Ahmed Esbitan, General Manager

Ahmed Esbitan

General Manager

CFF Company

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Architecture
Experience
20 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 10 Months

General Manager at CFF Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since August 2021

CFF Specialized in 3 main divisions:
 Woodworking division
 Metal Division
 Aluminum Division

The owner started up the company to serve his own projects and go to the market once it is settled and ready.
Roles and work fields

 Oversee and improve manufacturing operations, establishing and driving production goals and developing organizational structures.
 Manage finances, monitoring budgets, expenses, and product unit costs to drive revenue and margin projections.
 Develop performance and efficiency metrics, identifying areas for improvement and reporting results to executive leadership.
 Developing and implementing growth strategies.
 Training low-level managers and staff.
 Evaluating performance and productivity.
 Researching and identifying growth opportunities.
 Generating reports and giving presentations.
 Ensure compliance with safety regulations and standard operating procedures, providing resources and training.
 Oversee employee hiring, training, development, and management, providing guidance to leadership teams.

Operation Director (Partner) at FdiC Fabbrica di Cabinetry
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since March 2017
Managing Partner at Lefoyer Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since January 2019
Production Manager at starwood industries
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2017 to March 2018

Roles and work fields
 Upgrading the Factory productivity By:
1. Implementing new organization chart for the factory
2. Determining human recourses needed according to our capacity.
3. Creating production processes for our products
4. Changing factory layout to match our processes.
5. Developing the staff mentality to match our requirements
 Planning and controlling production schedule and adjusting it if needed.
 Overseeing production process.
 Ensuring safety and health regulations are met.
 Estimating and negotiating budgets and timings with management.
 Determining and controlling quality control gates.
 Reviewing and assessing staff performance.
 Issuing weekly and monthly production performance reports and update management and project team with production progress.
(Successfully upgrading the productivity rates in 5 months over 4 times the initial in May 2017)

Production Manager at saudi icon
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2015 to March 2017

Roles and work fields
 Woodworks Factory Development.
6. Implementing new organization chart for the factory
7. Determining human recourses needed according to our capacity.
8. Creating production processes for our products
9. Changing factory layout to match our processes.
10. Setting a budget for our machinery and tools.
11. Choosing and negotiating new machinery within our budget.
12. Participating with SCHULER consultancy in setting our development plan.
 Planning and controlling production schedule and adjusting it if needed.
 Overseeing production process.
 Ensuring safety and health regulations are met.
 Estimating and negotiating budgets and timings with management.
 Determining and controlling quality control gates.
 Reviewing and assessing staff performance.
 Issuing weekly and monthly production performance reports and update management and project team with production progress.

Factory Manager at Elfath furniture
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2012 to October 2015

Roles and work fields.
 Manage and supervise factory operation.
 Managing priorities and time schedule for the factory production.
 Improve the production by organizing and planning all factory departments.
 Assuring product quality and properties.
 Meeting clients and pricing the products.
 Control daily administration and production issues.

Coordinator Engineer for the industrial park at German University In Cairo
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2008 to May 2012

Roles and work fields.
Roles/work fields. responsibilities / powers

Supervision /
Personnel - Discussion and adoption of the monthly assessment for employees with production manager and submitted to the Director General of the Industrial Park.
- Reporting irregularities to the staff director of the industrial complex to make the necessary recommendations.
Designer /
R & D - Preparation of new designs
- Receipt of the design review with the Director of the Industrial Park.
- Modify the design (if any), and offer to take the final approval.
planning - Setting the scope of work required for the production manager.
- Determine the measurements needed to establish specific performance by the director of production.
- Priorities for action received from the upper management for inclusion action plan.
- The inclusion of the amendments and the issuance of the final plan of action and take the approval of the General Director of the Industrial Park
Supervision maintenance - To schedule the maintenance work needed to repair faults and machines.
- Coordinate correspondence with the supplier.
Coordinator /
External representative.
- Meeting clients and studying their needs and discuss the areas of work and product pricing and dates of deliveries.
- View a sample output for customers to adopt and thus guide the production manager for the resumption of production.
- To discuss the client at the proposed amendments on the sample and study the feasibility and costs, and therefore modify the order of work
- Coordination with suppliers to bring all machinery / equipment / tools / accessories necessary for the production process
In three years, we achieved in the industrial park.
1. We manufactured most of the GUC furniture (classrooms - offices - doors - etc……)
2. Making some parts for the construction sites.
3. R&D.
There are 3 industrial units inside the park all are equipped with high end CNC machines.
1. Sheet metal unit.
2. Metal forming unit.
3. Wood-workshop unit.
From these 3 units I gained more experience in high technology machining systems.
What I gained from this period.
1. Nothing is impossible as long you have the proper tool.
2. Gaining experience in CNC machines and language.
3. Gaining more managerial skills.
4. How to plan and set scope of work for employees.
5. Doing reports and paper work.

Technical Office Engineer at Elfath Furniture
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2003 to August 2008

Roles and work fields.
Roles/work fields responsibilities / powers

Design - Preparation of the designs according the boundaries of the client and according the potentials of the factory.
Supervision / quality control. - Supervise the production process and the quality of the product.

Installation / submitting - Supervising the installation process of product.
- following up with clients and knowing their reviews.

In this period I contributed in manufacturing furniture for more than 500 clients. All with good reviews.

What I gained from this period.
1. Gaining communication skills from dealing with people and clients.
2. Gaining more technical skills.
Knowing market suppliers for materials and accessories.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Architecture
  • at Cairo university
  • June 2007

Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University , Architecture Department

Specialties & Skills

Production
Manufacturing
Project Management
Joinery
Management
AutoCad
Communication
Team Work
Planning
team leadership
teamwork
time management

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

CNC machining (Training)
Training Institute:
German University of Cairo
Date Attended:
June 2008
Duration:
36 hours