Water DCS Projects Manager - Automation - alfanar Electric
alfanar Group
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Job summary
alfanar Group in Riyadh seeks an experienced Project Delivery Manager to lead end-to-end water DCS and automation projects, ensuring safe delivery, on-time performance, and compliance with contractual requirements.
The role requires a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and 6–10 years of relevant experience, with emphasis on coordinating engineering, procurement, testing, and commissioning across multiple sites.
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree required in Electrical Engineering or related field.
- 6 to 10 years of experience in project delivery/engineering.
- Strong leadership and cross-functional coordination skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of water DCS and automation projects.
- Oversee engineering, procurement, production, and commissioning activities.
- Manage risks, scope, budget, and schedule across multiple sites.
- Coordinate with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
Skills
Education
Job description
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.
- Electrical, Electromechanical and Civil Engineering Construction
- Manufacturing and Marketing Electrical Construction Products
- Allied Engineering Services
- alfanar electric
- alfanar Construction
- alfanar Building Systems
alfanar electric is the industrial arm of alfanar, manufacturing a variety of low, medium and high voltage electrical construction products.
- Riyadh and Jubail, Saudi Arabia
- Dubai, UAE
- London, UK
alfanar has a development and engineering center in Chennai, India.
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.
Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex water DCS and automation projects, ensuring the successful integration of control systems, software, hardware, and third-party packages. Ensure projects are delivered safely and in accordance with contractual requirements, approved budgets, schedules, quality standards, profitability targets, and customer expectations.
- Lead projects from contract handover through engineering, procurement, production, integration, testing, commissioning, acceptance, and warranty support.
- Establish execution plans, schedules, responsibilities, governance, and performance targets.
- Ensure projects meet approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, profitability, and cash objectives across multiple sites and teams.
- Oversee the delivery and integration of DCS, SCADA, PLC, RTU, communication systems, control panels, instrumentation, and third-party packages.
- Manage brownfield requirements, including legacy migration, phased cutover, redundancy, minimum downtime, and operational continuity.
- Ensure delivered solutions are reliable, maintainable, and compliant with customer and operational requirements.
- Monitor project revenue, costs, profitability, billing, cash collection, and financial forecasts.
- Manage contractual obligations, variations, claims, change orders, and commercial risks.
- Protect the company's commercial position and report project performance, risks, and opportunities.
- Act as the senior interface with customers, consultants, operators, and other key stakeholders.
- Lead progress meetings, steering committees, risk reviews, and action tracking.
- Manage expectations, escalations, design changes, acceptance requirements, and customer satisfaction.
- Lead coordination across Engineering, Procurement, Planning, Production, Quality, Finance, Project Controls, Testing, and Commissioning.
- Manage technology partners, system integrators, subcontractors, suppliers, and site-service providers.
- Define responsibilities and interfaces, monitor performance, and ensure timely resolution of delivery issues.
- Manage technical, operational, commercial, contractual, quality, and HSE risks throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensure compliance with customer specifications, contractual requirements, applicable standards, and internal governance.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, risk registers, progress reports, and management updates.
- Oversee FAT, SAT, integrated testing, commissioning, and system-performance verification.
- Ensure technical issues, punch-list items, and customer observations are closed within agreed timelines.
- Coordinate training, documentation, spare parts, customer acceptance, and transition to warranty and after-sales support.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 is considered as alfanar's prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.
- Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
- Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.
Bachelor in Electrical Engineering or Any relevant field
6 to 10 Years
- Project Control
- Project Change Management
- Project Engineering
- Project Management
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