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 the mining industry as a key economic pillar for Saudi Arabia, building an integrated mining value chain. This role contributes to Ma'aden's growth in Riyadh.

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 challenges into scalable technology-enabled solutions. The specialist will focus on simplifying work, reducing inefficiencies, improving access to timely information, and utilizing digital, automation, and data capabilities to strengthen workforce productivity and safety. The position requires aligning Operations, HSE, HR, Engineering, and Technology teams to achieve shared outcomes and accelerate solutions that improve workforce effectiveness while maintaining safety and operational discipline.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape enterprise strategies and roadmaps for workforce productivity and manager effectiveness, aligning with operational priorities and Technology & Innovation objectives.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to simplify work, remove process inefficiencies, and improve manager and frontline workforce effectiveness.
• Establish clear value drivers and performance measures connecting technology 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 efficiency improvements 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.
• Use 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.

Success Factors

• Managers and frontline workers spend less time on inefficient activities and more time on value-adding work.
• Technology-enabled interventions deliver measurable improvements in workforce productivity, operational efficiency, or decision effectiveness.
• Workforce solutions strengthen safe work and risk awareness while meeting operational requirements.
• High-value solutions achieve sustained adoption and can be replicated or scaled across applicable operations.
• Managers and frontline teams have improved access to relevant information and insights for timely decision-making.
• Business, HSE, HR, and Technology stakeholders align around common workforce outcomes, priorities, and value measures.

Work Type

This is a full-time position.