
karim Nazmy El Hennawy
Production Section Head at Symrise AG
Sheikh Zayed, Giza, EgyptWork 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 SchoolJan 2005
Languages
Arabic
FluentEnglish
Advanced
Training & Certifications
APICS Certified Production and Inventory Management CPIM P.1
APICS·2018APICS Certified Production and Inventory Management
APICS·2018ISO 9001: IRCA certificated Quality Management Systems Auditor/Lead Auditor
IRCA·2013Six Sigma Green Belt
IASSC (International Association for Six Sigma Certification)·2013Six sigma green belt
Quality Academy as certified training provider from IASSC·2013Total Quality Management
P&Q institute·2012Solid Works
Alexanderia University·2010Undergraduate Training
Alexandria Petroleum Company·2008AutoCA 2D&3D
New Horizon Alexanderia·2008Undergraduate Training
Alexandria Petroleum Company·2007