Manager Engineering

Hicham Bennani

www.linkedin.com/in/bennanihicham

3631H Woodsdale Road Mobile: 443-***-****

Abingdon, MD 21009 **************@*******.***

Engineering Manager

Financial Guidance Engineering Leadership Operational Efficiency

Senior level engineering professional with extensive experience leading and directing engineering manufacturing operations, delivering on high-level initiatives to support production. Able to effectively coordinate areas with competing interests in pursuit of common goals and objectives. A strong leader able to provide vision and implement strategy to improve productivity, quality and plant effectiveness. Recognized as an agent of change having successfully led organizational change in diverse environments. Past success optimizing productivity working in highly technical environments. Fluent in Arabic and French languages.

Areas of Expertise

Strategic Direction

Asset Optimization

Engineering Vision

Reliability Engineering

Site Turn-Arounds/Consolidations

Operational Leadership

Budgetary Control

Maintenance Reliability Improvements

Staff Management

Process Safety Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Manager, Engineering and Maintenance 2012 – Present

Cytec Industries – Havre de Grace, MD

A specialty chemical and materials technology company with sales in excess of $3B producing resins, plastics and composite materials for the aerospace industry and other users of specialty materials.

Responsible for infrastructure construction and operations with a project budget up to $15M annually and an operating budget of $5M.

Oversight of staff including capital project, utility, contract, reliability, production and process engineers as well as maintenance to support the above.

Provides overall leadership to the maintenance, utilities, and engineering departments to achieve a high level of equipment reliability and converting efficiencies in a safe, responsible, cost effective manner.

Directs all aspects of plant maintenance and engineering, environmental services, grounds and equipment, acting in an advisory capacity to administration when changes in the existing structure are planned or additions to the physical plant are proposed.

Supports strategic lean events and related workshops to deliver benefits including areas of safety, health, environmental, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, and research & development.

Revitalizes engineering performance by implementing product management controls, road map strategy, departmental goals, succession plan, business case implementation and evaluation.

Serves as a member of the Corporate Safety Committee involved with Life Safety, OSHA and other facility and team member safety issues.

Creates and drives Engineering vision, with a focus on fundamentals of customer centricity and accountability.

Infused collaboration and partnering internally and externally to grow the enterprise to improve competitiveness and innovation resulted in significant customer pull with our largest customers.

Achieved a yearly average of or $1.4M in cost savings through formulation and process improvements.

Plant Manager (Contract Position) 2011 - 2012

Amitech – Casablanca, Morocco

An international company specializing in the production of pipes and accessories for reinforced polyester fiberglass, the development of new products and manufacturing technologies to achieve high quality and reliability.

Led a plant turn-around to include designed and implemented a reorganization of the facility and capacity that achieved profitability in 2012 after 6 consecutive years of loss (2006 finished with a $2M loss).

Developed product yields of up to 12% by instituting a focus on machine and process reliability.

Improved the relationship with an established union allowing for a contract settlement in 2012.

Generated a focus on housekeeping and organization using 5S techniques.

Initiated a performance measurement system for key safety and production parameters.

Reduced the Lost Time Accidents (LTA) rate 88% from 7.1 in 2005 to 0.8 in 2012 by initiating a safety system to ensure a higher level of awareness for safe practices and completed one full year without an LTA.

Manager of Engineering 2008 - 2011

ATK – Alliant Techsystems – Independence, MO

An American aerospace, defense and sporting goods company operating in 22 states, Puerto Rico and other countries with 2014 revenue in excess of $4.7B.

Responsible for a capital budget of $2 million.

Directed multi-phased Manufacturing operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Engineering, Production Technologies, New Product Introduction (NPI), Sustaining Engineering, and Facilities Management directly or through a matrix management structure.

Responsible for all activities involving the quality assurance management system, including compliance of operations with applicable regulatory requirements, product quality control, and related internal and external quality policy deployment.

Drove cost reductions through engineering initiatives to reduce the cost of hardware purchased and process improvement/manufacturing engineering to improve design for manufacturing (DFM).

Worked on all processes and drove yield improvement, interfacing closely with R&D to assure new products are designed for manufacturability and manufacturing capabilities are ready per project launch schedules.

Served as a key leader in the transformation of a multi-facility old line manufacturing operation into a Lean Manufacturing Organization with a strong Continuous Improvement culture.

Introduced daily Right First Time (RFT) measurement system, improving results from 90% to 95% on critical plant equipment within a 6-month period.

Manager of Process Engineering 2004 - 2008

Deceuninck North America – Cincinnati, OH

A fully integrated design, compounding, tooling and PVC extrusion company that produces energy-efficient vinyl window and door systems as well as composite applications for the building and construction industry.

Managed Process Engineering consisting of a team of engineers and process technicians responsible for improving the process in all areas of extrusion, handling and packaging.

Grew the in-house process engineering staff by identifying and hiring engineers and technicians with extrusion industry experience who were also a good fit with the culture of the existing team.

Directed the installation of capital equipment to ensure systems are installed and functioning according to required implementation schedule and specifications.

Utilized value stream mapping to identify and eliminate waste as well as evaluated potential changes in workflow to maximize production efficiencies.

Acted as a driver for cross-department communication, continuous improvement, and accountability and led a task force that reduced job change set up time by 50% and increased yields on top running tools by an average of 30%.

Led the introduction and implementation of pulverization process, which generated a $ 600,000 profit, and continuous improvement events, through Kaizen activities to resolve this material balance discrepancy. The team identified and validated 20% of the overall losses.

Business Unit Manager/Project Engineer Manager 2002 - 2004

Newell Rubbermaid/Anchor Hocking – Lancaster, OH

A worldwide marketer of consumer and commercial products with a portfolio of well-known brands and sales in 100+ countries.

Operated a budget of $2 million, and managed 15 to 20 salaried and 132 hourly employees in this glassware facility.

Increased overall plant output by 15% ($30 million in addition sales) by guiding lean production (SMED) initiatives, production scheduling changes, and raw material reformulations.

Conducted pilot LEAN, KAIZEN, 5-S resulting in improvements in yield, overtime, changeover efficiency (over 20% in one area), safer work areas and best practice methods.

Initiated and implemented factory level improvements to enhance the overall production efficiency through the application of some of the key Lean Manufacturing practices: 5S, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Cycle Time Reduction, Kaizen.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration, Operations Emphasis – Regis University

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering – University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

SPECIALIZED TRAINING & CERTIFICATION

Certifications:

Lean Systems Certification Program - University of Kentucky

Systems Engineering Short Program – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Executive Certificate in Management/Leadership – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Certified Six Sigma & DFMA

Currently Pursuing PMP/PMI Certification

ATF EP Certification & Gun Control Act

E.I.T. – Certification of Engineering in Training

Security Clearance for Federal Explosives License/Permit

Training:

Fundamentals for Leaders Manufacturing Concepts - Alliant Tech Systems Leadership University

DoD, U.S. Government Manufacturing Procedures - Value Engineering

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