Production Manager, High Voltage Direct Current | alfanar Electric

Job Purpose

The Production Manager for High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) is responsible for overseeing the entire production process of HVDC systems and components, ensuring that manufacturing operations run efficiently, safely, and in compliance with industry standards. This role involves managing resources, optimizing production processes, enforcing quality control, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality HVDC products, while maintaining a strong focus on safety, cost-effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

Key Accountability Areas

• Production Oversight: Manage the day-to-day production activities for HVDC systems, including converters, transformers, and other high-voltage components, ensuring adherence to quality standards, timelines, and budget.
• Process Optimization: Continuously assess and improve production processes, identifying areas for increased efficiency, cost savings, and product quality improvement.
• Quality Control: Implement and enforce strict quality control procedures to ensure that all HVDC products meet technical specifications and industry standards. Address and resolve any quality issues promptly.
• Resource Management: Manage production resources, including materials, equipment, and labor, to ensure smooth and efficient manufacturing. Coordinate with supply chain and procurement teams to maintain inventory and prevent delays.
• Safety and Compliance: Ensure all production activities comply with health, safety, and environmental regulations. Promote a culture of safety, conduct regular safety audits, and address any potential risks in the production environment.
• Project Coordination: Coordinate with engineering, R&D, and project management teams to align production schedules with project timelines. Ensure timely delivery of HVDC components for installation and commissioning.
• Reporting and Documentation: Prepare regular reports on production performance, including efficiency, quality, and safety metrics. Maintain accurate production records and ensure proper documentation of processes.

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 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 automation 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.

Academic Qualification

Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering

Work Experience

10-15 years

Technical / Functional Competencies

Manufacturing Concepts, Manufacturing Processes, Manufacturing Standards and Procedures