Shahid Ahmad Siddiqui

Plant Manager

Mobile: +966-*********

E-mail: admpod@r.postjobfree.com

Synopsis

15+ years experienced professional with expertise in manufacturing set up, production operations and quality control management. Good working knowledge in the production execution, machine installation, machine commissioning, plant operation supervision, plant maintenance, start ups and consolidations. Capable to develop excellent relationships with clients, suppliers, colleagues and senior management to ensure smooth and efficient progress of work within stipulated budget & limited resources. A problem-solver, keen strategist, innovative and dedicated personality with proven talent to be flexible in challenging business scenarios with an outstanding ability to handle manpower and teambuilding. Possess excellent management, team leader in multinational atmosphere, communication, strong supervision, training provider to key team leaders, people motivation, client relationship and organizational skills.

Strength

Successful in sourcing new suppliers of raw materials and reduce production cost.

Knowledgeable with technical specifications of plant materials and equipment.

Good background with ISO 9001-2015, ISO 45001-2018 and TS 16949-2009 working environment and an understanding of audit process.

Manufacturing Lean Six Sigma Certified candidate and practically adopting in manufacturing/ Production.

Proficiency in developing programs, instructions including work procedures or directions considering quality aspects within various departments.

Determined and committed worker with ability to perform in a busy plant operations work environment and motivate team to achieve production targets and business objectives in safe atmosphere.

Plant Safety Audit with Process Hazardous Analysis PHA and mitigation is additional culture implementation.

Plant KPIs generation and its departmental implementation is main operational target on monthly or yearly frequency.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering Degree (B.E) – Chemical, 1984

Bachelor of Science Degree (B.Sc) – Chemistry, Physics & Mathematics, 1979

Accomplishments

Achieved a consistent career growth for demonstrating excellent performance in job profiles.

Success record of achieving production targets with set parameters of cost, quality and safety.

Gained rewarding experience in manufacturing and production industries.

Gained Plant Safety Reward with less surveillance audit findings.

Successful controlling production operations as per the capacity and sales projection.

Product development as per market/customer demand.

Experience Snapshot

Senior Metallurgical Engineer

Maaden Aluminium Company, Ras Al-Khair Ind. City, Jubail, Saudi Arabia

Maaden Aluminium Company is situated at Ras Al-Khair Industrial City in Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia near to Dammam and Jubail.

This is Joint venture company between Saudi Arabia Government and Alcoa –USA with 75:25 percent partnerships.

Maaden Aluminium Company is a big industry in middle east to produce aluminium metal from bauxite ore. Its initial capacity is 400 million ton per month.

This company is started since Mar 2012 with starting partial capacity and since June 2014 its all units are commissioned.

Maaden Aluminium is divided in 3 major part of companies, Refinery – Smelter and Rolling Mill.

Maaden Aluminium has additional one plant Can Reclamation Unit. This is producing aluminium metal after recycling of Used Beverage Cans and other aluminium scraps. Used beverage cans are resourcing from all middle east and worldwide countries.

Plant Manager

DuPont Powder Coating Co., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia(www.dupont.com)

Plant capacity is 5000 MT/year. Main products are Polyester, Epoxy, Polyurethane, in multiple finishes like glossy, textured, grit finish, matt finish, and metallic in different shades.

This is a joint venture company between 51% DuPont – Germany and 49% Local Saudi Partner.

It is under license of DuPont Alesta brand name. ISO9001-2008 and ISO14001-2004 are implemented at this site by Moody International –Khobar.

60 manpower is involved to operate this site.

Plant Manager

SIDC Metal Coating Co., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (www.sidc.com.sa)

[now this company is operating by UNICOI L- Dammam

Jan 2014 – Present

Feb 2011 – Jan 2014

Jul 1999 – Jan 2011

Part of the Saudi Industrial Development Company (SIDC) and specializes in a steel or aluminum coil coating plant with paid up capital of SR 57M with 120 workforce. Line capacity is 85000 MT/year, product width is max 1260mm and line speed is max 75 Meter/minute. Thickness range is 0.30 mm-0.90mm for steel coils and 0.33mm-1.50mm for aluminium coil. Painted galvanized cold rolled coils, aluzinc coils, CRC and aluminium coils are company’s finished products. Paint coatings are commercial polyester, premium polyester, solid PVDF, metallic and mica based PVDF.

Quality Control Manager

LCC Siporex Precast Concrete Co., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

May 1992 – Mar 1999

Established in 1977, a leading manufacturer of precast & light weight density concrete products known as Siporex in Saudi Arabia. Its product ranges includes blocks, roof and floor slabs, wall panels and fluted panels. 110 workforce strength.

