Marwan Khalid Al Rawi
Calgary,Alberta
Summary
Top performing professional with over 14 years of experience in United Arab Emirates and the Arab Gulf country Market Ability to work under pressure and to organize work Ability to forecast and plan Understanding of diverse cultures within the work environment Experienced Quality Assurance Supervisor with Demonstrated history of working in food production industry Broad Knowledge of Product line(s) of responsibility, general Knowledge of all other product lines, knowledge of processes of a manufacturing environment. Excellent communication skills, analytical, client relations and project management skills
Experienced with production planning, quality control, and resource management. Utilizes strategic approaches to streamline operations and boost productivity. Track record of implementing process improvements and fostering cohesive team environments.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Production Manager
Super-Pufft Snacks & Shearers
08.2022 - Current
- Streamlined production processes to enhance efficiency and reduce downtime.
- Managed cross-functional teams to ensure timely completion of production schedules.
- Implemented quality control measures to maintain product standards and compliance.
- Developed training programs for new employees, enhancing workforce competency and safety.
- Analyzed production data to identify trends, driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Coordinated with supply chain teams to optimize inventory levels and resource allocation.
- Led meetings to align departmental goals with company objectives, fostering collaboration.
- Oversaw equipment maintenance schedules, minimizing operational disruptions and ensuring reliability.
- Resolved issues quickly to maintain productivity goals.
- Increased overall productivity by identifying bottlenecks in the production process and proposing effective solutions.
- Sourced materials to keep up with production goals and meet customer demands.
- Created streamlined production schedules and collaborated with production employees to communicate objectives and goals.
- Determined suitable crew requirements, scheduled employees, and worked with human resources to meet changing production schedules.
- Managed budgeting and cost control measures for production department, staying within financial targets.
Production Supervisor
Hensall Co-op (Hensall Foods)
09.2020 - 07.2022
- Main products: Prepare and cook ready meal different recipe like sea foods, beef, chicken, and Mac & Cheese
- Overseeing a team of 15-20 employees.
- Supervision of processing (Par cooking, filling and packaging).
- Produce and maintain a high level of quality products based on production requirements.
- Conducting daily opening and closing meetings with production employees.
- Checking of production outputs according to batch sheets and specifications.
- Coaching employees for adhering GMPs, OHS & SOPs.
- Contributing by recommending continuous improvement initiatives for increasing productivity and cost reduction.
- Daily and weekly manpower scheduling.
- Preparing daily production and manpower reports.
- Working with R & D including for the development of new products.
- Procuring machinery & equipment for new developments.
- Working with maintenance for the PM of the machinery.
- Creating team schedules and delegating tasks to ensure proper workflow.
- Continuously monitoring employee performance and identifying areas of improvement.
- Establishing company goals and objectives for employees, and ensuring their performance is in line with those.
- Assessing employee performance and providing performance reviews to human resource and senior managers.
- Ensuring team members meet deadlines for key projects and tasks.
- Addressing any concerns or issues identified by team members.
- Screening and assessing new candidates.
- Providing training and overseeing the orientation of new employees to get them up to speed on the policies and procedures within the company.
Production Manager
Super Pufft Foods Ltd.
04.2021 - 09.2021
- Overseeing a team of 45-55 employees.
- Overseeing the employee workforce in all operation department.
- Managing scheduling for maximum workforce efficiency.
- Daily Meeting with production Supervisor and Quality Team to insure all production parameter on the right path.
- Evaluating, adjusting, and creating new policies and procedures as needed for effective operations.
- Acting as a liaison between management, Supervisor and workers.
- Managing risk to minimize losses and maximize profits.
- Leading and encouraging staff to operate at a high level of effectiveness.
- Conduct studies to discover ways to improve the efficiency of production processes.
- Oversee the hiring and training food production personnel.
- Ensure manufacturing and processing staff wear appropriate sanitary and protective gear to ensure health and safety.
- Monitor every aspect of production to ensure compliance with established procedures and standards.
- Oversee the maintenance, repair, and replacement of production equipment to ensure smooth work operations.
- Allot work tasks to company staff according to their specialization and history.
- Set production objectives and implement action plans for achieving set targets.
- Conduct forecast to identify potential risks and contingencies in a proposed project.
- Prepare periodic reports to update upper management on food production activities.
- Create work shifts to ensure round-the-clock food production operations.
- Maintain accurate inventory of raw materials and processed food products.
- Ensure products and raw materials are stored properly at optimum conditions.
- Carry out surveys to identify customer requirements and adjust to meet such needs.
- Ensure all company regulations and government legislations are adhered
- Attend seminars, conferences, and educational programs to update job knowledge.
QA Supervisor
Super Pufft Foods Ltd.
03.2020 - 04.2021
- Overseeing a team of 7 employees.
- Prepare, inspection, Maintain and Implement GMP Documentation and overall program with standards including SQF
- Completing Customer Audits Questionnaires
- Prepare HACCP Plan as require by customer
- Controller of Incoming Raw Material and Packaging Specification compare with the COA
- Conduct Equipment Calibration in house and Maintain external Calibration Certificates
- Assures consistent quality of production by developing and enforcing food safety systems; validating processes; providing documentation.
- Conducted daily product evaluations to ensure that all specification and business needs are met.
- Responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system and SQF requirements.
- Receiving the Customer complain reports for food safety, quality problems and investigate it with all root cause report, corrective action, respond to Customer, trend Analyses and process improvement.
- Ensure health and safety regulations SQF, HACCP Plans, SOP and GMP are followed.
