Project Manager

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

Manage and oversee projects from initiation to closure, ensuring that all objectives are delivered within scope, schedule, cost, and quality standards. Coordinate cross-functional teams, manage risks, and ensure stakeholder alignment to achieve project success and strategic goals.

Key accountability areas

Project planning & initiation

• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in alignment with organizational goals.
• Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets, identifying key milestones and dependencies.
• Conduct feasibility assessments and resource estimations to ensure project viability.

Execution & coordination

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional project teams to ensure effective execution of project tasks.
• Monitor progress against project schedules, proactively identifying and mitigating potential delays or issues.
• Ensure smooth communication between stakeholders, vendors, and internal departments.

Risk & issue management

• Identify potential project risks and develop mitigation and contingency plans.
• Monitor project performance, escalate critical issues, and ensure timely corrective actions.
• Maintain project documentation for lessons learned and continuous improvement.

Quality & compliance

• Ensure all project activities adhere to company policies, standards, and applicable regulations.
• Conduct project reviews, audits, and post-implementation evaluations.
• Promote best practices in project management methodologies and governance.

Budget & resource management

• Monitor and control project costs to ensure financial objectives are achieved.
• Allocate and optimize resources according to project priorities and workload.
• Prepare and present project financial reports to management.

Stakeholder communication & reporting

• Provide regular updates on project status, risks, and achievements to management and key stakeholders.
• Facilitate effective decision-making through transparent reporting and analysis.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

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.

Health, safety and environment:

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

Academic qualification

Bachelor degree in civil engineering or electrical engineering

Work experience

5 to 10 years

Technical / functional competencies

• Project change management
• Project communications
• Project cost management
• Project oversight
• Project resource management

Performance indicators