Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability

Ma'aden is hiring a Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.

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The posting mentions asset reliability, predictive maintenance and lifecycle management among its tools and skills.
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Leads enterprise asset reliability strategy shifting maintenance from reactive to proactive and predictive approaches.

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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, Asset Reliability
Reporting To: Director, Technology Development
Business Unit / Function: Technology & Innovation
Department: Asset Reliability
Grade: M13
Why This Role Matters The Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability strengthens Ma’aden’s ability to maximize asset performance, availability and lifecycle value. The role provides enterprise leadership for asset reliability, connecting operational priorities, maintenance strategies, asset health insights and technology capabilities into an integrated approach across business units and sites. The role creates value by shifting reliability decisions from reactive intervention toward proactive, predictive and risk-based approaches. It translates reliability and maintenance challenges into scalable business and technology solutions that improve equipment performance, reduce avoidable disruption and optimize total cost of ownership. As the enterprise domain authority, the role aligns reliability outcomes, decision logic and technology priorities across assets, ensuring initiatives address the highest-value reliability opportunities and can be scaled effectively across Ma’aden. What You Will Deliver Enterprise Reliability Strategy & Outcomes

Shape enterprise asset reliability priorities, KPIs and value outcomes that strengthen asset performance and lifecycle value across business units.
Establish consistent reliability and maintenance decision principles that focus investment and intervention on the highest-value asset risks and opportunities.
Provide technical authority on asset reliability, influencing strategies, priorities and solutions across operational and technology stakeholders.

Reliability Performance & Value

Translate asset performance, maintenance and cost challenges into clear improvement opportunities with measurable value hypotheses and success measures.
Enable proactive, predictive and risk-based maintenance decisions that improve reliability, maintainability, availability and total cost of ownership.
Use asset performance insights to identify recurring reliability constraints and focus improvement initiatives on sustainable performance.

Integrated Reliability Solutions

Shape end-to-end solutions that connect asset health monitoring, diagnostics, maintenance planning and operational execution.
Establish closed-loop approaches that use asset performance and maintenance outcomes to continuously improve reliability decisions.
Ensure reliability solutions are scalable, interoperable and aligned with operational requirements and enterprise technology direction.

Enterprise Integration & Technology Enablement

Align Maintenance, Operations, Engineering and Supply Chain stakeholders around asset criticality, reliability priorities and performance outcomes.
Partner with analytics, AI, monitoring and digital teams to translate reliability needs into deployable technology solutions.
Integrate reliability initiatives and technical designs to minimize fragmentation, strengthen reuse and accelerate enterprise adoption.

Technical Leadership & Capability

Advance enterprise reliability practices by applying proven methods, technology and data-driven approaches to priority asset challenges.
Build reliability capability through technical guidance, knowledge transfer and the adoption of consistent practices across relevant teams.

What Success Looks Like

Asset reliability priorities, KPIs and value outcomes are consistently defined and applied across relevant business units and assets.
Asset reliability, availability and maintainability improve through targeted, data-driven interventions.
Maintenance decisions increasingly use proactive, predictive and risk-based insights rather than reactive intervention.
Reliability improvements contribute to lower avoidable disruption and optimized total cost of ownership.
Asset health, maintenance planning and operational execution operate through effective closed-loop decision-making.
Reliability solutions and technology investments are scalable, aligned to business priorities and deliver measurable operational value.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance or a related discipline.

Experience

10+ years of relevant experience in asset reliability, maintenance, asset management or industrial operations.
Strong experience applying reliability engineering and maintenance strategies in asset-intensive environments.
Experience using digital, analytics or advanced technologies to improve asset reliability and maintenance outcomes.
Demonstrated experience influencing reliability priorities and outcomes across multiple functions or business units.

Skills That Matter

Asset reliability and reliability engineering
Maintenance strategy and asset performance management
Asset criticality and lifecycle optimization
Predictive and condition-based maintenance
Reliability analytics and data-driven decision-making
Total cost of ownership and value realization
Digital and technology-enabled reliability solutions
Systems thinking and solution integration
Cross-functional stakeholder influence
Technical leadership and capability building

Benefits

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

How we rate this

Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability at Ma'aden rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability is an open job at Ma'aden.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The job was posted on October 15, 2026.
Seniority: executive.
Applications are handled by Ma'aden. Apply on Ma'aden

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