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Role Overview
Production Section Manager at alfanar Electric, Dubai, UAE.
Company Overview
alfanar is headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and operates construction and manufacturing businesses, design and development centers, and facilities across the Middle East and other countries.
alfanar operates three main divisions: alfanar electric, alfanar Construction, and alfanar Building Systems.
alfanar electric is the industrial arm, manufacturing a variety of low, medium and high voltage electrical construction products with operations in Riyadh and Jubail (Saudi Arabia), Dubai (UAE), and London (UK). alfanar also maintains a development and engineering center in Chennai, India.
The alfanar Industrial Complex, located in the Third Industrial Zone on Al-Kharj Road in Riyadh, spans 700,000 square meters and houses comprehensive infrastructure including a data and communication center and a commercial zone.
Role Purpose
Manage daily production activities to ensure manufacturing plans are executed efficiently and in accordance with approved schedules, production targets, cost requirements, and operational procedures. Coordinate manpower, materials, equipment, and production priorities to achieve required output and delivery performance.
Key Responsibilities
Production Operations
- Manage daily production activities in line with approved production plans and schedules.
- Allocate work, priorities, manpower, and equipment across production activities.
- Monitor production progress, output, productivity, and resource utilization.
- Address production delays, bottlenecks, and operational issues to maintain workflow continuity.
- Ensure production targets are achieved within required timelines and operational requirements.
Process Improvement & Efficiency
- Review production processes and identify opportunities to improve productivity and efficiency.
- Support initiatives to reduce waste, rework, downtime, and operational losses.
- Monitor production performance and implement corrective actions for execution-related issues.
- Promote continuous improvement across production activities.
Team Management
- Manage and supervise the daily activities of the production team.
- Monitor employee performance, productivity, and completion of assigned work.
- Provide technical guidance, coaching, and support to production employees.
- Identify training and development needs within the section.
- Promote accountability, teamwork, discipline, and continuous improvement.
- Recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers and expose them to create a robust second line of management.
- Recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
- Treat subordinates equally without discrimination.
- Base assessment criteria of subordinates on performance that leads to planned results.
- Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix with sufficient delegations per company policy.
Production Readiness & Coordination
- Coordinate with Planning, Engineering, Procurement, Warehouse, Maintenance, and Quality teams regarding production requirements.
- Follow up on material availability, equipment readiness, drawings, and production dependencies.
- Ensure production activities are aligned with project or delivery priorities.
- Participate in production and operational review meetings.
- Escalate major production, material, equipment, or resource issues when required.
Production Reporting
- Maintain accurate production records and status updates.
- Report production progress, output, delays, resource constraints, and operational issues.
- Monitor key production performance indicators and provide regular updates to management.
Business Planning & Performance
- Transform corporate goals into business plans.
- Plan, follow up, and execute annual and development plans.
- Monitor plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take corrective action accordingly.
- Provide periodic work progress reports.
- Monitor and control budgets and expenses to achieve optimum cost efficiency.
Organizational Development & Responsibility
- Develop organizational structure according to current requirements, considering future and development plans.
- Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.
- Take full responsibility for operations as per the job description and required deliverables, considering general company guidelines.
- Anticipate problems and take necessary proactive steps to prevent them.
- Take necessary and proper timely decisions.
- Deliver required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
- Make a tangible difference to area of operation and exceed business expectations.
Business Process Improvements
- Develop and coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, and procedures.
- Seek automation opportunities.
- Navigate IT solutions relevant to the job and business.
- Promote automated systems and their culture.
Quality
- Act according to quality as alfanar's prime competitive advantage.
Adaptation & Compliance
- Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
- Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment in accordance with standard regulations.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering or any relevant field.
- 6 to 10 years of experience.
Skills & Competencies
- Production Scheduling.
- Production Equipment.
- Production Management.