Operations Director
HitekNOFAL
Total years of experience :34 years, 3 Months
Manage all Operations activities to fulfill HitekNOFAL’s Orders, including but not limited to; Contracts Adminstration, Procurement, Order Processing, Logistics and Inventory
Responsible for ensuring and improving the performance, productivity, efficiency and profitability of departmental and organizational operations through the provision of effective methods and strategies.
• Plan, direct, and manage all Operations activities (Contracts and Orders Adminstration, Order Processing, Logistics & Inventory) by:
• Handle and direct the process of logistics, order administration & Service departments properly.
• Deliver the product exactly as designed to the clients after determining their needs.
• Work for reducing the cost by finding new means legitimately with great familiarity.
• Develop and implement the long term goals to ensure efficiency.
• Guide the team members and staff properly in their work as well.
• Ensure that the financial objectives or goals set by the firm are met properly.
• Effective proactive liaison with other departments as necessary to source and supply the needed products and services according to certain quality and price criteria
• Handle negotiation and administration of purchasing contracts
• Responsible Cost saving targeting
• Execute Payment terms negotiation, optimization and management
• Responsible Stock and materials control/management
• Ensures on time customers’ product delivery, and payment invoices are timely implemented.
• Reviews purchase orders against the quotations presented by the sales team or product manager to the customer, sends acknowledgements to the customer clarifying differences between the purchase order and the quotation (if any) and advises on necessary actions and amendments to be made to ensure consistency with the contract.
• Projects Management for the service & engineering department
• Other related duties as assigned by direct manager
Plan, direct, and manage all central procurement activities (Suppliers selection and management, Order Processing, Logistics & Inventory) by doing the following:
• Delivery of procurement strategies and plans to enhance the outcomes and minimize costs, ensuring compliance with the overall strategy safeguarding contractual and commercial risk
• Working with all business units to maximiz the return from procurement by securing commercial efficiencies during the early stages of the project
• Manage suppliers performance and evaluation activity during the duration of the agreement to ensure that performance is up to the required service levels
• Evaluate/ negotiate/ analyze present and future pricing, terms and conditions of key contract/ supplier/ contractor/ vendor provider/ outsourcer
• Rank suppliers by cost and quality and continually optimize suppliers
• Routine supplier visits to strengthen long term relationships and identify opportunities
• Monitor and analyze trends in company spendings and inventory control in order to make recommendations and to identify areas for possible savings
• Identify new suppliers for new products and/or equipment, prices, means of shipment, payment facilities
• Prepares purchasing and inventory reports after review of bid proposals, tender documents, running projects etc
• Follow up all HSE Instructions. evaluation, selection and signing agreements
• Market Screening for suppliers and subcontractors based on internal request from Sales Teams
• Collect data about companies by sending RFI (Request For Information), including technical and financial capabilities
• Evaluate feedback and held on site visit to each supplier (when applicable), scoring each supplier, depending on circumstances of project and needs
• Send RFQ (Request For Quotation) to suppliers that passed technical and financial evaluation
• Filtering suppliers based on RFQ reply and evaluation score
• Proposing selected suppliers to NSN defined team and discuss justifications for selected suppliers
• Final selection of suppliers and negotiating prices
• Discussing and signing agreements with selected suppliers
• Responsible for Suppliers Management through implementation phase for performance evaluation, so suppliers can be upgraded to good, preferred supplier, or disqualify incase of bad performance
• Countries that I have supported projects in (Egypt, Saudi, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Libya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa and Ghana)
Bid Management & Technical Support
• OSP Bid Management and Technical Support for Munich (Siemens AG OSP Global Bid Management) in offer preparation for:
o Saudia Arabia (Mobily Fiber Backbone 11, 000 Km)
o Uganda (260 Km Fiber Backbone survey)
o Libya FTTH survey,
o Other countries (Qatar, Ghana, Madagascar, Chad, Sudan….)
• Technical proposal for Port Ghalib Resort, Marsa Alam, Egypt FTTH Project
• Technical Support for Telecom Egypt in the area of OSP Operation and Maintenance
Training Instructor for Telecom Egypt staff in the field of Out Side Plant:
• Telecommunication Basics
• OSP Copper networks testing
• Copper networks fault locating using different equipments
• OSP networks documentation and maps
• OSP planning procedures
Telecom Egypt and USAID Consultant for OSP Projects TSSP1 (130, 000 Lines) and TSSP2 (350, 000 Lines)
• Prepare technical specifications and Bill Of Quantities
• Cost estimate and bids analysis
• Supervision of implementation including civil works and installations
• Review of construction drawings to ensure compliance with contract technical specifications
Peace Vector IV, Phase II, Sakkara Air Base upgrade (USAID Project) under the supervision of USA Army, COE.
• Installation and Termination
• Assembling and testing of telephone sets
• Testing of Fiber and Copper OSP Cables and Copper Inside Plant
Main contractor for USAID projects with Telecom Egypt (Telecom IV, Telecom IV Expansion and Giza Rehabilitation)
• Supervising Engineering activities
• Supervising civil work activities
• Prepare and present the proposals to customer which included:
o Scope of work
o Survey quantities and materials required
o Cost study and prices
Main Contractor for Telecom Egypt in OSP Projects
• Site Survey
• Preparing construction drawings
• Design distribution network
Sites: Nozha, Marg, Ain Shams, Sharabia, Roda and Imbaba
Subcontractor for Siemens AG in Ismailia Project
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly schedules and reports
• Coordinate with local authorities
• Track warehouse inventory
• Invoices