Technical Design Section Manager - High Voltage Direct Current

Job description / Role

Job Purpose

Responsible for overseeing the design and development of high voltage direct current (HVDC) systems, ensuring that all components and systems meet technical specifications, safety standards, and regulatory requirements. This role involves leading a design team, optimizing system performance, and ensuring the seamless integration of HVDC components into reliable, cost-effective power transmission solutions. The focus is on delivering innovative, high-quality designs while maintaining project timelines and budget constraints.

Key Accountability Areas

Design Leadership:
• Lead the technical design of HVDC systems.
• Ensure designs align with project specifications, customer requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Provide guidance to the design team on best practices and design methodologies.

System Integration:
• Oversee the integration of HVDC components into cohesive, reliable systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including electrical, mechanical, and software engineers, to ensure seamless integration.
• Ensure that all subsystems work together efficiently and meet overall system requirements.

Design Validation and Optimization:
• Conduct simulations, calculations, and prototype testing to validate designs.
• Drive optimization efforts to enhance system performance, reduce costs, and improve reliability.
• Ensure designs are scalable, efficient, and adaptable to evolving project requirements.

Compliance and Standards:
• Ensure that all designs comply with industry standards, safety regulations, and local codes (e.g., IEC, IEEE, ANSI).
• Stay updated on emerging standards and technologies in HVDC.
• Implement necessary adjustments to meet evolving compliance requirements.

Project Coordination:
• Work with project managers to align design activities with project timelines and budgets.
• Provide technical support during installation and commissioning to ensure design integrity.
• Communicate design progress and any challenges to senior management and project stakeholders.

Documentation and Reporting:
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date design documentation, including technical specifications and reports.
• Provide clear and concise reports on design progress, testing, and project milestones.
• Ensure all design decisions, changes, and approvals are well-documented and accessible.

Risk Management:
• Identify and mitigate potential technical risks early in the design phase.
• Develop contingency plans for unforeseen design challenges or technical setbacks.
• Ensure that safety concerns and system reliability are prioritized in the design process.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement:
• Stay abreast of technological advancements and best practices in HVDC systems.
• Promote innovation within the team by encouraging the exploration of new design concepts and solutions.
• Lead efforts to continually improve design processes, tools, and methodologies.

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 degree in mechanical engineering.

Work Experience:
• 6 to 10 years.

Technical / Functional Competencies:
• Design specifications.
• Design tools.

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.