Security Manager - Facility - alfanar Electric

Date: Aug 4, 2026

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Company: alfanar

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 industrial security operations across company facilities by developing and enforcing security policies, overseeing security systems, coordinating with government authorities, managing security risks, supervising security personnel, and ensuring effective emergency preparedness and incident response in line with regulatory requirements and company standards.

Functional Responsibilities

Security Policies and Procedures

  • Develop and enforce comprehensive industrial security policies and procedures in line with organizational requirements.
  • Ensure security policies and procedures are aligned with applicable regulatory requirements and recognized industry practices.

Security Systems Management

  • Oversee the operation and maintenance of site access control systems across company facilities.
  • Manage surveillance systems, intrusion detection systems, and alarm systems to ensure effective facility security coverage.

Government and Regulatory Coordination

  • Coordinate with relevant government authorities to ensure compliance with national security standards and requirements.
  • Maintain updated knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements related to industrial security operations.

Risk Management and Audits

  • Lead periodic security audits and risk assessments across company facilities to identify potential vulnerabilities.
  • Develop and follow up on corrective action plans to mitigate identified security risks.

Personnel Management

  • Supervise and coordinate the activities of internal security staff and contracted security personnel.
  • Conduct performance evaluations and ensure adherence to professional conduct and security standards.

Emergency Preparedness

  • Develop, implement, and regularly test site-specific emergency response plans.
  • Coordinate emergency drills and simulations to ensure readiness for different security and emergency scenarios.

Training and Awareness

  • Conduct regular security training and awareness sessions for employees across all levels.
  • Promote employee awareness of security practices, emergency protocols, and workplace safety requirements.

Incident Management

  • Lead security incident response activities, including initial containment, investigation, and resolution.
  • Ensure all security-related incidents are reported accurately and in a timely manner.

 

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 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.

Qualification

Bachelor in Business Administration or Any relevant field

Experience

6 to 10 Years

Skills

Safety
Building Security
Security
Security Administration
Security Analysis