Senior Asset Ramp-Up Accelerator

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company seeks a Chief Specialist – Acceleration Asset Ramp-up to lead enterprise ramp-up of mining and processing assets, from commissioning to stable operation.

You will connect technology, operations and analytics to identify high-impact levers and drive fast, measurable improvements across throughput, uptime and readiness. This senior role collaborates across functions to enable repeatable success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mining, Metallurgy, Industrial Engineering or a related discipline.
• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Shape and embed an enterprise approach to asset ramp-up that shortens the path from commissioning to stable operations across mining and processing assets.
• Identify and activate the critical throughput, recovery, uptime, cost and readiness levers that accelerate early-stage asset performance.
• Diagnose systemic ramp-up constraints and enable focused interventions that address root causes and protect production value.
• Translate ramp-up opportunities into measurable value hypotheses, performance targets and interventions with clear ownership and benefit tracking.
• Drive sustained improvements in ramp-up speed, asset utilization and operational readiness through fact-based performance management.
• Provide actionable insights that enable leadership to prioritize interventions and investments against the areas of greatest operational value.
• Accelerate the application of advanced analytics, digital twins and predictive capabilities where they improve commissioning, stabilization and ramp-up decisions.
• Embed relevant digital capabilities into operational workflows to strengthen real-time visibility, decision quality and performance management.
• Enable repeatable ramp-up use cases to scale across assets in partnership with technology, data and solution teams.
• Orchestrate alignment across Operations, Technology & Innovation, Data & AI, projects and commissioning stakeholders to resolve cross-functional dependencies and barriers.
• Establish consistent governance, performance measures and executive-level visibility across priority ramp-up initiatives.
• Strengthen the transition between project, commissioning and operational teams through clear performance expectations and integrated execution.
• Develop and embed scalable ramp-up playbooks, tools and practices appropriate to different asset classes and operating environments.
• Convert lessons from asset ramp-ups into reusable organizational knowledge that improves subsequent commissioning and stabilization.
• Build organizational capability through technical coaching, knowledge transfer and adoption of proven ramp-up practices.

Skills

Asset ramp-up

Commissioning optimization

Cross-functional execution

Stakeholder influence

Strategic problem-solving

Analytics enablement

Performance management

KPI design

Digital analytics

Operational excellence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s degree advantageous

Tools

Digital twins

Predictive analytics

Data & AI tools

Job description

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company seeks a Chief Specialist – Acceleration Asset Ramp-up to lead enterprise ramp-up of mining and processing assets, from commissioning to stable operation.

You will connect technology, operations and analytics to identify high-impact levers and drive fast, measurable improvements across throughput, uptime and readiness. This senior role collaborates across functions to enable repeatable success.