Technical Office Manager, STD LV

Technical Office Manager, STD LV | alfanar Electric

Group Overview

Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we operate construction and manufacturing businesses, design and 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 the 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

Add value engineering for consultants during the projects design stage by using ETAP and AlfaLine software to size and calculate MV and LV networks.

Key Accountability Areas

Collaborative Optimization:

• Optimize and refine electrical calculations in ETAP and AlfaLine for accuracy and efficiency.
• Implement comprehensive testing procedures to validate integrated functionality with design tools in MV and LV factories.

Continuous Enhancement:

• Continuously update libraries in ETAP and AlfaLine with new technologies and industry standards.
• Explore opportunities for software enhancement through collaboration with industry experts and participation in forums or conferences.

Knowledge Transfer and Improvement:

• Actively engage in knowledge transfer sessions with software developers to stay updated on emerging trends in power system analysis.
• Establish a systematic process for documenting and addressing feedback from consultants, fostering a responsive and iterative approach to improving power system solutions.

Empowerment and Proactive Support:

• Develop customized training modules to empower consultants with advanced skills in utilizing ETAP and AlfaLine for intricate network designs.
• Proactively identify and address potential challenges in power system analysis, offering solutions to consultants before issues arise.

Integration and Communication:

• Conduct regular reviews of power system models and configurations to identify areas for optimization and efficiency improvement.
• Facilitate cross-functional communication between technical teams, consultants, and software developers to ensure seamless integration and a unified approach to network design challenges.

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 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 use 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's degree in electrical engineering.

Work Experience

6 to 10 years.

Technical and Functional Competencies

Technical research.