Assistant Production Manager
Almarai Company
Total years of experience :11 years, 11 Months
-Managing cheese production such as, pre-heating, UHT treatments, primary filling, and secondary packing
- Ensuring all product processing in compliance of Almarai quality & safety standards
- Production planning & scheduling on weekly basis
- Implementation of strategic tools for continuous improvement
- Project charter, project management, commissioning & upgrading of new plants with complete site modification
- Experienced the operations of Stephen UHT’s, VMC’s, UMSK’s, Simapack & Weighpack fillers, Corazza fillers, Natec
filler, Technopack, SAPAL filler, GMA and Karl-schnell machineries
- Implementation of international quality & safety standards such as ISO, HACCP
- Conducting risk assessment & competency assessment
- Auditee for ISO standards and AIBI internal department audits
- Leading of multinational and multifunctional workforce
- Initiating & leading new product development and production trials with QA, QC and R&D team
- Managed manufacturing activities through ETQ
- Worked on TTT with team
- Leaded CIP optimization & validation for production lines
- Managing LIP and developing control measures
- Documentation for production output with focusing on KPI’S
- Conducting safety risk assessment & maintaining the highest level of H&S standards by prompt actions to minimize
hazard, near misses, accidents & LTIFR
- Develop/Review/amend GTP’s (guide to production) & SOP’s
- Leading the team towards business needs
- Ensuring CIL, daily, weekly, monthly & periodically PM and scheduling regular maintenance work
- To lead & assist investigation of consumer complains aligning with quality assurance team
- Profound technical knowledge on cheese products and its analogues such as, CSP, Triangle portions, processes cheese,
RVR, Cheddar, Slices, Block, TIN, spreadable cheese analogues
- Staff management and handling as per budget
- Systematic approach on production floor for efficiency & performance improvement such as GMP, GHP, 5S, LSW,
5whys, A3, DRM, SIC, OEE
- Experienced with SCADA and MES (Schneider & Automate)
- Leaded & initiated autonomous maintenance on triangle cheese portion lines
- Lead & guiding the team managers/supervisors/staff by conducting training, workshops, and team-briefing
Manufacturing of paneer (Indian cheese) & fermented products
- Industrial performance assessment: machine efficiency, downtime analysis & capacity utilization
- Ensuring safety, quality & hygiene standards on production floor
-Monitoring of process parameters for packaging of Halal Buffalo meat
- Supervision in Killing, Deboning & Processing Department
- Conducted training on Personal Hygiene, GMP & quality standards
Studied about food sector. Major subjects are food nutrition, food microbiology, food engineering, food packaging, food safety, food chemistry, dairy technology, meat & marine technology, food hygiene etc
Studied about basic of food technology such as food biochemistry, fruit and vegetable technology, beverage technology, milk and milk products, bakery technology, cereal technology etc