Muhammad Tolba

-Provide objectives directions and priorities and make decisions of allocating resources within the team to deliver results that have direct impact on the achievement of KPIs.
-Define manufacturing improvement goals and supporting programs to reduce setup, improves productivity and quality, reduces manufacturing cycle time, lowers conversion costs, minimizes machine downtime and achieve on time delivery.
-Build people capability and develop team talents through effective associates relations, hiring, training, engaging and communication for shop floor Associates.
-Identifies and resolve issues using lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies.
-Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources.
-Analyzes and develop permanent solutions to prevent chronic or significant quality issues.

* Supporting the financial department as a cost engineer in the following:
 Managing the communication flow between industrial operations controllers and the financial controllers.
 Forecasting, setting and controlling the budget of the processing costs.
 Forecasting, setting and controlling the annual CAPEX and the depreciation of the fixed assets.
 Forecasting, setting and controlling the year-to-date and month-to-date manufacturing cost per family product on a monthly
basis.
 Reporting, directly to top management in Egypt and Japan, the variance analysis of the actual manufacturing costs against
standard, previous forecasts.
 Simulating any sudden change/ requirement by the various functions on the CPU “Cost per Unit”.
 Setting and follow up action plans with the various departments in order to keep the manufacturing cost budget.
 Assigned to a benchmarking activity on the manufacturing cost and total delivery cost with Renault Plant in Morocco.
* Acting as a production engineer with the following tasks:
 Co-pilot of the 3rd shift launching team regarding the manpower calculation and its relevant cost.
 Issuing “delegation of authority” and purchasing requests for any new requirements “Equipment, tools and
manpower” supporting any other related department.
 Supporting the industrial engineering department in the calculation of “Design Standard Time Ratio”, manpower
calculation, time studies and kaizen implementation.
 Supporting the painting section in the new model at the JIG trial phase.
 Successful and smooth launching of the 3rd shift.

* Conducting the purchasing cycle with the main 5 suppliers as follows:
 Reviewing requisition (paper or electronic), which identifies specification, quantity, and delivery requirements.
 Issuing purchase order; assign supplier, prices and release purchase order.
 Following up; track the status and expedite as necessary.
 Receiving goods; use P.O. to verify order and receipt and receive and track partial shipments.
 Approving payment; match invoice against P.O. and approve payment once goods are received and accepted.
* Supplier Development Engineer with authority from both Nissan and Supplier to:
 Develop the supplier’s facilities in order to ramp up the production at its side with the aid of the internal industrial
Engineering and Product Development sections.
 Solve any problem in the material management/ cash flow that may obstacle the delivery process.
 Participate in the execution of production plans at the supplier side according to Nissan’s requirements.

 Worked on a project that applies the concept of OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) all over the “Heaters”
plant and the improvement of its performance leading to increase it 5% from 65 to 70%.

 Worked on the production improvement of the assembly line using several engineering tools; 5s, line balance,
activity sampling, principles of motion study, simulation and modeling analysis of the assembly line.