M.Ammar Arain

• Leading and promoting a positive safety and quality culture throughout the facility.
• Fills in for the Quality Manager when necessary.
• Analyzing complex Statistical Process Control (SPC) data to generate actionable insights.
• Leading root cause investigations and contributing to the design and maintenance of a comprehensive root cause database. Trains team members in structured problem-solving methods to drive continuous improvement. Including implementing preventive and corrective actions to minimize overall system risk.
• Lead supplier audits and manage complex quality requirements, or dispute resolution, by gathering, analyzing, and exchanging critical information with vendors. This includes my direct collaboration with customers and suppliers' management teams to promote continuous improvement. Often involving on-site visits and effectively communicating the company’s capabilities.
• Developing and implementing effective quality systems. Lead internal audits of quality and manufacturing processes that include the use of turtle diagrams to help organizations visualize and understand the process flow, identify any gaps or inefficiencies, and streamline QMS process improvement.
• Leading and keeping track of any modifications to the equipment driven by VSA or customer complaints, using an action tracker, and participating in safety reviews for any modifications that may be needed.
• Prepare the controlled document, and champion the document change requests and updates in quality management software, IQS-Trubox.
• Facilitate third-party external audits for IATF-16949:2016 certification
• Extensively involved in continuous improvement projects with a cross-functional team, focusing on process, product, safety, and quality.
• Lead the quality side for the new product launch until handoffs to manufacturing.
• Reviews supplier production part approval process (PPAP) submissions for new model launches, and leads the approval process to ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Developed Key Performance Indicators for measuring overall performance of the Quality Assurance Department.

• Managed production operations to meet targets on schedule, while enforcing compliance with safety standards.
• Coordinated interdepartmental efforts to achieve timely production goals.
• Collaborated with process technicians to establish new data set recipes, and program robots for production runs.
• Implemented quality control checks, creating standard operating procedures, and work instructions.
• Assisted with preventive maintenance and breakdown repair activities.
• Optimized manpower utilization to enhance operational efficiency.

• Planned and prepared preventive maintenance schedules, ensuring zero production breakdowns.
• Provided technical guidance and design concepts to a team of 29 direct reports, including engineers and technicians, to enhance system operations.
• Tracked budgets and assets for all projects to ensure financial accountability.
• Coordinated meetings between engineers from Vienna, Austria, and on-site managers to establish maintenance schedules for advanced equipment.
• Successfully executed maintenance on utilities, including rotary screw compressors, chillers, and air handling units (AHUs).
• Maintained records of critical spares, and sourced necessary equipment and tools.
• Prepared Bill of Quantities for new HVAC and mechanical services projects, facilitating bid evaluations.
• Ensured proper adherence to 5S principles within maintenance and production facilities.
• Prepared equipment inspection levels by reviewing the plant’s Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) and equipment operation and maintenance manuals to identify and troubleshoot equipment faults effectively.

Production Engineer (Feb 2010 - May 2011), Project Engineer (March 2009 - Feb 2010)

• Plant operation and control, troubleshooting, and maintaining plant efficiency.
• Through monitoring, identifying medium- and long-term (chronic) process issues, and implementing countermeasures.
• Implement quality control measures, as per customer requirements.
• Using the MOC system to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Provided process engineering support to planned and unplanned unit outages.
• Good manufacturing practices are essential to maintain safety standards at the workstation.
• Experience with SAP software for maintenance management.
• Led a major plant expansion project for Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan Ltd, ensuring that work is carried out in accordance with specifications, statutory requirements, laws, rules, regulations, and other contractual requirements, with due regard to safety.
• Prepared the project feasibility, BOM, and material order for projects.
• Designed the layout of product packing, printing machines, and the conveyor system to optimize cost savings.
• Calculated compressed air requirements to ensure efficient and uninterrupted plant operations.
• Led the SS-316L fabrication project in collaboration with multiple vendors for the Colgate dental cream facility, ensuring quality, compliance, and timely execution.
• Reviewed and evaluated proposed project modifications, coordinating with stakeholders to approve and implement necessary changes to optimize project outcomes.