Water DCS Projects Manager - Automation - Electric

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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
is involved in:

• Electrical, Electromechanical and Civil Engineering Construction
• Manufacturing and Marketing Electrical Construction Products

Our Main Divisions:

alfanar electric is the industrial arm of alfanar, manufacturing a variety of low, medium and high voltage electrical construction products.

alfanar electric operates industries in:

• Riyadh and Jubail, Saudi Arabia
• Dubai, UAE
• London, UK

alfanar has a development and engineering center in Chennai, India.

The center of alfanar’s industrial activities is alfanar Industrial Complex situated in the Third Industrial Zone on Al-Kharj Road, Riyadh.

Spread across 700,000 square meters, the Complex houses alfanar’s facilities.

The Complex has a comprehensive infrastructure including a data and communication center as well as a commercial zone.

Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex water DCS and automation projects, ensuring the successful integration of control systems, software, hardware, and third-party packages. Ensure projects are delivered safely and in accordance with contractual requirements, approved budgets, schedules, quality standards, profitability targets, and customer expectations.

Project Delivery Management

• Lead projects from contract handover through engineering, procurement, production, integration, testing, commissioning, acceptance, and warranty support.
• Establish execution plans, schedules, responsibilities, governance, and performance targets.
• Ensure projects meet approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, profitability, and cash objectives across multiple sites and teams.

DCS & Automation Solution Delivery

• Oversee the delivery and integration of DCS, SCADA, PLC, RTU, communication systems, control panels, instrumentation, and third-party packages.
• Manage brownfield requirements, including legacy migration, phased cutover, redundancy, minimum downtime, and operational continuity.
• Ensure delivered solutions are reliable, maintainable, and compliant with customer and operational requirements.

Commercial & Contractual Management

• Monitor project revenue, costs, profitability, billing, cash collection, and financial forecasts.
• Manage contractual obligations, variations, claims, change orders, and commercial risks.
• Protect the company’s commercial position and report project performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Act as the senior interface with customers, consultants, operators, and other key stakeholders.
• Lead progress meetings, steering committees, risk reviews, and action tracking.
• Manage expectations, escalations, design changes, acceptance requirements, and customer satisfaction.

Cross-Functional & Partner Management

• Lead coordination across Engineering, Procurement, Planning, Production, Quality, Finance, Project Controls, Testing, and Commissioning.
• Manage technology partners, system integrators, subcontractors, suppliers, and site-service providers.
• Define responsibilities and interfaces, monitor performance, and ensure timely resolution of delivery issues.

Risk, Quality & Compliance

• Manage technical, operational, commercial, contractual, quality, and HSE risks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with customer specifications, contractual requirements, applicable standards, and internal governance.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, risk registers, progress reports, and management updates.
• Oversee FAT, SAT, integrated testing, commissioning, and system-performance verification.
• Ensure technical issues, punch-list items, and customer observations are closed within agreed timelines.
• Coordinate training, documentation, spare parts, customer acceptance, and transition to warranty and after-sales support.

• 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…