Operations Manager Western Region
Air Liquide
Total des années d'expérience :14 years, 7 Mois
• Jeddah branch construction project of 3 MSAR as a redistribution and filling center
• LAr supply design and installation at a steel company with a piping network of 350 meters
• Onsite Argon co2 mixing pipeline supply project was executed in Rabigh
• Successful introduction of Mini bulk Liquid Nitrogen tanks to Laser cutting customers
• Bulk liquid gases sourcing and supplies all across the western region KSA
• 5m USD AL Yanbu Project’s engineering and environment consultants negotiations, resources & communication planning and execution
• Cylinders and bulk logistics planning and assets management
• Dry ice production and recovery unit installation and commissioning
• Dry Ice machine production standard capacity 20% increased by adjusting the dry ice block size
• Inventory management to maintain products stocks and spares for the plants.
• Preventive Maintenance program developed for plants
• Bulk inventory losses were maintained within 3%
• Operational reporting and follow ups to local management and AL group
• Unique anti confusion coupling installation project was initiated and have achieved 80 completion so far
• Responsible for QHSE in the Plants and Logistics
• Developed SOP’s and SMP’s for the Plants and logistics
• Generic Risk Analysis (GRA) and Accidental Risk assessment (ARA) to achieve EIS (Elements important for Safety) identification was done for the Plants and Customer installations
• Job Hazards analysis, Safe work permit and Behavioral Safety Visit implemented
• Conducting HSE meetings and trainings for the Plant Personnel as per the Air Liquide Technical Standards & Information Notes
• Project Risk Identification (PRI), Project Risk Assessment (PRA) &Ready for start up review (RFSR) for the Jeddah Site and Customer Installations
• Helium losses went down by fixing of helium flash recovery balloon and turned into business product
• Product coding developed and implemented following AL group standards
• CO2 and Oxygen filling system installation and commissioning
• Cylinders refurbishment facility installation project
• Quality control lab upgraded and installed a gas chromatograph
• Preventive maintenance system initiated and trained staff on monitoring system
• Appointed as IMS training manager
• Implementation of Behavior Safety Visits
• ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OSHAS 18001 certification for the facility
• Maintained recordable accident rate to zero.
• Acetylene AA grade, Zero and Medical Air in house production
• Waste management tools implemented to recycle to achieve legal and environment compliance and improve product costs
• KPIs improved by negligible downtime, reliable maintenance and reduction in overtime costs by 70%.
• Inventory management tool was developed to improve resource planning for reliable operations and reduce inventory
• Excel based maintenance program was developed and implemented and plants reliability improved
• Cylinders turnaround rotation improved from 3.3 to 3.9 fills/cylinder by a revised cylinders distribution plan and inducting call center
• Cylinders warehouse KANBAN system revisited, resulting better resource utilization
• New Ammonia filling and mixing plant project construction and commissioning
• Cost analyses and monitoring to meet budgeted costs
• Achieved CGA standards CO2 quality for beverages and other applications
• Trained staff and operators on SOPs and quality standards.
• Cylinders refurbishment capacity doubled with no change in manpower
• Revived Hydrogen plant production and quality after major maintenance.
• Introduced standard manifolded cylinder pallets MCPs (bundles)
• Developed P&I diagrams for all plants i.e. Air gases filling station, CO2, Nitrous, acetylene and ammonia filling.
• Improved and maintained Nitrous oxide plant yield from 2.7 to 2.2
• Improved Carbon-dioxide plant production from 120 to 230 kg/hr by achieving design parameters.
• Increased productivity of Acetylene plant from 80 to 120 cyls/ day.
• Enhanced gas purity of cylinders to international standards by implementing cylinder preparations and quality checks
• Nominated as customer engineering services (CES) peer group member for Pakistan by BOC Group (part of The Linde Group)
• Commissioned LOX and LIN customer installations and implemented customer feedback system
• Trained staff and operators on Traccess - BOC Group’s online training software and evaluated by Audit Manager program
• Supervised and planned preventive/ predictive maintenance of ASU, Nitrous Oxide plants and compression facilities.
• Customized and trained staff in implementation of Computerized Maintenance Management System.
• Improved reliability of equipment and supported operations by implementing modifications to existing facilities.
• Developed major new application for Liquid Nitrogen with cement sector’s coal firing systems. Coal available in Pakistan has high Sulphur content which leads to fire, Nitrogen blanketing ensures safe operation
• Maintained 4 stars ranking in National Occupational Safety Association’s audit with better scores in every area.
• Implemented Trip Losses Monitoring System. This reduced the major loss of products due to better monitoring and preventive maintenance of vacuum insulated vessels.
• Reduced distribution costs by improved tankers utilization
• Marketed and sold Philips consumer and industrial product range
• Brought into operation Computerized Maintenance Management System, which was out of service for the past one year.
• Developed SOPs and trained staff to improve paints manufacturing procedure compliance from.
• Organized systematic description of various engineering spares available in the stores.
• Monitored the assembly line of transformers, switchgears, compressors, air-conditioners and refrigerators
GPA 3.4
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