Job Title: Senior Engineer, Mining
Reporting to: Mine Manager
Business Unit / Function: BMNM
Why This Role Matters
The Senior Engineer, Mining plans and coordinates the availability and use of people, supplies, and equipment to support efficient mine operations in line with statutory, safety, and environmental conditions.
What You Will Deliver
Resource and Extraction Planning
Test the validity of minable resources through preliminary surveys with geologists and determine the feasibility of ore extraction.
Determine suitable ore extraction methods considering overburden depth, altitude, deposit characteristics, and surrounding strata.
Plan and coordinate the use of labor, supplies, and equipment in line with efficiency, statutory, safety, and environmental conditions.
Engineering and Commercial Analysis
Consult with geologists, metallurgists, and engineers on mining machines, facilities, systems, infrastructure, and environmental protection or restoration.
Prepare operating and project estimates, assess capital and operating viability, control expenditure during production, and participate in negotiations for mine purchases or investments.
Analyze environmental sensitivities related to processes, waste, chemicals, environmental and cultural factors, and geopolitical considerations.
Reporting and HSE
Analyze and compile monthly and yearly statistical production reports for management review and information.
Monitor adherence to Maaden Health, Safety and Environment programs, policies, and procedures, and provide guidance to address unsafe or damaging work practices.
Investigate incidents in the assigned work area, provide recommendations or responses, and brief contractors on applicable HSE regulations.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering.
Experience
8 years of experience in mining engineering, including mine operations experience in differing mine styles.
Skills That Matter
Good knowledge of English.
Achievement orientation.
Teamwork.
Ethics and values.
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.
