Plant Director

Job Purpose:

• The Plant Director is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for the manufacturing facility, ensuring safe, efficient, and profitable operations. The role delivers manufacturing excellence aligned with business strategy, approved budgets, and customer requirements, while ensuring compliance with UAE regulatory authorities and international standards.
• The position drives performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and sustainability, champions continuous improvement and advanced manufacturing practices, and builds a high performing, future ready leadership team
• The Plant Director actively champions the adoption of modern manufacturing technologies, operational best practices, and scalable processes to enhance productivity, reliability, and competitiveness.
• The role works closely with cross‑functional teams to ensure seamless execution, transparent communication, and sustained long‑term value creation for the business.

Job Dimensions:

• Number of Staff Supervised: Direct Reports: 8, Total: 340
• Reports to: Manufacturing Operations Director
• Direct Reports: Business Unit Managers, Maintenance Manager, Supply Chain Manager, Purchase Manager, Production Engineering Manager, Contracts Manager and Finance Manager
• Functional reports: IT Lead, Regional HR Manager, HSE Manager, Quality Manager

Key Accountabilities:

Strategy & Operations

• Develop and execute the manufacturing and operations strategy in alignment with business objectives.
• Deliver production targets with consistent On Time In Full (OTIF) performance and right first time quality.
• Set and deliver aggressive yet achievable facility goals aligned to long term company strategy.
• Ensure effective performance management and accountability across the Operations leadership team.
• Act as the primary interface with local regulatory authorities (e.g. JAFZA, DCD, Trakhees/EHS).

Operational Excellence & Efficiency

• Drive continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, and productivity enhancement initiatives.
• Optimise manufacturing processes, capacity, and asset utilisation in line with the Medium Term Plan.
• Implement flexible workforce models aligned with SOPs and demand variation.

Quality & HSE

• Ensure all products meet or exceed defined quality, customer, and regulatory requirements.
• Embed a strong quality culture and operational discipline across the plant.
• Ensure full compliance with Environmental, Health & Safety standards

Financial Performance

• Manage site profitability, cost control, and budget adherence.
• Lead S&OP execution to balance demand, capacity, revenue, and customer commitments.
• Optimise inventory levels and drive inventory reduction initiatives.
• Drive material and conversion cost reductions in collaboration with Procurement and Supply Chain

People & Leadership

• Build, develop, and lead a high performing management team.
• Drive talent development, succession planning, and capability building across functions.
• Foster a collaborative, performance driven, and values based culture.

Customer Focus & Business Excellence

• Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction through delivery, quality, and responsiveness.
• Promote cross functional collaboration across Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Projects, and Sales.
• Champion new technologies, digitalisation, and best in class manufacturing practices.

New Product Introduction

• Work closely with Engg, Manufacturing systems manager, supply chain and purchasing on new product industrialisation in a timely manner

KPIs

• Safety performance and regulatory compliance
• OTIF delivery
• Budget vs. Actual
• Profitability and MPV
• Scrap, rework, and customer complaints
• Inventory turns and cost recovery
• Leadership capability and succession readiness

Role Context:

The Plant Director operates within a manufacturing environment serving utility, infrastructure, and industrial customers across the Middle East and export markets. The role leads a multi disciplinary operations organisation, overseeing manufacturing, engineering, quality, supply chain, maintenance, and HSE, within a competitive, cost sensitive, and delivery driven market.

Reporting to the Manufacturing Operations Director, the role works in close collaboration with regional Sales, Projects, Engineering, Procurement, and corporate functions to align plant capability with customer demand, strategic growth plans, and localisation requirements. The position interfaces regularly with local regulatory and governing bodies in Dubai to ensure compliance, certification, and operational continuity, while balancing operational excellence, people development, and long term business sustainability

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or above in management, electrical, mechanical, industrial engineering or related fields.
• Understand manufacturing business, people management, supply chain management, financial management, quality management, and innovation.
• Possess experience in middle or senior management minimum of 10-15 years.

Job-Specific Skills:

• Communication
• Values and respects others, Building relationships, Teamwork
• Process Loss Elimination Techniques
• Continuous improvement
• Project Management
• Creative Thinking
• Change Innovation
• Develops others
• Builds successful teams, Supports & coaches the team
• Consulting skills
• Visionary leadership
• Achieving results, Customer driven
• Critical decision making
• Develops organisation budgets
• Organizational safety
• Financial astuteness
• Broad experience of developing and implementing short to long-range objectives and strategies to achieve business goals.
• Proven capability of operating successfully at a senior management level.
• Understanding of electrical mechanical design engineering, competence in electrical power engineering.
• Demonstrate financial acumen including planning and cost control capabilities and proven experience of managing projects to budget.
• Proven track record in delivering manufacturing and supply chain best practice
• Strong working ethic in the delivery of satisfying the profitable requirements and expectations of internal and external customers.
• Effectively recognise and manage conflict
• Broad experience of working in a multi-national, matrix organisation.
• Strong communications and presentation skills.
• Strong English written and verbal communication skills.

Behavioural Competencies :

• Creates strong team & guiding partner
• Promotes team accountability & strong sense of understanding
• Is always curious & goes beyond obvious
• Finds useful benchmarks & does effective research
• Is open and candid about work situation
• Acts in a manner consistent with values
• Targets new opportunities & sets clear objectives
• Commits to continuous improvement
• Expresses positive attitude toward teamwork
• Collects wisdom by sharing experiences and goals
• Provides task-orientated and helpful instructions
• Provides behavioural feedback, coaching
• Facilitates open communications
• Proactively acts to gain customer trust
• Sees connections, relations, trends and patterns
• Applies learned concepts and think of new so to create a circle of learning.
  
