PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Philippines

Factory Operation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned the existing factory layout to improve process efficiency
• Established and trained QC/QA department, introduced preventive maintenance
• Developed warehousing and spare parts planning based on Confidential for factory equipment
• Established product standards for certification, and initiated documentation and record keeping in compliance with ISO 9002
• Trained 10 new cadet engineers, established production targets, and helped drive new factory operating culture
• Established and trained new staff in Occupational and Health as well as Department of Environment requirements.
• Overall increased production output from 1,500 tons/month to 4,000 tons/month, reduced rejection rates from 30 - 50% to 5-15%, increased product range from 3 to 8, improved production quality to meet ASTM standards and resolved factory technical issues.

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Factory Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established quality standards and operations procedures, modified the dryer system, improved factory layout with resultant overall productivity improvement. Trained factory supervisors and the general work force.
• Helped with raw material (clay) sourcing and secured factory clay deposits.
• Worked with the Accounts department to introduce a new costing format to better manage KPIs.
• Doubled production output from 2 million to 4 million pieces per month, with simultaneous quality improvement.

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Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• With Confidential factory successfully commissioned, I was assigned to recruit and train a new factory manager in Confidential to achieve production target and budget.
• I then went on to recruit and train another factory manager for a new plant in Kuantan, a city on the east coast of West Malaysia.
• A 4th factory was acquired in Sedenak, a southern city in West Malaysia as Hap Seng continued to grow their market share, and I was assigned to re-train the Factory, Technical, Engineering, and Administration managers.
• I also re-engineered the factory’s firing system and reduced costing by 40%.

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Deputy General Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversight of 2 new factory set ups, one in Kuantan and the other in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
• Managed 2 factory acquisitions - Sedenak (Johor) and Ka Fu (Sabah)
• Helped management to achieve targeted KPI’s and profitability.

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Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Improved productivity by reducing down time and established preventive maintenance procedures.
• Re-engineered the maintenance department and assimilated them into production operations.

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Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working with an external consultant, I helped in union negotiations and managed to introduce a new collective agreement based on productivity
• Researched the use of coconut and oil palm trunk in the production of Confidential .
• Worked with the Accounts department to help establish improved costing standards and formats.

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Factory Consultant/General Manager

Responsibilities:

• Rectified the dryer and improved on the kiln bottle neck issues
• Trained production supervisors, technical supervisor and the factory manager on the correct production and technical control for the factory
• Instilled a new work culture in the factory
• Implemented ISO 9000 documentation procedures and brought products up to MS Standards
• With successful increase in production output, the factory was able to reduce production cost and returned to profitability. Reject rate dropped from 15% to 5% and with better product quality was achieved.

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Manufacturing Manager

Responsibilities:

• Turned over the company and managed the factory expansion with a new roofing tile division (Japanese - J profile) and a terra cotta tile division, which started production of 12 in. x 12 in. terra cotta tiles and other accessories.
• Designed and built 5 gas-fired shuttle kiln and dryers for the factory over the span of 8 years to produce terra cotta tiles, swimming pool tiles, roofing tiles and accessories.
• Represented the company in the Malaysian Ceramic Industrial Group (MCIG) and regularly visited Ceramic Exhibitions in Munich, Germany and Bologna, Italy from 1993-1999.

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Responsibilities:

• I was employed as Production Executive responsible for managing their finished product sorting lines and a new tile polishing line.
• I was trained to run 2 sorting lines from Fast Fire Confidential and the new tile polishing line from Confidential, Italy.

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Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for overseeing the full production line that included the tile pressing, glaze preparation, glazing, printing, drying, firing, inspection/selection and packing processes.
• I managed a work force of 35 in a unionized environment. I successfully maintained production output under strict worker safety requirements, and trained in Safety and First Aid requirements.

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Responsibilities:

• Developed quality control procedures for incoming raw materials to improve quality and processes
• Trained to monitor and control tunnel kilns and hydraulic presses from Italy and Japan.
• Was instrumental in establishing trouble shooting and process monitoring and control procedures.