Ahmad Elghawi, Plant production manager

Ahmad Elghawi

Plant production manager

Kottouf and hala sweets

Lieu
Arabie Saoudite - Dammam
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Industrial Engineering and Management
Expérience
9 years, 2 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :9 years, 2 Mois

Plant production manager à Kottouf and hala sweets
  • Arabie Saoudite - Dammam
  • Je travaille ici depuis mars 2022

⮚ Category:
a) Chocolate Boxes / Chocolate Trays / Baklawa / Petit Four / Maamoul / Arabic Sweets / French Sweets / Hala Sweets / Macaroon.
⮚ Responsibility:
a) Plant production manager for 4 factories. The main one is in Dammam, and the other factories are in Riyadh, Jeddah, and Abha. Covering more than 218 retail stores inside and outside kingdom, responsible for the overall operation of a manufacturing plant.
⮚ Roles:
a) Coordinate the plant’s activities through production, quality control, maintenance, purchasing, innovation, sales, budgeting, costing, marketing, designing, shipping, and receiving.
⮚ R&D:
a) Implement new products monthly that match the trends, market price, quality, and taste.
b) Implement Chocolate & Baklawa line production.

Cost Reduction:
a)
Adjusting recipes of Items, which led to saving 82K sar monthly.
b)
Reduce return wastage percentage from 24% to 7%. (Saving more than 350K per month).
c)
Coordinate with purchase department to find best deals inside and outside kingdom (supplying from China, Italy, Jordan…).
⮚ Production:
a) Created a new production process that improved production efficiency and reduced working time hours from 12 to 9.
b) 0Managing warehouses stock levels, and purchase request.
a) Setup layout and ensure efficient space utilization.
⮚ Finance:
a) Submit the yearly budget to the finance department.
b) Feasibility studies & ROI for new machinery or projects.
⮚ Scalability: Employing more than 300 employees since the start, “hiring, training, and evaluating workers”. Dammam Factory 10, 000 m2. Jeddah Factory 1800 m2. Riyadh Bakery 300 m2 Abha Bakery 300m2
⮚ HSE:
a) Apply health and safety regulations to reach the ISO & SFDA requirements in coordination with the quality control team.
b) Facilitate safe working environment for people and implement HSE guidelines and regulations.
⮚ Sales:
a) Increased factory sales by 60%.
b) Controlling stocks of factory items and availability in branches.

Production Manager à bassam ghrawi confectionery
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • septembre 2017 à février 2023

Production Manager of Chocolate factory
daily productivity +5 Ton
Plan, organize, direct, and run optimum day-to-day operations.
● Created new production process that improved production efficiency by 40 percent and eliminate Overtime work.
● Oversee a workforce of 60+ employees in the factory and experienced with hiring, training, and
evaluating workers.
● Supervise warehouse employees and oversee daily operations.
● Created efficiency improvement models and implemented them.
● Research and analysis which lead to saving thousands of dollars per year.
● Participate in various activities related to safety, quality, productivity, innovation, information and data security, people management, HR, and other delivery.
● Monitored manufacturing to ensure it stayed on schedule and remained within budget constraints.
● Analyzing production data to identify and resolve any production issues.
● Control and manage inventory “Raw material, semi-finished products”.
● Leading tactical operations rhythm and working inclusively with EHS, Engineering, Quality, and HR to resolve shop floor issues promptly.
● Helping the Quality team and ensuring compliance with QMS procedures.

Cost Control Engineer à FPC
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • mars 2020 à février 2022

Projecrt cost controller engineer
holding +8 Projects at same timePlanning, budget, and financial control of projects.

● Control and monitor project total expenditure including verifying and checking invoices and claims from suppliers, vendors, and subcontractors to ensure that all project expenditures are captured and properly recorded.
● Receive and manage the budgets of necessary quantities and costs based on all corresponding estimates and measurements.
● Make sure that all Cost Reports are updated and that the provisions & statistics are suitably formulated and drawn up during the work performance.
● Manage all the important documents, contractual terms and conditions corresponding to the different Assembly Subcontracts.
● Analyze invoices to ensure correct products/services were received at the expected cost.
● Collaborate with department heads to strategize ways to minimize waste.
● Roll out clear cost-saving programs with timelines and assessment goals.
● Projects I've worked on: THE ESPLANADE MALL, RIYADH POLYCLINIC, RABWA SQUARE, SEERA PROJECT, ARABIA OUD’S PROJECT, SALHIYA DC, ROWAD AL KHALEEJ SCHOOLS (2), RIMA WATER FACTORY.

Warehouse Manager à The Co. Family (Burger Co. Pizza Co. Deli Co.)
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • septembre 2015 à août 2017

Manages the logistics, inventory and storage of the company’s physical assets assigned to the Restaurants.
● Ensure that all Distribution Centre Departments receive and process daily picking and store deliveries.
● Manages supply chain for Restaurant Operations by ensuring availability of all relevant materials in proper stock level that can sustain uninterrupted operations.

Production Trainee à Diet Center Al -Munajem Group
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • juin 2015 à août 2015

● Assisting production manager in his daily tasks.
● Quality assurance of products.
● Research and analysis which lead to saving 1.2 million riyal per year.
● Monitored stocking levels, ensuring no over-age inventory.
● Negotiating and finalizing the prices of the material and subcontract works daily.
● Complying with all health and safety requirements and making sure that safety equipment is provided for all subcontractors and company laborers.

Production Trainee à MASTERPAK - Indevco Group
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • juin 2014 à juillet 2014


Adhered to network flow standards in production lines.

Researched and analyzed different causes of Dolci Machine error “high waste rate”.

Suggesting solutions for the problem mentioned above.

Follow up on the implementation of final solution.

Reviewing & planning new preventive maintenance schedule to minimize failures.

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Industrial Engineering and Management
  • à Beirut Arab University
  • août 2016

Specialties & Skills

Factory Operations
Food Manufacturing
Daily Operations
production manager
Industrial Engineering
DATA SECURITY
INNOVATION
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (QMS) AUDITING
TIMELINES
PRODUCTION PROCESS
RESEARCH
OPERATIONS

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