Senior Specialist, Full Potential Identification

Job description

The Senior Specialist, Full Potential Identification plays a critical role in unlocking operational value across Ma'aden’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. It combines operational expertise, analytical insight, and continuous improvement methodologies to improve throughput, reliability, recovery, cost efficiency, energy performance, safety, and sustainability. The position also strengthens organizational capability by building performance management discipline, fostering accountability, and enabling cross‑functional collaboration among operations, maintenance, technical, finance, digital, and analytics teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Process Engineering, Mining Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 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
• proficient in Operational Diagnostics
• Value Case Development
• KPI & Performance Management
• Maturity Assessment Frameworks
• Lean & Six Sigma Methodologies
• Initiative Tracking & Value Realization
• Benchmarking & Continuous Improvement
• Data Interpretation & Dashboard Analytics
• Business Performance Reporting
• Stakeholder Management
• Workshop Facilitation
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration
• Change Enablement
• Coaching & Knowledge Transfer
• Executive Communication

Skills