Technical Manager
Conmix Saudi Arabia Co.
Total years of experience :19 years, 1 Months
-Quality and production Planning
-Raw Material Requirements planning and inventory control.
- Quality control and Assurance
- Product costing
-Technical and after sales services
-Product development
-Training
Transferred to Jeddah in same capacity
Quality Controller-Premix Plaster, Conmix Limited, Dubai, UAE 01/2012 - To date
Conmix Limited, Sharjah, UAE, was established in 1975. The Business portfolio of Conmix includes Ready Mix Concrete, Pre mix Plaster, Construction Chemicals, Piling and Water Treatment.
* Conmix operates and controls its Business activities through an Enterprise resource Planning (ERP) system/software called Oracle Business applications. My responsibility is to create, maintain and update the item master for both Raw Material (RM) and Finished Goods (FG) . Based on master items for FG, Bills of Materials (BOM) are generated to facilitate RM consumption transactions, FG costing, inventory management and control.
* Ensure RM and FG conforms to acceptance criteria as outlined in Test Plan and Specifications.
* Ensure activities that affect product quality are well documented/recorded, controlled, implemented and maintained to satisfy requirements of ISO 9001:2008 to which Conmix is certified.
* Issue Product Proposals and compliance statements against customer specifications/international standards and requirements.
* Attend to customer complaints timely and to investigate the root causes and institute correction and corrective actions.
* Control QC/production processes to ensure Non Conformances (NC) if any are identified and controlled at early stages and to generate NCR's for non conforming RM and FG.
* Product development, verification and validation as per customer and statutory requirements.
* Maintain and update product mix designs and control issuance for production.
* Established a Quality Managements System for Conmix Tunisia - Premix Plaster division which was inaugurated in June 2012.
Assistant Production manager, Crescent detergents limited, Lusaka Zambia 10/2009 - 02/2011
Business portfolio of Crescent Detergents is Manufacture and distribution of Bullet Detergent paste and Related FMCGs
* General supervision of entire workforce of 90 production employees.
* Quality management. Development, maintenance and management of standard operation procedures (SOP) . Product and raw material quality control.
* Improved quality of paste by optimizing process resulting in 12 percent increase in sales volumes in the first six months of my employment.
* Key performance indicators (KPI) monitoring. Measurement, monitoring and evaluation of Productivity, man hours, operating efficiency and asset utilization.
* Stock management. Providing timely stock positions for raw and packaging materials weekly to ensure continuous production cycles.
Assistant technical manager, Coates brothers, Ndola Zambia 05/1996 - 07/199 and 03/2007 -11/2008
Core business: A member of Sunchemical the leading manufacture of printing inks and surface coatings. Printing inks include webfed (newspaper ink), sheetfed (publication and display/ packaging), and screen inks. Surface coatings included Metal Decoration products for crown closures, food cans and metal Drums
After 8 years Coates brothers recalled me to take up above position and the following were my responsibilities and successes:
* Enhanced sales and customer service by providing technical advice to new and existing customers. This was cardinal as it created clients who advocated for our products and thus helped to grow the market share. Gourock Plastics and packaging were the latest prospect to be captured after successful provision of technical support for the commissioning of a six colour Flexographic printing machine. This increased sale turnover by 2 %.
* Coordinated sales, quality control and production to ensure on time and complete deliveries.
* Developed, updated and managed standard operation procedures (SOP) and Technical literature pertaining to products, safety, health and environment in conformity with requirements of ISO 9001 and Sunchemical standards and regulation.
* Managed stock to ensure measurement and minimization of variances and stock outs.
* Trained and equipped staff with skills and expertise relevant to there area of operation in production, technical and sales.
* Ensured plant and machinery were routinely maintained and kept in safe and good working condition.
* Managed occupational safety, health and good manufacturing practices through diligent inspections to ensure operations complied with factories legislation and sunchemical safety, health and environmental (SHE) objectives.
* Attended to customer queries and complaints and documented them for purposes of predicting and understanding future market trends and practical solutions.
* Monitored customer activities for purposes of future planning and strategizing.
* Approved and scrutinized all ink formulations to ensure cost effectiveness, optimal utilization of materials and conformity to particular technology and Coates standards and specification.
* Quality control and management of all product lines to ensure conformity to standards and regulation
* Preparation of periodic reports (production and sales reports for management)
* Maintained and updated SHE records in terms of Accidents, dangerous occurrences and occupation illnesses / poisoning
Quality Analyst, COLGATE-PALMOLIVE, Ndola, Zambia 02/2001 - 06/2006
Core business: manufacturing and distribution of household and personal care products. Household products included detergents (Axion dishwashing, dynamo fabric care and Ajax scouring powder), personal care (Colgate tooth paste)
* Successfully completed development of a cost effective and high quality product in Dynamo detergent paste. The formulation of this product resulted in margin improvements and consistent quality.
* Negotiated for correct import duty tariff for fabric softener (sta-soft) with Zambia Revenue Authority. This resulted in savings totaling Kwacha one hundred and sixty three million (K163, 000, 000.00) per month.
* Completed a supplier certification program involving Mindeco small mines for the supply of consistent quality calcium carbonate used in Ajax scourer manufacturing.
* Trained in occupational safety including Risk assessment, Machine Guarding and general safety auditing (Guardian Angel)
* Conducted safety audits in the plant and offices to ensure conformity to safety standards (factories act) and reported / documented all non-conformances for immediate intervention.
* Conducted qualitative and quantitative analysis of all products and raw materials to ensure they met set standards and conformed to local regulation.
* Ensured plant and operations were in compliance with relevant safety, health and environmental regulations and standards by identifying and communicating hazards and / or risks and providing adequate and appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) or ensuring modification to operations or plant to satisfy compliance criteria.
* Carried out microbiological analysis on Colgate toothpaste and its respective raw materials and manufacturing equipment to ensure no incidences of microbial contamination.
A grade
* Diploma, Industrial Science Technology, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia (1996)
* School certificate, Kitwe boys high school, Kitwe Zambia (1992)