Work Experience

Senior Metallurgical Engineer, Maaden Aluminium Company, Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia

Appointed as Sr. Metallurgical Engineer.

The primary purpose of Sr. Metallurgical Engineer is development & optimization of operating practices, proposals for improvement in quality, yield and productivity. Interacts with customer to meet the quality level and measure the performance of the can rec.

Sr Metallurgical Eng. involves in projects related to melting scrap, material defects and standardizing operating procedures within any current and/or future aluminum facility.

Utilize expertise in engineering knowledge and experience to develop operating practices and the process controls to ensure a capable and repeatable process.

Involve with quality to resolve quality issues and investigate the required corrective actions to produce quality products.

Support customer centered quality programs, continuous improvement projects and lean manufacturing initiatives. Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.

Identify opportunities or implement changes to improve products or reduce costs using knowledge of processes and production equipment, quality control standards, or product design.

Develops, implements, and ensures utilization of can reclamation methods, procedures and specifications for raw materials processing, finished products and equipment operation in manufacturing operations. Leads and participates in the development, design, and selection of process and control equipment.

Reviews production performance and identifies technical operational problem. Initiates investigation in coordination with Maintenance, Support Groups and Process as appropriate to identify the root cause of the problem, recommends solution and leads in the execution of eliminating the problem and preventing its recurrence.

Works with quality on improving the quality of aluminum sheets.

Identifies and eliminates losses in all phases of operations including materials, capital and productivity. Supports and implements various tasks, projects, and actions in support of the Company Strategic Plan.

Prepares and reviews work instructions and procedures and oversees their effective implementation. Conducts in-house technical training of operation personnel to enhance knowledge and skills.

Develops and executes can reclamation projects to melt scrap, improve the manufacturing process, and improve product quality, Yield and productivity.

Participates actively and implements action plan formulated by assigned Area Teams for sustained C.R stability, availability and defect- free product.

Actively participates in Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Reliability Instrumentation System (RIS) and Production in hot rolling.

Supports Process in can reclamation activities and development of new processes and products.

Develop and implement quality management strategy and plans, including resource, systems, timescales, financials, to support, contribute to, and integrate within, the organization’s annual business plan and long term strategy.

Develop and maintain systems to establish standards relating to activities and products.

Develop and maintain systems to measure performance against established standards.

Monitor performance (in relevant areas) according to agreed standards and take necessary action to communicate/advise/assist according to performance levels.

Monitor and inform/communicate/apply standards created/maintained by external bodies, and integrate within internal quality management systems.

Establish and implement necessary communication strategy for the improvement and awareness of quality issues across all departments.

Plan and manage departmental activities in accordance with agreed budgets and timescales.

Report as necessary on changes in standards (internally and externally initiated) and on performance against standards.

Liaise and co-operate with quality management and standards bodies (e.g., BSI, Government Departments, HSE, etc.) Manage staff according to company standards (appraisals, discipline, training, development, etc.).

Manage departmental performance against agreed targets and budgets, and within policies and standards.

Liaise with customers and suppliers where necessary (where impacting/affected by quality issues)

Contribute to executive company policy and strategy.

Plant Manager, DuPont Powder Coating Co., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Working as a Site Manager with all site responsibilities.

My main role is to operate these departments: Planning, Production, SHE, Quality, Maintenance and Logistic.

Solving technical issues and operate Plant as per budget and sales requirement.

Operate Plant with in ISO procedure and maintain product quality with in prescribed specification.

Manufacturing cost reduction, product development as a sales/market demand.

Provide training to key operation team leaders. Maintain administration in multinational team including time punctuality.

Customer’s technical support and coordination to sales colleagues.

Maintain production output with in time frame and delivery within lead time.

New machines installation, commissioning, test drive and operation.

Preparation and follow up annual operational budget including capital expanses,

Reporting to General Manager-local and Global Operation Director- Germany

Coordination to purchase raw materials as per quality spec, availability and considerable price.

Evaluation of operation team, providing carrier growth path, easy to work under pressure and motivation to safe work.

Coordination to Safety Officer, providing safety trainings, fire drill, usage & importance of PPE, emergency evacuation, follow LTCTT procedure during machine maintenance etc.

Leading to guide maintenance team for preventive and predictive maintenance.

Plant Manager, SIDC Metal Coating Co., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Driving efforts towards achieving production target and producing materials according to the sales requirement as the main responsibility.

Planning, directing and controlling the production cost, recruitment of employees for the plant and looking after the safety issues as well as visiting customer or supplier sites as necessary.

Developing schedule of raw materials, spare parts requirements including consumable items. Arranging and maintaining proper storage of the same.

Maintain quality of raw materials and finished products based on the standard specification.

Carrying out product development trials on line if needed.

Guide to overseeing the preventive maintenance of plant machineries and equipments.

