Mohamed OUTIFA

430 employees | USD 12.2M annual budget | 180 kt/year white sugar
• Ensure compliance with health, safety and environmental requirements.
• Deliver agricultural acreage targets and control agricultural input expenditure.
• Oversee the sugar beet cycle from sowing through harvesting.
• Ensure customer satisfaction through consistent finished product quality.
• Optimise and deliver operating (OPEX) and capital investment (CAPEX) budgets.
• Ensure maintenance and reliability of the industrial assets.
• Lead cross-functional Group projects.
• Recruit for vacant positions, onboard new hires and provide continuous coaching.
• Develop managers’ capabilities and strengthen team multiskilling.
Key achievements
✓ Contributed to the project expanding plant processing capacity to 12 kt/day.

420 employees | USD 10.2M annual budget | 85 kt/year white sugar
• Ensured compliance with HSE requirements and delivery of upstream agricultural acreage targets.
• Controlled agricultural input expenditure and monitored beet production from sowing to harvest.
• Managed relationships with ORMVAG, river-basin agencies, authorities and industry associations.
• Ensured finished-product quality, customer satisfaction and industrial asset reliability.
• Optimised OPEX/CAPEX budgets and led cross-functional Group projects.
Key achievements
✓ Achieved a record extraction rate of 87.02%.
✓ Reduced the operating budget by 20%.

450 employees | USD 10M annual budget | 250 kt/year white sugar
• Ensured HSE compliance and customer satisfaction through finished-product quality.
• Optimised variable and fixed conversion costs and established OPEX/CAPEX budgets.
• Led intercampaign shutdown monitoring and ensured effective operation of production assets.
• Led cross-functional Group projects and coordinated with the agricultural upstream function and
local authorities.
Key achievements
✓ Contributed to a solar-drying project for pressed beet pulp, replacing fuel-based drying.
✓ Led the Group KENZ project, reducing consumption of spare parts and manufacturing materials by 25%.

230 employees | USD 3.3M budget | 1, 000 kt/year steel slabs
• Ensured HSE compliance, finished-product quality and customer satisfaction.
• Optimised variable and fixed conversion costs and delivered planned production volumes.
• Ensured effective operation of production assets and developed capital investment requirements.
Key achievements
✓ Achieved a 100% slab quality rate, an 8% improvement.
✓ Reduced overall electrode consumption by 0.3 kg/t, equivalent to a 14% optimisation.

150 employees | 1, 000 kt/year steel slabs
• Managed production performance across safety, throughput, yield and finished-product quality.
• Controlled and optimised costs while leading and developing the team.
• Coordinated interfaces among all operational stakeholders.
• Developed capital investment requirements and ensured HSE compliance.
Key achievements
✓ Delivered a record monthly slab output of 65 kt.
✓ Reduced furnace tap-to-tap time by 10 minutes, improving performance by 15%.

130 employees | 500 kt/year cement for the domestic market
• Contributed to erection and installation works for the grinding centre.
• Prepared plant start-up, including raw-material sourcing and contract establishment.
• Managed production performance across throughput, yield and finished-product quality.
• Controlled and optimised costs and led team development.

92 employees | Silver production via gravity separation, flotation, cyanidation, cementation and
smelting
• Managed production performance across throughput, yield and finished-product quality.
• Controlled and optimised costs and developed the production team.
• Coordinated interfaces with Maintenance, Underground Operations, Technical Management, R&D
and Laboratory.
• Developed capital investment requirements and ensured HSE compliance.
• Managed relations with employee representatives and social partners.

45 employees | Cobalt concentrate and arsenic trioxide production through cobalt-arsenide roasting
• Ensured compliance with safety, quality and environmental requirements.
• Managed production performance across throughput, yield and finished-product quality.
• Ensured equipment availability to meet production targets.
• Controlled costs, led improvement projects, managed interfaces and prepared investment
requirements.
Key achievements
✓ Delivered record arsenic trioxide production of 10 kt.
✓ Improved cobalt recovery by 10%.
✓ Reduced roasting-unit cost by MAD 3/t of cobalt metal, an 11% optimisation.
✓ Reduced the number of medical treatments/incidents in the roasting unit by 65%.

Industrial projects and Quality, Safety, Health & Environment
• Conducted project design studies, cost estimates and industrial project delivery within schedule,
quality and budget commitments.
• Led certification and qualification programmes and the continuous-improvement process.
• Deployed QSE policy across projects and monitored worksites for quality, safety and environmental
compliance.