Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability

Maaden

Riyadh

On-site

SAR 400,000 - 680,000

Full time

10 hours ago

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Job summary

Maaden seeks a Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability to lead enterprise reliability strategies, KPIs and value outcomes. You will align asset health, maintenance planning and technology enablement across sites, translating challenges into scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes proactive, predictive, risk-based maintenance and cross-functional leadership to maximize asset performance and lifecycle value for Maaden.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

Shape enterprise asset reliability priorities and KPIs across business units.
Translate reliability challenges into measurable value opportunities with data-driven hypotheses.
Provide technical authority on asset reliability and influence across stakeholders.
Lead end-to-end reliability improvements through proactive maintenance decisions.

Skills

Asset reliability

Maintenance strategy

Asset performance management

Predictive maintenance

Reliability analytics

Cross-functional influence

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Job Description

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