Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability

Job Summary

The Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability leads Ma’aden’s efforts to enhance asset performance, availability, and lifecycle value by integrating maintenance strategies, operational priorities, and technology across business units and sites. This role drives a shift from reactive to proactive and predictive reliability approaches.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise asset reliability priorities, KPIs, and value outcomes to improve asset performance and lifecycle value.
• Develop consistent reliability and maintenance decision principles focusing on high-value asset risks and opportunities.
• Serve as technical authority on asset reliability, influencing strategies and solutions across operations and technology teams.
• Identify improvement opportunities from asset performance, maintenance, and cost challenges with measurable value and success metrics.
• Promote proactive, predictive, and risk-based maintenance decisions to enhance reliability, maintainability, availability, and cost efficiency.
• Design integrated solutions linking asset health monitoring, diagnostics, maintenance planning, and operational execution.
• Implement closed-loop processes using asset performance and maintenance results to continuously improve reliability decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and digital teams to align priorities and deploy technology solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance, or related discipline.
• Over 10 years of experience in asset reliability, maintenance, asset management, or industrial operations.
• Proven expertise in reliability engineering and maintenance strategies within asset-intensive environments.
• Experience leveraging digital, analytics, or advanced technologies to enhance asset reliability and maintenance outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to influence reliability priorities and results across multiple functions or business units.
• Skills in asset reliability engineering, maintenance strategy, asset criticality, predictive maintenance, reliability analytics, total cost of ownership, digital reliability solutions, systems thinking, cross-functional influence, and technical leadership.

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