Supply Chain Process Management & Industrial Engineering
Technical/ Computer Systems/ ERP Proficiencies: SAP MM, Arena Simulation Software, AutoCAD, MATLAB, Minitab, C++, Tableau, Power BI, MS Office, MS Project
EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING
M.S. - Global Supply Chain Management, Portland State University (PSU) 03/ 2019
MBA, Indiana University Northwest (IUN) 08/ 2016
B.S. - Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) 05/ 2011
oLean Six Sigma Green Belt, Institute of Industrial Engineers (Certificate #: 12100661) 06/ 2011
oManufacturing Continuous Improvement Training: DMAIIC, Value Stream Mapping, One Piece flow, Kaizen & Standard Work, SMED, Kanban, TQM, TPM, Six Sigma, Process Capability, Root Cause Analysis, 5S, 7W.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ARCELORMITTAL (Indiana Harbor), East Chicago, IN 10/ 2011 - Present
Steel and Mining Company
Process Manager – Planning & Supply Chain Management (11/ 2016 to Present)
Manage/ develop/ improve weekly material plan flow tool & forecast of all production units, and product mixes, for 2 facilities based on capacities & production specifications. 6 Direct Reports (Manage/ oversee a team of 2 supply chain analysts & 4 planners to ensure high level of execution).
oGoal: Maintain optimal Lean level of pipelines & inventories, and adjust on continuous basis (depending on market, internal capabilities & capacities, and customers’ delivery dates).
Establish/ monitor ERP system requirements by managing daily/ weekly/ monthly production planning’s execution & inventory targets vs. forecast.
Lead daily/ weekly production scheduling meetings.
Provide daily guidance to internal/ external logistics group by setting products’ priority movements.
Identify & manage planning / scheduling of bottlenecks & capacity issues with schedulers & productions operations teams.
Make necessary modifications to production planning & forecast while providing key internal stockholders with optimal alternatives to achieve production’s goals.
Manage/ Optimize current inventory management system to ensure optimum level of inventories of raw materials, semi-finished, and finished goods across products’ pipelines.
Improve finished product OTD performance by eliminating non value-added operational, planning & scheduling, and logistics steps.
Apply Lean Continuous Improvement tools to design centralized operating planning models, to ensure efficient materials flow, and optimal inventory management.
Collaborate with Sales & Commercial Group, Planning & Scheduling, Operations & Quality, to resolve tactical & strategic planning actions related to NPI & current products to achieve on time delivery at optimum cost with optimum inventory levels.
Developed tools to optimize integrated plant Supply Chain, dynamic scheduling, WIP reduction, plant performance & delivery execution, by partnering with Supply Chain team, Operations, IT and Quality.
Optimize/ maintain KPI Power BI dashboard for data visualization to achieve better supply chain planning’s execution, JIT per productions’ units, and customers on time delivery’s satisfaction.
Sr. Industrial Engineer – Incentive Programs (04/ 2015 – 10/ 2016)
Industrial Engineer – Incentive Programs (10/ 2011 – 03/ 2015)
Provided industrial engineering support to corporate & facilities, including engineered labor standards.
Dollarized/ implemented contractual agreements w/ union (UAW), including Incentive plan modifications.
Applied Lean Concepts with support of IT, HR, Payroll, and Manufacturing Plants, to identify key areas that can be improved on the incentive program & application.
oRegularly conducted Kaizen projects in different manufacturing processes: Iron Production, Steel Production, Hot Strip Mill Rolling, Cold Strip Mill Area, Finishing Area, Maintenance Area, Logistics, Quality Control & Machine Shops.
oPerformed/ revaluated Financial analysis, cost benefit analysis, manpower analysis, Production Analysis, and time studies to establish engineered labor standards.
oUsed statistical tools to track incentive performance and detect change conditions in all production areas.
Reviewed/ designed Job Classifications, Line of Progressions, and wage incentive plans, w/ total of 80 Incentive Plans covering 4,000 employees, and annual cost of $72M.
Ran/ validated Incentive Pay Closes with $3M budget on bi-weekly basis, and tracked incentive performance based on a set of KPI metrics (Production Volume, Quality, Yields, etc.)
3 Direct Reports (Manage a team of 3 associate industrial engineers as a senior IE).
Participated in 2 United Steel Workers (USW) Contract Negotiations.
PEERLESS INDUSTRIES, INC, Aurora, IL (internship) 01/ 2011 – 05/ 2011
Manufactures sheet metal and aluminum audio visual wall mounts
Industrial Engineer (Intern)
Applied Work Productivity Process Analysis (time studies, work balancing) in the metal sheets fabrication, assembly lines, and packaging departments.
Implemented Lean Manufacturing concepts (5S, 7W, TQM, TPM)
Update manufacturing products data on IFS system-Manufacturing Module (ERP system)
Language Proficiency: Full Professional French; native Arabic