Alaa' Al Khatatbeh, Assistant General Manager (Technical & Projects)

Alaa' Al Khatatbeh

Assistant General Manager (Technical & Projects)

Saudi Mechanical Industries Co.

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Experience
20 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 1 Months

Assistant General Manager (Technical & Projects) at Saudi Mechanical Industries Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since April 2012

• Manage after sales services department and warranty claims for sector’s customers and insure high level of customers’ satisfaction.
• Scrutinizing technical mechanical problems and follow corrective actions.
• Working with the Sector General Manager to improve operations, sales and profitability.
• Work closely with customers to solve technical problems.
• Provide sales team with the technical support required.
• Lead and manage process improvement within the sector.
• Handle VIP customers like; VALMONT - Middle East, MAADEN, AL MARAI and NWWC.
• Prepare technical presentations for customers for products better understanding.
• Monitor branch’s sales achievements.
• Manage day to day activities in head office including sales coordination, sales forecast and orders planning.
• Helping junior engineers in sales, marketing and technical support.
• Conduct regular techno-commercial visit for customers.
• Plan internal and external training programs for sector’s employees.
• Coordinates technical aspects of development projects and report progress to higher management.
• Participate in preparing new products sales and marketing plans.
• Preparing distribution contracts and agreements.
Main Achievements:
• Succeeded in generating a new sales and inventory application (using Microsoft Access) to be used in branches.
• Achieve the assigned sales targets for my customers.
• Succeeded in signing a new distribution agreement with value of 10 million Saudi Riyals per year.
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Project Manager at Saudi Mechanical Industries Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2010 to April 2012

Project in Brief: The project aims to develop two new range of products; end suction pumps and split casing pumps (total 69 models for both). The project scope was covering hydraulic and mechanical design, pattern design and manufacturing, casting, machining, assembly, testing and final verification. The development process was done in cooperation with one of the leading consulting offices in Europe. The project aims to have the highest possible pumps efficiency in parallel with competitive cost durable mechanical design.
Duties:
• Insure that the hydraulic design, mechanical design, casting, machining, assembly and testing are being done according to the agreed specification and up to the quality limit required by the top management requirements.
• Follow up with all concern departments to have everything done one time and within the budget.
• Preparing products catalogues.
• Preparing monthly reports.
• Preparing training courses about the new products for sales and marketing teams.
• Sourcing out all new buy out items related to the new products like bearings and mechanical seals.
• Calculating the cost of production for each pump.

Senior Mechanical Engineer at Saudi Mechanical Industries Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2005 to April 2008

• Manage after sales services department and warranty claims for division’s customers.
• Study projects inquiries and decide whether to proceed in quoting or not.
• Supervising mechanical applications engineers.
• Design pumping systems, prepare hydraulic studies and provide the best solution for each case.
• Reviewing technical submittals and studies.
• Provide sales and projects teams with the required technical support.
• Training new engineers.
• Preparing technical presentations and conduct training courses for customers.

Mechanical Application Engineer at Saudi Mechanical Industries Co. (SMI)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2005 to April 2008

• Analyzing customers’ inquiries in the water works division scope of work.
• Design, selection and pricing of line shaft vertical turbine pumps and submersible turbine pumps (including special applications’ pumps).
• Preparing technical submittals.
• Preparing inquiries for SMI affiliate companies (RITZ, SPP, FAGGIOLATI ... etc).
• Preparing inquiries for mechanical buy-out items.
• Reviewing and analyzing incoming offers for mechanical items and preparation the compliance sheets.

Maintenance and Transport Engineer at Square General Contracting Co.
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • December 2004 to April 2005
Maintenance Engineer at Sabri Farah International Est.
  • Jordan - Amman
  • April 2002 to December 2004

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at University of Jordan
  • February 2002

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Technical Sales
People Management
Decision Making Skills
Cost and budget management
Decision making and problems solving
Ability to work with minimum supervision
Coordination and analysis skills
Technical report writing
Oral and written communication skills

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Jordan Engineers Association
  • Regular Member
  • February 2002
Saudi Arabia Standards Organization (SASO)
  • Member in the pumps committee
  • June 2010
Saudi Council Engineers
  • member
  • April 2013

Training and Certifications

Certified KPI Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Certified KPI Practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
Valid Until:
December 2017
Time Management and setting priorities (Training)
Training Institute:
DAR AL ROA'A
Geophysical Well Logging (Training)
Training Institute:
Technology Expert
Pumps performance, operation and selection (Training)
Training Institute:
IIRME
Fast Reading (Training)
Training Institute:
DAR AL ROA'A
ISO 9001 (Training)
Training Institute:
SMI
Pumps troubleshooting and maintenance (Training)
Training Institute:
IIRME

Hobbies

  • Reading at an average of 50 pages per day
    I have read many books in different aspects such as engineering books, management and leadership books beside some novels in both Arabic and English languages.