Industrial Engineering Section Manager, IED | alfanar Electric

Leading a team of engineers and technicians across multiple business units to implement industrialization activities and drive continuous improvement initiatives in accordance with manufacturing policy guidelines, detailed procedures, and work instructions

Cross-Functional Coordination:

• Coordinating activities across departments to monitor and achieve defined objectives.

Manufacturing Policy and Industrial Engineering:

• Planning and overseeing the deployment of manufacturing policy within respective sections.
• Assigning team members to new launch projects.
• Ensuring tools and software availability for the Industrial Engineering Team.

Process Development and Standardization:

• Supporting the development and improvement of industrial engineering procedures.
• Setting priorities for processes standard times and evaluating equipment and production process standards.
• Strategically planning for Industrial Engineering (IE) and developing optimization methods.
• Defining best IE practices and facilitating knowledge exchange between business units.
• Elaborating, optimizing, and implementing production process standards.

Financial Management and Equipment Specifications:

• Validating and approving CAPEX requirements, ensuring clarity and feasibility of the business case.
• Collaborating with the business unit to formalize technical specifications for equipment/automation solutions.
• Managing FAT and handover activities for special-purpose machines/equipment.

Quality Assurance and Process Improvement:

• Issuing and releasing PFMEA and work instructions to the shop floor.
• Following up on non-conformance and deficiencies, taking necessary actions.
• Working closely with IED Automation Section in project development.

Best Practices and Continuous Improvement:

• Coordinating with the business unit to implement recognized manufacturing practices (e.g., 6S, Kaizen) and monitoring deployment effectiveness.
• Identifying and addressing problems in the development process flow to drive continuous improvement.

Commitment and Collaboration:

• Working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure meeting commitments in terms of schedule, functionality, inventory, recovery cost, and cost targets.

Optimization and Information Exchange:

• Initiating and coordinating the optimization of production processes within business units.
• Identifying solutions for optimizing workplaces, production equipment, process cost, and material flow.
• Ensuring effective exchange of information among team members and between teams.

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 automations 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.

Alfanar is a Saudi company with an international presence, primarily engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a wide variety of low, medium, and high voltage electrical products, in addition to its portfolio of conventional and renewable energy solutions, oil and gas, water treatment, infrastructure, technical services, and digital solutions.

The hub of alfanar’s manufacturing operations is Medinet alfanar Alsinaiya, a 700,000 square-meter complex located in Riyadh. The complex houses an array of ultra-modern manufacturing facilities and laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and staffed with highly skilled professionals.

alfanar derives its success from its commitment to providing the highest quality standards to its customers, and the continuous development of its human capital, who alfanar considers its most valuable asset. With this in mind, alfanar promotes a proactive work environment where its employees are always valued, nurtured, and empowered to fuel their pride in being part of alfanar.

For more information about alfanar, please visit alfanar.com