Production Section Manager
Group overview
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.
alfanar is involved in:
Electrical, electromechanical and civil engineering construction
Manufacturing and marketing electrical construction products
Allied engineering services
Our main divisions:
alfanar electric
alfanar construction
alfanar building systems
alfanar electric
alfanar electric is the industrial arm of alfanar, manufacturing a variety of low, medium and high voltage electrical construction products.
alfanar electric operates industries in:
Riyadh and Jubail, Saudi Arabia
Dubai, UAE
London, UK
alfanar has a development and engineering center in Chennai, India.
Industrial complex, Riyadh
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.
Job 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.
Functional 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.
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.
General responsibilities
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 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 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.
Qualification
Bachelor in electrical engineering or any relevant field
Experience
6 to 10 years
Skills
Production scheduling
Production equipment
Production management