Section Manager Design Electrical Transformer

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 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 electrical engineering

Work experience

5 to 10 years

Technical / functional competencies

• Design specifications
• Design tools