Ahmed El-Meshrefi

• Plan, organize and run day-to-day operations of a manufacturing site.
• Increase production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards.
• Monitor operations and trigger corrective actions.
• Responsible for Production Output, Quality and on-time shipping.
• Share a trusting relationship with workgroup and recruit, manage and develop plant staff.
• Address employees' issues or grievances and administer Special Committee in charge of settling problems.
• Stay Up to date with Lean Principles and concepts. Analyze and implement best practices.
• Preparing with plant staff from different dept. audits to start production for Under Armour products.
  
  PTH Assessment.
  TPAT Assessment.
  Quality Assessment.

• Responsible to monitor and evaluate raw materials, manpower planning, production recording and follow up
• Production planning according to capacity and 100% capacity utilization in minimum cost.
• Production targets are set by GSD standards and IE practices to achieve a certain percentage daily to reach the required revenue required.
• Follow up sampling, pre-production activities, cutting, sewing, washing, and finishing according to plan.
• Update production planning time to time according to the current situation.
• Work to implement planning and reduce plan vs actual gap.
• Distribute production planning to all related production staff and meetings to implement planning.
• Monitor daily production; make daily production report and tracking section wise production and WIP.
• Achieve on-time shipment (DIFOT) maintaining production work sequence.
• Work with merchandising team to QC file as per production lead time and monitor trims-accessories and fabrics in-house status.
• Closely monitoring all pre-production activities (Size set cutting, PP meeting, Pilot Run) and priority-based work progressing.
• Chase the finishing team for on-time final arrangement and ship the goods.

Maintaining and Improving the Quality Standards of the plant from fabric receive till FGS through the following practices.

• setting up and maintaining controls and documentation procedures.
• monitoring performance by gathering relevant data and producing statistical reports
• Daily check of production plan and performance reports. Finding top 5 defects in sewing lines and final CFA inspections. Analyzing and comparing EOL inspections and shipment audits. Taking corrective actions to eliminate top 5 defectives and increase FTT percentages.
• Monitor needle point quality through TLS practices and deskilling for operators with technical manager.
• Visualizing inspection methods and trainings to plant staff members. Sharing comments through Quality meetings and KPI reviews.

• Finding appropriate clients that match the PHD community standards.
• Handling the customer's deals starting from the prospecting, presenting projects and closing the deals.
• Following up with the customer to ensure satisfaction, going through delivery dates, payments collections and postponing payments.
• Handling the customers complains and managing the customer's requests.

• Create Value stream mapping to eliminate waste and non-value add process.
• Responded to business unit managers' requests to improve productivity and increase process competence.
• Increased equipment availability by reducing changeover-time to be less than 3 hours on various Production lines through QCO and TPM methodologies.
• 5s audit to sustain the lean system is being applied in all departments of the factory.
• Metal audit to sustain the metal control areas in factory to avoid any metal contamination in product.
• Standard work sheets for team members of production lines to make sure of efficient and quick production.
• Quality reports auditing for the evaluation of the factory's efficiency compared to production and quality standards.

-Handling team members of Production line and making sure production targets are met.
-Trouble shooting technical issues to assure production flows smoothly and maintaining WIP.
Cooperation with planning department concerning amounts of input and output weekly to make sure shipments are met.
-Cooperation with Quality control department through different statistical analysis to maintain the quality standard required.
-Setting line layout based on different styles and ready to input.

• Completed filings and upheld strict compliance with regulatory agencies and supervisors.
• Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
• Interviewed and hired talented individuals with top-level strengths, improving organizational talent and skill set.
• Prepared annual budgets with controls to prevent overages.
• Programming Production for tricot fabrics Flat Knitting machines by SDS-ONE Shima Seiki OS.
  - Brand developer and study market direction through local expos and market demands.
  -Follow up on garment construction and follow the quality standards.
  -Follow up with FG distributions and replenish orders to clients.

• Leading the installation team, starting up and commissioning of highly automated water treatment Plant.
• Apply maintenance procedures and ensure people and equipment safety.
• Planning and scheduling different maintenance service activities.
• establish, monitor and Audit overall plant performance for production and quality standards (ISO 9001:2008, ISO 22000 : 2005, HACCP)
• Supervising and operating of 12 types of fully automated machines on sites (Conveyor– shrink wrapper Cermex – palletizer– palletizer Cermex - depllaetizer – incamatic – decamatic – universal SBO 10 – Roll quatro – Selecta C-star- Starblend Plus).
• Supervisor on Italian technicians Team of new weight of PET upgrading project.