operation director - Jobs in Cairo, Egypt

Job Description

As the Corporate Operations Director at EDECS, you will be responsible for managing and overseeing the company?s core operations for the diversified project portfolio across the 3 operating sectors; Marine, Infrastructure& Utilities, and Bridges, as well as the enabling functions of inventory management and company?s equipment.This role will work in direct support of the COO and the top-level executive team to ensure the presence of proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures as well as required people systems to effectively streamline operations and ensure sustainable growth and efficiency.As a member of the EDECS team, you will actively contribute to the growth and development of our company. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie in our people. We support our team in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful scope, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking, and work-life balance.Operations Management

• Provide leadership and management to an engineering and contracting company?s operations arm that mirrors the adopted mission and core values within.
• Drive the company to achieve and surpass; revenue, profitability, cash flow and business goals and objectives.
• Measure and make effective all processes internal and external. Provide timely, accurate and complete reports on the operating condition of the company to the COO.
• Spearhead the communication and implementation of effective growth strategies and processes.
• Collaborate with the management team to develop and implement plans for the operational infrastructure of systems, processes, and personnel designed to accommodate the rapid growth objectives of our organization.
• Motivate and lead a high-performance project management team; attract, recruit and retain required members of the operations team not currently in place; provide mentoring as a cornerstone to the management career development program.
• Act as lead client-care officer through direct contact with every client and partner.
• Foster a goal-oriented environment as well as accountability within the operations.

Project Management

• Complete a 360-project management maturity review for the current portfolio highlighting areas of development such as but not limited to capability, process, governance and structural gaps
• Formulate and implement an action plan to address identified development areas to raise project management maturity level to an aspired best in class level
• Enhance accountability and transparency on the project as well as the operating sector level, delegating and monitoring ownership of project profitability and sound budget management whilst meeting project delivery schedules
• Streamline project operation responsibilities and communication between site locations and corporate functions
• Adopt digital tools and ERP utilization in operations management
• Enhance subcontractor management capabilities across portfolio in different sectors; Marine, Infrastructure & utilities, Bridges
• Enhance reporting structure and process to communicate operational updates clearly and periodically to the COO and executive team
• Build optimization systems to minimize operational waste across operations for high spend items such as steel
• Enhance facility standards and work environment quality across locations

Equipment

• Ensure solid documentation and tracking process across the company?s equipment fleet
• Review and optimize the company?s fleet, recommending investment decisions for equipment fleet between purchasing, renting, and overhauling equipment
• Enhance steel workshop operations and the company?s equipment repair workshop management capabilities
• Ensure maintenance plans and budgets are met, justifying and resolving any variances against plan, whilst fulfilling operational needs
• Define criteria of selection, purchase and rental for all equipment and tool needs to ensure streamlined operations

Inventory and Warehouses

• Build and maintain a capable team for running inventory operations
• Ensure proper standard operating procedures and reporting outputs are generated to serve operations as well as other core functions in the organization such as Project controls, finance and procurement
• Clear management process of asset-classified inventory to maintain and advise on purchase and rental needs
• Team management and coordination for periodic reports generation across sites and central locations

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