Chief Specialist, Smart and Efficient Manager and Productive and Safe Worker

Maaden, established in 1997, is one of the fastest-growing mining companies in the world and the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. We are leading the development of the mining industry to become the third pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy by building a world-class, unique, and fully integrated mining value chain. We are pleased to share an exciting opportunity for the below mentioned position. This role offers a chance to contribute to our ambitious growth and play a key part in shaping the future of mining in the Kingdom.

Job Title: Chief Specialist, Smart & Efficient Manager and Productive & Safe Worker
Reporting To: Director, Technology Development
Business Unit / Function: Technology & Innovation
Department: Technology Enablement
Grade: M13

Why This Role Matters

The Chief Specialist, Smart & Efficient Manager and Productive & Safe Worker shapes how technology enables Ma’aden’s managers and frontline workforce to work more effectively, make better decisions and operate safely. The role provides enterprise technical leadership across two connected domains, translating workforce and operational challenges into scalable technology-enabled solutions.

The role creates value by simplifying work, reducing inefficiencies, improving access to timely information and using digital, automation and data capabilities to strengthen workforce productivity and safety. It connects people, process, technology and operational requirements so that solutions address real business needs and can be embedded into day-to-day ways of working.

As an enterprise domain authority, the role aligns Operations, HSE, HR, Engineering and Technology teams around shared outcomes, accelerating solutions that improve workforce effectiveness while maintaining safety and operational discipline.

What You Will Deliver Workforce Productivity & Manager Effectiveness

• Shape enterprise strategies and roadmaps for the Smart & Efficient Manager and Productive & Safe Worker domains, aligned 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 that connect technology-enabled interventions to productivity, efficiency and workforce outcomes.

Safe & Effective Work

• 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 so improvements in workforce efficiency reinforce, rather than compromise, safe operations.

Integrated Technology Solutions

• Translate manager and frontline workforce needs into integrated solutions spanning people, process, data and technology.
• Shape scalable solutions using relevant 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.

Data, Performance & Value

• Use workforce, operational and safety insights to identify performance gaps and prioritize high-value improvement opportunities.
• Establish outcome measures, dashboards and value-tracking approaches that demonstrate whether interventions deliver their intended impact.
• Use performance evidence and user feedback to refine initiatives, improve adoption and strengthen sustained value realization.

Enterprise Integration & Capability

• 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 appropriate operations.

What Success Looks Like

• Managers and frontline workers spend less time on avoidable, inefficient or fragmented 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management or a related discipline.

Experience

• 15+ years of relevant experience across operations, operational transformation, productivity improvement, safety or technology-enabled business improvement.
• Significant experience in industrial, mining or comparable asset-intensive operating environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale transformation, operational excellence or workforce improvement initiatives.
• Experience applying digital, data, automation or continuous-improvement approaches to workforce productivity or safety challenges.

Skills That Matter

• Workforce productivity and operational excellence
• Manager and frontline work optimization
• Safety and operational risk integration
• Digital, automation and AI-enabled improvement
• Data-driven performance and value realization
• Integrated solution design and deployment
• Continuous improvement and process optimization
• Enterprise stakeholder influence
• Change, adoption and capability building
• Cross-functional integration and facilitation

Benefits

1. Career Growth
2. Competitive Salaries
3. Comprehensive Package
4. Inclusive Work Environment
5. Work-Life Balance
6. Employee wellness