Mohammed Zaki

• Participates in the formulation and implementation of the production department strategy to ensure the alignment with company strategy.
• Participates and recommends improvements to production department policies, processes and procedures and manages the implementation to ensure all relevant procedural, legislative requirements are fulfilled
Day to day Management.
• Coordinate with supply chain, material planner, and sales department to plan the production timeline to ensure all sales order are produced on time. Oversees the site planning process.
• Manages the day to day operations of production department providing guidance, encouraging teamwork and facilitating related professional work processes in order to achieve high performance standards.
• Liaises with internal and external parties at the appropriate levels to ensure smooth flow of interactions.
• Oversee the production process to ensure proper coordination to meet delivery dates.
• Oversee and monitor the production lines to ensure production targets are met with minimal waste of resources.
• Leads the ACP program (Asset Care Program) to ensure the availability and readiness of all equipment and production lines.
• Manage the operation excellence program to ensure plant operations meet company standards.
• Participates in daily management meeting to plan plant operation and resolve outstanding issues to ensure the efficient operations of the plant.
• Coordinate with the engineering department to ensure proper alignment of maintenance down time and production targets to meet overall company objectives.
• Review processing schedules and production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.
• Develop and implement production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and other operational reports, to detect production problems.
• Participates in the development of specifications for equipment, products or substitute materials to ensure the compliance with business needs.
• Prepares and recommends the development of production department budget, and monitors financial performance versus the budget to ensure alignment .
• Manages the effective achievement of department objectives by setting individual targets, developing and motivating staff, providing of formal and informal feedback and appraisal - in order to maximize subordinate and department performance.
• Set and monitor product standards, examining samples of raw products or directing testing during processing, to ensure finished products are of prescribed quality.
• Contributes to the relevant Quality process to ensure compliance with corporate and local standards.
• Oversee the Quality process to ensure compliance with company Standards.
• Complies with all relevant quality, procedures to ensure a healthy and safe work environment.
• Being responsible for the selection and maintenance of equipment.
• Working with managers to implement the company's policies and goals.
• Identifying training needs.
• Design the products profile which is available to produce.
• Perform any R&D work as and when requested by the sales Managers. This includes evaluation of alternative ingredients, recipe changes or process alterations.

Career Highlights:
• Responsible for formulating recipe of processed cheese, recombined feta cheese and enforcing standards/guidelines.
• Managing the efficient operation of the raw material dept., preparation, processing and packing of all cheese type on lines according to company schedules and maximum levels of efficiency, quality and general performance standards ensuring quality of production to manufacturing specifications.
• Formulating, Oversaw and implementation the weekly production plan.
• Supporting all manufacturing area by providing experienced professional advice to assist solving organizational issues and to develop system and procedure to support business needs
• Managed a team of (8 members) that established (process cheese project).
• Flow up Gantt chart of project and push the team to carry out at target time.
• Successfully recommended steps for commercial production

Career Highlights:
• Perform any R&D work as and when requested by the Managers. This includes evaluation of alternative ingredients, recipe changes or process alterations.
• Design and prepare reports and procedures for ISO, HACCP of the project.
• Maintain an up to date recipe database for all products. This is to include the necessary information for Ingredients, Nutritional Information and any other legislative requirements for labeling.
• Review any Plant changes impact on the effectiveness of Plant to produce products without failure and report to Managers.
• To consult with manager, QA or QC manager, if in any doubt, before releasing information to others.
• To reply in a timely manner to any technical enquiries regarding ingredients, products, packaging or processes from other departments.
• Review training needs of Cheese Plant and QC Personnel and devise training plans in conjunction with relevant Manager.
• Implement training needs for all staff in Plant after identification of training needs.
• Review all incoming raw materials by working closely with the Raw Materials Team.
• Standard sampling methodology during production to be followed up on and reported for product status.
• Ongoing assessment of ours and competitors products either from within our Stores, Depots or Markets to be carried out and reported back.
• Successfully launched and marketed (processed cheese project).
• Participated in the creation of all type of process cheese that resulted in (a positive outcome).

• Conformity to quality management system, (GMP) and product safety (HACCP)
• Processed cheese industry and milk product, managing the efficient operation of the raw material dept., manufacture, processing and packing of all process cheese on lines according to company schedules and maximum levels of efficiency, quality and general performance standards ensuring quality of production to manufacturing specifications.
• Reporting to director manager.

• Control of labors applying manufacturing and warehousing program.
• Reporting to Production manager.
• Effective communication and co-ordination with other areas and shifts

• Control of labors applying manufacturing for processing and preparation area.
• Reporting to Production manager.