Mechanical Design Section Manager, Medium Voltage | alfanar Electric

To oversee and optimize the technical and mechanical design processes for products by ensuring seamless project execution, compliance with quality and organizational standards, and the successful integration of standard and non-standard solutions to drive operational excellence and innovation.

Product Ownership and Issue Resolution:

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of all technical details about assigned products and act as the primary point of contact for technical matters during project lifecycles.
• Resolve technical issues during project execution, particularly those involving standard configurations, and address shopfloor challenges related to non-standard solutions to ensure smooth operations.

Bill of Materials (BoM) and SAP Management:

• Create and evaluate Bills of Materials (BoM) and references within SAP.
• Manage the linking of standard and non-standard BoMs for projects, including adding non-standard solutions and canceling standard ones generated by configurator tools or decision trees.
• Develop new non-standard reference SAP codes as needed.

Fabrication Oversight and Solution Implementation:

• Manage the release of projects to fabrication, including metal components, LV doors, and special accessories.
• Oversee the preparation and validation of LV door cutouts in alignment with design standards.
• Lead the design of new solutions validated by the technical antenna team, release parts and assembly drawings for newly designed solutions, and attend industrialization phases for products while collaborating with the industrialization team to implement innovative solutions.

Compliance and Validation:

• Validate technical compliance requirements as provided by the tendering team.
• Manage the Change of Functionality (CoF) process for new solution requirements in accordance with delegation rules.

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