Khalid Mahdi, Senior QA/QC Engineer

Khalid Mahdi

Senior QA/QC Engineer

ARIA Technologies

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering
Experience
8 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :8 years, 8 Months

Senior QA/QC Engineer at ARIA Technologies
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2020 to September 2020

- Responsible for ensuring the quality of products and services offered by ARIA Technologies .
- Oversee the manufacturing of products and be involved in every stage of executing the projects and products from
development to manufacturing and commissioning stages.
- Achieve required quality certificates for ARIA technologies process, services and products.

Key Responsibilities:
- Perform and coordinate inspections and determine quality assurance testing models of parts, materials, semi-finished and
finished products.
- Prepare, document and execute detailed test plans, test cases, and defect reports.
- Review and approve quality requirements for manufacturing planning, supplier purchase orders, and engineering
specifications to ensure contract compliance.
- Develop, document, and audit practices, program quality, and metrics reporting system
- Lead, foster, and recognize the continual expansion of opportunity for specific quality improvement efforts either through
team or individual ventures.
- Responsible for all aspects of all management systems including documentation, procedures and work instructions and all internal and external quality, customer and supplier audits.
- Coaches, educates and trains direct reports and employees as to their impact and involvement pertaining to the quality management system.
- Directly involved in the resolution of significant quality issues ensuring that appropriate cross functional resources are engaged to address as appropriate.
- Lead and manage cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize, plan, and implement process improvement opportunities consistent with current strategies.
- Responsible for all elements of suppliers’ quality, including supplier qualification, selection, supplier performance evaluations and auditing.
- Design and document procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection.
- Perform root-cause analysis for the processes and other problem solving activities to identify effective corrective actions and process improvements.
- Continually evaluate, refine, and originate, as appropriate, the policies and practices governing quality functions considering their effectiveness, correctness, proper utilization, and coverage.
- Work with Operations and Human Resources to identify training needs for employees.

Key achievements/projects:
- Establishing the quality management system according to ISO 9001-2015.

Commercial Line QC Head at Miraco Carrier - Midea
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2017 to June 2020

Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare and manage the overall Quality Control Plan for all steps in the manufacturing process, from incoming material to shipping of finished goods.
- Prepare and implement Quality Inspection Instructions specific to each work area and product type in the manufacturing process.
- Prepare and perform QMS (Quality Management System) audits to ensure that all procedures and instructions related to the QMS are adhered to.
- Lead the investigation of customer non-conformance reports and all responses.
- Provide technical support for issues related to new products, new customers, and/or qualification of new equipment and personnel.
- Provide support to Purchasing for evaluation and qualification of new suppliers, or continuous improvement activities of existing suppliers.
- Perform random quality checks on shop floor of C/Cs (critical characteristics).
- Track and prepare monthly reports for internal and external quality performance metrics.
- Support Engineering in process development, equipment selection, and process flow activities in the manufacturing operation.
- Visit customers and suppliers as required to investigate non-conformance issues.

Key achievements/projects:
- Automate the data collection of defects that occur on the assembly line.
- Error proofing procedures such as for PCB adjusting process.
- Major reduction of the assembly defects for all the models assembled on the line.
- Coil handling cart project.
- Coil assembly improvement project.
- Welding process improvement project.
- Solving the high amperage market issue.

Income Quality Control and Supplier Quality Development Head at Miraco Carrier - Midea
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2014 to July 2017

As SQD Engineer
- nvestigate, analyze and resolve supplier quality problems by conducting audits, analyzing defect trends and leading continuous improvement projects.

Key Responsibilities:
- Work with purchasing to ensure supplier performance is regularly reported and that appropriate and timely corrective actions are
implemented.
- Maintain and update critical supplier audit system and schedule.
- Conduct supplier audits to drive process standardization, waste elimination, and continuous improvement.
- Monitor, communicate and improve key supply chain KPI’s, including SPPM and waste (time/cost).
- Establish specific short / long term supplier quality goals.
- Champion problem solving and root cause analysis activities with suppliers and customers to eliminate recurrence of non-conformance.
- Work to resolve supplier technical issues in a timely manner to ensure continuity of supply.
- Develop long‐term supplier relationships, generate and implement cost reduction ideas.
- Aide manufacturing in the evaluation and qualification of new supplier materials following a defined new product qualification process.
- Strategically lead supplier performance improvement projects in an effort to increase the supplier capability of consistently meeting MIRACO requirements .
- Projects may include: process analysis, value stream mapping, process capability and throughput analysis, 6‐Sigma, 5S and Kaizen events.

