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karim Nazmy El Hennawy

Production Section Head at Symrise AG

Sheikh Zayed, Giza, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Production Section HeadFull Time

    Symrise AG

    May 2023 - Present -2 yrs, 1 month

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Lead production and operations for two key technologies at Symrise#3 site, Dry Mix and Liquid Mix across three shifts per technology. Manage internal warehouses and material stocks, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. Manage and control in-process quality and on-time delivery for both technologies to meet the target RFT%. Oversee a workforce of 100+ employees to ensure efficient production planning and execution, assess staffing and skill requirements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain consistent product quality, safety, and productivity. Drive adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices, Food Safety standards and Symrise global standards and audits. Achieve 98% adherence to production targets. Minimize material waste to 0.5% MUV. Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations. Drive continuous improvement through autonomous maintenance initiatives. Participate in customer audits and work on the audit’s findings, work on the customer complaints and set actions to address the needs. Support new product trials and industrial testing of raw materials and packaging. Reporting to the Operations Manager, contributing to strategic decision-making and long-term business goals
  • Production Section HeadFull Time

    Edita food industries

    Jun 2019 - Apr 2023 -3 yrs, 10 months

    Egypt , Giza

    • Job Details:Manage three production lines with around 2 million pouches production per day. Collaborate with other functions i.e. Quality & Food Safety, Safety, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain/Logistics and Commercial, to ensure consistent product quality, safety, productivity and reliability. Set and agree on annual CAPEX with involved departments. Monitor and control OPEX to meet the targets. Achieve 98% plan adherence for assigned lines. Monitor and control line’s waste to achieve 0.5% waste and 0.5% MUV. Ensure health and safety regulations are met. Monitor and control production parameters to meet 95% of Know-how audits. Report to Factory Manager and supervise junior engineers. Follow up autonomous maintenance activities and communicate with involved departments for best added value. Participate in installment of new production lines, conducting line’s trial and industrial tests of new types of packaging materials, raw materials and finished products. Assess manufacturing operations staffing and skill requirements. Develop plans to address needs.
  • Production EngineerFull Time

    Edita Food Industries

    Feb 2016 - May 2019 -3 yrs, 3 months

    Egypt , Giza

    • Job Details:• Lead the Shift to manufacture the planned volumes and driving day-to-day Cell (Processing Area) operational performance, including KPIs for Safety and Quality. • Implementation of the weekly production plan. • Overcoming production related problems, material shortages, equipment malfunctions and other avoidable delays where possible and plan to reduce their impact on the operation. • Prepare all production reports and follow the production KPIs with clear action plans. • Work on reducing machine stoppage due to any process issues. • Ensure the implementation of all Food Safety, GMP’s and HACCP processes and procedures in the day to day operations. • Ensure all quality parameters are met, and that out of specification is analyzed and reduced by addressing root cause. • Interacting among different departments e.g. the day to day maintenance, quality, safety, planning and administration. • Enforce the use of all safety procedures to reduce accidents and incidents to an absolute minimum by developing work procedures that adhere to safety and environmental cleanliness principles
  • Production EngineerFull Time

    Dreem Mahreq

    Apr 2014 - Jan 2016 -1 yr, 9 months

    Egypt , Alexandria

    • Job Details: Production Shift leader at Dreem Mahreq new factory.  Lead the shift in order to achieve production plan, and assure the compliance of the daily floor activities to the company’s certified systems.  Ensure planned KPI'S of efficiency and performance are met or exceed overseeing the production process, drawing up a production schedule.  Coordinate with other departments to overcome the abnormalities on production line.  Coordinates production startups, shutdowns, and changeovers  Ensure compliance with Health and Safety policies, systems and processes  Working out the human and material resources needed.  Ensure prescribed line Preventive Maintenance is completed timely.  Ensure complete compliance to prescribed QMS and 5S processes.  Assess manufacturing operations staffing and skill requirements. Develop plans to address needs
  • Education

    • Bachelor's Degree in Production Engineering

      Alexandria University (ALEXU)

      Jan 2005 - Jan 2011 - 6 yr

    • High School - Thanaweya Amma

      Damnhour High School

      Jan 2005 

    Skills

    • Microsoft Office
    • Six Sigma
    • Lean Six Sigma
    • Minitab

    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Advanced

    Training & Certifications

    • APICS Certified Production and Inventory Management CPIM P.1

      APICS·2018
    • APICS Certified Production and Inventory Management

      APICS·2018
    • ISO 9001: IRCA certificated Quality Management Systems Auditor/Lead Auditor

      IRCA·2013
    • Six Sigma Green Belt

      IASSC (International Association for Six Sigma Certification)·2013
    • Six sigma green belt

      Quality Academy as certified training provider from IASSC·2013
    • Total Quality Management

      P&Q institute·2012
    • Solid Works

      Alexanderia University·2010
    • Undergraduate Training

      Alexandria Petroleum Company·2008
    • AutoCA 2D&3D

      New Horizon Alexanderia·2008
    • Undergraduate Training

      Alexandria Petroleum Company·2007
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