Rouhad Slim
Senior Operation Manager
Pickering,Canada
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior MFG Operational Manager
Celestica Inc.
08.2012 - Current
- Responsible for setting up and managing multiple factories (PCBA and System level) with more than 8 customers. Responsible for more than $50 million budget to run 5 Manufacturing. Working closely with Engineering and SCM to drive lean into MFG. Establish road maps, six sigma, and metrics on all accounts to improve business by a min 15% on yearly basis.
- - Hypertherm: High volume with high mix product with 130k volume per year, with 70 operators, with 2 shifts operation.
- - Siemens, Sparq, EMC, NPI, Fresh Air
- - Health tech: Arc, Proteus and Focal products.
- - SMA: 2 Inverter factories residential and commercial, 50K sqft with 50 operators
- - AEI/PV: Inverter factory, 30k sqft with 35 operators.
- - Vestas: Wind Turbins, . 25k sqft, 20 operators.
- - L3 Wescam , 70 operators, with two shifts operation
- - IBM, large system, 40 operators
- Manage 8 managers and supervisors (4 factories)
- 1- PCBA factory with 60-160 people, 3 SMT lines, 2 waves and 4 ICT (3 shifts).
- 2- Integration factory with 70- 155 people, with many functional and ICT tests (3 shifts).
- 3- DOF fulfillment 15 people (1 shift)
- 4- DNG fulfillment 12 people (1 shift)
Senior MFG Operational Manager Alcatel Division
Celestica Inc.
01.2007 - 07.2012
- Responsible for transferring Alcatel-Lucent System integration division from Alcatel to Celestica in 3 months. Established a Value Stream Mapping lean process with many kaizen blitzes before and after the transfer. Established staffing and training model for MFG. Working closely with Engineering and SCM to establish strategy deployment for Alcatel division.
- Lead and manage a new direct of fulfillment transfer from Alcatel to Celestica Toronto. The new transfer gave Celestica full responsibility of the products from ordering parts, SMT, X-ray, wave, ICT, integration box, test and order fulfillment where a product is shipped directly to Alcatel’s customer. Engage in many Kaizen and lean blitzes to improve the efficiency of the operation. Drive toward kanban and POU material solution for each MFG cell. Working with Finance and general manager on setting up quality, cost and efficiency metrics for the division.
- Manage 8 managers and supervisors (4 factories)
- 1- PCBA factory with 60-160 people, 3 SMT lines, 2 waves and 4 ICT (3 shifts).
- 2- Integration factory with 70- 155 people, with many functional and ICT tests (3 shifts).
- 3- DOF fulfillment 15 people (1 shift)
- 4- DNG fulfillment 12 people (1 shift)
Director of Operation, Alcatel Division
Celestica Inc.
08.2004 - 12.2006
- Supervise and manage 5 managers and 400 employees. Performing highly specialized roles in circuit printed assembly. Overall responsible for planning, budgeting, implementing and maintaining costs, methods, and employees. Involves with investigating and resolving a wide variety of highly unusual conditions that carry long-term implications. Participates with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives for the site. Selects employees, assign objectives, review dept metrics, drive continuous performance, six sigma, lean and establish kaizen blitzes. Manage a division with more than 8000 P/Ns, 800 shippable products. 3 Surface mount technology lines, 4-6 X-ray machines, 4 In-circuit HP, 15 cells, high complex functional and system test.
Director of Operation, Sun Micro-System Division
Celestica Inc.
04.2003 - 08.2004
- Supervision and manage 10 production managers, 500-1000 employees and team of professional engineers. Responsibilities include providing project definition and metrics, resources allocation, budget development and management, schedule management task, task prioritization, contingency planning. Communicates progress and results to senior management and customers. Work with corporate and site to develop a common site process. Work with suppliers to improve incoming quality. Establish Strategy development for the division with black and white dots ownership. Involve with many internal and external ISO audits.
Director of Operation and transfer, Lucent Division
Celestica Inc.
04.2000 - 04.2003
- Supervision and manage 10 production managers, 500-1000 employees and team of professional engineers. Responsibilities include providing project definition and metrics, resources allocation, budget development and management, schedule management task, task prioritization, contingency planning. Communicates progress and results to senior management and customers. Work with corporate and site to develop a common site process. Work with suppliers to improve incoming quality. Establish Strategy development for the division with black and white dots ownership. Involve with many internal and external ISO audits.
Engineering Manager
Lucent, Sequent E&S Divisions
01.1997 - 01.2000
- Manage a team of professional expertise in engineering operations in support of production. Responsibilities include providing project definition and metrics, resource allocation, budget development and management, schedule management, task prioritization, contingency planning, ensure high-quality process/test capabilities and capacity support customer requirements. Communicates progress and results to senior management and customers. Work with corporate and other technical managers to develop and maintain a process for determining which projects to staff based on customer demands and industry trends. Resolves all technical and drive continuous quality improvement of purchased material. Develop solutions based on existing knowledge and leveraging industry. Providing best of breed solutions in areas of product/engineering, data exchange, data issues resolution. Working closely with customers on launching new products in MFG. Responsible for developing lead edge technology in support of Celestica’s design engineering function and implementation of tools and procedures.
