Hafiz Muhammad Qasim, Assistant Factory Manager

Hafiz Muhammad Qasim

Assistant Factory Manager

Pkmeat Pvt Ltd(Frozen Food)

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Master's degree, Food Science and Technology
Experience
12 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 10 Months

Assistant Factory Manager at Pkmeat Pvt Ltd(Frozen Food)
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since September 2022

Worked as AM Factory at Pkmeat Pvt Ltd(Frozen Food).
Products Nugget, Chpali, Shami, Shots, Samosa etc

Production Manager at MF Foods Pvt Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • July 2017 to March 2022

Lead overall production operation
Spice/Pickle/Salt

Assistant Manager Production (Head Production at IGLOO ICECREAM-Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2014 to December 2017

Key Result Areas:
• Lead Production department with team of 130 members including Officers, supervisors, operators and helpers to achieve monthly production target of one million liter ice-cream and one ton cone biscuits. Providing technical support to staff.
• Develop and execute monthly, weekly and daily production schedules as per business demand.
• Oversee plant operations and corrected production issues. Analyze and control process.
• Remain in contact with Sale department to meet market demand and product quality improvement
• Remain in contact with Purchase department for raw and packing material requirement.
• Responsible for maintaining and improving productivity with extensive quality and cost reduction. Ensuring that the production is cost effective produced on time and is of good quality.
• Develop maintenance schedule and remain in contact with engineering department for smooth plant operation, breakdown maintenance, preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance.
• Take important role in new product development.
• Reduced wastage of several Ice-creams.

• Working in ERP environment.
• Develop monthly wastage, machine efficiency and production target report.
• Good knowledge about recipe balancing, plant operation, planning and trouble shooting.
• Good knowledge about TPM, HACCP, Kaizen, 5S.
• Review all quality control issues and take suitable preventive and corrective action to solve any quality issues.
• Ensure the operating procedures comply with legal requirements.
• Ensure that traceability requirements for all materials used in production are maintained via the use of batch numbers and accurate batch number recording
• Ensure that all food safety and workplace safety policies and procedures are adhered to within
Department and across all production activities
• Reporting to General Manager and CEO

Achievements/Highlights:
• Achieved three years production target on time as Assistant Manager Production (Production Head).
• Reduce raw material wastage from 0.9% to 0.3%.
• Change packing method from manual carton taping to carton taping machine, so that labors reduced and tape quantity also reduced by 35%.
• Reduce numbers of change over.
• Two successful external audits without any NC in production operation.
• Develop new products. Improve product texture. Reduced raw material cost by replacers.
• Successfully implement ERP in Production

Production Incharge at IGLOO ICECREAM
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2013 to May 2014

Worked as Production Team Leader
Reporting to Manager Operation

Production Officer at IGLOO ICECREAM-Pakistan Dairy Products Pvt Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • March 2011 to May 2013

Worked as shift Incharge Production.

Education

Master's degree, Food Science and Technology
  • at University of Karachi
  • September 2010

Food Engineering,Plant Operation

Bachelor's degree, Food Science and Technology
  • at University of Karachi
  • June 2009

Food Engineering,Food Chemistry,Fluid Mechanics,Industrial Economics and Management, Plant Operation

High school or equivalent, Pre-Enginering
  • at Dehli College,Karachi
  • September 2005

Math,Physics,Chemistry

High school or equivalent, SSC Computer Science
  • at Pakistan International Airline School
  • June 2003

Math,Physics,Chemistry,Computer Science

Specialties & Skills

Production Management
Food Processing
Factory Operations
Project Management
Plant Operations
Food Engineer
Technical Operation
Production Management
Halal Standard
Product Formulation
FSSC 22000 Lead Auditor
Food Safety
Plant Operation
Production Manager
Team Leader
ISO 9001
Icecream
Process Control
Production Planning
OEE Value
Team Management
Total Productive Maintenance(TPM)
Trouble shooting
Quality Assurance
Product Development
Project Management
Waste Management
FMCG Production
Factory Operation
Continuous improvement
Target Achiever
Ice-cream
Factory Manager
Frozen Food
Pickles

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Native Speaker
Hindi
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

FSSC 22000 Lead Auditor (Training)
Training Institute:
NPO
Total Productive Maintenance(TPM) (Training)
Training Institute:
NPO