Electrical Design Section Manager, Transformers Factory | alfanar Electric

Group overview:

Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we operate construction and manufacturing businesses, design & development centers and a host of facilities in the Middle East and other countries.

alfanar is involved in:

• Electrical, Electromechanical and Civil Engineering Construction
• Manufacturing and Marketing Electrical Construction Products
• Allied Engineering Services

Our Main Divisions:

• alfanar electric
• alfanar Construction
• alfanar Building Systems

alfanar electric

alfanar electric is the industrial arm of alfanar, manufacturing a variety of low, medium and high voltage electrical construction products.

alfanar electric operates industries in:

• Riyadh and Jubail, Saudi Arabia
• Dubai, UAE
• London, UK

alfanar has a development and engineering center in Chennai, India.

Industrial Complex, Riyadh

The center of alfanar’s industrial activities is alfanar Industrial Complex situated in the Third Industrial Zone on Al-Kharj Road, Riyadh.

Spread across 700,000 square meters, the Complex houses alfanar’s facilities.

The Complex has a comprehensive infrastructure including a data and communication center as well as a commercial zone.

Job Purpose

Supervise and improve electrical design, assist a team, ensure compliance, and contribute to continuous improvement for high-quality product production. Involves basic technical support, project coordination, team collaboration, and a focus on achieving goals and industry standards.

Key Accountability Areas

Material Specifications and Documentation:

• Ensure material specifications and related documents adhere to international or local standards.
• Establish standardized designs and materials.
• Supervise the documentation system to meet approved standards, conducting internal audits for compliance.

Design Analysis and Continuous Development:

• Conduct analyses on competitor designs.
• Supervise continuous development to achieve optimal designs and enhance customer satisfaction.
• Evaluate market requirements and demand, aligning products with the current market situation through collaboration with the Marketing department.

Project Oversight and Customer Interaction:

• Verify electrical drawings for critical projects to ensure conformity with customer or project specifications.
• Engage with client teams, gather requirements, and conduct regular team meetings.
• Monitor project progress, ensuring that all electrical design and Bill of Materials (BOM) activities align with production plans and contribute to customer satisfaction.

Team Management and Training:

• Foster team interaction, elevate employee motivation, and recognize team contributions.
• Supervise technical training for the team, guiding them through development and implementation stages.
• Conduct effective reviews of completed work to maintain quality standards.

Initiatives for Improvement:

• Actively pursue initiatives to enhance the effectiveness of the group.
• Ensure that electrical design activities are geared towards increasing customer satisfaction.

Technical Support and Market Evaluation:

• Provide technical support for new project development.
• Evaluate market requirements and demand, aligning products with current market situations.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them.
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in a timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification:

Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering

Work Experience:

5 to 10 Years

Technical / Functional Competencies:

Design Specifications

Design Tools