Vice President Manufacturing/ General Manager
Food Unit Company
Total years of experience :17 years, 0 Months
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
•Lean Manufacturing
•Just-in-Time (JIT) Production
•Resource Allocation
•P&L Accountability
•Cost Reduction / Avoidance
•Total Quality Management (TQM)
•Policy / Procedure Development
•Team Building & Training
•Regulatory Compliance
Presently working in Food Unit Company, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as
Brands: Golden Field, Hot & Crispy, Mammas Choice, Capegrillo
COMPLETE RESPONSIBILITY FOR FACTORY MANAGEMENT:
•Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop a team of department heads to ensure that the plant meets its established targets and standards
•Set and monitor the performance of the plant against standards and targets in areas such as manufacturing and operating efficiency, quality, cost control, administration efficiency, legal compliance, inventory control, finished goods distribution, and human resource management.
•Responsible for meeting established operating budgets; monitor the cost and effectiveness of production activities to optimize resources, prioritise spending, and achieve volume, quality, and manufacturing standards.
•Ensure that all requisite intermediates are distributed to all co-packers in time and right quality
•Responsible for ensuring compliance to Quality Risk Management Process (QRMP) in factory
•Adherence to sustainability and Operations Risk Management (ORM)
•Responsible for Total Productivity Maintenance (TPM) of the factory
•Ensure smooth and cordial employee relations and external environment
SUPPORTING RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Research, evaluate, and recommend investments in technology, capital, equipment, systems, or other assets that will enhance the plant’s production capabilities.
•Support Operations in developing a variety of operating policies and procedures to ensure that the plant meets it current and future production targets and quality standards
Quality Controller
•Responsible for the delivery of continuous improvement and working with Corporate Quality in the execution of company programs. The role delivers these accountabilities through direct involvement with the manufacturing support personnel.
•Responsible for ensuring Microbial program compliance and sanitation compliance. The role will ensure key traceability, inspection program management, vendor management, and microbial program metrics are established, the delivery of the established metrics.
•This position ensures adherence to required quality & food safety laws, regulations, corporate policies and practices.
•Directs, plans, and implements traceability testing and monitoring. Ensures the facility meets all required food safety laws, regulations, and corporate policies.
•Responsible for the microbial program compliance for the facility along with continued development and continuous improvement of such programs.
•Accountability for HACCP and quality & food safety training for the facility to ensure compliance and execution of required programs.
•Ensure the adherence to all standard work programs.
•Supports coordination and preparation for yearly internal and third-party audits.
•Responsible for compliance with all regulation. Food safety - plant proper sanitary condition at all times, including allergen control, pest control, guidelines followed.
•Recognize and escalate, as needed, those issues identified as risks to, or opportunities to improve, plant performance.
Research & Development
•Reformulate existing product and improve the product margin.
•Organize, manage and coordinate important cost optimization projects while increasing the level of understanding of projects, processes, and methods as well as giving general direction to assigned teams in accomplishing projects on technical and scientific investigation or developments.
•Exhibits innovation in discovery, advancement, and evaluation of new technologies in the area of food/process research and development, which can have a significant impact on new products, improved products or processes and/ or capital avoidance
•Assume the role of project leader and technical problem solver as a team with IFCG professionals: Developers, Marketing, Marketing Research, Nutrition and labeling, manufacturing, Engineering and cost optimization Managers
•Involvement in a broad spectrum of activities, including process development, product reformulation, pilot and plant tests and plant starts-ups
•Provide technical or scientific direction and expertise within the department in project pipeline development including project feasibility tests, ingredients formulation for cost savings determination, scoping document support and participation in ideation processes
•Support the financial planning and reporting process through the timely and accurate completion of annual plans, estimates, and month end close.
•Function effectively as a Coordinator, Planner, Communicator and Technical Expert
Radwa is a dominant player in the premium quality poultry segment in Saudi Arabia with a range of many fresh and frozen products
•Fresh & Frozen Chicken and Chicken Parts, Burger, Nuggets, Sausages, Marinated Products, and Lots RTC products.
JOB DESCRIPTION
•Planning and scheduling production, preventive maintenance to utilize the resources in a best possible way with maximum output.
•Establishes production standards of efficiency, minimum wastages and maximum utilization of resources (machines, raw material and manpower).
•Planning and scheduling production, preventive maintenance to utilize the resources in a best possible way with maximum output.
•Establishes production standards of efficiency, minimum wastages and maximum utilization of resources (machines, raw material and manpower).
•Lead the process of continuous food quality improvement. Align with marketing on consumer sensory studies to tweak product improvement.
•Manage production processes and efficiently handled the work force to ensure that the operation is run with the highest standards of safety, occupational health and environment protection.
•Establishes quality control standards and procedures. Ensures strictly adherence to those standards.
•Manage all Production activities, track against plans and achieve targeted production volume of the right quality within planned costs and as per plan, ensure compliance to all related statutes and apply due diligence in all manufacturing related processes.
•Achieve and strive to continuously improve upon productivity standards in material usage and labor hours. Plan key initiatives to achieve significant improvements in Operational Asset Utilization
•Manage and provide participative guidance to the engineering function to ensure good upkeep of all equipment and assets within established standards to assure safeguarding of capital investment.
•Design and drive development of relevant MIS to ensure availability of information for timely decision making. Analyze weekly, monthly, quarterly & annual reports, present insights, trends & recommendations for continuous improvement in operational effectiveness in line with business goal.
•Lead the process of Cost Innovation, conduct ideation sessions, benchmark with other units and food companies for best practices and identify potential opportunities for continuous improvement.
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