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About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Doctor Occupational Health to provide strategic leadership and oversight for occupational health and medical services across its remote industrial and mining operations. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and is critical for ensuring employee safety and well-being.

Key Responsibilities

The Doctor Occupational Health will act as the Company's Occupational Health Advisor and Subject Matter Expert, ensuring employees can safely perform the physical, psychological, and cognitive requirements of their roles. Core responsibilities include:

• Developing and implementing occupational health strategies, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Ensuring compliance with local, national, and international occupational health regulations and industry best practices.
• Leading health risk management, including Health Risk Assessments (HRAs), hazard identification, and investigations of occupational illnesses and industrial accidents.
• Overseeing clinical governance, quality assurance programs, and the delivery of high-quality healthcare services.
• Managing outsourced healthcare service providers and contracts, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, KPIs, and SLAs.
• Leading employee wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention initiatives focused on physical and mental health.
• Collaborating with Operations, HR, HSE, Procurement, and senior management, providing technical advice and preparing performance reports.

Occupational Health Programs and Emergency Preparedness

This role involves developing and implementing occupational health programs specifically tailored to mining, processing, and industrial operations. Key program areas include:

• Establishing and overseeing medical surveillance programs for occupational exposures such as noise, dust, chemicals, heat stress, ergonomics, and respiratory hazards.
• Leading fitness-for-duty, return-to-work, pre-employment, periodic, and exit medical assessment programs, and advising on work restrictions and rehabilitation.
• Developing and maintaining emergency medical response plans, ensuring readiness for medical emergencies, chemical exposures, and mass casualty incidents.
• Conducting audits and inspections of clinics to evaluate quality, compliance, staffing, equipment, and service effectiveness.
• Providing medical leadership during major incidents and crisis situations, and supporting emergency drills and business continuity planning.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must meet the following 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 is required where applicable to licensing and appointment level.
• An Occupational Medicine fellowship, board certification, consultant classification, or equivalent senior postgraduate specialist credential is strongly preferred 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.

Essential Experience

The ideal candidate will possess the following 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, oil & gas, petrochemical, smelting, 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, and respiratory hazards.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to act as the company medical authority for occupational health risk, exposure-based surveillance, fitness-for-duty decisions, contractor medical fitness, and remote-site medical readiness.

Leadership and Work Environment

This role involves leading and developing multidisciplinary healthcare teams across multiple locations, fostering a culture of safety, accountability, and operational excellence. The Doctor Occupational Health will mentor medical staff and support professional development initiatives within Maaden's industrial and mining operations, contributing to workforce health awareness and education programs.