Mekipsa Mohamed Dahmane

Operation and Manufacturing Engineer at JOHN CRANE

• United Arab Emirates
• July 2021 to June 2022

Operation and Process Engineer at GLASS CONTAINERS

• June 2019 to March 2020

- Trouble shooting daily operation related to environmental issues.
• - Commissioning Internal hot and cold furnace repairs
• - Emission regulation (Opacity, NOx, Sox, etc...) to meet state requirements.
- Supervising quality control tasks.
- Raw materials processing / Batch composition / Formulas Adjustments/changes
- Overseeing overall Injection Mold Process ( Technical Support/ Troubleshooting )
•Mix and Melt Manager
- Manage department staffing levels, justifying and selecting new department
hires when necessary.
- Raw materials ordering / Batch composition & Formulation
- High Temperature Processing and Equipment Operation
•Assistant Production Engineering
- Project Management and Equipment Reliability
- Responsible for driving quality, cost and service delivery projects to completion
using formal process improvement methodologies.

Production Supervisor at JOHNSON CONTROLS

• United Arab Emirates
• January 2019 to March 2019

Sr. Engineer Lead at OWENS CORNING

• India
• May 2017 to December 2017

in melting process
- Promote effective use of existing tools and process and lead the development of
and implement standard work and standard operating procedure ( S.O.P)
- Perform critical analysis of production processes and procedures for potential
cost, quality, safety, reliability, and process efficiency opportunities
- Understand of Federal and State EPA, OSHA, PSM, EHS, and DOT transp. Reg.
•Batch house/Furnace Process Auditor
- Work cooperatively and supportively with broad range of individuals with
different levels of education and experience.
- Perform internal quality audits, investigate and resolve product quality issues,
and oversee vendor quality activities.
•Operation/Process Technical Support
- Lead and manage the company's document control needs with regards to
engineered drawings and customer approvals and sign offs.
- Train operators and manage the production routing data sheets.
- Manage product and tooling modification and collaborates w/ group operation

at PQ CORPORATION

• United States
• December 2011 to March 2017

A leading worldwide producer of specialty inorganic performance chemicals & catalysts.

at POTTERS INDUSTRIES LLC

• United States
• March 2014 to May 2014

A leading producer of engineered glass materials serving the highway safety, polymer additive, metal finishing, and conductive particles markets.
• Improve furnace design and operation.
•Furnace Audit and implementation of S.O.P’s
•Development & support manufacturing start-up

Design/Construction Engineer at SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS CONTAINERS INC

• United States
• February 2009 to October 2011

Furnace/Batch House Operations, Process Improvement,

House at KNAUF FIBER GLASS INSULATION, GmbH

• United States
• July 2001 to December 2008

Assigned as a Batch House Project Engineer for a 8.3 MM project
•Troubleshooting (Batch house, Furnace Oper. \[Gas/Oxy. & Elect\])
•Assisting Process Department (Batch house through Forming Dept.)
•Quarterly inspection of Knauf furnaces (Shelbyville IN, Lanett AL, & Shasta CA)
•Maintenance and updates of document data base
•Design and rebuild furnaces (electrical/Oxy-Fuel )
•Establish all bill of materials documents for refractories, Steel and other equipment prior to furnace rebuild project.
•Write up refractory, steel and mechanical specifications for furnace rebuilds.
•Solving of potential issues during every stage of the project
•Commissioning & contracting total furnace rebuild (drain, demo, rebuild)
•Supervision of furnace start up and related equipment commissioning.
•Commissioned overall batch house construction (turn-key)
•Batch house construction using J.C. Williamson design (Slip form/continuous pour )
•Coordination of contractor work during all equipment installation of unloading, distributor, weighing, mixing systems and delivering mixed batch into furnaces.
•Coordination of contractor work during installation of electrical panels, controls, etc.
•Commissioned batch house start up (sand testing, unloading raw materials into silos, etc.
•Supervised overall operation of batch house from unloading raw materials into mixed batch delivery into furnaces

Hot & Cold Ends

Quality Control Engineer

• March 2001 to July 2001

Quality assurance engineering - ISO 9000-2000 Audit

HOT at COLD

• September 1999 to March 2001

Performed statistical data analyses and engineers
• - Conduct and improve Zedtech / BHF glass furnace and forehearth
repairs & Operation ( heat loss combustion system, cooling, flue
• design and refactories inspection )
- Improve conditioning of glass from working end into the feeder.
• - Supervise installation of Agr, H.E.T.A (Hot End Trend Analyzer )
• Ge-Develop Viscosity- Meter and G.I.A, Gob Image Analyzer
• - Inventory and document all forehearth and feeder refractories
• - Improve annealing and coating process ( 122 ft BOWMAN Lehr )
• - Supervised forehearth and job change crew
• - Worked on I.S Machine (Emhart and Bottero ) Press & Blow, NNPB
• and make recommendations for improving process and reducing costs
• - Provide written and verbal reports on assignments.
• - Supervising quality control tasks( ware handling, spec- etc.. )
• - Bulk palletizer ( Packaging )