Job Purpose
Provide site wide leadership and accountability for the fixed plant maintenance function at a medium scale gold operation, ensuring safe, reliable, cost-effective operation of the processing plant and associated infrastructure.
The role is responsible for maximizing plant availability, driving disciplined maintenance execution, and embedding best practice asset management systems, aligned with Maaden standards, MSHEM requirements, and globally recognized maintenance and reliability frameworks.
The Maintenance Manager acts as a key member of the site leadership team, partnering with Processing, Supply Chain, Projects and EHSS to deliver stable production, controlled costs, and continuous improvement.
Key Accountabilities
1. Safety, Health & Environmental Leadership
Act as the visible safety leader for all maintenance activities across the processing plant.
Ensure full compliance with MSHEM standards, Isolation & LOTO, Work Permits, confined space, working at height, and contractor safety requirements.
Lead safety interactions, risk assessments, and incident investigations within maintenance.
Ensure maintenance plans and shutdowns are risk‑assessed, authorized, and executed safely.
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2. Plant Reliability & Asset Performance
Own and deliver fixed plant availability, reliability, and OEE targets.
Implement and continuously improve preventive, predictive and condition‑based maintenance strategies.
Ensure asset strategies are aligned to criticality rankings, failure modes, and plant operating context.
Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on major failures and recurring downtime.
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3. Maintenance Planning, Scheduling & Execution
Establish and enforce disciplined work management covering:
Work identification & prioritization
Planning & job scoping
Weekly and daily scheduling
Execution & close‑out quality
Ensure maintenance backlog is controlled, visible, and risk‑based.
Drive high compliance to weekly schedules and preventive maintenance plans.
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4. Shutdown & Major Maintenance Management
Lead the planning and execution of major plant shutdowns, statutory inspections, and crusher/mill relines.
Ensure shutdowns are fully planned, resourced, costed, and risk‑managed.
Deliver shutdowns safely, on time and within approved budgets.
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5. Financial & Cost Management
Develop and control the annual maintenance budget, including labor, spares, and contractor costs.
Drive cost optimization through improved planning, reduced rework, inventory optimization and reliability improvements.
Provide accurate maintenance cost forecasting and performance reporting.
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6. Systems, Data & Digital Enablement
Own the effectiveness of the CMMS / EAM system (e.g. SAP PM, Oracle EAM).
Ensure asset master data, maintenance plans, BOMs and history are accurate and complete.
Use maintenance KPIs and data analytics to drive decisions and improvement.
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7. Leadership, Capability & Organization
Build and lead a competent, disciplined, and engaged maintenance organization.
Develop supervisors and engineers through coaching, structured performance management and capability development.
Ensure appropriate use and governance of maintenance contractors.
Foster strong collaboration with Processing and Projects teams.
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8. Continuous Improvement & Best Practice
Benchmark maintenance performance against gold and base‑metals industry best practice.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on:
Plant stability
Equipment life extension
Reduced unplanned downtime
Improved maintenance efficiency
Support plant upgrades, debottlenecking and capital projects from a maintenance and reliability perspective.
Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Competencies
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering (or equivalent).
Professional maintenance or reliability certification (e.g. CMRP) desirable.
Minimum Experience:
12–15+ years’ experience in maintenance management within gold or base‑metals processing operations
Maaden High Performance Competencies:
Strong safety leadership mindset
Deep understanding of gold processing equipment (crushing, milling, CIL/CIP, pumps, conveyors, power distribution)
Maintenance strategy & reliability engineering
Budget and cost control
Planning discipline and execution focus
Leadership, coaching and accountability
Data driven decision making
Key Success Measures (Indicative KPIs)
Plant availability & unplanned downtime
PM compliance and schedule adherence
Maintenance cost per tonne processed
Shutdown performance (safety, duration, cost)
Safety performance (TRIF, high potential incidents)
Maaden is Saudi Arabia’s engine of industrial transformation and one of the world’s top ten mining giants by market cap and fastest growing globally. We’re building the future of mining, creating fully integrated value chains across gold, phosphate, bauxite, copper and beyond.
Maaden’s new era of growth is at pace and scale unlike anything the industry has ever seen. We’re doubling gold production by 2030, investing SAR 420 billion ($112 billion) through 2040 and scaling world-class projects that will redefine what’s possible for Saudi mining. This isn’t evolution; it’s transformation at speed, at scale and with purpose.
Since going public in 2008, Maaden has invested over SAR 120 billion ($32 billion) to build large-scale, long-life, cost-competitive operations that deliver both world-class products and strong returns. We help power Saudi Vision 2030 by making mining a key pillar of a diversified and sustainable economy beyond oil.
We’re creating new industries, new jobs and new opportunities. With a team of over 8,000 people, Maaden is writing the next chapter of industrial progress in Saudi Arabia.
Join us as we shape the future of mining and unearth tomorrow, together.