- Successfully conduct regulatory compliance inspection, mock recalls, Traceability, food Defense, Crises Management Program and audits.
- Control test and hold program.
- Leading HAACP and Management review meeting on monthly basis.
- Manage, train and conduct internal audit as per SQF standards.
- Prepare and provide new employee and yearly refresher training program on GMP, HACCP, Food safety.
- Performs daily finished good quality inspections.
- Developed and implemented Quality Assurance plans improving product quality.
- Managing and updating the SOPs and process change including documentations as per HACCP standards, CFIA and SQF requirements.
- Environmental Monitoring Program, Overseer of plant Micro sampling schedule and results
- In depth knowledge of third-party auditing - CFIA, SQF requirements, and Gluten Free.
- Monitor all our Program Like Sanitation practices, Facility GMPs HACCP plan Hold system Calibration schedules, Lab management/test methods Allergen control procedures, Traceability program Corrective Action Process.
Senior Microbiological Technician
Yaya Foods Cooperative
11.2018 - 03.2020
- Daily collect the Sample from theQC department Segregation, numbering, and keep it in theincubation room for testing 2 days high acid, 7 days for low acid.
- Input all the data in the system before and test result sent it to the management for release the product if it’s with specifications.
- Testing on the Raw, In-Process, and finish product
- Prepared serial dilution and then pipetted sample onto media and petri film.
- Prepare the Media
- Aseptic Sampling (Environmental Air, Air Compressor, Water, Raw ingredient, Allergen, and Micro Swab)
- Daily Calibration and Maintenance of instrumentation and methods as necessary like pH, Scale.
- Environmental Monitoring Program
Plant Manager & Procurement Manager
National Environmental Service Company L.L.C
10.2009 - 07.2018
- Maintain all company records of goods ordered and received.
- Locate vendors of material, equipment or supplies, and verifying them in order to determine product availability and terms of sales.
- Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for supplies and equipment
- Control Purchasing Department’s budget.
- Review purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy.
- Analyzing market and delivery systems in order to asses’ present and future material availability.
- Developing and implementing purchasing and contact management instructions policies, and procedures.
- Resolving vendor or contactors grievances, and claims against, suppliers.
- Representing the company in negotiating and formulating policies with suppliers.
- Reviewing, evaluating. And approving specifications in coordination with projects managers for issuing and awarding requisitions orders.
- Direct and coordinate activities in buying, and distributing materials, equipment’s, machinery, and supplies.
- Prepare reports on market conditions and merchandise costs.
- Receiving and checking the material requisition from projects and doing the following to control the hole operation of arranging the good price, good quality and provide the demonstration if it a new requirement.
- Supervise and maintain a tidy environment within the site and organized it in such way that the work can be carried out with minimal risk to health & safety.
- Monitor accident/incident and injury reports.
- Conduct other activities as described in the written HSE program.
- Managed a 130-person instrument manufacturing operation with annual throughput in excess of $2.5 million utilizing World Class Manufacturing concepts. Responsibilities include production, new product and manufacturing engineering, material planning, quality functions, departmental budgets.
- Sustained 35% revenue growth with 7% increase in production staff.
- Increased production efficiency 76% vs. Budget of 68%.
- Decreased Waste efficiency 1.3% vs. Budget of 1.6%.
- Ensured 98% on-time customer shipments by solidifying deliveries.
- Rolled-out Total Quality Management system across Manufacturing, Maintenance, Quality division, finance and human Resources.
- Achieved (ISO-9001:2015 Quality Management system & ISO 1400:2015 Environmental Management System) plant certification.
- Tracked and monitored production data including failure mode and yield/scrap analysis to identify optimization variances throughout process.
- Monitored employees’ work levels and reviewed work performance.
- Check always the maintenance department list to keep stock for the spare parts and tools and to see the statues of the machine.
- Utilized inventory reports and cost analysis to schedule production goals daily.
- Championed production management team meetings to identify and implement best practices, provide consistency between production areas, and improve direct labor flexibility through cross training.
- Maintained budget spending by implementing cost savings measures.
- Acted as coach with workforce to grow positive morale environment.
Education
Master Degree - Agricultural engineering (food industry)
University of Baghdad
Iraq01.2003
Bachelor Degree of Engineering - Agriculture (Food Science)
University of Baghdad
Iraq01.2000
Skills
- Project coordination
- Plant manager
- Business Development
- Project management
- Operation Manager
- Problem Resolution
- QA Supervisor
- Production Manager
- QC Manager
- Production planning
- Production scheduling
- Continuous improvements
- Team development
- Production optimization
- Health and safety compliance
- Quality control
- Staff scheduling
- Quality inspection
- Root-cause analysis
- Production line management
- Cost reduction
- Equipment operation
- Strategic planning
- Cost control
- Manufacturing management
- Performance evaluation
- Strong leadership
Languages
English
Certification
- Certified [Job Title], [Company Name] - [Timeframe]
Timeline
Production Manager
Super-Pufft Snacks & Shearers
08.2022 - Current
Production Manager
Super Pufft Foods Ltd.
04.2021 - 09.2021
Production Supervisor
Hensall Co-op (Hensall Foods)
09.2020 - 07.2022
QA Supervisor
Super Pufft Foods Ltd.
03.2020 - 04.2021
Senior Microbiological Technician
Yaya Foods Cooperative
11.2018 - 03.2020
Plant Manager & Procurement Manager
National Environmental Service Company L.L.C
10.2009 - 07.2018
Master Degree - Agricultural engineering (food industry)
University of Baghdad
Bachelor Degree of Engineering - Agriculture (Food Science)
University of Baghdad