Water DCS Projects Manager Automation alfanar Electric📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Alfanar is seeking a Water DCS Projects Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of complex water Distributed Control System (DCS) and automation projects. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The primary objective is to ensure the successful integration of control systems, software, hardware, and third-party packages, with projects delivered safely and in accordance with contractual requirements, approved budgets, schedules, quality standards, profitability targets, and customer expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• 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, ensuring projects meet approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, profitability, and cash objectives across multiple sites and teams.
• Oversee the delivery and integration of DCS, SCADA, PLC, RTU, communication systems, control panels, instrumentation, and third-party packages, managing brownfield requirements including legacy migration, phased cutover, redundancy, minimum downtime, and operational continuity.
• Monitor project revenue, costs, profitability, billing, cash collection, and financial forecasts, while managing contractual obligations, variations, claims, change orders, and commercial risks.
• Act as the senior interface with customers, consultants, operators, and other key stakeholders, leading progress meetings, steering committees, risk reviews, and action tracking.
• Lead coordination across Engineering, Procurement, Planning, Production, Quality, Finance, Project Controls, Testing, and Commissioning, and manage technology partners, system integrators, subcontractors, suppliers, and site-service providers.
• Manage technical, operational, commercial, contractual, quality, and HSE risks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring compliance with customer specifications, contractual requirements, and applicable standards.
• Oversee FAT, SAT, integrated testing, commissioning, and system-performance verification, ensuring technical issues and punch-list items are closed within agreed timelines.

Leadership and Team Management

• Recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers to create a robust second line of management, while also guiding low performers to improve or managing their release.
• Ensure fair treatment of subordinates without discrimination, with performance-based assessment criteria linked to planned results.
• Take full responsibility for operations and deliverables, anticipating problems and taking proactive steps to prevent them, and making timely decisions.
• Transform corporate goals into business plans, monitor plan performance, initiate actions to strengthen results, and provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve optimum cost efficiency.
• Develop the organizational structure according to current and future requirements, ensuring availability and deployment of job descriptions for all roles.

Operational Excellence and Compliance

• Develop and coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, and procedures, seeking automation opportunities and promoting the full use of automated systems.
• Uphold quality as Alfanar’s prime competitive advantage, ensuring all actions reflect this commitment.
• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment in accordance with standard regulations.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this role should possess 5 to 10 years of experience in managing complex water DCS and automation projects. The ability to navigate IT solutions relevant to the job and business is also required.

Opportunity

This full-time role offers a significant opportunity to lead and contribute to critical automation projects within Alfanar in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, leveraging specialized experience in water DCS and automation.