Designer - DASA | alfanar Electric

alfanar Group; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Middle East seeks a designer for product development. The role involves designing, prototyping, and testing electrical products while ensuring compliance with quality standards. This position requires solid experience in design and a diploma in a relevant field.

Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years of relevant work experience.
• Knowledge in Advertising Design and Graphic Design.

Responsibilities

• Conduct concept development of components and new products.
• Prepare detailed modeling and drawings.
• Ensure quality requirements and compliance with safety standards.

Skills

Advertising Design

Graphic Design

Education

Diploma in Design or relevant field

Job description

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

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.

It operates 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 in the Third Industrial Zone on Al-Kharj Road, Riyadh.

Spread across 700,000 square meters, the complex houses Alfanar’s facilities and has comprehensive infrastructure including a data and communication center and a commercial zone.

Job Purpose

This position exists to perform product designing, prototyping, and testing activities efficiently, in a timely manner, and according to 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.
• Have a vision and a plan for career development and how to achieve it.

Delivery:

• Perform planned activities to meet operational and development targets as per schedules.
• Utilize resources effectively to achieve objectives within cost and time constraints.
• Provide periodic reports detailing deviations and task execution.

Problem-Solving:

• Solve operational problems and escalate complex issues.

Quality:

• Ensure quality requirements and develop effective quality control processes, including specifications.

Business Process Improvements:

• Coordinate well-defined systems, policies, procedures, and seek automation opportunities.

Compliance:

• Adhere to policies, procedures, and work instructions.

Health, Safety, and Environment:

• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and environmental procedures to guarantee safety and high-quality products/services.

Academic Qualification

Diploma in Design or 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