Manager Maintenance Recycling
BH-343869
Posted: 10/08/2026
- NA
- Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
- Contract
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Manufacturing
Job Purpose To provide leadership and direction for the effective execution of maintenance functions for the new Aluminum Recycling Plant at Ras Al-Khair. The incumbent leads the setup and operation of the maintenance organization for the recycling facility, including the scrap processing, delacquering, melting and casting, homogenizing, sawing, and associated utility systems. The role provides leadership in establishing and maintaining records of all plant assets, delivering cost-effective and reliability-centered maintenance, monitoring and forecasting the maintenance budget, building strong working relationships between Production and Maintenance, and controlling maintenance warehouse inventories.
As this is a new facility, the role carries a strong readiness and establishment component during the project and commissioning phase, including building the maintenance strategy, populating the CMMS, defining the spare parts philosophy, and developing the maintenance team to operational readiness before first hot metal. The plant operates 365 days per year, which requires extensive planning, organization, and effective delegation and communication to subordinates to achieve production goals while meeting governing laws, regulations, and policies.
The incumbent must have highly developed human relations skills to direct, coach, lead, and motivate subordinates and to address the competing and conflicting demands of operation, reliability, and engineering services. Contacts consist equally of plant personnel, other Maaden plants, and outside vendors or consultants. The incumbent will maintain standardization of the maintenance program across the department in line with plant maintenance philosophy and will manage the maintenance department and necessary maintenance service contracts. Key Accountabilities Technical Support
Oversee the operation of the assigned maintenance areas to ensure departmental objectives are achieved. Accountable for work hours, headcount, and Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Provide leadership and direction for the deployment of world-class maintenance planning practices across the recycling plant. Promote and facilitate employee involvement and interdepartmental teams in defining, analyzing, and affecting maintenance of plant equipment. Provide leadership in developing strong inter-departmental relationships at all levels, and champion solid partnering relationships between Maintenance and Production. Lead the establishment of maintenance strategies, criticality assessment, preventive maintenance plans, and spare parts philosophy for the new recycling equipment. Safe & Environment Friendly Operation
Provide leadership to ensure that environment, health, and safety are the first priority of the business. Manage resources in compliance with EHS policies. Lead key safety initiatives such as employee safety meetings, toolbox discussions, risk assessments, EHS audits, and environmental compliance monitoring. Participate in and lead safety incident investigations. Monitor and improve processes, procedures, and equipment to reduce or eliminate safety hazards with a goal of zero injury. Accountable for ensuring department personnel follow safe standard operating procedures so that processes remain stable and product quality consistently meets or exceeds customer requirements. Maintain awareness of plant, corporate, and government safety and health regulations and initiate department action to ensure compliance. Given the molten metal, combustion furnaces, and delacquering systems in the recycling plant, maintain a heightened focus on high-energy maintenance hazards. Continuous Improvement
Provide input to discipline engineers during root cause failure analysis. Manage, direct, coach, lead, and motivate subordinate personnel to achieve department goals safely and on time, while continuously improving subordinate skills. Drive change to create a continuous improvement environment. Lead departmental continuous improvement activities and participate in business-unit sponsored team activities.
Manage Cost
Develop annual maintenance plans and departmental budgets for the recycling maintenance areas. Monitor the maintenance budget to ensure costs are in line, determine variances, and address their causes. Manage and direct a program of maintenance for continuous plant operations at the least cost. Manage assigned contract maintenance services. People Management & Performance
Manage, direct, coach, lead, and motivate subordinate personnel to achieve department goals safely and on time. Continually improve subordinate skills in support of business need. Deal with disciplinary and grievance matters per company procedures. Maintain and foster positive labor relations and communication within Maintenance and across the plant's departments. Provide coaching, counseling, and support to direct reports for their personal development. Provide on-the-job training and assessments to ensure superintendents and supervisors are competent to execute maintenance activities per MAC maintenance philosophy. Conduct performance management for direct reports and guide those who supervise others. Build and develop the recycling maintenance team from the ground up, including the integration of new hires and the readiness of the team before commissioning. Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Minimum Qualifications:
Engineering degree or equivalent demonstrated experience is required. This position requires a solid understanding of Maintenance and Reliability processes and systems, as well as a good understanding of primary and secondary aluminum or Casthouse processes and systems. Strong demonstrated ability in providing leadership, achieving results, and driving change. Ability to handle high-impact and high-complexity assignments. Demonstrated ability to maintain effective working relationships with all co-workers, to set mid and long-term objectives and vision for the department, and to independently handle projects. Proficiency in safety and environmental leadership, communications, labor relations, and cost management. Minimum Experience:
Over 10 years of work-related experience, with maintenance leadership experience in aluminum, Casthouse, or comparable heavy industry preferred. Experience with new plant setup, commissioning, or maintenance readiness is an advantage given the greenfield nature of the recycling project.
Ma’aden High-Performance Competencies:
Provide the vision and leadership to impact the rate of change in implementing recognized best practices in maintenance planning and execution. Quickly drive change to create common maintenance systems and capitalize on synergies and efficiencies. Become a driving force in building stakeholder relationships to facilitate rapid change. Have the vision and tenacity to position skill sets within all levels of the maintenance organization for the long term. Manage the maintenance organization to maximize asset reliability while establishing a new facility and its technology base.
