General Production manager
Riyadh Cables Group of Companies
Total years of experience :21 years, 10 Months
Responsibilities:
• Create and implement Saudization plan for production lines and machines.
• Led, directed, evaluated, and developed section managers and other professionals to ensure that the manufacturing activities meet established targets and standards.
• Coordinated with Maintenance Department for implementation of corrective and preventive measures. Took daily reviews of productivity, quality, wastages, downtime and suggested corrective and preventive actions required.
• Held daily meeting with teams to review the past activities to ensure immediate action and get the team updated for any new requirement.
• Followed up and contacted purchase department and suppliers for any issue related to raw material to ensure on time availability of the raw material in store.
• Worked closely with plant and quality assurance personnel to review product quality consistency while monitoring yield rates and wastage to determine trends and areas of improvement.
• Reviewed the established production schedules for all manufacturing departments to ensure established inventory levels are met while operating at the highest efficiency possible.
• Ensured that staffing and competency levels are achieved/exceeded in all aspects of the manufacturing process. Monitored operation expenses and researched for ways to reduce costs while maintaining product quality.
• Developed and executed the plant manufacturing budgets, in coordination with relevant departments accountable to the achievement of budgets. Analysed workforce requirements. Conducted performance appraisals and provide coaching and guidance to all operations section managers and other professionals
• Encouraged and promoted operations in a continuous improvement environment. Removed production constraints; allocated human and equipment resources and directed production employees to attain all established goals.
• Ensured that all members are aware of safety requirements, legislative policies/procedures, to provide a safe workplace for our employees.
• Promoted the proactive reporting of workplace hazards identified during the course of work to the appropriate person, following standard operating procedures.
• Controlled inventory level by checking in all external vendors (via concerned departments) and ensuring that the delivery is accurate. Kept open line of communication with vendors to ensure the line’s needs are met.
• To be on direct contact with customers for any manufacturing or quality or technical support.
Highlighted Achievements:
• Improve the machines output by reduce the number of required setups.
• Reducing cost of operation for especial steel core ACSR/AW Dove (purchase the steel wires and modify old stranding machine to run the especial requirement instead of purchasing ready stranded steel wires from outside KSA).
• Reducing the consumption of production budget by 25 % during 2017
Responsibilities:
• Headed all the activities and processes on Production Line until products passed the quality test. Upgraded and developed the work instruction for the processes and safety measures.
• Looked for machines’ output rate, scrap percentage, material consumption, NCR control and closing, workers’ performance.
• Reported periodically to the top management about the overall status, showing the achievements and the actions taken to control process difficulties, if any.
• Coordinated assembly activities with all other functions of the organization and suppliers to obtain optimum production and utilization of human resources, machines, and equipment.
• Demonstrated commitment to achieve safety & health goals and objectives including compliance with all applicable policies, procedures and training to maintain a safe work place.
• Established production/quality control standards, developed budget and cost controls, and obtained data regarding types, quantities, specifications, and delivery dates of products ordered.
• Provided guidance to the development of assembly process plan, including personnel requirements, material needs, subcontract requirements, facility needs, and tooling and equipment needs.
• Reviewed proposals / contracts for feasibility, cost and schedule issues. Ensured that each job site is visited daily by a company representative to monitor job progress, quality, safety, cleanliness and site security.
• Created job schedules, ordered materials, conducted a pre-construction meeting at the start of each job.
• Tracked actual costs against estimates and coordinated with sales & accounting and approved invoices for payment.
• Ensured compliance with all company rules, policies & agreements, supervised field staff and subcontractors, evaluated quality at each production step, documented company procedures and trained employees & subcontractors.
• Ensured efficient collaboration and coordination between relevant departments including procurement, distribution and management.
• Staffed, managed, coached, motivated, trained and assessed performance of production and operations employees, both exempt and non-exempt by reviewing their performance and accordingly organized necessary interventions for improvement.
Highlighted Achievements:
• Improved the output of old drawing machines.
• Reduce the NCR by 80% by improve the product quality.
Responsibilities:
• Ensured smooth running of all process, supervised shift activities, and coordinated with maintenance and quality team to resolve problems on time.
• Reported to the production manager on daily & weekly basis about each and every crucial plant process. Controlled the yearly budget with all other shift engineers.
• Prepared yearly comprehensive report on the plant activities and submitted to the senior management.
• Provided off hours technical support in areas of responsibility. Developed active continuous material balances for each of the Plant processes.
• Developed and implemented process improvements to optimize yield performance. Tracked production and delivered monthly reports summarizing productive time performance.
• Provided troubleshooting assistance for plant issues, including distributed control systems. Assisted Production Management and Production Teams to control and reduce operating and labour costs.
• Assisted the Production Trainer with the development of necessary operating, start-up, shutdown, and emergency shutdown procedures. Served as Production Department Representative for projects affecting the Plant areas.
• Participated in root cause investigation and decision process of taking corrective action for process quality excursions, customer complaints, and quality audit findings. Led implementation of preventive actions to prevent quality excursions.
• Assisted Production Management with development, review, and update of production procedures. Led Preliminary Hazard Reviews, Process Hazard Analysis, and Operational Readiness Inspections.
Highlighted Achievements:
• Came up with an idea to cease damage of top layer of cables and saved millions of Saudi Riyal.
• Solved the problem of centering for the extruder line.
• Improved the productivity of old armouring machine with Saudi Operators.
• Improved the capacity of assembling machine.
ONLINE STUDAY
Bachelor of Applied Mechanical Engineering