Design Section Manager

About the company

Group overview Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we operate construction and manufacturing businesses, design and development centers, and a host of facilities in the Middle East and other countries.

Alfanar Building Systems Alfanar Construction is classified as a Grade I contractor by the Contractors Classification Committee of the Government of Saudi Arabia.

Alfanar Building Systems manufactures and markets a variety of building construction products and systems.

The core manufacturing activities of the industries operating under Alfanar Building Systems are:

• Ceramic wall and floor tiles
• Façade cladding, glazing systems, and architectural aluminum products
• Precast concrete products and architectural elements
• Office and home furniture and interior décor products

Your tasks

Lead and manage all technical activities related to wooden joinery products, ensuring accurate design development, shop drawings, engineering standards, manufacturability, material optimization, quality compliance, and successful project execution from concept through installation.

Technical engineering management

• Lead the technical office responsible for shop drawings, production drawings, and material specifications.
• Review and approve technical submittals, design details, and construction drawings.
• Ensure compliance with project specifications, client requirements, and industry standards.
• Develop technical standards for joinery manufacturing and installation.

Design and shop drawings

• Supervise preparation of detailed shop drawings using AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks, or related software.
• Coordinate design development with architects, consultants, and clients.
• Resolve design conflicts and technical issues before production.

Production engineering

• Translate project requirements into production-ready manufacturing packages.
• Ensure production drawings support efficient manufacturing processes.
• Optimize material utilization and reduce waste.
• Support CNC programming and automated manufacturing processes.

Project technical support

• Coordinate with project managers regarding technical requirements, schedules, and deliverables.
• Attend project coordination meetings with consultants and clients.
• Review variation orders and assess technical impact.

Factory and installation support

• Provide technical guidance to production and installation teams.
• Resolve complex manufacturing and site installation challenges.
• Support mock-up approvals and site inspections.

Continuous improvement

• Introduce new joinery technologies, materials, fittings, and manufacturing methods.
• Improve engineering processes and drawing management systems.
• Drive cost reduction and productivity improvement initiatives.

Delivery

• Deliver the required results in a 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 corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational development

• Develop the organizational structure according to current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business process improvements

• Develop and coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automation opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote automated systems and use them fully to spread their culture.

Quality Quality is considered 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.

Requirements

HR proficiency

• Ability to recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers and expose them 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.

• Technical research
• Leadership
• Resource management
• Communication
• Engineering design