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 a 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 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 use 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