Senior Specialist Line Balancing

About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Senior Specialist, Line Balancing to join its team in Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is central to unlocking operational value within Maaden's TechOps Full Potential program. The specialist will focus on improving productivity, optimizing resource utilization, and enhancing operational efficiency by translating business objectives into measurable performance improvements through advanced analysis, capacity optimization, and operational excellence initiatives. The position requires 5-10 years of relevant experience.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Specialist, Line Balancing applies line balancing methodologies and data-driven decision-making to enable sustainable improvements. Core responsibilities include:

• Optimizing operational workflows through effective line balancing, capacity planning, and resource utilization strategies.
• Improving productivity and throughput by identifying and addressing operational constraints and bottlenecks.
• Enhancing workforce and equipment efficiency through data-driven allocation and utilization models.
• Delivering actionable operational insights that improve decision-making and performance outcomes.
• Developing and maintaining performance dashboards, KPIs, and reporting tools to support value realization.
• Identifying performance gaps and driving fact-based improvement initiatives through advanced analytics.

Transformation and Continuous Improvement

This role contributes directly to Ma'aden's transformation agenda by helping operations achieve higher performance levels while maintaining safety, governance, and operational reliability. Key activities include:

• Accelerating Full Potential transformation initiatives that deliver measurable operational and business value.
• Driving continuous improvement opportunities that strengthen productivity, quality, and operational effectiveness.
• Embedding standard methodologies, best practices, and performance frameworks across operations.

Project Delivery and Stakeholder Collaboration

The specialist is responsible for the successful execution of improvement initiatives and fostering collaborative relationships across the organization:

• Delivering operational improvement initiatives within agreed scope, timelines, and business objectives.
• Managing project risks, dependencies, and implementation activities to maximize delivery success.
• Enabling scalable and practical solutions aligned with operational requirements and long-term sustainability.
• Building strong partnerships across operations, maintenance, engineering, digital, and support functions.
• Aligning improvement initiatives with business priorities through effective stakeholder engagement.
• Facilitating cross-functional collaboration that enables successful transformation outcomes.

Governance and Capability Building

Ensuring compliance and developing internal capabilities are integral to this role:

• Ensuring initiatives comply with safety, governance, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements.
• Strengthening organizational capability through knowledge sharing, methodology development, and training support.
• Establishing robust documentation and reporting practices that support sustainability and continuous learning.

Desired Outcomes

Success in this role is measured by tangible improvements and consistent adherence to best practices:

• Sustained improvement in operational productivity, throughput, and resource utilization.
• Measurable efficiency gains and performance enhancement from line balancing initiatives.
• Achievement of targeted value realization and business outcomes from transformation projects.
• Operational decisions supported by accurate, timely, and actionable performance insights.
• Consistent adoption of continuous improvement methodologies across relevant functions.
• Projects and initiatives maintaining compliance with governance, safety, and risk requirements.