Yasser Kamel, Operations Director

Yasser Kamel

Operations Director

International Printing & Packaging materials Co

Location
Egypt
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
31 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :31 years, 2 Months

Operations Director at International Printing & Packaging materials Co
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since March 2007

Summary

A capable, results oriented operations director with 26 years' experience in flexible packaging field 16 years as Operations Director.

All of work experiences have involved within a team-based culture, leading high performance teams and successfully increasing efficiency and productivity whilst reducing costs, inefficiencies and non-value elements. This involved developing strategies, budgeting, planning, organization, balanced score card, co-ordination, project managing, supply chain managing, problem solving, leadership, lean manufacturing, good industrial practices, ISO 22000 auditing, commitment and other business skills and activities developed by studies (MBA & Engineering) and practical experience.

Working range:
• Rotogravure and Flexo (CI) printing.
• Wet / Dry (SB/SF) Lamination.
• PE co-extrusion coating/ laminating.
• PE 3L Blown Film.
• Shrink Sleeves, Bag Making and Ice Cream Cone Sleeves.

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International Printing & Packaging materials Co. (IPP)
March 2007: Till Now (16 yrs.)
Operations Director

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to GM & top board.
• Complete responsibility of (supply chain, production, maintenance, technical prepress preparation and quality control).
• Oversee more than 150 employees.
• Stock controlling.
• Responsible for techno-commercial function for some multinational clients as Nestle, Philip Morris (Marlboro), Coca Cola and Mc Donald's ‘supplier, etc.
• Discuss the financial statements with top board.
• Develop the factory strategy jointly with top board.
• Coordinating between departments to achieve strategic objectives.
• Planning for new machineries and investments.
• Assisting company accountants in the formulations of costing and budgeting.
• Maintaining excellent relationships with clients and suppliers.


Key Achievements:

• Developed the estimated budget and the annual plan.
• Insert new 7 production basic/accessory lines which increased sales to be 8500 tons/yr instead of 3800 tons/yr.
• Applied BRC, ISO 22000/2005, 18000.
• Implemented Lean Manufacturing Principles (2010) that helped to enhance managing/planning, reduce waste and increase the profit margin.
• Good Manufacturing practices.
• Created a lot of new products.
• Achieved a strong relationship with clients as Coca Cola, Nestle, Philip Morris, etc. by personnel monitoring increasing our efficiency for them to be 100% instead of 67%.
• Selected the best suppliers with the best prices & payment conditions.
• Eliminated most of non-valued customers.

Production Manager at International Printing & Packaging materials Co
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2001 to March 2007

Reporting to Op. Director.
* Creating production plans to achieve strategic objectives.
* Evaluating employees.
* Waste controlling.
* Time managing.
* Problem solving.
* Gathering and analyzing data.
* Cost analyzing and improving manufacturing cost.
* Coordinate across other business functions.
Key Achievements:
* Minimized waste percentage from 13% to 7.6% ( 5 million EGP/yr).
* Utilized time by 76% instead of 54% which increased sales to be 90:100 million
EGP/yr instead of 70 million/yr (+20:30 million with extra profit value 2.5:3 million
EGP/yr).
* Create a problems data base archive with all possible solutions with instructions
which saved 1 million EGP/yr.
* Create a complete production data base which helped in getting the decision to get
new production lines.
* Created many independent working teams.

Production Supervisor at International Printing & Packaging materials Co
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 1997 to January 2001

Reporting to production Manager.
* Achieving targets of the production plans.
* Training of employees.

Q.C. supervisor at International Printing & Packaging materials Co
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 1995 to January 1997
Engineer at International Printing & Packaging materials Co
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 1993 to December 1994

Maintenance engineer

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at Ain Shams Univ
  • June 2012

Lean Manufacturing

Bachelor's degree, Production Engineering
  • at Helwan University
  • July 1991

courses: .G.A. Very Good. * Auditor/Lead auditor ISO 22000/2005 (TUV nord). * Lean Manufacturing principles (Logic). * English conversation (British Univ.).

Specialties & Skills

Lean Manufacturing
Extrusion laminating
rotogravure
Packaging
Balanced Scorecard
BUDGETING
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
DECISION MAKING
PACKAGING
PRE-PRESS PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
QUALITY CONTROL
REPORTS
negotiation
materials
planning
supply chain management
procurement
logistics
marketing
operations management
problem solving
operation

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
German
Beginner