Senior Specialist, Full Potential Identification

Ma'aden is hiring a Senior Specialist, Full Potential Identification in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Level rates it ; you can apply on Ma'aden.

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Level classifies it as a senior role.
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Lead operational diagnostics and drive performance improvement initiatives to unlock value across Maaden's mining assets.

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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.
Why This Role Matters The Senior Specialist, Full Potential Identification plays a critical role in unlocking operational value across Maaden’s assets by identifying, validating, and accelerating performance improvement opportunities. The role enables business units to realize their full potential through structured diagnostics, value-based prioritization, and data-driven performance optimization. By combining operational expertise, analytical insight, and continuous improvement methodologies, the role helps improve throughput, reliability, recovery, cost efficiency, energy performance, safety outcomes, and sustainability performance. The position ensures that improvement opportunities are translated into measurable business impact and sustained value realization. The role also strengthens organizational capability by building performance management discipline, fostering accountability, and enabling cross-functional collaboration between operations, maintenance, technical, finance, digital, and analytics teams. This supports Ma’aden’s operational excellence agenda and technology-enabled mining ambitions. What You Will Deliver Opportunity Identification & Value Creation

Lead operational diagnostics to identify high-value opportunities across production, reliability, cost, recovery, energy, safety, and operational performance.
Quantify improvement potential through data-driven analysis, benchmarking, and structured assessment methodologies.
Develop robust value cases that support prioritization and informed decision-making.

Performance Improvement & Value Realization

Drive measurable business outcomes through effective monitoring of improvement initiatives and value realization plans.
Identify risks, performance gaps, and value leakage factors and implement corrective actions to maximize benefits.
Strengthen accountability for delivery through transparent performance tracking and reporting mechanisms.

Operational Excellence & Analytics

Leverage operational data, performance indicators, and analytical insights to identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities.
Translate operational challenges into practical process, technology, automation, and digital improvement initiatives.
Improve decision quality through fact-based insights and performance intelligence.

Stakeholder Alignment & Capability Building

Facilitate collaboration between operations, maintenance, finance, technical, digital, and data teams to accelerate improvement outcomes.
Coach teams on performance management, continuous improvement, root cause analysis, and value tracking practices.
Build ownership and accountability to sustain improvements and replicate successful practices across assets.

Governance & Continuous Improvement

Maintain visibility of opportunity pipelines, implementation progress, realized value, risks, and lessons learned.
Enhance methodologies, maturity assessment frameworks, KPI standards, and value realization processes.
Strengthen governance mechanisms that improve consistency, transparency, and effectiveness of improvement initiatives.

What Success Looks Like

Significant improvement opportunities are identified, quantified, and converted into actionable initiatives.
Approved initiatives consistently deliver measurable operational and financial value.
Throughput, recovery, reliability, energy efficiency, and cost performance improve across supported operations.
Performance improvement programs demonstrate sustained value realization and reduced benefit leakage.
Site teams adopt stronger performance management and continuous improvement practices.
Data-driven decision-making becomes embedded within operational and improvement activities.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Process Engineering, Mining Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Experience

6–8 years of experience in operational excellence, process improvement, performance optimization, asset performance, or value realization roles.
Experience identifying, quantifying, and tracking improvement opportunities within mining, processing, manufacturing, utilities, or heavy industrial environments.
Experience in KPI management, operational diagnostics, root cause analysis, and performance monitoring frameworks.
Experience coordinating cross-functional improvement initiatives involving operational, technical, finance, digital, and analytics stakeholders.

Skills That Matter Functional Expertise

Operational Diagnostics
Value Case Development
Performance Improvement
KPI & Performance Management
Root Cause Analysis
Maturity Assessment Frameworks

Business & Delivery

Lean & Six Sigma Methodologies
Operational Excellence
Initiative Tracking & Value Realization
Benchmarking & Continuous Improvement
Data Interpretation & Dashboard Analytics
Business Performance Reporting

People & Collaboration

Stakeholder Management
Workshop Facilitation
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Change Enablement
Coaching & Knowledge Transfer
Executive Communication

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

Senior Specialist, Full Potential Identification at Ma'aden rates 0 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.

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Key facts

Senior Specialist, Full Potential Identification 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 19, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Ma'aden. Apply on Ma'aden

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