Operations Manager

Job purpose

Oversee and manage the day-to-day operations of the manufacturing facility. Coordinate and optimize production processes, ensuring efficiency, and meeting production targets while maintaining high-quality standards. Responsible for driving operational excellence, managing resources, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Key accountability areas

Production planning and scheduling:

• Develop and implement production plans to meet customer demand.
• Create and manage production schedules, optimizing resource utilization.

Resource management:

• Allocate and manage human and equipment resources effectively.
• Ensure that staffing levels are aligned with production requirements.

Quality control and assurance:

• Implement and oversee quality control processes to ensure product quality.
• Collaborate with the quality management team to maintain high-quality standards.

Process optimization:

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and implement efficiency measures.
• Implement lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement initiatives.

Cost control and budget management:

• Monitor and control manufacturing costs to meet budgetary constraints.
• Implement cost-saving measures without compromising quality or safety.

Health and safety compliance:

• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and standards.
• Implement and enforce safety protocols to create a secure working environment.

Supply chain coordination:

• Collaborate with supply chain teams to ensure timely availability of raw materials.
• Manage relationships with suppliers to optimize the supply chain.

Team leadership and development:

• Lead and manage manufacturing teams, providing guidance and support.
• Develop a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous learning.

Production efficiency metrics:

• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure production efficiency.
• Analyze data to identify areas for improvement and track progress.

Cross-functional collaboration:

• Collaborate with other departments such as engineering, maintenance, and quality assurance.
• Participate in cross-functional teams to address operational challenges.

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 automation 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

Bachelor degree in electrical engineering

Work experience

6 to 10 years

Technical / functional competencies

• Operations management
• Operations planning
• Operations research