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Key Accountabilities:

Strategy formulation

• As a member of the Operations team, accountable for working with the Manufacturing Operations Director to produce the Manufacturing and operations strategy, identify key goals and initiatives that will enable operations to support the business in gaining competitive advantage and deliver business results.
• Implement the manufacturing operations strategy for on-time and in-full fulfillment of product demand, across all regions that delivers high quality products
• Working with the Manufacturing operations Director, develop organizational goals for the facility which are aggressive, yet achievable, and tied to long-term goals of the company
• Guarantee the delivery of the business strategy, by ensuring all Operations team members have regular performance management meetings with their managers.
• Liaison with Local Governing bodies like JAFZA, DCD and EHS/Trakhees for various Audits, Permits and Approvals.
• Innovation: All Cost Reduction and CI Projects with defined Targets as per Budgeted smart objectives.

Measured by:

• Budget V.S. Actual
• Customer complaints
• OTIF (On-time-in-full)
• New model introduction
• Succession planning
• Sustainable organization
• Inventory optimization
• Recover month-on-month factory cost

Efficiency

• Improve production and plant efficiency by continuous improvement
• As per rolling MTP Plan
• Recover cost of factory present cost
• Oversee and direct the planning, implementation and maintenance of manufacturing methods, processes and operations for new or existing products.
• Create a flexible team to manage the production requirements based on the SOP

Measured by:

• Business plan
• Budget V.S. Actual
• Customer complaints
• OTIF (On-time-in-full)

Quality

• Ensure product quality have met or exceed standard defined.
• Ensure quality process and mindsets are instilled in all employees.

Measured by:

• Level of scrap
• Net Promotor Score
• Returned products
• Reworking
• Customer complaints

People development

• Accountable for demonstrating company behaviours and values; leading by example to ensure your team does the same
• Foster an environment that supports learning, individual development and openness to change
• Manage the Operations resources by identifying key roles and talent gaps, developing internal talent and sourcing top talent to build strength within the function and company.
• Ensure leadership demonstrate within organization through management team
• Ensure demonstration of discipline and policies/processes in all employees

Measured by:

• Organization competency
• Training plan delivery V.S. actual delivery
• Succession planning
• Talents
• Employee Engagement
• HR initiatives
• HR policies

Business excellence

• Work with manufacturing operations director to implement various new technologies to improve productivity
• Accountable for delivering process excellence and the effective use of the Team’s resources and continuous improvement efforts.
• Implement Operations administrative policies, procedures, and standards as directed by the Manufacturing Operations Director
• Coordinate work through effective collaboration with all parts of the Lucy Electric organization.

Measured by:

• Sustainable organization
• Inventory optimization
• Recover month-on-month factory cost
• Certified standardization systems

HSE

• Drive effective use operations resources and continuous improvement efforts. Define, drive, and deliver key production and process improvements
• Drive safety initiatives through HSE and ensure it instill within organization

Measured by:

• Accident
• Unsafe Acts & Unsafe Cons
• Hazard environment
• Scrap level
• Compliancy

Revenue, Cost & Profitability

• Manage profitability of the factory to be a profitable factory operations
• Optimize S&OP planning balancing revenue maximization with meeting customer requirements
• Oversee all aspects of inventory management to optimize inventory targets; drive inventory reduction program
• Develop and manage site budget and spending in support of company objectives for cost control while maintaining effectiveness.
• Manage relationships with suppliers to ensure on-time in-full delivery targets are achieved.
• Manage the operations costs and budgets; strive to improve the overall financial and key performance indicators of the business.
• Drive Material costs reductions through local purchasing managers and global purchasing manager to achieve better MPV results compared to standard costs

Measured by:

• Business plan
• Budget V.S. Actual
• Customer complaints
• OTIF (On-time-in-full)
• Profit
• MPV

Customer Centricity

• Ensure customer satisfaction – Measured by Customer complaints

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or above in management, electrical, mechanical, industrial engineering or related fields.
• Understand manufacturing business, people management, supply chain management, financial management, quality management, and innovation.
• Possess experience in middle or senior management minimum of 10-15 years.

Job-Specific Skills:

• Communication
• Values and respects others, Building relationships, Teamwork
• Process Loss Elimination Techniques
• Continuous improvement
• Project Management
• Creative Thinking
• Change Innovation
• Develops others
• Builds successful teams, Supports & coaches the team
• Consulting skills
• Visionary leadership
• Achieving results, Customer driven
• Critical decision making
• Develops organisation budgets
• Organizational safety
• Financial astuteness
• Broad experience of developing and implementing short to long-range objectives and strategies to achieve business goals.
• Proven capability of operating successfully at a senior management level.
• Understanding of electrical mechanical design engineering, competence in electrical power engineering.
• Demonstrate financial acumen including planning and cost control capabilities and proven experience of managing projects to budget.
• Proven track record in delivering manufacturing and supply chain best practice
• Strong working ethic in the delivery of satisfying the profitable requirements and expectations of internal and external customers.
• Effectively recognise and manage conflict
• Broad experience of working in a multi-national, matrix organisation.
• Strong communications and presentation skills.
• Strong English written and verbal communication skills.

Lucy Electric is an international leader in intelligent secondary power distribution products and solutions, with features such as remote operation and monitoring. Linking energy generation to consumption, the business specialises in high-performance medium and low-voltage switchgear for utility, industrial and commercial applications.