Plant Manager
Al Majed for Oud
Total years of experience :18 years, 4 Months
* Planning, organizing, and managing day-to-day production activities to meet production targets and quality standards.
* Implementing production schedules, workflows, and resource allocation strategies to optimize efficiency and reduce waste.
* Monitoring and analyzing production KPIs, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing corrective actions.
* Ensuring that products meet quality standards and regulatory requirements through continuous monitoring and improvement of quality control processes.
* Conducting regular inspections and audits to maintain product quality and consistency.
* Collaborating with the quality assurance team to address any product or process-related issues.
* Providing leadership and mentorship to the production team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and safety.
* Recruiting, train, and develop staff to enhance their skills and performance.
* Managing staffing levels to meet production requirements while controlling labor costs.
* Collaborating with the supply chain team to ensure the timely procurement of materials and supplies.
* Maintaining a safe and clean working environment by enforcing health and safety guidelines and procedures.
* Ensuring that all employees are trained in safety protocols and adhere to them consistently.
* Controlling operational costs within budgetary constraints while optimizing resource utilization.
* Identifying cost-saving opportunities and implementing cost reduction initiatives.
* Championing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies to enhance operational efficiency and reduce waste.
* Leading and supporting process improvement projects and initiatives.
* Accomplishing manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations, planning, monitoring, and appraising job results, coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees, initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
* Maintaining staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees, developing personal growth opportunities.
* Completing production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel, accomplishing work results, establishing priorities, monitoring progress, revising schedules, resolving problems, reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
* Maintaining quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
* Providing manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analysing production performance records and data, answering questions and responding to requests.
* Creating and revises systems and procedures by analysing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements, implementing change.
* Maintaining safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources, maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
* Contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
* Managing the DP dept. orders and schedule requirements.
* Planning production operations while establishing manufacturing priorities and sequences.
* Establishing and adjusting work procedures to meet production schedules and deliver output to deadlines.
* Reviewed production orders, schedules, delivery dates and inventory levels to determine product availability.
* Optimizing scheduling based on deep expertise in machine capacities and equipment.
* Defining manufacturing performance standards and reviewing performance outcomes to set future targets.
* Coordinating closely with quality control regarding products awaiting disposition.
* Implementing changes in working conditions, equipment, and tools to improve workflow, efficiency, and team member safety.
* Coordinating preventive maintenance on existing and new production equipment, including routine calibration.
* Coaching employees in developing and achieving individual performance goals.
* Reviewing production issues and implement corrective action plans, enhancing operational efficiency.
* Directing and motivating more than 80 production staff.
* Overseeing the production process, drawing up a production schedule.
* Ensuring that the production is cost effective.
* Making sure that products are produced on time and are of good quality.
* Working out the human and material resources needed.
* Drafting a timescale for the job.
* Estimating costs and setting the quality standards.
* Monitoring the production processes and adjusting schedules as needed.
* Being responsible for the selection and maintenance of equipment.
* Monitoring product standards and implementing quality-control programs.
* Liaising among different departments, e.g. suppliers, managers.
* Working with managers to implement the company's policies and goals.
* Ensuring that health and safety guidelines are followed.
* Supervising and motivating a team of workers.
* Reviewing the performance of subordinates.
* Identifying training needs.
* Maximizing the effectiveness of the production team, equipment, and materials to produce multi-line products within planned schedules while reducing costs.
* Supervising the effective work of production personnel and preparing effective production schedules and ensuring compliance with all company policies.
* Balance quality, productivity, cost, safety, and morale to achieve positive results in all areas.
* Developing the technical documents including instruction manuals and procedure manuals.
* Coordinating with the QC & QA Dept. to ensure chemicals and other raw materials are supplied in compliance with the quality standards.
* Implementing a preventive maintenance program for production facilities.
* Instituting and monitoring safe work practice procedures to maintain an injury-free and efficient production facility.
* Achieving a consistent record of improving production runs and reducing costs.
* Improving formulas for liquid detergents, antiseptics, disinfectants, toilet soaps (hygiene field), and industrial use detergents, among other things.
* Contributing procedure and operational input to technical safety and operability reviews, operator training, maintenance activities, and performance test-runs.
* Preparing the MSDS and TDS for all products.
* Preparing reports at end of the shift/week/month including (Production and production cost, staff control, purchasing, inventory, and safety reports).
* Ensuring that chemicals and other raw materials are delivered in accordance with quality standards.
* Procedure for chemical classification and segregation
* Leading the QHSE steering committee at the factory.
* Keeping departmental records in accordance with duties (e.g., accident records, training records, risk assessments, etc.)
Operations and Production Management.
Chemical Industries.