Specialist, Full Potential Identification III📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Specialist, Full Potential Identification III to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is central to advancing Maaden's operational excellence and full potential initiatives across designated business units or plants. The Specialist will be responsible for translating identified improvement and stability opportunities into tangible, measurable results, supporting Maaden's objective to become a world-leading technology-enabled miner. This full-time position requires a proactive individual committed to implementing real-time monitoring, process, and performance improvement programs to achieve sustained operational, financial, and sustainability impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement full potential identification and value realization initiatives, with a focus on local execution, performance stability, and achieving measurable outcomes.
• Collaborate with site and business unit teams to quantify and address operational bottlenecks, maturity gaps, and key value drivers, utilizing structured problem-solving methodologies and real-time data insights.
• Monitor real-time operational data to identify anomalies and deviations, initiating timely actions with site and functional experts to address root causes.
• Translate operational challenges into actionable process, technology, or automation improvements that enhance throughput, recovery, cost efficiency, energy performance, and overall operational stability.
• Partner with Data, AI, IT, and OT teams to provide critical insights and input for solution design and improvement actions, ensuring a consistent focus on measurement, stability, and performance validation.
• Train and coach site and plant teams on effective real-time performance management, continuous improvement methodologies, and data-driven operational practices.
• Foster ownership, accountability, and capability within operations to ensure the sustainability of achieved results and the replication of successful initiatives across multiple sites.
• Track and report site-level improvements against defined Key Performance Indicator (KPI) deltas and maturity targets to effectively demonstrate value realization.
• Provide feedback and data-driven insights to refine enterprise-wide opportunity pipelines, maturity assessments, and improvement portfolios.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Management, or a related field.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in operational or process improvement roles.
• Demonstrated experience working with real-time performance monitoring and maturity assessment frameworks.
• Proven experience supporting enterprise value identification and execution frameworks.
• Experience in mining, processing, or heavy industrial environments is preferred.

Required Skills

• Expertise in operational excellence, performance stability, and real-time monitoring.
• Strong understanding of industrial and process operations.
• Proficiency in analytical and data-driven decision-making.
• Skilled in change enablement and coaching.
• Excellent collaboration and results orientation.

Work Context

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within Maaden's operational environment to drive improvements and achieve measurable outcomes.