Wael Kishi

Responsibilities:
• working closely with the operations managers in order to meet the operation
requirements for the entire year.
• working with asset and inventory management, ensuring that the necessary
resources are available throughout the year.
• Working with financial team to ensure that we do not exceed the budget in
order to effectively control costs.
• Working closely with the global team to set up the R&M (Repair &
maintenance KPI in order to align the outcomes with the objectives of the
company.
• Providing the best solutions to improve the safety environment.
• Lead a high quality, effective start of shift production meeting, ready to
discuss all production issues, maintenance needs, from the previous shift.
• Develop maintenance procedures and ensure implementation.
• Carry out inspections of the facilities to identify and resolve issues.
• Plan and oversee all repair and installation activities.
• Allocate workload and supervise upkeep staff.
• Monitor equipment inventory and place orders when necessary.
• Manage relationships with contractors and service providers.
• Keep maintenance logs and report on daily activities.
• Ensure health and safety policies are complied with

Responsibilities:
• Providing progressive leadership for steering world-class process
improvement initiatives, achieving operational excellence, and controlling
the lean of the whole workshop to be the highest efficient.
• diligently ensuring team is following all quality and safety protocols.
• Defining tech expectation and develop the high potential employees.
• Work in process improvement initiatives and operational streamlining to
enhance productivity. Strong leader with demonstrable experience in
delivering results in a fast-paced production environment.
• Led planning for effective preventive maintenance schedules to ensure zero
/ minimum breakdown & maximum availability of Plant & machinery
increases uptime and equipment reliability.
• Draw the flow charts for the flow of the tools in the maintenance.
• Implementing 6S, daily management, TPM, Kaizen, Poka Yoke, Kanban,
SMED, brilliant factory Standard Work.

Accomplishments:
• Instrumental in delivering next generation solutions in quality repairs,
maintenance, bespoke modifications, and equipment upgrades.
• Superintended a dynamic workforce including the Assembly Team, lean
leaders, SAP team, and Production Controllers.
• Serving as a Team Leader, commanded maintenance services, establishing
short/long term goals for generating savings in area of energy efficiency and
cost of maintenance operations.
• Introduced latest technology for troubleshooting, reliability, and efficiency
enhancement in partnership with the German Engineers.
• Partnered with global team to establish KPIs to all workshop worldwide.
Responsibilities:
• Leading green belts in MENATI to improve the 6S, daily management, TPM,
Kaizen, Poka Yoke, Kanban, SMED, brilliant factory Standard Work.
• Providing progressive leadership for steering world-class process
improvement initiatives, achieving operational excellence, and controlling
the lean of the whole workshop to be the highest efficient.
• Investigated equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation,
assumed full responsibility for examining maintenance operations and
ensure compliance with standard specifications.

Accomplishments:
• Collaborates with executive-level management and Product Line Directors
in the development of performance goals, meeting KPI targets and longterm operational plans.
• Successfully led roll out of digital work center by identifying and approving
project needs, performing user testing, providing training and support for 22
facilities globally.
• Developed monthly global KPI interactive dashboards in excel for 21 plants
and to promote global standards in infrastructure and work practices.
• Successfully implemented 36 ideas with HSE benefit and annualized $6.2M
cost saving. As well as TSP and provided 387 solutions.
• Change-agent led the transformation / improve agenda and orchestrated
process improvement.
• Successfully led 8 Kaizens to improve layout of the workshop and reduce
cost of maintenance in Saudi, Qatar, Norway, Italy, USA & Dubai.
Responsibilities:
• Leading lean transformations in maintenance/manufacturing to improve
quality, safety, and efficiency.
• Improving the utilization of the employee by reducing the cycle time.
• Providing training to build up yellow belts and green belts in the
organization.
• Working with Reliability Engineers in Germany, thereby reduced errors/time
using DMAIC cycle and ultimately resulting in competitive advantage &
bottom-line gains for the business.
• Tracked and analyzed maintenance performance parameters for improving
all processes. Maintained all info on SAP, MAPs and DWC.
• Ownership of programmatic management and implementation of
maintenance, rehabilitation, and equipment failure investigations
undertaken. Examined maintenance operations and ensured compliance
with standard specifications.

• Participated in 4 projects along with the German Engineers to develop the tools and facilitate reduction in time of the maintenance as well as minimization of costs of maintenance.
• Transformed processes that bought about improvisation in operations across all locations including KSA, Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Italy, Norway, USA, Germany.
• Served as the go-to expert on key strategic developments for maintenance of the tools and maintenance.
• Guaranteed the assembled product is reliable to be send to the rig physically and systemically.
• Elected as a leader of small group, influenced and aligned team towards continuously improving maintenance work, and empowered/ inspired people to achieve success.
• Teamed-up with QC personnel to improve the quality of the department. Deployed state-of-the-art lean problem-solving methodologies and a continuous improvement ethos.

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead and directed the team consisting of Mechanical Technicians and scheduling activities for the team.
• Demonstrated competencies in fault finding, problem solving and installation of mechanical components.
• Promptly diagnosing machine malfunction, determining need for adjustment or repair; studying blueprints, sketches, machine parts and specifications for defining type of refurbishment required.
• Supervised, oversaw and coordinated regular and timely technical reviews of Mechanical related engineering deliverables.
• Participated in conducting interviews for the new hire in mechanical major and monitored all processes for compliance within the organization.