OMER Khalid
Calgary,Canada
Summary
Results-driven Maintenance Supervisor skilled in root cause analysis and team leadership. Led initiatives to enhance operational efficiency while managing unionized staff and implementing cost reduction strategies. Experienced in overseeing employee performance, guiding new talent, and fostering a culture of safety and continuous improvement. Proven ability to collaborate effectively and organize resources to meet operational demands.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Maintenance Supervisor
Refresco Canada
Calgary, AB
2024 - Current
- Led reliability program for plant equipment, optimizing operational costs while ensuring full compliance with safety and environmental regulations.
- Directed the engineering design, documentation, and launch of new products and processes, ensuring smooth integration into existing operations.
- Identified and mitigated potential safety hazards in the design and operation of manufacturing processes.
- Spearheaded continuous improvement initiatives that enhanced manufacturing quality and performance while systematically eliminating production bottlenecks.
- Implemented scrap and defect reduction strategies, increasing production throughput and standardizing SOPs and best practices across departments.
- Coordinated installation and commissioning of new equipment, achieving optimal production efficiency and ease of maintenance.
- Collaborated with production teams to redesign workstations and modify equipment layouts, resulting in measurable gains in operational efficiency.
- Maintained and analyzed data on utility capacity and usage to support informed infrastructure decisions.
- Ensured strict adherence to evolving safety, environmental, and quality standards across the plant.
- Supervised equipment maintenance programs to maximize asset lifespan and reduce downtime.
- Oversaw documentation and reporting for environmental and safety compliance, ensuring regulatory obligations were consistently met.
- Developed and implemented safety strategies, significantly reducing workplace incidents and improving compliance culture.
- Evaluated and improved product manufacturability through design optimization and process upgrades.
- Ensured plant adherence to Safe Quality Food (SQF) standards and overall food safety compliance.
- Managed unionized workforce under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, optimizing human resource deployment for peak productivity.
- Investigated and resolved non-compliance incidents, implementing corrective actions aligned with OHSA and environmental guidelines.
- Fostered a professional and safety-first culture by providing ongoing training, performance management, and disciplinary guidance when needed.
Maintenance Supervisor
LASSONDE WESTERN CANADA
Calgary, Alberta
2016 - 2024
- Ensure the safe and efficient operation of all equipment, which includes, Tetra pak filling machines and Downstream packaging equipment, Pasteurizer, homogenizer, mix tanks, aseptic tanks etc to meet or exceed company established Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) expectations and customer quality expectations.
- Monitor equipment OEE for inefficiencies and recommend and/or make necessary improvements.
- Analyze maintenance costs and equipment reliability and ensure an optimal balance between preventive, corrective maintenance, and investment projects.
- Define and control Maintenance budget, labor cost and miscellaneous cost on monthly basis in collaboration finance department.
- Develop improvement plans for safer and more efficient operations.
- Facilities management at Lassonde’s plant including condenser, chiller, air compressors, Gas boiler, Hot water tanks, Air conditioning, water softeners, carbon tank etc.
- Continuous training of all plant personnel in machine operation; ensuring all employees receive proper and timely training.
- Maintain ROL in stock and support in cycle counts on quarterly basis in spare parts room.
- Communicate problems, progress reports and continuous improvement ideas to management staff, maintenance, and production personnel.
- Provide guidance and support for the development of personnel at LWC.
- Monitor utilities use inside plant and devise ways for reduction in carbon footprint.
- Manage schedule of roaster of mechanics and resolve their day-to-day issues.
- Plan, cost and execute Capex projects with help of head office.
- Assisting with the selection and orientation of new team members and work on their professional skills plan.
- Use CMMS (Interal/ MVP software) on daily basis to oversee work orders, execute PM as per schedule. Make sure to order parts as per Min/max and optimize reorder level.
- Participate in daily, weekly and monthly meetings with management team and with technician’s team.
- Direct the work of employees to correct improper work habits and/or behavior; reward good job performance and take corrective action as required.
- Managing and executing contracts/purchase orders/service agreements, receive goods and services, and approve invoices as they pertain to purchases of facility products and/or services.
Maintenance Site Incharge
Tetra pak
2013 - 2016
- Managed Maintenance of 0.5 million Liter per day dairy plant overseeing 7 high speed Aseptic Production lines of Tetra Pak.
- Supervised a team of 7 unionized technicians from the diversified cultural and social backgrounds.
- Lead Capacity Enhancement project of A3 Speed machines by performing scheduled maintenance in morning and evening shifts and ran machine during night and increased Production capacity 3.5 % during Peak season.
- Monitored Tetra Store of worth CAD 120,000. Organized on FIFO basis and optimized Reorder Level.
- Revamped old high speed filling line by increasing OEE to 95% in 3 months using DMAIC approach.
- Spearheaded a team of 5 for first two state-of-the-art A3 Speed 250 S line in Pakistan worth 4.5 Million CAD in one month. Project includes Filling machine with SA 30 and TS 30 Shrink machine and won Core Value Award.
- Trained and developed 7 technicians on High speed Packaging lines and Aseptic production concepts and food safety.
- Responsible for KPI’s in terms of Equipment Performance OEE, MME, Reliability, Cost and Food safety.
- Planning and scheduling of Preventive maintenance of Plant equipment, ensuring weekly/daily checks.
- Investigated deviations using root cause analysis tools followed by application of mistake proofing techniques.