Addressing and sorting all technical issues, claims and complaints from customers.

Organizing and providing training to employees regularly either internal or with outside agencies.

Travelled to France and Hong Kong at the company’s consulting company on the expansion of plan and process development programs.

Coordination to Safety Officer, providing safety trainings, fire drill, usage & importance of PPE, emergency evacuation, follow LTCTT procedure during machine maintenance etc.

Leading to guide maintenance team for preventive and predictive maintenance.

Evaluation of operation team, providing carrier growth path, easy to work under pressure and motivation to safe work.

Quality Control Manager, LCC Siporex Precast Concrete Co., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Fully accountable in monitoring the quality of finished product, raw materials, process controlling and water treatment plant.

Managed effectively the implementation of approved quality control programs according to the customer contract and ensured the availability of materials including efficiency of systems to meet customer requirements as stated in the contract.

Guided, monitored and controlled all quality control personnel including Water Treatment Engineer and Boiler Operators.

Controlled activities within the Chemical and Physical laboratories.

In charge for selecting the internal auditors’ team that will conduct audit.

Worked along with the Procurement Manager in developing relationships with suppliers of raw materials such as cement, gypsum, magnesite, aluminium powder, sand, caustic soda, oleic acid, triethanolamine, water, repair mortar, repair glue, steel bar, bitumen, lime, etc.

Liaised between vendors, contractors and customers about quality with Sales Manager.

Monitored the water treatment plant and controlled its correct chemical feeding dose, parameters monitoring for process waste, boiler water and drinking water.

Dealt with the company’s main clients including Aramco-Sheybah Project Al Khobar, ABV Rock Group Taif, A.K Group Abha and Binladen PP9 Project Riyadh etc.

Devised product of different densities as per the steel & design load with chemical composition.

Created procedures, instructions, and work place directions for the Quality Department, Process Line, Water Treatment Section, Boiler Section, Dispatch Section and batching Section.

Channelized the movement towards achieving the ISO 9002 standards certification.

Job involves quality approval on the following:

Concrete product at every machine with dimensional accuracy as per European Specification.

Chemical and physical properties of concrete product.

Chemical, physical and structural properties of finished products such as compressive strength, dry density, moisture content, shrinkage percentage, air permeability, load bending test, flexural strength, shear strength, tensile strength as per European Standard # EN 678, 679, 680, 690, etc.

Quality of local and imported raw materials.

Quality of finished products such as roof slab, floor slab, wall panels, lintels, blocks, etc. Controlled the activity from the beginning to dispatch. Maintained dimensional accuracy according to the Swedish specifications during the stages.

Handling claim and complaint. Finding root cause and taking corrective action.

Technical support to customer and product development as per sales/market requirement.

Approving batch formulation and re-enforcement slab structure.

Maintain safety parameters, procedures, training, fire drill, PPE usage and its importance.

Areas of Expertise

Plant Management

Monitor and control plant processes, parameters and equipment.

Review plans, confer with research and support staff to develop new product processes.

Ensure the availability of machine equipment, tool and utility in perfect condition and look after that the repair work / maintenance attended timely without much loss of down time.

Maintain a comprehensive logging and recording of process parameters and its variances and encoding the same to the plant’s computer database for future reference.

Review processing schedules and production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.

Production Management

Responsible for production planning, manpower management, machine breakdown maintenance, troubleshooting, quality control checking, raw material procurement, reports preparation. Direct the achievement of production targets on monthly basis.

Ensure that value and quality of product is maintained as per target.

Develop budgets and approve expenditures for supplies, materials and human resources, ensure materials, labor and equipment are used efficiently to meet production targets.

Identify technological needs of process and implement new technologies for production.

Quality Control Management

Plan, coordinate and direct quality control program designed to ensure continuous production of products consistent with established standards.

Develop and analyze statistical data and product specifications to determine present standards and establish proposed quality and reliability expectancy of finished product.

Formulate and maintain quality control objectives and coordinate objectives with production procedures in liaison with other plant managers to maximize product reliability and minimize costs.

Plan, promote and organize training activities related to product quality and reliability.

Personal Details

Nationality

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Indian

Date of Birth

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1st February 1962

Marital Status

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Married

Visa Status

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Employment Visa Transferable Iqama (Saudi Arabia)

Languages

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English; Arabic, Urdu and Hindi

Driving License

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Saudi Arabia and India

IT Skills

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SAP User, ERP User, MS Office Suite, Powerpoint, Oracle User, Visio User

References

1.Mr. Sameer Shaikh, Project Engineer, Mobile 009***********, Email: admpod@r.postjobfree.com

2.Mr. Abdul Hakim Khan, Senior Planner, Mobile: 009***********, Email: admpod@r.postjobfree.com

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