Senior Specialist, Full Potential Identification

Why This Role Matters What You Will Deliver Opportunity Identification & Value Creation

• Lead operational diagnostics to identify high-value opportunities across production, reliability, cost, recovery, energy, safety, and operational performance.
• Quantify improvement potential through data-driven analysis, benchmarking, and structured assessment methodologies.
• Develop robust value cases that support prioritization and informed decision-making.

Performance Improvement & Value Realization

• Drive measurable business outcomes through effective monitoring of improvement initiatives and value realization plans.
• Identify risks, performance gaps, and value leakage factors and implement corrective actions to maximize benefits.
• Strengthen accountability for delivery through transparent performance tracking and reporting mechanisms.

Operational Excellence & Analytics

• Leverage operational data, performance indicators, and analytical insights to identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities.
• Translate operational challenges into practical process, technology, automation, and digital improvement initiatives.
• Improve decision quality through fact-based insights and performance intelligence.

Stakeholder Alignment & Capability Building

• Facilitate collaboration between operations, maintenance, finance, technical, digital, and data teams to accelerate improvement outcomes.
• Coach teams on performance management, continuous improvement, root cause analysis, and value tracking practices.
• Build ownership and accountability to sustain improvements and replicate successful practices across assets.

Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain visibility of opportunity pipelines, implementation progress, realized value, risks, and lessons learned.
• Enhance methodologies, maturity assessment frameworks, KPI standards, and value realization processes.
• Strengthen governance mechanisms that improve consistency, transparency, and effectiveness of improvement initiatives.

What Success Looks Like

• Significant improvement opportunities are identified, quantified, and converted into actionable initiatives.
• Approved initiatives consistently deliver measurable operational and financial value.
• Throughput, recovery, reliability, energy efficiency, and cost performance improve across supported operations.
• Performance improvement programs demonstrate sustained value realization and reduced benefit leakage.
• Site teams adopt stronger performance management and continuous improvement practices.
• Data-driven decision-making becomes embedded within operational and improvement activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Process Engineering, Mining Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Experience

• 6–8 years of experience in operational excellence, process improvement, performance optimization, asset performance, or value realization roles.
• Experience identifying, quantifying, and tracking improvement opportunities within mining, processing, manufacturing, utilities, or heavy industrial environments. 
• Experience in KPI management, operational diagnostics, root cause analysis, and performance monitoring frameworks. 
• Experience coordinating cross-functional improvement initiatives involving operational, technical, finance, digital, and analytics stakeholders. 

Skills That Matter Functional Expertise

• Operational Diagnostics
• Value Case Development
• Performance Improvement
• KPI & Performance Management
• Root Cause Analysis
• Maturity Assessment Frameworks

Business & Delivery

• Lean & Six Sigma Methodologies
• Operational Excellence
• Initiative Tracking & Value Realization
• Benchmarking & Continuous Improvement
• Data Interpretation & Dashboard Analytics
• Business Performance Reporting

People & Collaboration

• Stakeholder Management
• Workshop Facilitation
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Change Enablement
• Coaching & Knowledge Transfer
• Executive Communication