ALI ALGHAMDI, Projects Engineer

ALI ALGHAMDI

Projects Engineer

أرامكو السعودية

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah - Ar-Rawdha
Education
Master's degree, Co-extrusion study to compare LDPE, LLDPE and HDPE
Experience
14 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 4 Months

Projects Engineer at أرامكو السعودية
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • My current job since May 2019
Projects Director at Noortech
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • March 2015 to March 2018

Oversees senior Engineers and Technictions working with clients projects
➢ Reviews high-level deliverables across projects
➢ Ensures engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures take place for all Projects.
➢ Provides leadership to practice within projects teams.
➢ Develops, implements, and maintains business relationship with clints
➢ Study profit and loss figures during and after eash projects.
➢ Ensures projects meets or exceeds budgeted financial objectives, including revenue and margin.
➢ Manages the negotiation of projects quotaion pricing with company mangments, engineers,
estemters and clints.
➢ Handles difficult personnel situations directly, using appropriate discretion, HR and managments
advice, and respect for the individual.
➢ Evaluates and redesigns quoations offerings.
➢ Communicates effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business
solutions and strategies.
➢ Continually defines ways to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships
➢ Maintains lasting client relationships.
➢ Reviews status reports of Project Engineers and addresses issues as appropriate.
➢ Enforces standard policies and procedures.

Planning manager at Sweetex Food
  • Saudi Arabia
  • April 2012 to August 2014

Nature of work and main duties:
In charger of daily production and planning in all production lines, continues improving for the production processes effecting cost reduction and increase of productivity.
Applying SOP (standard operating procedure) and CI (continues improvement) in production areas has improve the performance of the supervisors and technicians and labors and gave them more understanding of their duties and less time to train new people
 Achievement:
• Reduce 16 labors from swiss roll cake in 1 shift by adding rollers ( saving the cost of 14 labors, more high gene products, 20% increase in output, etc, )
• Rearrange and improve the mixing room reducing 50% of labors
• Improve planning for production schedule to reduce setup time to increase output
• Rearrange biscuit production area to reduce waste and improve the environment and output and reduce number of labors
• Future planning for automation cost 90% less than Italian companies

Maintenance Engineer, Nature of work and main duties:
I am the Maintenance Engineer leading a very important team at the Factory. My duties are to manage the team and organize a programme for the machines’ maintenance. I have introduced new members to the team so that there will be a turnover in night shift and there will be a replacement for each technician at all times.

Night shift Production Engineer, Nature of work and main duties:
In the last five months at Sweetex I was transferred to a night shift production engineer, where my duties are much harder than in maintenance. Although I have achieved the target many times, I increased the production in the cake lines by 8% and reduce the waste from 9% in some cases to 2.5%. I have improved the packaging lines for the cake section to save more than 120.000 USD per year

Planning and Control Engineer at Saudi mechanical industry SMI
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2010 to March 2012

Nature of work and main duties:
Production planning and monitoring for pump department
Reporting efficiency and utilization for top management
Coordinate with sales, maintenance, machine shop, foundry and other departments regarding to pump department
Flow up after sales with customer satisfaction
Handling ISO papers in pump department
5’s, (CI) continues improvement, and operating expense control for pump department
Night shift production supervisor for all departments 1 week each month
Achievement:
•Better handling for operators and efficiency
•More control for materials
•Less lead time and cost reduction because of excellent material planning
•100 % increase in production without adding manpower or reducing quality
•More customer satisfaction
•Superior planning has effected other departments performance positively

Production and Maintenance Engineer at Sweetex food industry
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • June 2008 to March 2010

Maintenance Engineer, Nature of work and main duties:
I am the Maintenance Engineer leading a very important team at the Factory. My duties are to manage the team and organize a programme for the machines’ maintenance. I have introduced new members to the team so that there will be a turnover in night shift and there will be a replacement for each technician.
Night shift Production Engineer, Nature of work and main duties:
In the last five months at Sweetex I was transferred to a night shift production engineer, where my duties are much harder than in maintenance. Although I have achieved the target many times, I increased the production in the cake lines by 8% and reduce the waste from 9% in some cases to 2.5%. I have improved the packaging lines for the cake section to save more than 120.000 USD per year

Education

Master's degree, Co-extrusion study to compare LDPE, LLDPE and HDPE
  • at University of Bradford
  • February 2008
Bachelor's degree, Innovative design of drying and shrinking equipment for food and drinking industry
  • at University of Hertfordshire
  • June 2006

Innovative design of drying and shrinking equipment for food and drinking industry

Specialties & Skills

Production Planning
Mechanical Design
Inventory Planning
Technical Production
engineering design using solid edge
production planning
Lead Auditor
Inventory planning
lean thinking

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