Team leader / Field service engine
Tetra pak
2008 - 2013
- Successfully delivered 7 new Filling line projects from layout to production on various customers of Tetra Pak throughout Pakistan managing 100% EDCS score and full customer satisfaction. Each Project is 3 million CAD.
- Managed shift operations of at Nestle SKP plant with 1320 Ton of capacity of processing with 19 Filling lines with downstream equipment, mentoring 5 technicians in the shift.
- Conducted trainings for more than 50 operators across the country on high speed packaging line A3 Speed, TBA 22, A3 Flex, Food safety, Aseptic Production, Package Integrity, Hygiene, personal and machine safety.
- Earned Award Recognition from Nestle to reduce downtime on UV Generator of bottleneck machine using GSTD to save 0.4 million CAD in part and Opportunity Cost.
- Demonstrated Hands on troubleshooting on PLC, Hydraulics, pneumatics. Power and control circuitry and motion control components of hi tech machines.
- Qualified on RS Logix, Control Logix, GE Fanuc and Proficy, LM 90, CNC programming, Device and Ethernet, RS 232, FAT/SAT procedures, Kinetix servo drive and VFD’s, field Devices sensors and actuators, Festo, SCADA.
- Scrutinized store parts, pruned dead stock, cut down value of store by 30% at 0.9 Million CAD.
- Led Problem Solving Activities through established Root cause methodologies of GSTD, Fishbone and 5 why.
- Analyzed layout of downstream equipment, utilized Lean terminology and removed redundancy of one straw machine improve efficiency of line by 3.4%.
- Analyzed FMEA of critical components and liaison with Design team in Sweden to launch global rebuilding.
- Investigated Unsterility incidents, identified Root cause and devised Guidelines and SOP for Safer Food production.
- Responded to plant emergencies during flush season to uphold equipment reliability.
- Performed Preventive, Corrective, Predictive and Condition based Maintenance tasks on-time and on-budget.
Assistant Manager Utilities and Reliability
Honda Limited
2007 - 2008
- Performed maintenance, updated critical spare parts of machine of die casting plant and managed utilities department. Conducted periodic maintenance of compressors, diesel generators, piping, LT & HT panels, transformers and fabrication work through third party contractors.
- Installed and commissioned Tochu Shot blast machine worth 0.4 million CAD in record 7 days with Thai team.
- Led installation and commissioning of two Low pressure die casting machines for Cylinder heads, prepared base for machine, mapped civil drawings. Total worth of project was 3 Million CAD and coordinated with Japanese staff from Toshiba.
- Implemented mistake proofing to design bur removal machine to reduce defects of crankcase up to 34% to save 1.8 million CAD.
- Played a team player role for the successful certification of ISO QMS 9001:2008 of the entire factory.
- Re-evaluated Air dryers capacity and piping routing for Air compressors to resolve issue of water in air to decrease downtime on assembly line.
Education
MBA - Marketing and Finance
Lhr School of Economics
01-2011
Bachelors - Mechatronics and Control Engineering
University of Engineering And Technology
01-2007
Skills
- Root Cause Analysis
- Management of Materials and Personnel Resources
- Operation Monitoring and Analysis
- Persuasion
- Handling Unionized staff
- Coordination
- Instructing
- Time Management
- System Analysis
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Active Listening and Learning
- Out of the Box Thinking
- Negotiation
- Multicultural sensitivity
- Project Management
- Budgeting
- Coaching
- Facilities management
- Preventive maintenance
- Condition-based maintenance
- Scheduling
- Troubleshooting
- Capex
- Efficiency improvement
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Labor Management
- Contractor Management
- LOTO and Safety elements
- GMP
- HACCP
- WHIMS
- RO Water
- Contractor Management
- Vertical start up
- Team Leadership
- Complex Problem Solving
- Report writing
- 4M
- Lean
- Root Cause Analysis
- Focused Improvement
- Cost Reduction Strategies
- 5S
- Microsoft Office
- CMMS
- Rockwell
- Primavera P3
- MVP
- Interal
- SAP/ Fiory
Training
- RO Water process training, Nalco head quarters Illinois, 2024
- Certified Radiation Safety Officer, Calgary, 2024
- Operational Excellence for Supervisors Bootcamp , Los Angeles, 2025
- High Speed Aseptic packaging A3 Speed 40v conversion, Thailand
- Electrical Systems, RS Logix 500 Program & Troubleshooting, Sweden
- RS Logix 5000 Programming and Troubleshooting, Sweden
- Training of DMAIC, Time Management, Vision Management, Conflict Resolution, GE Fanuc & Proficy Machine Edition
- TPMS Online RCM Approached Application for Maintenance
- ISO 9001:2000 Course, University of the Punjab, Pakistan, 2008
- Technical training of OEM of Diesel Gensets, Imperial Electric Company, 2007
Timeline
Maintenance Supervisor
Refresco Canada
2024 - Current
Maintenance Supervisor
LASSONDE WESTERN CANADA
2016 - 2024
Maintenance Site Incharge
Tetra pak
2013 - 2016
Team leader / Field service engine
Tetra pak
2008 - 2013
Assistant Manager Utilities and Reliability
Honda Limited
2007 - 2008
MBA - Marketing and Finance
Lhr School of Economics
Bachelors - Mechatronics and Control Engineering
University of Engineering And Technology