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Role Overview
Principal Specialist, Mine Waste to Value at Ma'aden. This role drives the transformation of mining waste streams into strategic sources of business value and unlock new revenue opportunities across the enterprise.
Role Purpose
The Principal Specialist – Mine Waste to Value enables Ma'aden to unlock new revenue opportunities, improve resource recovery, reduce environmental liabilities, and advance circular economy objectives by converting waste rock and tailings into commercially viable products and solutions. The role serves as a bridge between technology development, commercialization, and operational deployment, ensuring that promising opportunities progress from concept to implementation while delivering measurable financial, environmental, and strategic benefits across the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities
Waste-to-Value Strategy & Portfolio Development
- Shape and maintain a long-term waste-to-value portfolio aligned with growth, sustainability, and circular economy objectives.
- Identify and prioritize opportunities that maximize value recovery from waste rock, tailings, and other mining by-products.
- Build a sustainable pipeline of innovation and commercialization opportunities that support long-term business growth.
Resource Recovery & Product Innovation
- Expand value creation through the recovery of critical minerals, industrial minerals, aggregates, and other marketable products.
- Develop commercially viable products derived from mining waste streams that create new revenue opportunities.
- Accelerate validation and commercialization of innovative resource recovery technologies.
Technology Assessment & Innovation Leadership
- Evaluate emerging technologies based on technical readiness, scalability, economic viability, environmental impact, and strategic fit.
- Provide expert technical leadership for feasibility studies, due diligence activities, and innovation assessments.
- Strengthen Ma'aden's innovation capability through global benchmarking and adoption of industry best practices.
Project Development & Commercial Deployment
- Advance opportunities through laboratory testing, pilot programs, demonstration projects, and commercial implementation.
- Develop robust business cases and investment recommendations that support informed decision-making.
- Monitor project outcomes to ensure value realization, operational effectiveness, and scalability.
Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Development
- Build strategic relationships with research institutions, universities, technology providers, startups, and industry organizations.
- Establish collaborative programs that accelerate innovation, technology validation, and commercialization.
- Leverage global innovation ecosystems to strengthen Ma'aden's competitive advantage and access to emerging technologies.
Commercial Value Creation & Market Development
- Assess market opportunities and business models for waste-derived products and technologies.
- Identify licensing, partnership, joint venture, and commercialization opportunities that maximize economic returns.
- Enable successful commercialization by aligning technical, legal, procurement, sustainability, and operational stakeholders.
Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering, Metallurgy, Mineral Processing, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related discipline.
More than 7 years of experience in mining, mineral processing, technology development, innovation, business development, or strategic partnership environments.
Experience in mine waste, waste rock, tailings valorization, resource recovery, or circular economy initiatives.
Proven experience leading technology development, pilot programs, feasibility studies, or commercialization projects.
Demonstrated experience managing executive, governmental, industry, and research stakeholder relationships.
Skills & Competencies
Functional Expertise
- Mine Waste Valorization
- Resource Recovery Technologies
- Circular Economy Solutions
- Technology Scouting & Assessment
- Technology Commercialization
- Feasibility & Due Diligence Evaluation
Business & Delivery
- Business Case Development
- Commercial Strategy & Market Assessment
- Program & Portfolio Management
- Innovation Investment Evaluation
- Strategic Partnership Development
- Value Realization & Performance Monitoring
People & Collaboration
- Executive Stakeholder Management
- Global Partnership Development
- Negotiation & Influencing
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Relationship Management
- Communication & Networking