MANAGER, ELECTRICAL (Lahore, Pakistan)

Job Purpose

Provide strategic leadership to the Electrical Section of the Water, Plants & Infrastructure Department within the Power Business Unit (PBU) - Energy. Oversee electrical engineering design for projects from concept to completion, ensuring timely, quality delivery through effective management of onshore and offshore teams, and coordination with contractors and partners. Drive operational excellence, ensure compliance with relevant standards, and align with client expectations to support successful project execution.

Key Accountability Areas

Design and Technical Oversight

• Ensure timely delivery of industrial electrical designs that meet quality, schedule, and budgetary requirements.
• Oversee and optimize the design workflow to align with internal quality standards, project execution plans, and delivery expectations.
• Validate and enforce the application of relevant Project Technical Specifications (PTS), utility regulations, and international standards throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure the implementation of QMS procedures at all stages of design development, ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

Team Leadership and Mentorship

• Lead, motivate, and mentor the design and engineering team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor the team on proper documentation of project correspondence, drawings, and other documents, ensuring compliance with the company's Document Management System (DMS).
• Identify training needs for section team members, working with the training department to facilitate relevant skill development programs.

Client and Stakeholder Management

• Liaise with clients to understand and fulfill their expectations, ensuring design outputs align with project goals and client requirements.
• Chair design meetings, prepare reports, and deliver presentations to stakeholders and project teams, ensuring effective communication of progress and challenges.

Project Support and Coordination

• Support the Engineering/Project Manager by providing essential inputs for monitoring project progress, controlling budgets, and meeting milestones.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other disciplines and functional sections to ensure seamless day-to-day operations and interdisciplinary alignment.

Proposal and Estimation

• Provide engineering estimates and prepare technical proposals during the tendering/bidding process, ensuring competitiveness and accuracy.

Professional Development

• Engage in continuous professional development, keeping abreast of the latest standards, codes, and regulations relevant to industrial electrical systems and project execution

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

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies