Feras Kraidy, Maintenance Manager

Feras Kraidy

Maintenance Manager

Taiba for Food Industry

Location
France
Education
Master's degree, Industrial Engineering
Experience
16 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months

Maintenance Manager at Taiba for Food Industry
  • Syria - Damascus
  • April 2006 to February 2015

The company has a major name in canned luncheon meat in Syria.
• Prepared annual preventative maintenance plans and supervised their implementation.
• Daily management of maintenance works and ensuring to be accomplished on time and under safety and health regulations, without neglecting cost-effective.
• Collected, saved, maintained and updated equipment manuals.
• Followed up property maintenance through maintenance team and external contractors.
• Assisted Operation Manager in planning & executing plant facilities modification and expansions.
• Monitored consuming and inventories of maintenance store stock.
• Requested timely spare parts and maintenance materials through purchasing department from internal and external resources. Aided technical inspect and approval at arrival.
• Designed some machine modifications to improve efficiency and reduce production costs.
• Tracked recording of maintenance works and several data registration.
• Prepared reports, analyzed data, and made recommendations for improving plant operations and solving maintenance-related problems.
• Directed dismantling, assembling, fabrication and installation of several industrial equipments.
• Studied proposals, chose adequate ones and supervised external workshops works.
• Conducted maintenance technicians’ performance reviews based on job description to determine competency, knowledge, and deserved bonus.

Production Engineer at Elsewedy Cables
  • Syria - Damascus
  • November 2004 to April 2006

• Responsible for shifts managing, operators directing, raw materials procurement, machine function observation and production quality maintaining. \n• Involved with experts in installing, operating and calibrating several machines in the newly established factory. \n• Participated in a lot of paper work and documentation of production operations. \n• Updated workforce knowledge and skills on progressive basis.

MWD Division at Precision Drilling
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • March 2004 to September 2004

• Inspected, maintained and prepared tools and service units for drilling jobs. \n• Designed a mechanism for removing a part of the tool frequently stocks at rig site.

Maintenance Supervisor of Water Division at Vimpex (Paper & Pulp Mill)
  • Syria
  • March 2002 to February 2004

Maintenance Supervisor of Water Treatment Division \nThe division consists of pure and sewage water treatment pools, sludge dewatering machines and fire fighting system equipments. \n• Responsible for ensuring correct implementation of the maintenance plan, supervised work progress, provided necessary technical support, assisted technicians, ensured health and safety requirements were met and prepared work reports. \n• Participated in usage of CMMS program. \n• Studied, selected and installed water and pulp pumps. \n• Involved in additional tasks: observed raw material consumption, designed several mechanical solutions, and followed some pipe modifications. \n• Observed operation works of a newly installed 20ton steam boiler.

Technical Engineer at Libero (Baby Diaper & Sanitary Napkins Factory)
  • Syria - Damascus
  • November 2000 to March 2002

• Involved in the development of a production line modifications in order to launch new products and reduce wastage ratio.
• Designed kinematics layout for a new machine being manufactured. Chose gears, gearboxes, transmissions, couplings and clutches.
• Developed dimensions for some new plastic packages under manufacturing to achieve belter fitting with the product.
• Studied and organized barcodes.

Maintenance Engineer at Alca (plastic thermoforming)
  • Syria - Damascus
  • November 1998 to October 2000

• Participated in preventive and accidental maintenance works.
• Prepared and drew blade designs for the knives which used in detaching products, sent them to a fabrication workshop and checked after receiving.
• Involved in refurbishing and installation of some old machines.
• Supervised vacuum molds under manufacturing at plant workshop.
• Designed a machine for semi-automatic collection of products.

Education

Master's degree, Industrial Engineering
  • at Damascus University
  • December 2001
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Damascus University
  • November 1997

Design & Production Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Social Profiles

Languages

English
Intermediate
Arabic
Native Speaker
French
Intermediate

Memberships

Order of Syrian Engineers
  • Member
  • November 1997

Training and Certifications

Industrial Electricity (Training)
Training Institute:
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Date Attended:
March 2007