Skills:
EHS Focus / Orientation. Profit, strategic, and results oriented. Building ownership and commitment. Communication. Out-of-the-box thinking and initiative. Judgment and strong analytical abilities. Learning orientation. Drive for change. Self-confidence. Developing and coaching others. Customer focused.
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.
As this is a new facility, the role carries a strong readiness and establishment component during the project and commissioning phase, including building the maintenance strategy, populating the CMMS, defining the spare parts philosophy, and developing the maintenance team to operational readiness before first hot metal. The plant operates 365 days per year, which requires extensive planning, organization, and effective delegation and communication to subordinates to achieve production goals while meeting governing laws, regulations, and policies.
The incumbent must have highly developed human relations skills to direct, coach, lead, and motivate subordinates and to address the competing and conflicting demands of operation, reliability, and engineering services. Contacts consist equally of plant personnel, other Maaden plants, and outside vendors or consultants. The incumbent will maintain standardization of the maintenance program across the department in line with plant maintenance philosophy and will manage the maintenance department and necessary maintenance service contracts. Key Accountabilities Technical Support
Oversee the operation of the assigned maintenance areas to ensure departmental objectives are achieved. Accountable for work hours, headcount, and Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Provide leadership and direction for the deployment of world-class maintenance planning practices across the recycling plant. Promote and facilitate employee involvement and interdepartmental teams in defining, analyzing, and affecting maintenance of plant equipment. Provide leadership in developing strong inter-departmental relationships at all levels, and champion solid partnering relationships between Maintenance and Production. Lead the establishment of maintenance strategies, criticality assessment, preventive maintenance plans, and spare parts philosophy for the new recycling equipment. Safe & Environment Friendly Operation
Provide leadership to ensure that environment, health, and safety are the first priority of the business. Manage resources in compliance with EHS policies. Lead key safety initiatives such as employee safety meetings, toolbox discussions, risk assessments, EHS audits, and environmental compliance monitoring. Participate in and lead safety incident investigations. Monitor and improve processes, procedures, and equipment to reduce or eliminate safety hazards with a goal of zero injury. Accountable for ensuring department personnel follow safe standard operating procedures so that processes remain stable and product quality consistently meets or exceeds customer requirements. Maintain awareness of plant, corporate, and government safety and health regulations and initiate department action to ensure compliance. Given the molten metal, combustion furnaces, and delacquering systems in the recycling plant, maintain a heightened focus on high-energy maintenance hazards. Continuous Improvement
Provide input to discipline engineers during root cause failure analysis. Manage, direct, coach, lead, and motivate subordinate personnel to achieve department goals safely and on time, while continuously improving subordinate skills. Drive change to create a continuous improvement environment. Lead departmental continuous improvement activities and participate in business-unit sponsored team activities.
Manage Cost
Develop annual maintenance plans and departmental budgets for the recycling maintenance areas. Monitor the maintenance budget to ensure costs are in line, determine variances, and address their causes. Manage and direct a program of maintenance for continuous plant operations at the least cost. Manage assigned contract maintenance services. People Management & Performance
Manage, direct, coach, lead, and motivate subordinate personnel to achieve department goals safely and on time. Continually improve subordinate skills in support of business need. Deal with disciplinary and grievance matters per company procedures. Maintain and foster positive labor relations and communication within Maintenance and across the plant's departments. Provide coaching, counseling, and support to direct reports for their personal development. Provide on-the-job training and assessments to ensure superintendents and supervisors are competent to execute maintenance activities per MAC maintenance philosophy. Conduct performance management for direct reports and guide those who supervise others. Build and develop the recycling maintenance team from the ground up, including the integration of new hires and the readiness of the team before commissioning. Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Minimum Qualifications:
Engineering degree or equivalent demonstrated experience is required. This position requires a solid understanding of Maintenance and Reliability processes and systems, as well as a good understanding of primary and secondary aluminum or Casthouse processes and systems. Strong demonstrated ability in providing leadership, achieving results, and driving change. Ability to handle high-impact and high-complexity assignments. Demonstrated ability to maintain effective working relationships with all co-workers, to set mid and long-term objectives and vision for the department, and to independently handle projects. Proficiency in safety and environmental leadership, communications, labor relations, and cost management. Minimum Experience:
Over 10 years of work-related experience, with maintenance leadership experience in aluminum, Casthouse, or comparable heavy industry preferred. Experience with new plant setup, commissioning, or maintenance readiness is an advantage given the greenfield nature of the recycling project.
Ma’aden High-Performance Competencies:
Provide the vision and leadership to impact the rate of change in implementing recognized best practices in maintenance planning and execution. Quickly drive change to create common maintenance systems and capitalize on synergies and efficiencies. Become a driving force in building stakeholder relationships to facilitate rapid change. Have the vision and tenacity to position skill sets within all levels of the maintenance organization for the long term. Manage the maintenance organization to maximize asset reliability while establishing a new facility and its technology base.
Skills:
EHS Focus / Orientation. Profit, strategic, and results oriented. Building ownership and commitment. Communication. Out-of-the-box thinking and initiative. Judgment and strong analytical abilities. Learning orientation. Drive for change. Self-confidence. Developing and coaching others. Customer focused.
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.