General Manager
Advanced Materials Trading Co. Ltd., KarZah
Total years of experience :17 years, 9 Months
Lead a major restructuring process in the organization covering the following:
- Reviewing the company’s vision, mission, values, and principles to create and promote the company’s culture.
- Analyzing business requirements and developing business priorities.
- Developing key strategic objectives
- Developing Operational Master Plan to accomplish short-term goals and long-term objectives that foster the company's growth
- Streamlining processes and implementing the discontinuation of redundancies and ineffective activities.
- Factory functions
- OMP accomplishment and reviews
- Internal and external operational audits
- Operational review meetings and discussion of KPI’s
- Implementation of initiatives NCE, TPM preparation, 6σ - DMAIC, etc…
- Factory weekly, monthly, and yearly reporting
- Liquidation process
- Manage factory engineering dept.
- Capital investment projects: Studies, budgeting and execution.
- Fixed Asset Management
- Maintenance and Improvement
- Condition Monitoring and Equipment Reliability Management
- Industrial Services, Automation and Energy Management
- Engineering compliance with local, corporate and international standards
- Standard Cost Budget preparation and management
- Skill matrixes, people development as well as career and succession planning
Accomplishments:
Strategies and Methodologies:
- Managed a successful preparation, training, cascading and an early launch of NCE Program in the engineering dept. (NCE is Nestlé Continuous Excellence, which is Nestlé continuous improvement initiative based on lean and TPM principles)
- Contributed regularly to setting factory short-term and strategic objectives.
- Contributed to the creation, revision and execution of the factory Operational Master Plan in alignment with the market’s
Compliance:
- Managed engineering compliance with ISO 14001, 18001 and 22000
- Managed compliance with Care / HR requirements for engineering staff
- Managed engineering compliance with local legislations and all Nestlé technical applicable guidelines
Improvement Projects:
- Efficiency-increase projects
- Building analysis, improvement, and compliance projects
- Production line and factory layout
- DMAIC projects
- Technical store optimization project
- Major factory fixed asset reclassification project
- Condition Monitoring programs with specialized 3rd party
- Revision of RM activities in alignment with manuals and best practices
Safety, Health & Environment:
- Managed safety compliance initiatives and projects
- Establishment of Work Permit and Contractor’s Safety program
- Establishment of Job and Workplace Hazard Assessment in Engineering
- Zero-base revision of water and energy standards in the factory
- Successful energy & water reduction and usage optimization projects
Budgets:
- Prepared and managed many capital investment budgets
- Prepared and managed many Standard Cost budgets.
- Established and reviewed Machine Standards for Standard Cost budget
Cross-functional Activities:
- Managed, led and contributed to many cross-departmental audits and improvement activities across the factory at different levels.
- Contributed to cross-factory audits within Nestlé Middle East factories.
- Contributed to many knowledge transfer workshops across Nestlé factories
People:
- Management of major mindset change to align with new business model.
- Establishment of a structured strategy to identify key positions.
- Management of engineering training to close identified gaps
Systems:
- Managed successful migration from MPCS to SAP-AMM, applying all best practices and achieving being a reference and pilot factory for the market