Section Manager R&D Cables Factory – alfanar Electric

Job Description

Job Purpose

This position exist to take full responsibility of overall management of Research & Development department .
Plan, develop ,execute and monitor its activities and related systems by optimum resources at efficient cost.
Deliver as per company quality standards.
Manage the risks and opportunities to bring the department to a further step.

Key Accountability Areas
– Actively collaborates with factory departments, alfanar trading departments and alfanar subsidiaries to ensure that project technical specifications are understood and accepted.
– Proposes new concepts for new product lines. Investigates patentable concepts as well as solutions by coordinating with the team and other business units.
– Establishing project goals and priorities by collaborating with Marketing and Operations.
– Managing the planning, implementation, completing and documenting engineering builds into industrialization.
– Traveling for business, technical meetings, trainings, type testing, outsourcing and new developments.
– Directs laboratory testing, conducts data analysis, creates corrective action plans to address nonconformity revealed by testing.
– Assess Marketing intelligence in terms of knowing the competitiveness of our products against competitors in Saudi Market as well as international markets.
– Understanding customer expectations on to-be manufactured products as well as coordinating with different business units to achieve the required cooperation.
– Determining and executing improved technologies used by suppliers, competitors and customer.
– Perform costing of Ring Main Units, CPQ implementation of all MV products and prequalification files.

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 performance and help or release them.
– Ability to treat people equally without any discrimination.
– The manager’s only assessment criteria being performance leading to delivery of required results.
– Ensure availability of delegation of authorities matrix to order to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.
Responsibility, Delivery and Tangible:
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 & 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 control 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 deploy them.

Business Process Improvements (Effectiveness):
– Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seeking 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.
General:
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.
HSE:
– Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.