Plant Superintendent
DUCAB (Dubai Cable Company)
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :14 years, 1 أشهر
Reporting to Head of Manufacturing, 20+ direct reports & 250+ indirect reports
Ducab, largest Wire & Cable manufacturer in the UAE.
Areas Managed: Production, Planning, Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance, Tool&Die, Engineering Stores,
Yard Operations and RM Warehouse.
Product Range Handled: Speciality Cables, Copper/Tinned Copper Products, Small-Intermediate-Large Power,
Flexible, Rubber, Nuclear, THHN, Twin Flat, Fire Retardant Cables, Medium Voltage Cables and PVC Plant.
Responsibilities:
- Direct and co-ordinate the manufacturing resources to ensure efficient production at minimum cost per unit.
- Address production constraints, achieve production target and reduce all forms of wastes.
- Ensure timely execution of the preventive maintenance and to work with the Asset Management team to
maximise uptime.
- Identify the manpower requirements and to work with HR to ensure the required recruitment, training and
development of the department’s human resource.
- Formulate and prepare business proposals, plans, CEA’s and budgets in support of the Company’s short,
medium- and long-term objectives.
- Work with the Technical Department to develop new products, improved processes and ensure cost effectiveness
in materials.
- Work closely with HSE department to implement safe work procedures and hence reduce safety incidents at
work place.
- Support and encourage the use of adopted best practises such as Lean, 5S and Six-Sigma to ensure that
improvements are based on sound principles.
Key Achievements
* Lead the team to achieve Cost saving worth US$ 2M in manufacturing in 2019 by adopting Lean Six Sigma
methodolgies.
* Reduced Safety incidents by 75% in 2019 by implementing Safe work practices, conducting Risk
Assessments, ensuring PPEs, arranging trainings, Gemba walks etc.
* Achieved record Production output in Special Cables Unit.
* Implemented Lean methodologies in Manufacturing. Improved 3Rs. Introduced inhouse Slitting process to
consume non-moving materials.
* Lead the team in establishing Solar & Flexible product manufacturing by inhouse development.
Process
Continuous Improvement in Cable Manufacturing Operations, QA, New Product Development.
- Selecting, inspecting, commissioning plant/ equipment along with developing process instructions to enable
capacity and capability enhancement.
- Developing systems in Shop Floor and allied areas as well as Safety Systems in shop floor.
- Leading product and raw material trials and update process instructions in accordance with Ducab Quality
Management System to increase product range and/ or enhance product quality.
- Identifying, executing, implementing and maintaining improvement projects using Six Sigma methodology as
part of Ducab’s continuous improvement drive.
- Lead LEAN improvement projects in shop-floor for Cycle Time Reduction in cable production.
- Auditing semi-finished product at external suppliers end to ensure conformance to Ducab’s standards.
Key Achievements
- Involved in establishing speciality products (twisted pair/quad instrumentation cables as part of Special cables
project) in Ducab.
- Lead the Nylon jacketed cable project. Formulated and prepared CEA justification and budget. Carried out
Machine selection & tendering.
- Lead the Rubber cable manufacturing project. Involved in investment analysis, capacity & manpower
calculation, machine selection, preparing technical requirement for tendering and technical & commercial
evaluation of tenders.
Performed In-process control and final testing of LV and MV cables as per relevant BS, IEC & Customer
specific standards.
- Established & maintained calibration of equipment.
- Conducted customer witness inspections.
Coal based Power generation unit for supplying power to Aluminium Plant.
- Monitored and maintained process parameters for efficient and continuous running of power plant.
- Handled Coal Handling Plant (CHP) & Ash Handling Plant (AHP) control room operations.
Jelly Filled Telephone Cables and Optical Fiber division
- Performed In-process and final testing of Jelly Filled Telephone Cables.
- Performed In-process control and final testing of Optical Fibres using Optical Time Domain Reflectometer,
Spectral and Polarization Mode Dispersion equipment.
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