R&D Section Manager, Cables Factory | alfanar Electric

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

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies