الواثق عبده

Oversees the production process and coordinates all activities to ensure enough resources on hand. Plan workers’ schedules, estimate costs, and prepare budgets to ensure workflow deliver KPI commitments related to Service - Agility - Investment - People and responsible business with focus on demand fulfilment from the market. Stabilize the factory and trigger performance improvement, identify, and follow up focus areas. Technical management, supervision, and control of industrial production processes.

Lead and manage teams in production to successfully achieve all key metrics Safety - Quality - Delivery - Productivity - Cost - People. Optimize the use of manpower, raw material and equipment to further improve department productivity and flexibility. Provide input to the planning system and understand the implications. Maintain a professional and well-motivated team, identifying talent and ensuring their growth through providing coaching and appropriate training. Proactively cooperate with line management, engineering, service, and other departments to deliver best results.

Leading the performance improvement capacity across production department. Develop process analysis, re-engineering, and problem-solving methodology to improve efficiency, lower costs and improve product quality. Manage and lead process teams to achieve desired results. Assist in development of new process capabilities. Playing a key role during the Annual Strategic Planning period. Follow best practices among other JTI factories and applying feasible ones locally.

•Ensure that Environment, Health and Safety, Manufacturing and Quality standards and procedures are adhered to.
•Create and implement best practice manufacturing vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve business performance.
•Develop and manage master production schedule and operations budgets for products to directly support and ensure that the product is delivered as per agreed, quality, cost and timelines.
•Plan and execute maintenance activity to ensure plant is kept safe and compliant.
•Provide leadership to departments under control and coach, mentor and develop direct reports, manage a high performing team that delivers continuous improvement, added value and cost reductions.
•Report of manufacturing activities on a regular basis to the Senior Management team, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of the relevant Key Performance Indicators.
•Proactively work with line management, engineering, service and other departments to incorporate best practices into the manufacturing environment.

• Establish effective administration and effective follow up on month-end closing activities and prepare monthly reports.
• Ensure daily production and machinery performance monitoring.
• Analysis of breakdowns root causes and process yield results to ensure effective follow up.
• Supplying of comparison charts and status information for constant improvement.
• Organize improvement studies to eliminate repetitive issues and downtimes to contribute to realization of production performance parameters.
• Defining, planning and coordinating Continuous Improvement projects & identifying new opportunities for continual improvement.
• Playing a key role during the Annual Strategic Planning period.
• Responsible for monitoring best practices among other JTI factories and applying feasible ones locally.

• Identify Environment Health & Safety (EHS) risks at shop floor, make risk assessment and develop actions in line with Global Safety Change Program with related departments by consideration of legal requirements.

• Manage EHS KPI's (Recordable injury, Lost time incident, Total Waste, Recycle Ratio, Energy Usage, Water and CO2) and achieve the local targets by implementing improvement programs.

• Support & Coordinate EHS activities ın shop floor by closely working with related departments and provide EHS inputs for the investments. Manage Contractor Safety.

• Evaluate environmental aspects of the processes and develop actions in line with local standards and local legislation limits. Implement legal operational controls.

• Develop & conduct safety and environmental training programs for factory employees/contractor/trainees including safety orientation trainings

• To ensure workplace health risks are identified, evaluated, controlled and managed, promote and maintain the health and wellbeing.

• Responsible for maintaining EHS Management Systems requirements and ERM Process.

• Investigate each incident, fire, near miss accident & ensure compliance to recommendations.

July 2010 - Present SIX SIGMA SENIOR BLACK BELT
(HAGGAR CIGARETTE & TOBACCO FACTORY LTD)
Leading Sudan manufacturer in producing Tobacco and Cigarettes.
• Support Senior Leadership in the development of the organization's strategy and business process.
• Assist the Senior Leadership with the development, collection, analysis, and reporting of performance metrics.

• Employ Lean Six Sigma methodologies on large scale projects throughout the organization and identify the areas for improvements as part of its strategic planning process, and Select Factory Project periodically.
• Mentor and coach Black Belts, Green Belts and project team resources in Lean Six Sigma best practices.
• Provide project management support including assessing and adjusting timelines and resource requirements and also ensure their compliance.
• Educate Train Six Sigma Black Belts and Green Belts and Improve their Personal and Leadership Skill.
• Work as a change agent for the organization.

Aug 2004 - June 2010 MAINTENANCE ENGINEER-LEAF DEPARTMENT
(HAGGAR CIGARETTE & TOBACCO FACTORY LTD)

• Organizing and executing routine servicing schedules as per the Maintenance Plan or machines operation and maintenance manuals.

• Organizing routine servicing schedules.

• Checking and calibrating instruments to make sure they are accurate.

• Responding immediately to equipment breakdowns.

• Fixing faults or arranging for replacements to be installed.

• Keeping production managers informed of progress.

• Prepare preventive maintenance plan.

• Prepare maintenance reports.

• Prepare ISO reports.

• Order spare parts.

• Maintained breakdown cars.

• Trained to maintaining and fixing cars.