Job description

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Lead the execution of manufacturing audits, manage audit teams and engagements, assess operational controls, and provide recommendations to improve process effectiveness, compliance, and operational performance.

Risk Assessment & Audit Planning:

• Assess manufacturing risks and develop risk-based audit plans covering operations, supply chain, inventory, procurement, and compliance.
• Define audit scope, objectives, resources, and coordinate with plant leadership and process owners.

Process & Internal Control Assessment:

• Review manufacturing processes and evaluate the effectiveness of operational and financial controls.
• Identify control gaps, process improvements, and opportunities to enhance operational performance.
• Assess controls within ERP systems, manufacturing applications, and operational technologies.

Audit Execution & Engagement Management:

• Manage manufacturing audit engagements and oversee audit teams in executing audit activities.
• Review audit findings, validate evidence, and ensure quality audit outcomes.
• Lead special reviews related to operational inefficiencies, production losses, and control issues.

Operational Performance & Improvement:

• Analyze manufacturing KPIs to identify risks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Provide recommendations to enhance process effectiveness, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.

Audit Governance & Reporting:

• Monitor corrective actions, key risk indicators, and continuous audit activities.
• Prepare audit reports and communicate findings, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Maintain strong relationships with plant management and operational teams.

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.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, 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.

Preferred candidate

Years of experience

5+ years

Degree

Bachelor's degree / higher diploma