PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
December 2002 – Today
FAGE S.A DAIRY INDUSTRY, AMYNTAIO, GREECE
PRODUCTION MANAGER (REPORTING TO PLANT MANAGER)
Type of products:
Pasteurized, extended shelf life (ESL) and ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk, chocolate milk, whipping cream and enriched milk products with iron, calcium, prebiotics, minerals and vitamins.
Job description:
· Supervising and leading up to 120 staff working in three (3) shifts in two (2) SIDEL PET machines and four TETRAPAK TBA machines (total capacity 48.000 bottles/hr).
· Reviewing the sales forecasts and scheduling production in a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
· Planning, implementing and monitoring of the day to day activities, ensuring that products are produced on time, according to the production and quality targets and specifications.
· Co-operating with Marketing, Sales, Logistics, R&D and Quality Control departments for effectivelyproduction planning, new products launching and with Maintenance department for jobs related to maintenance and shut down.
· Participating in quality or technical teams for the new products development and supervising new products tests, new equipment commissioning and new processes validation.
· Monitoring production indicators (rejects, shift and line efficiencies), planning and creating technical reports to upper management, related to the production indicators, rates, failures and proposals for improvement.
· Statistical processing of production data in order to improve plant and staff performance, to improve quality and to reduce cost.
· Creating and monitoring the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Hygiene Practices (GHP) and the sanitation programs of pasteurizers, filling machines and facilities.
· Purchasing the necessary raw and packaging materials and seeking for alternative suppliers.
· Supervising tests for new raw and packaging materials in order to improve products quality or reduce rejects.
· Evaluating and training of production teams (shift supervisors, production engineers and operators).
· Supervising the interviews with job applicants and assessing the production staff CV’s.
· Overseeing the waste water treatment plant according to the environmental legislation.
Basic Achievements:
· Increasing the productivity rates by 20% and decreasing the human resources demand by 30% in production lines by unifying teams of operators, technicians and maintenance staff in one team and by improving the communication and information flow.
· Decreasing the cost of CIP up to 20% using a single face chemical cleaning compound for CIP programs in specific systems.
· Minimizing the waste of whipping cream products from 500kg per batch to a few kg per batch, by modifying the mix preparation process, decreasing the batch waste from 5% to less than 1%.
· Decreasing the cost of chemical processing by 40% in the waste water treatment plant by modifying combination of flocculants.
December 1999 – December 2002
BALKANIKI S.A., CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS COMPANY, AMYNTAIO, GREECE
PRODUCTION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER (REPORTING TO CEO)
Type of products:
Concrete, hot mix asphalt and limestone aggregates.
Job description:
· Supervising Production and Laboratory tests of concrete, asphalt concrete and limestone aggregates.
· Planning and monitoring of the day to day activities ensuring that products are produced on time, according to the production and quality targets of the projects and the related specifications.
· Co-operation with the engineers of the construction projects and the sales department for effectively production planning and customers satisfaction.
· Developing specific quarry products, concrete and asphalt concrete mixes according to the specifications of the projects and customers’ demands.
· Creating of the Quality Plans of the construction projects.
· Running the necessary laboratory tests for aggregates, concrete and asphalt concrete and creating the related reports according to ASTM, AASHTO, ELOT and EN standards.
· Optimizing the concrete mix design making trial mixes and keeping the strength value in the specified limits.
· Implementing of ISO 9001 quality system in the construction projects.
Basic Achievements:
· Setting up a brand new laboratory facility for all the necessary tests for construction materials.
· Improving quality of ready mix by optimizing the combination of raw materials and using type II/32,5 cement and specific chemical plasticizers, giving better pump-ability, lower w/c ratio and reduced compressive strength variance.
· Decreasing the cost of concrete up to 2€/m3 (annual save up to 120.000€) by optimizing the mix design and using different types of chemical admixtures in combination with type II/32,5 cement.
SIMULTANEOUS ACTIVITIES AS A SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANT
March 2014 – December 2014
XINO NERO S.A. MINERAL AND SOFT DRINKS COMPANY, AMYNTAIO, GREECE
Type of products:
Carbonized mineral water and soft drinks.
Job description
· Consulting in production, sanitation & hygiene, quality and process improvement issues.
· Development of system of monitoring the production efficiency.
· Training the production and quality control staff in Good Hygiene Practices (GHP) and Good Manufacturing practices (GMP) and establishing quality control procedures.
· Developing procedures for facilities and equipment sanitation (CIP & SIP programs), ensuring better disinfection result and extended life of equipment.
· Supervising improvements of the facility (utilities improvement, mixing tanks and pipes maintenance).
· Purchasing and commissioning of a brand new Alfa Laval pasteurizer for soft drinks.
Achievements
· Improving the efficiency of the bottles washer up to 33% by using soft water with specific combination of chemicals and implementing the specified weekly maintenance program.
· Decreasing the cost of cleaning chemicals in the bottle washer and in pasteurizer up to 55% by modifying the washing program (Temperature / Concentration combination) and changing chemicals suppliers.
· Decreasing the rejects of the soft drinks mixtures by 12% by grouping batches and changing process of mixing.
· Increasing of the productivity up to 40% creating two (2) overlapping day shifts applying a nonstop function of the facility.
January 2003 – December 2015
KALLIDROMOS S.A., CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS COMPANY, AMYNTAIO,
Type of products:
Concrete, hot mix asphalt and limestone aggregates.
Job description:
· Establishing Factory Production Control (FPC) in the quarry of limestone aggregates.
· Implementing of CE Marking in crushed limestone aggregates according to European standards EN-12620, EN-13043 & EN-13242.
· Guiding in production, quality control and quality assurance issues and internal quality audits implementation.
· Operators and technicians training on Factory Production Control.
· Monitoring of concrete mix designs efficiency and developing new designs, depending on the customers’ or the regulations requirements.
Achievements:
· Certification of the Organization according to EN-12620, EN-13043 & EN-13242 standards and CE marking for the quarry products.
· Improving concrete quality by constant decrease of variance of concrete compressive strength, from 3MPa to 1,5Mpa and providing an extra 12% saving per mix through decreasing cement quantity per cubic meter, keeping constant the w/c ratio.
· Developing new concrete mix designs for specific uses (low w/c ratio, reduced water permeability, anti-frost protection
QUALIFICATIONS
Oct 2014 – Today Postgraduate’s Degree (MSc) in Quality Assurance – Hellenic Open University – In Progress, estimated graduation date in Dec 2016
1989 – 1995 Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
