Section Manager, Design Electrical Transformers | alfanar Electric

Alfanar; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and manufacturing company based in Riyadh is seeking an experienced Electrical Design Supervisor. The role involves supervising electrical design, ensuring compliance with specifications, coordinating projects, and continuous development efforts. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and 5 to 10 years of relevant experience. Opportunities for team training and market evaluation initiatives are included.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of experience in electrical design supervision.
• Ability to analyze competitor designs and improve them.
• Familiarity with international or local standards for material specifications.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with specifications and quality standards.
• Conduct regular team meetings and engage with client teams.
• Supervise the documentation system and perform internal audits.

Skills

Electrical design supervision

Technical support

Project coordination

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Design specifications tools

Job description

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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

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

Supervise and improve electrical design, assist a team, ensure compliance, and contribute to continuous improvement for high-quality product production. Involves basic technical support, project coordination, team collaboration, and a focus on achieving goals and industry standards.

Key Accountability Areas

Material Specifications and Documentation:

• Ensure material specifications and related documents adhere to international or local standards.


• Establish standardized designs and materials.


• Supervise the documentation system to meet approved standards, conducting internal audits for compliance.

Design Analysis and Continuous Development:

• Conduct analyses on competitor designs.


• Supervise continuous development to achieve optimal designs and enhance customer satisfaction.


• Evaluate market requirements and demand, aligning products with the current market situation through collaboration with the Marketing department.

Project Oversight and Customer Interaction:

• Verify electrical drawings for critical projects to ensure conformity with customer or project specifications.


• Engage with client teams, gather requirements, and conduct regular team meetings.


• Monitor project progress, ensuring that all electrical design and Bill of Materials (BOM) activities align with production plans and contribute to customer satisfaction.

Team Management and Training:

• Foster team interaction, elevate employee motivation, and recognize team contributions.


• Supervise technical training for the team, guiding them through development and implementation stages.


• Conduct effective reviews of completed work to maintain quality standards.

Initiatives for Improvement:

• Actively pursue initiatives to enhance the effectiveness of the group.


• Ensure that electrical design activities are geared towards increasing customer satisfaction.

Technical Support and Market Evaluation:

• Provide technical support for new project development.


• Evaluate market requirements and demand, aligning products with current market situations.

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 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.

Academic Qualification

Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering

Work Experience

5 to 10 Years

Technical / Functional Competencies

Design Specifications Design Tools