ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, PROCUREMENT

Job Purpose

Leads the purchase department, managing a team to acquire goods/services efficiently and cost-effectively. Drive process improvements, foster team performance, and align with company objectives.

Key Accountability Areas

Material Planning & Requirement Analysis:

• Review technical specifications, BOQs (Bills of Quantities), and drawings to determine material requirements for current and future projects.

 Supplier & Subcontractor Management:

• Source, assess, and prequalify suppliers and subcontractors based on cost, quality, lead time, and compliance with project needs.
• Develop and maintain strong vendor relationships to ensure long-term reliability and value.

RFQ & Negotiation:

• Prepare and issue Request for Quotations (RFQs).
• Evaluate supplier quotations and negotiate both commercial and technical terms to secure the best value.

Purchase Order Management:

• Prepare and issue accurate Purchase Orders (POs) with agreed terms, prices, and delivery dates.
• Ensure POs align with project requirements and contractual obligations.

Coordination with Internal Teams:

• Liaise with project managers, engineers, and site teams to synchronize procurement with project timelines and milestones.

Order Tracking & Delivery Management:

• Monitor and expedite material deliveries to prevent delays.
• Resolve any issues related to late delivery, non-compliance, quality concerns, or incomplete documentation.

Documentation & Compliance:

• Maintain complete and accurate records of vendors, quotations, POs, and other procurement-related documents.
• Ensure procurement practices comply with company policies, contractual obligations, and relevant regulations (local/international).

Cost Optimization & Value Engineering:

• Identify cost-saving opportunities and recommend alternate materials or vendors.
• Support value engineering efforts to enhance efficiency and reduce overall project costs.

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