- Responsible for maintaining ISO 9001/9002, BABT registration and conduct site audit. Ensure proper ESD controls are in place, Monitors all reports of non-compliance resulting from customer, register and regulatory audits to ensure corrective action plans in place. Plans, develop and implements new manufacturing quality systems. Provides ongoing support and maintenance for existing quality systems (Integrated Document Control System, ISO forms, QSPEC, quality management system)
Manufacturing Manager (EMC, IBM and Sequent)
International Business Machine (IBM)
01.1995 - 01.1997
- Manage resources of 120 MFG employees on first shift. Manage 4 SMT lines, wave, ICT, repair, failure analysis and test. Set up production commit plan with customer. Working with engineers and SCM to improve and meet KPI metrics. Working with engineers and customers on launching new products into MFG. Represent MFG on all internal and external responsibilities. Set up, establish and execute MFG metrics to maximize throughput. Drives and promotes quality workmanship and continuous improvement in all manufacturing processes.
Industrial Engineer
International Business Machine (IBM)
01.1995 - 01.1995
- Responsible for maintaining unit hours for all circuit assemblies, provide bid unit hour on new business, assist in developing physical floor plan and prescribing tooling application and process support requirements. Work with senior managers to develop and maintain future P&L for the division. Review MFG performance and cycle time. Engage with senior managers for CFT performance. Provide site root cause and action plan on MFG Direct Labor performance. Engage with site facility on layout and new design of manufacturing process. Work with MFG to reduce and improve unit hours across all shifts.
Quality Engineer
IBM (PCMCIA)
01.1992 - 01.1995
- Provide quality and process technical support of manufacturing to senior level managers. Responsible to maintain quality level using IBM/IPC standards Specs on circuit assemblies. Involve with customers on DFX. Define process problems that leads to throughput or quality issues, evaluates cause of problems. Responsible to establish quality metrics for all products, interface with MFG and provide technical support. Interface with supplier on incoming quality. Evaluate suppliers for new components. Conduct many audits at suppliers. Perform ongoing reliability test (vibration, hot/cold temperature with voltage). Engage on weekly conference calls with customers on quality. Develop a road map on quality for the division. Engage with external ISO for maintaining ISO certification for the Division.
Test Engineer
IBM (PCMCIA)
01.1991 - 01.1992
- Responsible for maintaining and managing testers in production and set up new testers for new products. Interface with customers on tester issues (software and hardware).
Field Service Engineer
IBM
01.1990 - 01.1991
- Manage IBM field service repair for the site and other IBM sites. Working with field service and engineers to determine root cause and action plan. Working with suppliers for implementing the root cause and reduce field fallout by 60%. Site recovered more than $5 mil within a year.
Education
Master of Electrical Engineering -
Purdue University
Indiana, USA01.1989
Professional Engineer - undefined
Member of Ontario professional Engineering Society
Bachelor of Science - undefined
Wayne State University
Michigan, USA01.1987
Skills
- Customer service
- Operations management
- Team leadership
- Decision-making
Summary
Knowledgeable Director of Operation with proven track record in optimizing operational efficiencies and driving team performance. Managed diverse teams and streamlined processes to enhance productivity. Demonstrated strategic planning and problem-solving abilities to consistently meet organizational goals.
Timeline
Senior MFG Operational Manager
Celestica Inc.
08.2012 - Current
Senior MFG Operational Manager Alcatel Division
Celestica Inc.
01.2007 - 07.2012
Director of Operation, Alcatel Division
Celestica Inc.
08.2004 - 12.2006
Director of Operation, Sun Micro-System Division
Celestica Inc.
04.2003 - 08.2004
Director of Operation and transfer, Lucent Division
Celestica Inc.
04.2000 - 04.2003
Engineering Manager
Lucent, Sequent E&S Divisions
01.1997 - 01.2000
Manufacturing Manager (EMC, IBM and Sequent)
International Business Machine (IBM)
01.1995 - 01.1997
Industrial Engineer
International Business Machine (IBM)
01.1995 - 01.1995
Quality Engineer
IBM (PCMCIA)
01.1992 - 01.1995
Test Engineer
IBM (PCMCIA)
01.1991 - 01.1992
Field Service Engineer
IBM
01.1990 - 01.1991
Professional Engineer - undefined
Member of Ontario professional Engineering Society
Bachelor of Science - undefined
Wayne State University
Master of Electrical Engineering -
Purdue University