Water DCS Projects Manager - Automation - alfanar Electric

Job Purpose

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 scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, profitability, and cash objectives are met across multiple sites and teams.

DCS and Automation Delivery

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

Commercial and 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.

Customer and Partner Management

• Act as the senior interface with customers, consultants, operators, and other key stakeholders.
• Lead progress meetings, steering committees, risk reviews, and action tracking.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, planning, production, quality, finance, project controls, testing, and commissioning.
• Manage technology partners, system integrators, subcontractors, suppliers, and site-service providers.

Risk, Quality and 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.

Testing, Commissioning and Handover

• Oversee FAT, SAT, integrated testing, commissioning, and system-performance verification.
• Close technical issues, punch-list items, and customer observations within agreed timelines.
• Coordinate training, documentation, spare parts, customer acceptance, and transition to warranty and after-sales support.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a relevant field.
• 6 to 10 years of relevant experience.
• Skills include project control, project change management, project engineering, and project management.

General Management Responsibilities

• Develop and manage teams, delegation structures, business plans, budgets, performance reports, organizational structures, and job descriptions.
• Improve business processes and promote effective use of relevant IT and automated systems.
• Ensure a safe, secure, legal, and compliant work environment.