GCC Quality Leader
Olayan Kimberly Clark
Total years of experience :28 years, 1 Months
Olayan Kimberly Clark manufactures Tissue, Family Care and Baby Child Care products and the owners of Kleenex©, Kotex© and Huggies© brands.
My role includes: managing quality and manufacturing issues and improvement steps, directing all quality control activities in the two OKC facilities ( Bahrain & Saudi Arabia), and participating in production management and production quality
• Providing technical support to both Operational and Commercial departments, maintaining and strengthening the quality system and ensure that the system is defined, implemented and effective.
• Initiating technical development programs in response to business/customer requirements in MENA region, directing the Laboratory and ensuring inspection and testing is maintained in terms of the appropriate international standards and certification requirements.
Al-Othman Holding owns and manages business portfolio of more than 28 companies in Saudi Arabia. I was Managing business development activities for two firms (CET, AMO&P Engineering) under Al-Othman Holding. My role includes:
• Developing business strategy and plan, leading and assessing the implementation processes.
• Understanding current and potential customers, identifying and developing business opportunities
• Creating and maintaining business partnerships
• Leading a team of marketing executives and managing marketing &sales activities (leads to delivery) processes
• Leading a team of environmental consultants, planning and monitoring operational activities.
• Developing and maintaining quality management system.
Ozone Consultancy provides environmental and management consulting services for SME businesses. My role includes:
• Providing environmental and management system consulting services.
• Developing and implementing the business strategy and plan
• Understanding current and potential customers, identifying and developing business opportunities
• Managing/executing marketing, sales and project delivery (leads to delivery) processes
• Creating and maintaining business partnerships
2007 - 2011 TECHNICAL QUALITY MANAGER United Stainless Steel Company (USCO)
• Initially recruited as customer liaison metallurgist, participating in commissioning and witnessed the first dispatch, rapidly promoted to Quality Technical Manager and deputy GM Technical
• Managing quality and manufacturing issues and improvement steps, directing all quality control activities in the plant, and participating in production management and production quality
• Specifying inspection standards and process parameters for the USCO production facilities, providing technical/metallurgical support to customers on material selection, design, fabrication and processing
• Initiating technical development programs in response to business/customer requirements, directing the Laboratory providing a mechanical testing and certification service and ensuring automatic certification system is maintained in terms of the appropriate international standards and certification requirements
• Providing technical support to both Operational and Commercial departments, maintaining and strengthening the quality system and ensure that the system is defined, implemented and effective, directing and managing all utilities and environmental activities
• Coordinating all aspects of resource use, pollution reduction, waste management, environmental health, risk assessment and employee involvement
2003 - 2006 SHIFT SUPERINTENDENT Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company (GARMCO)
• Maintaining continuity of operation throughout the plant, achieving quality and production targets within budget and time deadlines ensuring safety of manpower and plant and identifying improvements in the plant operation
• Reviewing the performance of all production equipment and analysing the factors affecting productivity, quality, safety and cost of the product in order to identify improvements in the operation
• Directing all the operations crew work according to operating instructions and job safe practices in order to achieve specified quantity and quality targets
• Initiating and conducting investigations into accidents and abnormalities during shift, instigating prescribed action to resolve and prevent recurrence, reviewing products, processes and equipment achieving cost reductions
1996 - 2003 METALLURGICAL ENGINEER Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company (GARMCO)
• Developing metallurgical practices and processing parameters for production and designing processes and metallurgical practices for new products and applications, monitoring and assisting with customer trials and product development
• Providing metallurgical and technical services to GARMCO operations to ensure customer specifications and requirements are obtained and supporting Marketing & Sales and customer on new products or applications
• Enlisted Ozone as approved service provider with Environmental Authority in the kingdom of Bahrain for providing consultation services up to EIA studies and with TAMKEEN as approved service provider for JAWDA scheme. Delivered strategic partnership with Canadian environmental consultancy firm and Austrian company for supplying water and wastewater treatment solutions. Instigated strategic partnerships with international firm for ISO consultation and training services. Established reliable network of local qualified freelancers for both environmental and management system consultations.
• Acted as Deputy GM, leading USCO to its highest production records ever made since the commissioning. Successfully handled critical customer complaints worth USD 5 Millions. Designed and implemented customer's referral system for quarantined material, impacting rework and reducing the loss of downgrading. Conducted market research and designed polishing practices for different surface finishes. Established KPI for major USCO's production lines and integrated management system in compliance with ISO9001, ISO14001 and OHSAS18001.
• Member of taskforce to resolve high inclusion and gas content in direct chill cast aluminum ingot produced by ALBA (Aluminum Bahrain Smelter) . Investigated and resolved annealing stain problem in aluminum ( 5xxx series alloy) and studied and revealed the cause of low elongation in (3xxx series alloy). Studying the cold mill capability, determined the mill accuracy and precision used to decide on gauge tolerance offered to customers, narrowing the gauge tolerance window to half. Developed new equation calculating the rolling aim gauge based on order tolerances.
• Conducted feasibility study comparing outsourcing and recruiting for operation and the maintenance for RO and demineralised water plants. Significantly reducing water consumption by diverting the route of treated water and utilising internally.
• Resolved range of technical issues including high turbidity effluent due to floating sludge in final sedimentation tanks of dewatering system and of high TKN and high nitrates in effluent, deposit in evaporation system heat exchanger tubes adjusting and significantly reduced the chemicals dosing, low pH trend in non-contact water cooling system, scale deposition in furnace cooling jackets and compressor heat exchangers tubes. Analysing and solving problem in the final process of waste acid treatment increasing efficiency by 56% and with evaporation system increasing evaporation efficiency by 35%.
• Fulfilled the environmental prerequisites resulting in achieving the final operational license to USCO. Developed recycling solution for major solid hazardous wastes, making significant savings on the costs of wastes disposal.
