SYED TOUSEEF AHMED
Jeddah,,SAUDI ARABIA
Summary
Laboratory manager leading quality assurance, auditing, and compliance for wastewater testing operations in a high-volume environment. Drove ISO 17025 accreditation, managed two Jeddah laboratories, and improved lab governance through SOP development, audit reporting, equipment control, and regulator coordination.
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years of professional experience
Work History
Laboratory Manager (QA, QC)
GOES LTOM JEDDAH - KSA Laboratory
Jeddah
02.2023 - Current
- Successfully achieved ISO 17025 Accreditation Certification
- Managed two laboratories for LTOM Project, ensuring compliance with quality standards and operational efficiency.
- Oversaw water and wastewater quality testing across two laboratories in Jeddah, ensuring accurate analysis of physical, chemical, and microbiological parameters.
- Conducted internal and external audits for multiple commercial laboratories in Jeddah, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards and improving laboratory practices.
- Led internal audits, compliance assessments, and environmental impact reporting; liaised with regulatory bodies.
- Developed lab SOP's, Environmental Management Plans, HSE manuals, and MSDS documentation
- Conduct internal Audits to demonstrate compliance with authorized limits and approved procedures; prepare Environmental Audit Reports/Environment Impact Statements and developed mitigation methods when issues were discovered.
- Negotiating consent decrees, authorization for storage & Handling of hazardous chemicals
- Managing contracts of pollution monitoring through the complete process of requirement analysis, tender process, negotiation, development of service level agreement and ongoing management.
- Developed understanding of environmental impact assessments to ensure compliance.
- Assisted my organization in some of their historical and environmental law research. Have worked as a member of a multi-disciplinary team on various aspects of commissioning projects/issues.
- Preparation of budget and cost estimates.
- Preparation of department's annual budget for Board's approval.
- Managed procurement, budget planning, and verification of laboratory equipment and chemicals
- Purchase, procurement and verification of laboratory instruments and chemicals.
- Purchase, Procurement and Verification of laboratory instruments and chemicals.
- Instructor of a series of in-house seminars covering environmental chemistry.
- Developed understanding of operational procedures for efficient plant management.
- Through with sampling procedures such as grab & Composite sampling & sample management
- Testing at every stage of the process to ensure adherence to set specifications.
- Over all taking care of 2 laboratory in JEDDAH, with regards to laboratory management
- Selecting of appropriate test procedures and instrumentation and conducting a variety of chemical Analyses of samples from WWTP facilities, reservoirs, sea and rivers.
- Lead Auditor and member of the Center of Excellence group in water quality middle east
- Operation of (O&M) contract of Sewage Water Treatment Plant in Jeddah, K.S.A.
- Period of work : Feb 2023 to Till Date.
- Plant : 800+ MLD Sewage Water treatment plant(Jeddah Airport & Al-Khumrah WWTP) in Jeddah, K.S.A.
- Client : NWC / NECE
Laboratory Supervisor (QA, QC)
Moalajah FZC- (BESIX-VEOLIA JV)
Ajman
10.2007 - 02.2023
- Plant : 145 MLD Sewage Water treatment plant in Ajman, U.A.E.
- Client : ASPCL
- Period of work : Oct 2007 to Feb 2023.
Laboratory Supervisor (QA, QC)
EL-NITCO
08.2004 - 09.2007
- Oversaw daily flow operations across multiple treatment plants to ensure compliance with quality standards
- Collaborated with ADSSC to clarify and align on project requirements
- Period of work : Aug 2004 to Sep 2007.
Chief Chemist & SUPERVISING
Titan Industries Ltd. & Tanishq Jewelers
Hosur, Tamil nadu
04.2004 - 08.2004
- Worked as laboratory technician & Shift in charge and inspection of the running plant.
- Which undertakes the major production of titan watch's & tanishq jewellery's to all over the world
- Recorded employment dates from April 2004 to August 2004.
- Responsibility : Worked as laboratory technician & Shift in charge and inspection of the running plant.
