Islam Abu-Obied, Operations Manager

Islam Abu-Obied

Operations Manager

Olayan Financing Company

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Diploma, Hospitality Management
Experience
25 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 1 Months

Operations Manager at Olayan Financing Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since September 2016

• Manage day-to-day processing and operations delivery, leading and motivating team to deliver against KPl’s.
• Full financial accountability to control operations costs in line with budget targets substantially reducing excess
spending for all department.
• Minimized discrepancies by effectively training employees on best practices, policies, and procedures.
• Strategically managing 300+ staff members maintaining high- performing business operations in more than 7
departments (Maintenance, Soft Services, Housekeeping, Warehouse, Inventory, Helpdesk, Utility Plant (Power
Generation, District Cooling, WTP, WWTP), Staff accommodation.
• Supported company growth by working constructively with sales team members generating new business
opportunities.

Facilities Manager at Abdullatif Alissa Group Holding, National General Automotive Co. (NAT)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2014 to September 2016

Running day to day activity for all branches across KSA.
• Development Projects & contracts
• Managing & reviewing all maintenance, soft services, Safety, Security, Assets, inventory, Procurement and supplies
contracts.
• Implement Preventive Maintenance Program for all equipment and assets

Facilities Manager at MAF Dalki
  • December 2011 to August 2014

- Enova by Veolia
• Responsible for the management of services and processes that support the core business of an organization.
• In charge of all the services which support a commercial or institutional building ensuring functionality of the built
environment, these include the property management and also managing areas such as health, safety, utilities,
services, relocation and strategy planning.
• Review and approve the MEP drawings for fit-out projects and renovations.
• Arranging the Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) Programs for contracted operations sites.
• Identifies operational problems by observing and studying system functioning and performance results.
• Identifies operational priorities by assessing operational objectives, determining project objectives such as
efficiency, cost savings, energy conservation, operator convenience, safety, environmental quality, estimating
relevance, time, and costs.
• Issuing snags reports and work on rectifying the pending issues.

Maintenance Manager at FAL Residential Compound
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2010 to September 2011

• Manage maintenance and day to day activity repairs to public area & housing units.
• Managing & reviewing all Maintenance, Soft services, Safety, Security, Development Projects & Contracts.
• Maintain the general administration of the maintenance program.
• Implementing Preventive Maintenance Program.

Senior Electrical Engineer at Saudi Electrical Company (SEC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 1999 to January 2010

Working on the emergency department which deals with sudden faults on the medium voltage and low voltage
network.
• Major work on 13.8 and 33 K.V. network, underground cables and overhead line, operate primary substations,
switch gears, RMU, fault's isolating, working with transformers and testing cables.
• Supervising a group of technicians to achieve the fast and quality work done and write a daily report about all
fault's which were completed and what still need to be followed by other group.
• Supervise contractors while working for the company to fix the faults.

Education

Diploma, Hospitality Management
  • at Alison
  • May 2021
Master's degree, Power Engineering
  • at Slovak Technical University
  • June 1998

Specialties & Skills

Housing
Maintenance Management
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
PROCUREMENT
ESTIMATING
PROCESS ENGINEERING
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
QUALITY

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