Production Section Manager | alfanar Electric

Job Purpose

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 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

Experience

Skills