- Period of work : Sept. 2004 to this date (22 years )
Education
Bachelor of Science (BSc) -
Al-Ameen Collage Arts, Science & Commerce collage
Bangalore, Karnataka, India01-2004
Diploma - chemical Analyzer
{BTC} Polytechnic
Bangalore, Karnataka, IndiaSkills
- Team management
- Laboratory information management
- Water quality metrics
- PH Value, Electrical conductivity,Turbidity,Colour,Odour,Temperature,Acidity, Alkalinity,Oil and grease Bacterial Analysis [MF&MPN], TOTAL & Free Chlorine,Total Chlorine 14 Chloride
- Solids:
- Total Solids, Total Dissolved Solids, Total Suspended solids,Total Volatile and Fixed Solids, Total Volatile and Fixed Dissolved Solids,Settleable Solids (Imhoff cone),Settle Sludge Volume,Sludge Volume Index
- Organic analysis techniques
- Dissolved Oxygen (DO),Bio-Chemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
- Inorganic analysis techniques
- Iron, Cyanide, Fluoride, Sulfide, Sulfite, Sulfate, Phosphorus, Phosphate, Ammonia, Nitrogen Ammonia 14 Hydrogen Sulfide, Nitrate, Nitrite, TKN
- Laboratory instrumentation
- PH Meter
- Conductivity Meter
- Turbidity Meter
- Spectrophotometer
- Digital Thermometer
- Dissolved Oxygen Meter
- Total Dissolved Solids Meter
- Manometric BOD Instrument
- COD Reactor
- Tensette pipette
- Digital Titrator
- Distillation Apparatus
- Moisture Analyzer
- Muffle Furnace
- Confined space entry
- Safety compliance management
- Practical Fire Fighting
- Completed Management system Auditing Program Conducted by TUV NORD (OHSAS 18001; 2007)
- Completed control of hazardous Energy programme
- Completed leadership boot camp tools to be an effective leader programme
- Completed high risk management standards program
- Leadership development
- Specific objectives of this workshop include:
- Role clarification
- Role adaptation
- Conflict resolution
- Develop a technique for giving employees clear instructions
- Employee management
- Relationship building
- Completed Laboratory Management Training by LABO DERVA bvba Laboratories( Heusden-Zolder, Belgium) August-2014
- ISO 17025 implementation
- 2 Metrology & Calibrations
- 3 Statistic & Validations
- 4 Internal & External Audits
- 5 Results & Method Validations
- IMS internal auditing
- 1 ISO 9001:2015
- 2 ISO 14001:2015
- 3 ISO 45001:2018
- ISO 17025 accreditation
- ISO 17025 compliance
- Water testing
- Microbiological analysis
- Laboratory auditing
- Equipment calibration
- Quality assurance
- Environmental monitoring
- Budget planning
- Procurement management
- Contract management
- Technical management
- Decision making
- Professional ethics
- Risk assessment
- Team coordination
- Lab equipment operation
- Staff supervision
- Inventory tracking
- Staff recruitment and retention
- Microbiology techniques
- Data analytics
- Sample preparation
- Knowledge transfer
- Project leadership
- Data collection and recording
- Policy formulation
- Ethical conduct
- Compliance monitoring
- Innovation and creativity
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Budgeting and fiscal reporting
- HRM systems knowledge
- Resource evaluation
PERSONAL DETAILS
Languages Known : English, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Tamil & Arabic
Certification
Passport No : Z 6682052, Date of issue : 06/02/2022, Date of expiry : 05/02/2032, Place of issue : Dubai, UAE
Disclaimer
Declaration: I do hereby declare that all the information as stated above are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Anticipating your favorable response in this direction, for this act of yours I shall be highly obliged. DATE : NAME: Syed Touseef Ahmed
PERSONAL DETAILS
Father’s Name : Syed Tanveer Ahmed
Date of Birth : 03-10-1982
Sex : Male
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Languages Known : English, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Tamil & Arabic
Contact No. (K.S.A.) : 00966-53-9273951 /00966-57-0786699
Contact No. (India) : 0091-9886481234 / 0091-9740617655
Period of work : Sept. 2004 to this date (22+ years )
Postal address {India} : No 60/3 4th main road
Vasanthappa, P G Halli,
Bangalore, Pin: 560003
Karnataka, India
Valid UAE Driving license: No =121397
Place of issue=Ajman
Valid till 26-6-2026
Valid KSA Driving license:
Place of issue = JEDDAH
Valid till 23-5-2030
PASSPORT DETAILS§ Passport No : Z 6682052
§ Date of issue 06/02/2022
§ Date of expiry : 05/02/2032
§ Place of issue : Dubai, UAE
Timeline
Laboratory Manager (QA, QC)
GOES LTOM JEDDAH - KSA Laboratory
02.2023 - Current
Laboratory Supervisor (QA, QC)
Moalajah FZC- (BESIX-VEOLIA JV)
10.2007 - 02.2023
Laboratory Supervisor (QA, QC)
EL-NITCO
08.2004 - 09.2007
Chief Chemist & SUPERVISING
Titan Industries Ltd. & Tanishq Jewelers
04.2004 - 08.2004
Bachelor of Science (BSc) -
Al-Ameen Collage Arts, Science & Commerce collage
Diploma - chemical Analyzer
{BTC} Polytechnic