Key achievements/projects:
- Assure the quality of an entire delivery of compressors.
- Reduce the value of the supplier store from 1.2 million EGP to 300K EGP.
- Unifying the painting powder color across all the related suppliers.
- Solve the deformation issue of the refrigeration lines.
- Improve storing techniques for heavy material to reduce the defects resulting from bad storage.
- Establishing quality system for the plastic workshop.

As IQC Engineer
- Assure every component delivered to the factory is according to MIRACO requirements and standards.

Key Responsibilities:
- Plans and directs activities concerned with development, application, and maintenance of quality standards for industrial
processes, material, and products.
- Develops and initiates standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation, utilizing knowledge in engineering fields such
as chemical, electrical, or mechanical.
- Devices sampling procedures, designs and develops forms and instructions for recording, evaluating reporting quality and reliability data.
- Establishes program to evaluate precision and accuracy of testing, measurement, and analytical equipment and facilities.
- Directs workers engaged in measuring and testing product and tabulating data concerning material, products, or process quality and reliability.
- Compiles and writes training material and conducts training sessions on quality control activities.
- May specialize in areas of quality control engineering, such as design, incoming material, process control, product evaluation,
product reliability, inventory control, metrology, automated testing, software, research and development, and administrative application.

Key achievements/projects:
- Reduce the inspection time to be within 2 days of receiving the delivery.
- Conducting training sessions on: data collection, sampling, refrigeration and air conditioning.
- Improve the decision making process by enhancing the inspection process, providing new testing methods, equipment and standards.
- Automate the reporting of the suppliers issues through SAP.
- Determine the root cause and solve one of the biggest issues received from the foreign market concerning the breakage of the drain panel.

Quality Control and Improvement Engineer at Modern Chemical Industries
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2012 to December 2013

Key responsibilities:
- Perform quality inspections on manufacturing and filling processes.
- Perform quality inspections on the incoming material.
- Support the QA team in the auditing process.
- Establish a lean six sigma project.

Key achievements/projects:
- Improve the productivity and eliminate the wastes by applying a complete Lean Six Sigma project in all workshops (6 workshops), tools have been implemented:
o Project charter.
o Time & Motion studies .
o Work flow and Spaghetti diagrams .
o OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency).
o VSM (Value Stream Mapping).
o 5’s.

Results:
- Productivity improved in Lacquer manufacturing workshop before improvement: 6 containers/90min, after improvement: 9
container/90min.
- Productivity improved in Lacquer filling workshop by eliminating 3 hours of waste.

QA QC Engineer at Class Perfume Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2011 to December 2012

Key responsibilities:
- Perform on-line and final product inspections.
- Perform inspections on the inward material.
- Establishing the ISO 9001:2008.

Trainee at PMS
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2009 to July 2009

Which it is specialized in the field of offshore petroleum services, the training was in the departments of the company (Sales, Planning, Quality Control, etc), what I experienced in the training is that I recognized the working environment, how to work as a team not as an individual and getting deep in the field of petroleum marine services

Education

Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering
  • at Helwan University
  • July 2011

Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering Faculty of Engineering / Helwan University Graduation year: July 2011 Grade in the 4th year: Good Cumulative General Estimate: Fair Graduation Project: Lean Manufacturing Evaluation: Excellent.

High school or equivalent, Thanawya Amma
  • at Al-Jamil Private School
  • May 2006

Specialties & Skills

Six Sigma
Quality Engineering
Engineering Leadership
Industrial Engineering
Lean Manufacturing
Leadership
Creativity
Team Work
Manufacturing
Operations Management
Work Ethics
Solving Problems

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Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Egypt Engineers Syndicate
  • Engineer
  • February 2012

Training and Certifications

Certified Mini MBA from Missouri Universty USA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2013
Valid Until:
May 2013
Mastering Primavera P6 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2007
Valid Until:
July 2007
ICDL From Unisco (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Valid Until:
September 2011
Certified Six Sigma Green Belt from QA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
March 2012

Hobbies

  • New technologies
  • Listening To Music
  • Reading
  • Body building
  • Swimming