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About Ma'aden

Established in 1997, Ma'aden is a prominent mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is a key contributor to the development of the mining industry, aiming to establish it as a significant pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy through the development of an integrated mining value chain.

The Role: Doctor, Occupational Health

Ma'aden is seeking a Doctor, Occupational Health to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves providing strategic leadership and oversight for occupational health and medical services across the company's remote industrial and mining operations. The successful candidate will contribute to health risk management, employee wellbeing, and emergency preparedness, playing a central role in ensuring the health and safety of the workforce.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the Company's Occupational Health Advisor and Subject Matter Expert.
• Develop and implement occupational health strategies, policies, standards, and procedures, ensuring compliance with local, national, and international regulations.
• Establish and oversee medical surveillance programs for occupational exposures including noise, dust, chemicals, heat stress, ergonomics, and respiratory hazards.
• Lead fitness-for-duty, return-to-work, pre-employment, periodic, and exit medical assessment programs, advising on work restrictions and employee rehabilitation.
• Develop Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) and participate in workplace inspections, hazard identification, and risk control programs.
• Conduct investigations of occupational illnesses and industrial accidents, recommending preventive measures and reviewing work-related health incidents.
• Oversee clinical governance, ensuring high-quality healthcare services through audits, inspections, medical protocols, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop and maintain emergency medical response plans, ensuring readiness for medical emergencies and providing medical leadership during major incidents.
• Manage outsourced healthcare service providers and contracts, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, KPIs, and company standards.
• Lead employee wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention initiatives, focusing on physical wellbeing, mental health, and healthy lifestyles.
• Collaborate with Operations, HR, HSE, Procurement, and senior management, providing technical advice and preparing reports on workforce health performance.
• Lead and develop multidisciplinary healthcare teams across multiple locations, fostering a culture of safety and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Mandatory minimum: PhD, DrPH, or equivalent doctoral-level qualification in Occupational Medicine, Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Industrial Medicine, Environmental/Occupational Health, or Public Health with a clear occupational/industrial health concentration. The doctoral qualification must be directly relevant to occupational health, mining health, industrial health, environmental/occupational exposures, medical surveillance, or workforce health-risk governance.
• Valid Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS) registration and professional classification appropriate to the role.
• Consultant or senior specialist classification in Occupational Medicine, Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Public Health, or equivalent relevant specialty, where applicable to licensing and appointment level.
• Preferred: Occupational Medicine fellowship, board certification, consultant classification, or equivalent senior postgraduate specialist credential in addition to the doctoral requirement.
• Priority Profile: Occupational Medicine PhD holder, consultant occupational physician, or doctoral-level public health/occupational health expert with proven heavy-industry exposure.

Experience

• Minimum 8 years of post-qualification experience in occupational health, occupational medicine, industrial medicine, public health, or corporate medical services, preferably including senior-level governance responsibilities.
• Minimum 5 years of direct exposure to mining, mineral processing, gold, phosphate, aluminum, smelting, oil & gas, petrochemical, manufacturing, or other high-risk heavy industry is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience designing, governing, or auditing exposure-based medical surveillance programs for hazards such as respirable dust/silica, chemicals, heavy metals, noise, heat stress, fatigue, ergonomics, respiratory hazards, and other site-specific industrial exposures.
• Experience governing multiple remote clinics, industrial medical facilities, ambulance services, outsourced healthcare providers, or contractor medical services is preferred.
• Experience in emergency medical preparedness for remote industrial settings, including trauma stabilization, chemical exposure response, mass casualty readiness, medevac coordination, and prolonged transfer to definitive care.

Work Environment

This role operates within Ma'aden's remote industrial and mining operations, requiring oversight of occupational health and medical services across multiple clinic locations. The position demands readiness for medical emergencies and a focus on health risk management in a heavy industry context.