Job Description
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Job Purpose Coordinate and support research and development initiatives, contributing to innovation, product development, and technological advancements. Implement R&D strategies, assist in resource management, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to attain technical objectives, ensuring competitiveness and contributing to the overall growth and success.
Key Accountability Areas Collaboration and Communication:
Collaborate actively with various factory departments, alfanar trading teams, and alfanar subsidiaries to ensure understanding and acceptance of project technical specifications.
Establish project goals and priorities in coordination with Marketing and Operations.
Conduct market intelligence to assess the competitiveness of our products in the Saudi and international markets.
Understand customer expectations for upcoming products and coordinate with different business units for necessary cooperation.
Innovation and Product Development:
Generate ideas for new product lines.
Collaborate with the team and other business units to explore patentable concepts and solutions.
Identify and implement improved technologies used by suppliers, competitors, and customers.
Project Management:
Manage the planning, implementation, completion, and documentation of engineering builds for industrialization.
Direct laboratory testing, analyze data, and create corrective action plans to address nonconformities revealed by testing.
Costing and Implementation:
Handle the costing of Ring Main Units, CPQ implementation for 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 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 or Mechanical EngineeringWork Experience 6 to 10 YearsTechnical / Functional Competencies New Technology ResearchManufacturing ProcessesProcess Automation
