Ahmad AL Baz, Operations Manager

Ahmad AL Baz

Operations Manager

Freudenberg Vileda Jordan

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering
Experience
12 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 1 Months

Operations Manager at Freudenberg Vileda Jordan
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2019 to August 2021

• Responsible for all operations including production, maintenance, supply chain & LEAN.
• Lead the operations with success of exceeding company targets.

•Manage Supply chain (Buy-Make-Sell) including purchasing, materials, production planning and sale processes.
• Establish and maintain a preventive Maintenance system
• Establish Spare Parts Management System & Optimize spare part availability.
• liaise with QHSE to create a culture of HSE/QA awareness with workers.
• Hand-on supervision of daily operations including workflow scheduling, management of staff, monitoring productivity and quality, production process troubleshooting, and all other activities required to ensure on-time delivery and 100% customer satisfaction.
• Monitor and optimize performance of the manufacturing unit as measured by
expense variance, scrap cost, and productivity.
• Maintain favorable working relationships with employees through open
communication, visibility, and involvement to promote a positive working environment that maximizes safety, employee engagement, productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Ensure all requirements of the Quality system are met.
• Manage staffing through coaching and development, employment decisions, and
resolving employee issues through problem resolution.
• Continually analyze, identify, and set expectations to motivate workers to achieve
objectives and goals through providing feedback and recognition.

Operations Manager Assistant/Lean Associate at Freudenberg Vileda Jordan
  • Jordan
  • March 2015 to January 2019

• Responsible for Production & LEAN.
• Establish LEAN system and lead the implementation according to company Guidelines.
• Develop and implement cost-saving initiatives (TCD, VA/VE, CI ...etc.) which resulted in an annual $100, 000 Saving.
• Manage Production lines which include Injection Molding Machines (IMM), Foam Laminating, Brooms & Wipers Making, Stainless steel and other converting and assembly lines.
• Develop and maintain production metrics for quality, delivery, including visual controls and provides regular progress reports.
• Optimize & fine tune daily, weekly & Monthly production plan.

Production & Planning Manager at Saudi Mechanical Industries
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2010 to August 2014

Company Profile:

Headquartered in Riyadh Second Industrial City, Saudi Mechanical Industries (SMI) is a leading manufacturer with a successful 30-year track record. SMI specializes in fluid flow and control equipments (in particular vertical turbine pumps), engineering components and steel and bronze bars. The company supplies Saudi blue-chip companies in sectors ranging from oil and gas and agribusiness to defense, infrastructure and mining. In addition to its Saudi client base, the company is a key supplier to European clients and leading US manufacturers.

SMI owns the full value chain of production from design and engineering to casting, machining, assembly, testing, distribution, installation, maintenance and end-to-end field services. This gives SMI an advantage in time to market, cost, quality and overall execution capability. With a recently completed state-of-the-art DISA foundry, SMI has created a first rate platform to meet efficiently current customer demand and future growth.

Experience:

Production & Planning Engineer of Enameling Division (2010-2012). Responsible for managing all activities of Enameling Division including Production, Planning, Manpower, Quality, Maintenance, Purchasing, & Stock Control.

Production & Planning Manager of Foundry Factory starting from, 2012-2014.

Archived outcomes: Have increased throughput by 20%, reduced operations expenses by 10%, increase service level from 70% to 90%, reduced rejection rate by 10%, increase efficiency by 30%.

Experience in intense deadline driven manufacturing environments Water, Oil and Gas sector from Saudi Arabia.

Experience in managing workforce with minimum 200 workers.

Manage the manufacturing process to meet customer satisfaction &control the service level compared with lead time.

Optimize the manufacturing variables to achieve maximum profit, minimum cost, minimum cycle time and highest quality.

Closing the gap between ERP system and the actual.

Optimize minimum order quantity, Safety stock level.

Plan the facility, improve the housekeeping & relocate the processes to ensure flow with minimum handling and distances.

Manage multiple and varied Manufacturing Operations and Technical disciplines in 24/7 operations.

Develop tools for characterizing and evaluating the processes, and use these tools to describe, control and improve the processes, such as lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma approach, 5S, VSM &Earn to Paid.

Research & Development Engineer at Jordanian Government Project
  • Jordan - Amman
  • February 2009 to August 2010

Constructed KPI's such as Service Quality, Efficiency, Average cycle time from request to delivery and Volume of tasks per staff.

Completed time and motion studies, find the bottleneck, and standardize the the operation procedures.

Seek new and more efficient procedure with minimum cycle time by Simplifying the procedures and minimize the workflow.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering
  • at University of Jordan
  • January 2009

Specialties & Skills

Lean Manufacturing
Analysis Tools
Process Improvement
Operations Management
Microsoft Excel
Continuous Improvement
Computer literate
Managing a multi-national work force
Build Systems
Data Management

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

Saudi Engineers Council
  • Member
  • March 2012
Jordan Engineers Association
  • Member
  • February 2009

Training and Certifications

Planning (Training)
Training Institute:
indoor
Date Attended:
January 2012
Duration:
200 hours
Production Planning (Training)
Training Institute:
Production Scheduling Institute
Date Attended:
January 2012
FSS5 (Training)
Training Institute:
Freudenberg Group
Internal Audits (Training)
Training Institute:
Leads
16QA (Training)
Training Institute:
Freudenberg Group
Lean Green Belt (Training)
Training Institute:
Freudenberg Group
5s (Training)
Training Institute:
indoor
Date Attended:
October 2010
Duration:
10 hours
Six Sigma Green Belt (Training)
Training Institute:
University Of Jordan
Date Attended:
February 2009

Hobbies

  • computer
  • Technolojy