General Manager
Dahab Company Ltd. Precious Metals Refinery
Total years of experience :37 years, 10 Months
Highlights:
• Member of the Top Management Team, report to the Group CEO directly and participate in long-term business planning providing strategic direction to the group companies.
• Direct the implementation of strategic plans in collaboration with Group Senior Managers (Sales, Operations, QA, Finance), and ensure pre-defined objectives are met.
• Reviewed operational process, identified and led concrete improvements that improved efficiency and accuracy.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning & Operations Management
• Formulate operational plans, communicate these across plants and the organizational hierarchy, monitor execution and determine effectiveness.
• Lead operational and Capex budget formulation as per annual operational requirements, optimize operational resources and maintain an effective control over costs.
• Analyze budgetary provisions, monitor budgetary spend, identify variances and take corrective measures across the company.
• Collaborate with the top management for defining business goals and objectives, establishing performance metrics and monitoring business performance to verify objectives are being met.
• Monitor financial performance by reviewing financial statements, participate in financial planning to ensure satisfactory return on investment.
• Lead ISO quality initiatives across the organization, establish quality standards and monitor adherence to quality.
• Identify business growth opportunities, develop a professional network of business contacts by attending exhibitions and industry events.
• Direct projects, plan activities and prepare project schedules, monitor phase-wise execution to ensure in-time completion.
Human Resources Management & Administration
• Assess human resource requirements across departments and supervise the recruitment cycle to fill up vacant posts, organize training programs and improve professional skills of staff.
• Develop leaders within the organization by mentoring and coaching managers, assign responsibilities and accountability, and manage performance.
• Conduct periodic performance appraisals of managers, provide encouragement and constructive feedback to enhance their performance; make decisions on promotion and salary hikes.
• Manage and resolve conflicts within the organization and reach win-win outcomes; oversee the collective bargaining programs.
• Maintain seamless coordination across organizational units to ensure that organizational processes are conducted in a streamlined manner, and lead to desired business outcomes.
• Maintain organizational discipline by enforcing policy and norms, ensure compliance with safety procedures and standards.
• Enhance the image of the company by communicating with external stakeholders like customers, government entities, community organizations; lead corporate social responsibility initiatives in accordance with company policy.
Highlights:
• Reported to the Executive Director and part of the decision making management team in the company; played an essential role in developing and implementing organizational policies and norms, and executing business strategies.
• Designed and installed efficient systems that facilitated effective management reporting and efficient information flow across the organizational hierarchy.
• Transformed operational processes from average to highly efficient ones that improved output of operations.
Key Responsibilities:
Operations Management:
• Supervised plant operations and engineering processes, set production targets and ensured volumes were met, and removed any operational bottlenecks.
• Planned the periodic preventive maintenance schedule in collaboration with the Maintenance Head, Plant Head, and Machinery & Facilities Head; ensured maintenance schedules for all equipment and machinery were duly adhered to assure a continuous running of the plant.
• Oversaw the accounts payable function, scrutinized high value invoices submitted by suppliers and service providers, and authorized payments.
• Administered the payroll by maintaining records of leaves, absents, overtime, paid vacations, supervising salary disbursal accordingly.
• Prepared grant reports that included detailed narrative and financial reports as per prescribed norms.
• Collaborated with the Board of Directors to prepare program budgets and allocate resources, oversaw budget spends and ensured costs were controlled.
• Ensured a better coordination and communication between HR, IT and Finance functions, and business processes to facilitate efficient operations.
• Planned and executed operational excellence initiatives applied across the hierarchy - from the top leadership to line employee.
• Participated in financial planning meetings with the Executive Director and developed annual budgets, controlled variances.
Board Executive Secretary
• Provided support to all directors in executing their responsibilities, managed company documentation, records and files.
• Recorded minutes of meetings, mailed minutes of meetings to the members after the meeting, and maintained minutes of previous meeting for reference.
• Assisted the Board Members in passing regulations, supported in preparing annual reports, and coordinated with the legal team on behalf of the BoD.
• Notified members of meetings via official email, ensured all facilities were in place to conduct the board meeting.
Key Responsibilities:
• Planned all production activities in collaboration with Production Committee members, defined targets and allocated adequate resources to meet production volumes.
• Monitored the production operations, ensured process costs were within the predefined limit and ensured quality of production.
• Resolved any technical difficulties faced by the production team, eliminated bottlenecks and assured that production schedules were met.
• Identified training needs of engineers and line employees, organized training programs and improved skills of employees.
• Generated and analyzed production reports, submitted these to the Plant Head for review and decision making.
• Ensured safety practices and procedures were duly followed across during production, provided adequate safety gear and equipment to employees.
• Carried out frequent inspections of production machinery and equipment to verify those met the prescribed safety and operational parameters.
Key Responsibilities:
• Planned all production activities in collaboration with Production Committee members, defined targets and allocated adequate resources to meet production volumes.
• Monitored the production operations, ensured process costs were within the predefined limit and ensured quality of production.
• Resolved any technical difficulties faced by the production team, eliminated bottlenecks and assured that production schedules were met.
• Identified training needs of engineers and line employees, organized training programs and improved skills of employees.
• Generated and analyzed production reports, submitted these to the Plant Head for review and decision making.
• Ensured safety practices and procedures were duly followed across during production, provided adequate safety gear and equipment to employees.
• Carried out frequent inspections of production machinery and equipment to verify those met the prescribed safety and operational parameters.
Excellence Award of High Achievement.
Completed the diploma.
