Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability
Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company
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Job summary
Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company seeks a Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability to lead enterprise reliability and lifecycle optimization across assets, sites and business units. Reporting to the Director, Technology Development, you will shape reliability strategy, drive predictive maintenance, and align technology enablement with operational needs to maximize uptime and value.
This role requires deep engineering expertise, strategic influence, and the ability to translate complex data into
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of relevant experience in asset reliability, maintenance, asset management or industrial operations.
- Experience applying reliability engineering and maintenance strategies in asset-intensive environments.
Responsibilities
- Shape enterprise asset reliability priorities, KPIs and value outcomes across business units.
- Establish consistent reliability and maintenance decision principles at highest-value asset risks.
- Provide technical authority on asset reliability across stakeholders.
- Translate asset performance and cost challenges into clear improvement opportunities with measurable value hypotheses.
- Enable proactive, predictive and risk-based maintenance decisions that improve reliability and availability.
- Identify recurring reliability constraints and focus improvement on sustainable performance.
- Shape end-to-end solutions connecting asset health monitoring, diagnostics, maintenance planning and execution.
- Establish closed-loop approaches to continuously improve reliability decisions.
- Align maintenance, operations, engineering and supply chain around asset criticality and performance outcomes.
- Partner with analytics, AI and digital teams to translate reliability needs into deployable technology solutions.
Skills
Education
Job description
Job Title: Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability
Reporting To: Director, Technology Development
Business Unit / Function: Technology & Innovation
Department: Asset Reliability
Grade: M13
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance or a related discipline.
- 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.
- 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
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