Plant Manager
Space Frame
Total years of experience :24 years, 5 Months
Rafid SteelRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
•Develop a planning process for better reliability and delivery performance and communicate to stakeholders
•Review process and root cause issues with actions and remedial fix
•Drive visibility of expectation and commitment to ensure accountability and urgency through daily plan and target for each functional team
•Identify major issues and needed changes through best practice review and adoption
•Vendor review and alignment with company needs
•Identify cost saving opportunities
•Realign work force for better efficiency and throughput
•Target settings and prioritization
•Business development by adapting business practices to meet a wider span of customer needs.
•Improved communications with clients and sales force to ensure higher level of customer satisfaction.
Manage production activities for the plant to produce Nutraceutical finished goods
•Optimized Lot size for optimum efficiency and cost control
•Continuously seeking cost savings and improvements to increase market share
•Overseeing the manufacturing process for Pressing Tablets, Capsule Filling, and Liquids
•Negotiate pricing for bulk raw materials
•Interface with global suppliers for quality, on time deliveries, pricing, shipping, and Customs release
•Meet company financial goals
Cooper Industries. - Dammam, Saudi Arabia
•Develop a planning process for better reliability and delivery performance and communicate to stakeholders
•Review process and root cause issues with actions and remedial fix
•Drive visibility of expectation and commitment to ensure accountability and urgency through daily plan and target for each employee
•Develop and implement standard work for key positions
•Identify major issues and needed changes through best practice review and adoption
•Vendor review and alignment with company needs
•Identify cost saving opportunities
•Realign work force for better efficiency and throughput
•Target settings and prioritization
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
•Developed a Process Flow for Quality
•Improved Throughput and reduced Scrap/Loss
•Developed an interdepartmental Communication Team that streamlined workflow, planning, & Logistics b/w Production & Supply Chain.
•Plan/Budget upcoming project Logistics, Material Supply, Efficiencies & Headcount.
•Created a team with a “Can DO attitude”, “one for all and all for one”.
•Induced flexibility and improvements through idea sharing supplemented by an incentive Program developed by myself and Human Resources.
•Handled production, pricing, and sale of customer orders
Direct a staff in excess of 146 employees and significantly reduced turnover; identify new employee’s skills and matched those skills to the individual production areas
•Re-aligned priorities to support Marketing and sales plans; commitments kept through well-coordinated project plans; improved operational efficiency through effective planning and execution of transfers into Manufacturing
•Re-aligned priorities throughout Production to meet future business needs;
•Developed succession plans and identified key positions to meet future business needs.
•Developed techniques to identify key employees that create a base for the entire department
•Continually refine and create Area Work Instructions (AWI) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s)
•Outlined project scope, revising requirements with functional areas as appropriate and identify implementation costs and ongoing resource requirements
•Balanced workload in manufacturing to improve efficiency; established production baselines on individual machines
•Supported employees to reach their full potential, and recognized for their accomplishments
•Mentor several employees in the transition from manufacturing to management levels
•Drove value to our customers by providing a consistent supply of high quality products
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