Hamdi ElShekh, Plant Operation Manager

Hamdi ElShekh

Plant Operation Manager

Ethad for Foam Manufacturing & Trading

Location
Egypt
Education
Diploma, Business Administration
Experience
27 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :27 years, 3 Months

Plant Operation Manager at Ethad for Foam Manufacturing & Trading
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since November 2022

Responsibilities
• Leading and managing all plant operations, ensuring efficient and effective production processes.
• Overseeing manufacturing teams, provide guidance and direction to achieve production targets.
• Utilizing extensive experience in operation of Automotive, Home-appliance, Commercial fridges, Table ware, and Aluminum Extrusion to drive efficiency and productivity.
• Developing and implementing strategies to optimize plant performance, reduce costs, and improve overall operational effectiveness.
• Draft policies, monitoring staff performance, and conducting an annual review.
• Monitor the maintenance plan for machines, equipment’s, utilities to minimize breakdown & enhance efficiency.

Factory General Manager at Egyptian International Co. for Aluminum Profile, EIPAL
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2020 to October 2022

• Aluminum Extrusion Industry
Responsibilities
• Directing and managing daily operation of the plant.
• Setting the annual business plan, assignment, monitoring the progress and correct the deviation
• Authorizing machine maintenance and equipment upgrades.
• Resolving issues with payroll and staff scheduling.
• Coordinating activities of departmental managers.
• Confirming compliance with safety regulations.
• Regularly evaluating staff performance.
• Tracking operating expenditures.

Factory General Manager at Alshrouk for Melamine & Resins, @ Egypt Kuwait Holding Co.,EKH
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2018 to November 2020

• Tableware Industry
Responsibilities
• Participating in drafting the overall business plan, issue the operation annual plan for each factory.
• Motivating production employees to achieve daily target.
• Monitoring routine maintenance system for the plant equipments
• Improving the efficiency of the production process by eliminating duplicate and wasteful steps.
• Training new assistant managers, operators and shift supervisors.

Factory General Manager at Fricool for Engineering Industries
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2015 to May 2018

• Commercial Fridges Industry
Responsibilities
• Developing an operational plan which combines strategic objectives with vision & mission of the management board
• Overseeing the efficient and effective day-to-day operation of the plant
• Identifying the resources for manufacturing and development processes.
• Secure adequate funding for operation, approve expenditures and monitor the cash flow
• Ensuring the work processes and procedure are complying with the ISO 9001 ISO14001 OHSAS, ISO 18001,
• Drafting policies, monitoring staff performance, and conducting an annual review
• Monitoring the maintenance plan for machines, equipment’s, utilities to minimize breakdown & enhance efficiency.

Production Manager at Universal Group for Eng. Industries
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2012 to December 2014

• Gas Cooker Industry
Responsibilities
• Overseeing the production process, drawing up a production schedule; adjusting schedules as needed;
• Making sure that products are cost effective, follow up the plan and maintain the quality standards
• Working out the human and material resources needed;
• Drafting a time-motion study, process mapping and line balancing
• Ensuring that the proper material is JIT at the concerned work station
• Continuously evaluating factory staff, worker performance; KPIs recommend laying-off/promotions, increments and incentives.
• Working with support groups to decrease downtime, changeover, scrap rate and Increase productivity and OEE; Preparing weekly 5S audits, keep lean manufacturing system and continuous improvement., KAIZEN updated.

Operation Manager at Apec Automotive Inc.
  • United States - Tallmadge
  • March 2010 to March 2012

• Automotive Industry
Responsibilities
• Supervises, manages and controls the disassembly line of Automatic transmission.
• Checks, tests, inspects and delivers transmission parts to the rebuilding line.
• Managing and supervises rebuilding line of different make and models of transmissions.
• Insuring adherence of rebuilding processes to SOP.
• Calculating, monitoring and improving lines OEE
• Issue validation test for rebuilt transmission using dynamometer.

Production Manager at Int. Automotive Manufacturing CO. (Hashim Bus),
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2005 to January 2010

• Automotive Industry
Responsibilities
• Managing all factory-related affairs which include manufacturing, maintenance, manpower, needs, manpower training & development and machineries upgrading.
• Liaising with ware-housing, quality assurance, Engineering and HR.
• Monitoring quality of receiving materials and finishing products.
• Managing process and material flows, space management, and working with the Engineering group to optimize process mapping
• Coordinating with the maintenance department to ensure proper running of all machines to minimize downtime and enhance OEE
• Ensuring safe working conditions are maintained according to OHSAS

Design & Development Manager, at Int. Automotive Manufacturing CO. (Hashim Bus),
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 1998 to October 2005

• Automotive Industry
Responsibilities
• Analyzing, Designing, developing and manufacturing of bus body, skeleton, interior, exterior, and determines fixture & tooling requirements for each production operation.
• Providing the required CAD engineering drawings, detailed drawings using CAD, SOLIDWORKS etc, materials specifications, standards, issues BOM for production and provides engineering support to process, manufacturing, SQE and product purchasing.
• Coordinating with Sales, Purchasing, suppliers, production, Quality assurance and aftermarket.
• Monitoring prototype & pilot build, evaluates, tests and validates prototypes/samples of new products for adherence to design intent
• Identifying & resolving problems areas.
• Supporting the production, process engineering, direct purchasing and after sales teams to analyze and resolve all quality problems related to local parts.

Production Engineer at Gorica Egypt Group
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 1997 to September 1998

• Monitoring, controlling production line, material flow, material handling and coordinate with stock controllers to Implement production plan within specific time frame.
• Ensuring SOP and verifying of material distribution list for each.
• Assembly of chassis CKD comp.
• Repairing and re-building accident buses.

Education

Diploma, Business Administration
  • at Rwth - Aachen University
  • October 2017

Manager Training Program,MTP

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Faculty of Engineering,Benha University
  • January 1997

Specialties & Skills

Management
Factory
Manufacturing
Production
AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
TOOLING
DRAWING
ENGINEERING DRAWINGS
PROCESS ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING SUPPORT
PROTOTYPE (MANUFACTURING)
PURCHASING
SOLIDWORKS (CAD)
MANUFACTURING
MANAGEMENT

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Languages

English
Expert
German
Beginner
Arabic
Native Speaker

Memberships

Egyptian Syndicate for Professional Engineers
  • Member
  • January 1997