Chief Specialist, Smart & efficient manager and Productive & Safe Worker

Job Title: Chief Specialist, Smart & Efficient Manager and Productive & Safe Worker

Reporting To: Director, Technology Development

Business Unit / Function: Technology & Innovation

Department: Technology Enablement

Grade: M13

The Chief Specialist, Smart & Efficient Manager and Productive & Safe Worker shapes how technology enables Ma’aden’s managers and frontline workforce to work more effectively, make better decisions and operate safely. The role provides enterprise technical leadership across two connected domains, translating workforce and operational challenges into scalable technology-enabled solutions.

The role creates value by simplifying work, reducing inefficiencies, improving access to timely information and using digital, automation and data capabilities to strengthen workforce productivity and safety. It connects people, process, technology and operational requirements so that solutions address real business needs and can be embedded into day-to-day ways of working.

As an enterprise domain authority, the role aligns Operations, HSE, HR, Engineering and Technology teams around shared outcomes, accelerating solutions that improve workforce effectiveness while maintaining safety and operational discipline.

• Shape enterprise strategies and roadmaps for the Smart & Efficient Manager and Productive & Safe Worker domains, aligned with operational priorities and Technology & Innovation objectives.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to simplify work, remove process inefficiencies and improve manager and frontline workforce effectiveness.
• Establish clear value drivers and performance measures that connect technology-enabled interventions to productivity, efficiency and workforce outcomes.

• Embed safety and risk considerations into the design of workforce technology and operational improvement initiatives.
• Enable technology solutions that strengthen safe work practices, workforce awareness and risk-based decision-making.
• Integrate productivity and safety requirements so improvements in workforce efficiency reinforce, rather than compromise, safe operations.

• Translate manager and frontline workforce needs into integrated solutions spanning people, process, data and technology.
• Shape scalable solutions using relevant digital, automation, analytics and AI capabilities to improve decisions and execution.
• Ensure solutions are practical for operational environments and designed for effective adoption, integration and scale.

• Use workforce, operational and safety insights to identify performance gaps and prioritize high-value improvement opportunities.
• Establish outcome measures, dashboards and value-tracking approaches that demonstrate whether interventions deliver their intended impact.
• Use performance evidence and user feedback to refine initiatives, improve adoption and strengthen sustained value realization.

• Align Operations, HSE, HR, Engineering and Technology stakeholders around shared priorities, solution requirements and measurable outcomes.
• Provide enterprise technical guidance on workforce productivity, manager effectiveness and technology-enabled safe work.
• Build organizational capability through knowledge transfer, reusable solutions and adoption of proven practices across appropriate operations.

• Managers and frontline workers spend less time on avoidable, inefficient or fragmented activities and more time on value-adding work.
• Technology-enabled interventions deliver measurable improvements in workforce productivity, operational efficiency or decision effectiveness.
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