Swuab Kuraishi, Plant Engineer/Production Manger

Swuab Kuraishi

Plant Engineer/Production Manger

Grace Saudi Arabia Limited

Location
Saudi Arabia - Khobar
Education
Master's degree, Industrial Relations
Experience
18 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 8 Months

Plant Engineer/Production Manger at Grace Saudi Arabia Limited
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • My current job since January 2011

Key Result Areas:
• Leading & supervising a team of 20 personnel
• Administering raw materials and indenting & procuring support as per the requirements
• Accountable for SAP Creation of Master Material, BOM, Routing, Costing, Inventory, Production & Manufacturing Variance to provide quantitative input for product costing and understanding for both positive & unfavorable production variances
• Ensuring Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and attendant personnel training systems are developed & maintained for all processes
• Collaborating with:
o Scheduling & Production Management to agree realistic & cost efficient schedules
o Production, warehouse & maintenance organizations
• Carrying out performance reviews of employees and motivating staff to meet production goals
• Maintaining quality in adherence to the statutory requirements and licensing compliance
• Designing modification, installation & maintenance of equipment in plant and delivering equipment safely & efficiently

Maintenance/Production Engineer at Rockwool India Limited
  • India
  • March 2010 to December 2011

Key Result Areas:
• Looked after the overall management of production & maintenance activities of factory to plan, direct & ensure effective implementation of management’s goals & corporate objectives and established proper cost control measures
• Executed cost & energy saving techniques / measures & modifications to achieve substantial reduction in O&M expenditures and work within the budget
• Administered & assessed MTBF & MTTR to improve maintenance effectiveness in the shop floor on regular basis

Maintenance Engineer at National Industry for Glass Bottles
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • June 2004 to November 2008

• Coordinated, inspected, operated & maintained heating, cooling & ventilation systems
• Ensured hot repair in furnace & its associated equipment were done successfully without any down
• Carried out analysis of furnace function & combustion system optimization and generated required operating temperatures in order to ensure the best quality of glass
• Involved in:
o Troubleshooting the faults with minimum down time through preventive maintenance campaign to increase furnace life by taking furnace sidewalls air-cooling arrangements provided to increase furnace campaign life
• Capacity utilization, quantity & wastage control to increase the productivity
• Accountable to ensure that the services (utility, off-plot) units were operated to their optimum design by monitoring and acted on information obtained
• Performed routine inspection & testing whole furnace (inside & outside) all critical areas like Doghouse corners, Throat Corners, Back Wall, Side Wall, Cooling at Metal Line, Electrode Holders, Thermocouple Pockets, etc.
• Generated suitable work instructions, importance of health & safety associated with their tasks & performance appraisal of operators for operating the equipment
• Maintained thorough knowledge of current operational status of the part of plant & equipment in the process services area and looked after the daily instructions, logbooks & shift change over communications

Education

Master's degree, Industrial Relations
  • at Madurai Kamaraj University(DDE)
  • June 2008
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical
  • at Madurai Kamaraj University
  • June 2004
High school or equivalent, Maths,Physical chemistery & computer Sceince
  • at Seventh Day Adventist Matriculation Higher secondary School
  • May 2000

Specialties & Skills

Plant Maintenance
Production Planning
Six Sigma
MS Office
SAP- Production & Plant Maintenance Module
AUTO CAD 2000
Inventory Management
Preventive/Corrective/Breakdown/Shutdown Maintenance
Lean manufacturing
ERP - MS AX 2012

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Tamil
Expert
Malayalam
Intermediate
Arabic
Intermediate

Memberships

Saudi Engineering council
  • Engineering
  • February 2011

Training and Certifications

Sig Sigma Green Belt (Training)
Training Institute:
Al Ghanim Industries
Date Attended:
April 2009
Duration:
80 hours
Internal Auditor (Training)
Training Institute:
Al GHnaim Industries
Date Attended:
February 2009
Duration:
16 hours
(Training)
(Training)
SIx Sigma Green Belt (Training)
Training Institute:
Al Ghanim Industries
Date Attended:
May 2010
Environment Health and Safety (Training)
Training Institute:
WR Grace & Co
Date Attended:
May 2012