Ali Alawami, Project Manager

Ali Alawami

Project Manager

Baker Hughes - Saudi Arabia

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, mechanical engineering
Experience
7 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :7 years, 11 Months

Project Manager at Baker Hughes - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2021

In this role I am responsible for more than $90M of backlog revenue heavily concentrated in the biggest customer in the middle east Saudi ARAMCO.
As a project Manager I am Responsible for project delivery, profit & loss accountability, and customer satisfaction through management of project related activities and resources.
• Customer focus, getting aligned and in reach with the customer to build a lasting customer relationship by having regular meetings with them to make sure all orders are on time
• On Time Delivery, getting involved in discussions with other functions and teams about improvement in processes, procedures, and ways of working.
• Project KPIs, presenting to executive leaders in specific technical space and on cross functional teams on how technologies interconnect and contribute to overall strategy.
• Project Financial Reporting, Cost control through identifying & reducing business expense to increase profit by planning the budget, using change control system, tracking earned value.
• Project Risk Management, identifying, evaluating, & preventing or mitigating risks to all the projects that have the potential to impact the needed outcome.

Material & Planning Leader at Baker Hughes - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • October 2019 to August 2021

Provide leadership for medium- and long-term planning of manufacturing and services for pressure control, comprising 100M USD in annual material inputs. Display strong organizational skills in leading preplanning for demand, capacity, inventory, and other production drivers, developing nimble strategies able to respond to changing situations and establishing cross-functional rhythm.
• Increased factory capacity by 15% while reducing lead time of material income by 35% and excess inventory by 8%.
• Drove capacity management strategies during sales and operations planning, master scheduling, materials requirements planning, and production activity control.
• Ensured uninterrupted of required materials and maintained appropriate stocking levels, leading team of two Material Requirement planners.

Engineering Operations Leader at Baker Hughes a GE Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • October 2018 to October 2019

• Lead a team of 93 employees to execute manufacturing plan and targets.
• Drive daily schedule attainment to meet all internal and external customer
commitments with top quality at the lowest cost, implement a strategy to reduce
cycle times, drive VCP, reduce in-process inventory levels, and improve quality,
service, and safety.
• Develop, coordinate, lead and execute daily production plans. (ex: creating a
link between the our ERP system and NCR system)
• Work with Engineering and Product Service to identify root causes and solve
external quality issues.
• Report product defects ensuring these are resolved and report solutions in
current NCR database..
• Accomplish goals while maintaining high team morale, employee involvement,
safety, and teamwork.
• Leading safe working practices and implementing and enforcing EHS policy
for all Operational Personnel.
• Dealing with Key customers on day to day operational activities.
• Implementing and enforcing the quality program.
• Control of all costs within the workshop.
• Ensure delivery schedules and pre-set times for operations are achieved.

Process Quality Engineer at General Electric - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • June 2016 to October 2018

Operationalizing and sustaining Fulfillment -5 metrics related to Quality
(RCA/NCA cycle, COQ tracking etc).

Driving a ‘zero exception’ culture with Quality; sustaining Operations
compliance to Regulatory & Non Regulatory regulations by engaging the shop
floor operators on a daily basis.

Manage daily and long-range for performing reworked for the rejected parts
while maintaining productivity cost control.

Leading the transition from the Global Rejection Report system to the NonConfirming Reporting system and be the Super User for it in PC-BHGE.

Spearheaded an initiative to improve the efficiency of a Sand Blasting process
by implementing Six Sigma tools and achieved a significant cost reduction by
$195K/year.

Created, implemented and monitored a tracking process system that tracks all
cladding’s defects, resulting in 23% increase in First Pass Yield, 48%
increase in the Clad Shop Output and 28% rise in Cladding Machines
Utilization by analyzing gathered data from the system.

Coordinate Global Quality Management Review Meetings to review cost of
quality (e.g. rework, scrap), certificates (e.g. API, ISO) RCA’s (Root Cause
Analysis), and pending actions.

Education

Bachelor's degree, mechanical engineering
  • at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
  • May 2017

Specialties & Skills

Lean Six Sigma
Production
Operational Excellence
Quality Management Systems QMS
Quality
leadership
ERP system
Microsoft office

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

RCA Leader (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2017
HSE leaders (Training)
Training Institute:
GE
Date Attended:
January 2018
Duration:
38 hours
Internal Auditor (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2018
Lean six Sigma (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2018