SECTION MANAGER, STRUCTURAL DESIGN

Job description:

Job Purpose

Lead, manage, and develop the Structural Design Section by ensuring the delivery of safe, reliable, and cost-effective structural solutions in compliance with international standards, project requirements, and objectives. Focus on guiding the design team, reviewing and approving technical outputs, and supporting cross-disciplinary collaboration to achieve project excellence.

Key Accountability Areas

Leadership & Team Management:

• Lead and supervise the structural design team to ensure effective task allocation, productivity, and quality outcomes.
• Mentor, coach, and support team members to enhance technical capabilities and professional growth.
• Manage team workload, set priorities, and monitor performance to meet project deadlines and objectives.

Structural Design Oversight & Validation

• Review, approve, and validate all structural calculations, drawings, and technical deliverables.
• Ensure accuracy, technical soundness, and constructability of designs.
• Conduct quality checks and risk assessments to mitigate potential design issues.
• Provide solutions to complex structural challenges and ensure alignment with project requirements.

Standards, Compliance & Quality Assurance

• Ensure that all structural designs comply with relevant international codes (e.g., ACI, BS, Eurocodes), local regulations, and client specifications.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends, new materials, and technological advancements.

Cross-Disciplinary & Stakeholder Coordination

• Collaborate with civil, architectural, MEP, and other engineering teams to achieve fully integrated project solutions.
• Represent the structural design team in project meetings and present technical justifications when required.

Strategic Planning & Best Practices

• Develop, implement, and monitor design strategies, policies, and standards for the Structural Design Section.
• Recommend innovative design solutions and methodologies to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Project Participation & Decision-Making Support

• Participate in tender evaluations, design reviews, and project progress meetings.
• Provide expert technical guidance and input to support decision-making at project and organizational levels.
• Ensure timely delivery of design outputs to support overall project schedules.

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 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.

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 Civil Engineering Work Experience 10-15 years Technical / Functional Competencies Structural Analysis Structural Design

Profile description:

Alfanar is a Saudi company with an international presence, primarily engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a wide variety of low, medium, and high voltage electrical products, in addition to its portfolio of conventional and renewable energy solutions, oil and gas, water treatment, infrastructure, technical services, and digital solutions.

The hub of alfanar’s manufacturing operations is Medinet alfanar Alsinaiya, a 700,000 square-meter complex located in Riyadh. The complex houses an array of ultra-modern manufacturing facilities and laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and staffed with highly skilled professionals.

alfanar derives its success from its commitment to providing the highest quality standards to its customers, and the continuous development of its human capital, who alfanar considers its most valuable asset. With this in mind, alfanar promotes a proactive work environment where its employees are always valued, nurtured, and empowered to fuel their pride in being part of alfanar.

For more information about alfanar, please visit alfanar.com