and operational requirements to address business needs and embed into daily operations. As an enterprise domain authority, this role aligns Operations, HSE, HR, Engineering, and Technology teams to achieve shared outcomes and accelerate solutions that improve workforce effectiveness while maintaining safety and operational discipline in Riyadh.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape enterprise strategies and roadmaps for Smart & Efficient Manager and Productive & Safe Worker domains, aligning with operational priorities and Technology & Innovation objectives.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to simplify work, eliminate process inefficiencies, and enhance manager and frontline workforce effectiveness.
• Establish clear value drivers and performance measures that link technology-enabled interventions to productivity, efficiency, and workforce outcomes.
• Embed safety and risk considerations into the design of workforce technology and operational improvement initiatives.
• Enable technology solutions that strengthen safe work practices, workforce awareness, and risk-based decision-making.
• Integrate productivity and safety requirements to ensure improvements in workforce efficiency reinforce safe operations.
• Translate manager and frontline workforce needs into integrated solutions spanning people, process, data, and technology.
• Shape scalable solutions using digital, automation, analytics, and AI capabilities to improve decisions and execution.
• Ensure solutions are practical for operational environments and designed for effective adoption, integration, and scale.
• Utilize workforce, operational, and safety insights to identify performance gaps and prioritize high-value improvement opportunities.
• Establish outcome measures, dashboards, and value-tracking approaches to demonstrate the impact of interventions.
• Use performance evidence and user feedback to refine initiatives, improve adoption, and strengthen sustained value realization.
• Align Operations, HSE, HR, Engineering, and Technology stakeholders around shared priorities, solution requirements, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide enterprise technical guidance on workforce productivity, manager effectiveness, and technology-enabled safe work.
• Build organizational capability through knowledge transfer, reusable solutions, and adoption of proven practices across operations.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required for this full-time position.

Success Factors

• Reduced time spent by managers and frontline workers on inefficient activities, increasing focus on value-adding work.
• Measurable improvements in workforce productivity, operational efficiency, or decision effectiveness through technology-enabled interventions.
• Workforce solutions that enhance safe work practices and risk awareness while meeting operational requirements.
• Sustained adoption and scalability of high-value solutions across applicable operations.
• Improved access to relevant information and insights for timely decision-making by managers and frontline teams.
• Alignment among Business, HSE, HR, and Technology stakeholders on common workforce outcomes, priorities, and value measures.

Application Information

This full-time position is based in Riyadh. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.