SUPERVISOR, PLANT

Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we operate construction and manufacturing businesses, design & development centers and a host of facilities in the Middle East and other countries.

alfanar Construction is classified as a Grade I contractor by the Contractors Classification Committee of the Government of Saudi Arabia.

alfanar Building Systems manufactures and markets a variety of building construction products and systems.

Core Manufacturing Activities

• Ceramic wall and floor tiles
• Precast concrete products and architectural elements

Ensure the smooth running of processes on a production floor. Oversee routine production activities, troubleshoot and solve issues that arise on a production floor, and ensure a safe and clean production workspace.

Key Accountability Areas

• Excellent organizational skills to plan production schedules and ensure the availability of necessary materials and equipment.
• Strong communication skills to actively listen to stakeholders and clearly verbalize ideas and action plans.
• Strong analytical skills to determine problems within the production process and take appropriate action.
• Good time management skills to minimize downtime and ensure a team works efficiently.
• The ability to cope with pressure and make sound decisions quickly.
• Informing a production team of preferred occupational health and safety practices.

Coordination with Production Team

• Closely coordinate with the Production Team and ensure that production flows according to schedules.
• Together with Production Team, determine bottlenecks and find solutions to address issues.
• Ensure to check production output according to specifications.
• Identify issues in efficiency and suggest improvements.
• Enforce strict safety guidelines and company standards.

Achievement Report Analyses

• Prepare Shift productivity and quality achievement report with breakdown in comparison with the pre determined budget.
• Analyze actual productivity against the target. Investigate reasons/justifications for considerable variances.
• Control and update Work Centers according to capacity utilization to utilize maximum manpower capacity.
• Ensure that all reports are properly and accurately prepared and reports that must be published are circulated in a timely manner to the Production Manager.
• Ensure implementation of management systems adhere to quality, safety, and environmental policies.

Quality Management

• Ensure Quality Management System processes are well established, implemented, maintained and documented.
• Report to Manager on the QMS performance and where improvements are needed.

Role Accountability

• 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 the 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.
• Make a tangible difference.
• Must make a tangible difference to the 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 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 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 the job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality

• Quality is considered alfanar's prime competitive advantage; 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.