Abdulaziz A R

I am an Operations and Technical Management Executive Senior Director with 20 years' experience in setting up and operating large Metal industrial facilities such as Rolling Mills, Metal Surface Treatment & Coating lines and Recycling facilities. During this long tenure I was privileged to work leading Aluminium and Steel companies and projects. I am a dynamic and purposeful professional with records of success in driving significant business improvements and operational excellence in complex projects.

My strengths have been my resolute teams of co-workers and my analytical thinking process. It has been my endeavor all these years to manage operations and projects with utmost safety and meet the organizational goals. I am enthusiastic about worker's training, workforce development, environmental compliances and finding solutions to save energy and operation's cost.

Strong at forging strong supplier and customer relationships and optimizing supply chain processes to enhance efficiency and quality standards. Skilled in leading strategic initiatives for continuous improvement and operational excellence for optimum cost savings and increased profitability. Recognized for adeptness in strategy formulation, execution, and change management within matrix organizations.

Enthusiastic about driving process optimization and delivering superior results in fast-paced, global environments.

General Manager, JESCO at AMJTP Arcelor Metal Jubail Tubular Products (2025-02 – Present)

As General Manager at JESCO, I drive operational excellence and strategic alignment across the organization. My role bridges day-to-day execution with long-term business objectives, ensuring efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction in OCTG manufacturing.

• Oversee production, maintenance, and quality processes to meet API and OCTG standards
• Support commercial operations, including proposals, order execution, and client relationship management
• Advise on organizational structure and role clarity to enhance operational efficiency
• Collaborate with shared services and HR to optimize workflows and resource allocation
• Champion process improvement initiatives for cost reduction and productivity gains

Sr. Director Technical and Quality at Maaden Aluminum Rolling Co (2023-05 – 2025-01)

Manage and lead plant technical engineering, process engineering and development, product development and customer services for aluminum Can Reclamation & scrap recycling unit & Rolling Mills complex. Advising capacity for the company president on operations, production, maintenance, and asset reliability.

• Production process and product development centers
• Quality assurance and business administration processes
• Quality laboratory and quality control center
• Customer complaints and satisfaction
• Integrated production and process technology & networks
• Manufacturing execution center

Sr. Director HR operations excellence at Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Maaden (2020-12 – 2023-05)

Nominated and elected to head HR operations excellence team under the lead of human capital strategic function. Leading the transformation to new operating module "shared services, Employee Services".

• Restructured the HR Operations organization for standardization, agility, and succession assurance
• Balanced Master authority schedule and authority limits
• Enhance the HR policies & procedures and cascade decision making through the organization
• Developing & Coaching HR team to achieve customer-centric mindset and delivering the best service to our asset employees
• Developed succession plans and individual development plans to enhance team competency
• Delivered Maaden Saudization project and exceeded the targeted levels
• Revamped all GOSI records for Maaden affiliates
• Enhanced female hiring practices and injected females in all affiliates
• Corrected all legal issues related to industrial and commercial licenses for all Maaden affiliates
• Developed SLA L1 & L2 services & KPIS
• Develop talent acquisition and resource pools to secure growth demand on talent
• Improved and developed robust hiring timeline
• Improve Government relations and government affairs performance and KPIs like Saudization and female attraction

Director Operations at Maaden Aluminum Rolling Co (2018-10 – 2020-11)

In addition to main task as site operations director, assumed the acting capacity as site president. Collaborating with all stakeholders and business units to strategically and tactically achieve the business objectives from all aspects such as, global market positioning, aggressively increasing the regional market share, enhancing operations productivity and asset performance & reliability, to achieve customer satisfaction and financial performance.

• Achieved best safety record with zero LTIs & zero environmental incidents
• Managed Operations, Production & Maintenance, Engineering and Technology, Quality Assurance and Control, Sales and Marketing, Financial controlling, Production planning, shipping & Logistics & procurement
• Achieved Highest accelerated Production since inception exceeding the plans. 100% on business plan
• Best in class quality outputs and customer satisfaction. Less than 0.025% of customer returns
• Growing positive EBITDA & growing market share, focused on MENA and NA & EU
• Increased market share in MENA and NA and EU
• Recommissioned the largest aluminum recycling unit in MENA and achieved nameplate capacity level within 6 months

Manager, Central Maintenance & Engineering & Asset Performance at Maaden Aluminum Rolling Co (2016-02 – 2018-10)

Basic Responsibility and main duty was to manage all machinery and facility assets. Moving ahead after successful commercial operational announcement. Main focus is to enhance the cost position and uplift the performance of all underperforming systems. During this phase Cost improvement project. Asset performance management, Reliability Engineering, Process Networks, Automated Equipment, and auxiliary systems, Automated Warehouses, Maintenance and Engineering Projects.

• Managing Full site maintenance and engineering activities. Maintenance (PM, PDM and reliability and asset performance)
• 2018 Reduced warehouse inventory trajectory by $15M and re-established ROP system
• Reduced maintenance cost by 90% $3M by Managing Warehouse workshops and contracted services & engineering and Projects
• 2017 Optimized capital expenditure budget by 50% $8M
• Recommissioned Rotary Can Recycling facility and ramped up production
• Developed central maintenance department and drove reliability up trends
• Commissioned and activated plant robotic cranes, Automated guided vehicles, automated inventory storage and retrieval system

Manager, Operations readiness at Maaden Aluminum Rolling Co (2012-02 – 2016-02)

Member of the senior management team for this 'Green-Field' aluminum rolling mill project. Responsible for the Operation Readiness for the Hot &

• Cold mills and transfer of technology and best practices from established Alcoa businesses to the new location. Establishing effective Operations &

• Quality Management Systems (ISO9001 &

• IATF16949) and the development of processes and products for can-sheet and automotive customers.

Responsibilities included ramping up and onboarding skilled manpower from beginning of project. Worked as Operations and Maintenance Manager of Both Hot &

• Cold Mill Area. Building and developing the whole Organization from A to Z.

Superintendent, Hot Mill Complex Maintenance at Saudi Iron & Steel Co. Hadeed (2009-07 – 2012-01)

Responsibility for maintenance management looking after maintenance department of 2 Mtpa Hot Strip Mill, Skin Pass Mill and Slitting line.

• Deliver reliability solutions and maintenance strategies
• Develop organizational standards and EHSS standards
• Improved the plant availability to highest ever availability 87%

Engineer, Cold Mill Complex Maintenance at Saudi Iron & Steel Co. Hadeed (2004-07 – 2009-07)

Started my career immediately after graduation as maintenance engineer of Hot dip Galvanizing Line and Batch annealing facility.

Board member in capacity for technical and operations at Maaden Rolling Co (2021-06 – 2024-12)

Chairperson of user council, SS HR Operations Excellence at Maaden HR shared services (2022-02 – 2022-12)

Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Applied Mechanical Engineering – King Fahad University of Petroleum and minerals (2004)