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Zubair Saeed

Production Supervisor
Milton,ON

Summary

Accomplished and result oriented executive leader with 9 years' experience in FMCG, Process industry & Automotive sector. Pragmatic business leader driven by purpose, owner's mindset and passion for people.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications
1
1
Language

Work History

Production Supervisor

Bend All Automotive ULC
02.2023 - Current
  • Provides direction and support to production team members ensuring build schedules are adhered to and contingency plans are activated when necessary
  • Implementing new product launch with team and coordinating in the production process
  • Responsible for the accurate reporting of production rates into the ERP system ensuring production team leads audit and correct data
  • Monitor, review, and audit material flow to ensure materials are queued at the appropriate time in order to attain optimal production efficiency
  • Creates, communicates and ensures adherence to the labor plan ensuring appropriate resources are available
  • Responsible for ensuring machine operators and production team leads are trained to follow the defined work instructions
  • Ensures work stations are maintained through good housekeeping practices implementing corrective actions when deviations occur
  • Promotes, enforces and upholds adherence to Health and Safety policies and procedures
  • Ensure compliance with Bend All policies and procedures.

Production Supervisor

Due North
Brampton
10.2022 - 02.2023
  • Manage, initiate, and direct the activities of employees and equipment
  • Allocating work to employees, setting production targets and communicating precise instructions
  • Ensure effective employee relations
  • Respond to employee concerns promptly and work with HR to resolve them
  • Monitor and initiate training activities in their department and all related documentation
  • Works and ensures that all employees work in a safe manner, in a safe environment
  • Conduct employee meetings
  • Complete performance evaluations for their department as required
  • Perform weekly safety inspections, 5s inspections, and Layered Audits
  • Responsible for driving continuous improvement culture among the team
  • Responsible for carrying out RCA on quality and process defects along with a reduction in downtimes and losses during the process by using lean manufacturing tools and principles(5 Why,Root and Cause effect,PFMEA)
  • Responsible for the enhancement of the process capability of the machines and equipment
  • Gearing and driving the organization towards lean manufacturing and carrying out projects on defect elimination with the help of the lean six sigma strategy
  • Complete tasks as assigned from Monthly Workplace Inspections
  • Participate in the corrective action process
  • Able to troubleshoot equipment
  • Speak with managers and supervisors to explain progress of jobs and to obtain instructions and tasks
  • Teach employees and less experienced workers to install new equipment, perform maintenance tasks and troubleshoot mechanical and electrical faults
  • Develop and plan employees' days, schedule appointments and adjust schedules
  • Assume a wide variety of roles to coordinate job tasks with those of junior workers, co-workers and subcontractors.

Deputy Manager Production

Treet Battery Plant(Daewoo Battery)
09.2021 - 09.2022
  • Liaise with other managers to formulate objectives and understand requirements
  • Estimate costs and prepare budgets
  • Capex planning, business-case preparation & execution
  • Organize workflow to meet specifications and deadlines
  • Monitor production to resolve issues
  • Supervise and evaluate performance of production personnel
  • Determine amount of necessary resources (workforce, raw materials etc.)
  • Approve maintenance work, purchasing of equipment etc
  • Ensure output meets quality standards
  • Enforce health and safety precautions
  • Report to upper management
  • Slashed down factory operating expense by an absolute ~ 25% over 2 years with 20% plant OEE improvement and 60% reduction in material wastages
  • Delivered innovations, capacity expansion and lean manufacturing manning model.

Production Supervisor

Treet Battery Plant(Daewoo Battery)
07.2017 - 09.2021
  • Advanced work on plant erection and commission with Korean, Italian, and French teams on assembling machines & formation for production of maintenance-free (MF) & electric batteries (EB)
  • Expert in assembling area, hands-on manufacturing experience on assembling machines
  • Expert in debottlenecking of assembling line and capacity enhancement
  • Successfully completed major projects on debottlenecking on COS machine of Assembly area for reducing its cycle time from 20 seconds to 15 sec
  • Accountable for OEE, Process and product rejections
  • Continuous improvement, Preventive maintenance of machines, autonomous maintenance & CLTI
  • Providing training to staff related to product quality, troubleshooting and action plans to prevent failures and maintaining training records
  • Provision of necessary help to the workforce in maintaining good housekeeping and proper waste disposal
  • Ensuring proper usage of personal protective equipment and enforcing safety rules and regulations
  • Analyzing & developing action plans on claims, reduction in process wastage, improving OEEs, continuous improvement in process with an error-proofing mindset & ensuring safe work in a safe environment
  • Camping & brainstorming on RCA on troubleshooting, speed losses, unplanned downtimes and claims by using lean manufacturing tools like 7QC tools,5 Why, CAPA,Cause and Effect, PFMEA, Control Plan,5S, Gemba KAIZEN, PDCA, DMAIC to prevent failures and ensure maximum customer satisfaction
  • Reduced cost of manufacturing up to 10 million USD dollars/annum by controlling process rejections on assembling machines
  • Nurtured and train employees to increase productivity, machine availability & minimize reduction
  • Reduced model changeover time by using the ECRS method from 4 hours to 2 hours
  • Successfully identified & eliminated major big losses on the assembling line which results in an increase in OEE
  • Compliance with ISO 9001 2015, IATF 16949.Internal auditor of IATF 16949.

