Designer Medium Voltage

Job description / Role

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

This position exists to perform product designing, prototyping, and testing activities efficiently, in a timely manner and quality standards as per the defined policies and procedures to achieve departmental operational plans and developments.

Key accountability areas

Product development and design:

• Concept development of components, new products, and improvements in existing components or products
• Prepare project charter and product development plan
• Detailed 3D modeling and 2D drawings in SAP ECTR, BOM creation, tolerance stack-up analysis, and ensuring design outputs meet design inputs
• Prepare proto assembly, display boards, and functional demo samples according to design requirements
• Release models and drawings for manufacturing in-house components and bought-out (B/O) items

Manufacturing and prototyping:

• Check manufacturing feasibility, considering mold design and progressive die layout
• Proto assembly and field trials (if applicable)
• Monitor new product assembly trials and provide production support during NPD pilot lot production
• Conduct preliminary tests on prototypes and finished products
• Pilot lot production and assembly trial reports

Documentation and compliance:

• Prepare and maintain documents as per NPD stage gate deliverables and ensure records are kept in designated locations
• Life cycle management of all existing products, change management, and associated actions

Material and inventory management:

• Organize materials in the design storage location, including tested samples, competitor samples, and trial samples
• Arrange material from production/stores; facilitate inventory counting and scrapping of materials

Packaging and release:

• Develop product packaging, including product packing, leaflets, and catalogues

Role accountability

HR proficiency:

• Ability to obtain updated soft and technical skills related to the job
• To have a vision and a plan for the career path and how to achieve it

Delivery:

• Perform the planned activities to meet the operational and development targets as per delivery schedules
• Utilize resources effectively to achieve objectives within efficient cost and time
• Provide a periodic report formatted by detailing the deviation and execution of planned tasks

Problem-solving:

• Solve any related problems that arise and escalate any complex operational issues

Quality:

• Ensure quality requirements to develop effective quality control and processes including specifications for products or processes or related activities

Business process improvements:

• Coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automation opportunities as much as possible

Compliance:

• Comply with related policy and procedures and work instructions

Health, safety, and environment:

• Ensure compliance of relevant safety, quality, and environmental management procedures and controls within defined area of work activity to guarantee safety, legislative compliance, and delivery of high-quality products/services

Academic qualification

Bachelor degree in design or any relevant field

Work experience

2 to 4 years

Technical / functional competencies

• Advertising design
• Advertising market research
• Advertising planning
• Advertising situation analysis
• Corporate advertising
• Graphic design

About the Company

alfanar builds efficient energy systems & solutions of the present and sets up infrastructures for a brighter future.

We assist utility sector partners & customers in transforming cities into sustainable, habitable, and inclusive Smart Cities by harnessing renewable energy resources from wind, solar, and waste heat energy. Promoting the transition to a sustainable eco-conscious future.

Using world-class technologies, we develop unrivaled quality electrical solutions & products from our manufacturing facilities, to solve the world’s major energy challenges and make the world a better viable place.

Diligence, Efficiency, and Innovation are the key criteria our teams adopt in order to continuously provide effective solutions. We’re constantly equipping our teams with the tools they need to expand their horizons and reach higher grounds.

Being in an ever-changing environment with a crucial impact on their surroundings, our employees are nurtured to become keen thinkers with highly refined skills and a consistent outlook on the future, working together on finding the next big innovation.