Production Supervisor

Ingredion
02.2016 - 06.2017
  • Gained valuable experience on plant operations including all unit operations and processes
  • Responsible for the production rate, machine maintenance and troubleshooting, process optimization, production quality, and monitoring of critical activities to ensure safety
  • Participate in the hiring process of operators
  • Responsible for Identify and develop training matrix in coordination with the training department for production personnel as per the Collective agreement
  • Responsible for understanding and interpretation of collective agreement
  • Ensure all HACCP and food safety requirements are met for the department
  • Participate in regular safety walks/audits in the plant
  • Manage and coordinate department to ensure quality and production targets are met for the plant
  • Develop, set and track KPI's and standard work in the department
  • Manage department to eliminate all non-compliances with food safety procedures and adherence to plant GMP policies
  • Manage production costs to maintain budget requirements
  • Identify opportunities for continuous improvement to streamline operations to increase output, reduce waste, and lower costs
  • Lead/support corrective action teams for safety, quality, food safety, environmental or process deviations
  • Monitor minimum inventories to ensure customer orders are delivered on time and in full as per service agreements
  • Responsible for production scheduling, tracking and month end reconciliation
  • Also provide shipment, production, and inventory history using SAP for internal and external audits
  • Responsible for approving time for production personnel and submitting payroll
  • Management of shift responsibilities and assigning of tasks to workers and operators
  • Guaranteed quality of the produced glucose set to our parameters
  • Ensured all equipment and all operations were working under safe conditions in compliance of ISO 9001
  • Taking workshops (Emotional Intelligence, Lean Six Sigma (yellow Belt)) for maximum learning to enhance producibility at plant
  • Dealt with troubleshooting at the plant and minimized breakdowns as possible.

Quality Engineer

Gourmet Five Star Foods
09.2014 - 01.2016
  • Actively manage RO water treatment plant, daily production with optimization, recommend measures to improve production, ensure proper maintenance of pumps, tanks, valves and fillers, confirming proper backwashing of sand and carbon purification filters
  • Syrup preparation management, assuring the quality of finished syrup and authenticating the syrup release certificate
  • Coordinating CSD (PET and Glass) filling lines for quality and ensuring all products meet with Gourmet standards
  • Good knowledge about QMS ,5S, HACCP, KAIZEN, PDCA for quality
  • Attending all product knowledge workshops and filter information down to the team
  • Managing GMP & GHP at all plant
  • Ensuring outstanding quality is provided at all times to ensure customer satisfaction.

Education

Master's Degree in Business Administration Marketing - undefined

University of Agriculture Faisalabad
09.2018 - 9 2020

BSc in Chemical engineering - undefined

University of Engineering and Technology Lahore - Faisalabad
08.2010 - 6 2014

SSC in Education - undefined

Divisional Model College - Faisalabad
06.2007 - undefined

Skills

Computer skills

Epicor Expert

Internal Audits

Quality Management

Communication skills

Leadership

Continuous improvement

Team Management

Production Management

Research & Development

Product Development

Analysis skills

Lean Manufacturing

ISO 9001

Problem Solving

Autonomous Maintenance

Preventative maintenance

IATF 16949

Emotional Intelligence

Kaizen

Control Plan

7 QC tool

CLTI

5 Why

Debottlenecking

Error Proofing

Bilingual

WHMIS

PDCA (8 years)

Strategic Planning

End to end new product launches

Employee management (Large & small groups)

Lean manufacturing

Cost control

HSE management

Certification

HACCP

Knowledge And Certifications

  • OEE
  • TPM
  • Gemba 5S
  • KAIZEN
  • PDCA
  • 7 QC tools
  • DMAIC
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Lean Six Sigma (yellow belt)
  • PFMEA
  • Poke yoke
  • SMED & ECRS
  • CLTI
  • 5 Why countermeasure strategy
  • QMS
  • Control Plan
  • 8D
  • SPC
  • PPAP
  • MSA
  • Process Capability
  • Debottleneck of production units and capacity enhancements
  • Autonomous maintenance
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • ISO-9001-2015
  • IATF-16949
  • NEBOSH IGC
  • OSHA
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Brief knowledge on WHMIS
  • OSHA standards
  • WSIB protocols
  • Certified First Aider

Timeline

Production Supervisor

Bend All Automotive ULC
02.2023 - Current

Production Supervisor

Due North
10.2022 - 02.2023

Deputy Manager Production

Treet Battery Plant(Daewoo Battery)
09.2021 - 09.2022

Master's Degree in Business Administration Marketing - undefined

University of Agriculture Faisalabad
09.2018 - 9 2020

Production Supervisor

Treet Battery Plant(Daewoo Battery)
07.2017 - 09.2021

Production Supervisor

Ingredion
02.2016 - 06.2017

Quality Engineer

Gourmet Five Star Foods
09.2014 - 01.2016

BSc in Chemical engineering - undefined

University of Engineering and Technology Lahore - Faisalabad
08.2010 - 6 2014

SSC in Education - undefined

Divisional Model College - Faisalabad
06.2007 - undefined

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