Tarek Ahed Diab
RIYADH
Summary
Projects and Engineering Experience in pharmaceutical industry/Setting-up New pharma projects/Managing the Operations in pharmaceutical manufacturing facility
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Projects and Engineering/Plant Operations Director
Spectropharma
10.2020 - 11.2024
- Setting Up a new pharma factory with all related technical details, engineering and business activities
- Leading the activity of Preparing business plan and feasibility study for new pharma factories
- Preparing complete User requirement specification document for pharma factory from engineering and quality point of view by complying all regulatory requirement of cGMP
- Follow-up and managing the turn key project activities (Start-up Project) with the main turn contractor and other Sub-contractors.
- Leading the supply chain processes including supplier selection, supplier approving, procurement, logistics, inventory control…etc
- Process Machines and lab equipment selection and purchasing including preparing URS, RFQ, purchasing with all related activities (SAT, FAT, operation and qualification…etc)
- Managing the installation and operating for all machines and process utilities and systems
- Establishing the infrastructure for the IT and related soft software (ERP, QMS, EMS..stc)
- Managing all the manpower for different functions and departments during the project phase and during operations phase
- Supervising the Preparing of the documentation system for the whole project to be comply with cGMP
- Cost control for all project deliverables and preparing budgets and cash flow plan
- Following up the project milestones and time line and report the major critical actions
- Conceptual Design basic and detailed design evaluation and review
- Participating in product portfolio selection, technology transfer and market studies
- Testing, commissioning, validation and qualification activities for all machines, instruments and equipment.
- Establishing safety, Environmental and health system.
- Developed comprehensive business plans for company growth.
- Led team to streamline operations by implementing new strategies.
- Implemented operational changes for improved efficiency.
- Coordinated large scale projects with successful outcomes.
- Conducted strategic planning sessions to drive corporate objectives.
- Supervised staff training programmes with focus on skill enhancement.
- Enforced compliance measures for adherence to industry standards.
- Optimised resource allocation to maximise productivity.
- Instituted cost control measures, mitigated financial risk.
- Managed daily operations by overseeing financials, key performance indicators and employee performance.
- Led negotiations with vendors and suppliers, securing favourable terms.
- Implemented company policies and legal guidelines.
- Supervised and developed high-achieving staff, providing orientation, training, support and direction.
- Designed business strategies to obtain short and long-term goals for company.
- Recruited and developed high-performing teams, with focus on talent retention.
- Established and monitored key performance indicators, gauging organisational success.
- Directed day-to-day work of 50 employees and motivated teams to exceed objectives.
- Established budgets based on historical, current and forecasted business data.
- Worked with board of directors to establish objectives and decisively lead operations.
- Supported multidisciplinary engineering designs.
- Assisted with developing and managing multiple engineering projects, learning key insights into project management and engineering principles.
- Managed engineering projects from conception to completion.
- Supported engineering designs through analysis and simulation.
Engineering and Projects Manager
Madinat Al-Dawaa (Med city pharma)
03.2019 - 10.2020
- Follow-up turn key project activities (Start-up Project) with the main contractor (Fabtech technologies international ltd) using MS project planning tool
- Following up all other sub projects related to main project
- Machine selection including preparing URS, RFQ, purchasing including all related activities (SAT, FAT, operation and qualification…etc)
- Installing and operating for all engineering and process utilities
- Following up safety, Environmental and health activities
Engineering And projects Department Manager
TQ PHARMA
04.2017 - 03.2019
- Managing and directing Engineering Department
- Implementing the cGMP and ,GEP, international pharmaceutical standards and regulations
- Initiate and manage the master schedules to ensure effectiveness of engineering activities
- Building up a staff and manage the master schedule for training needs with training session
- Following up and managing the daily activities including the following :
- Equipment/system corrective maintenance in all plant departments
- Periodic preventive maintenance for equipment in in plant
- Ordering and purchasing of spare parts and other required engineering procurements
- Following up the periodic reports with engineering staff for an engineering activities
- Communicating with other departments regarding the engineering issues
- Communicating with machine /spare parts manufacturers and suppliers
- Daily documentations and document reviewing and updating
- To develop the capacity and performance of production lines and process machineries and engineering utilities
- Perform technical evaluations and reviews related to engineering topics and projects
- Reporting engineering department status and activities on monthly and annual bases and if required
- Generate and/or approve, and keeping update the required SOPs and other documents for operation and maintenance for production equipment, engineering utilities and process plant
- Participating in providing an effective support to the top management in the provision of production engineering covering production needs, improvements and engineering projects
- Actively participate in preparing an URS for new machinery and equipment in full coordination with all related departments
- Participate in managing and coordinating the FAT and SAT testing and commissioning of new machineries and production lines taken in consideration engineering view of points and recommendations from all concerned departments
- To attend all technical and administrative meetings as required
- Participating in preparing technical and financial (feasibility) studies for new projects
- Coordinating with all external contractors (mechanical, electrical and civil) and following their activities and set time plan for each activity
- Coordinate and direct projects in TQ pharma, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities
- Participating in directing, reviewing, and approving product design and changes
- Recruits employees; assigns, directs, and evaluates their work; and oversees the development and maintenance of staff competence
- Prepares budgets, bids, and contracts, and directs the negotiation of technical contracts
- Develop and implement policies, standards and procedures for the engineering and technical work performed in the engineering department
- Perform administrative functions in engineering department
- Reviews and recommends contracts and cost estimates
- Set scientific and technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management
- Approving and checking all engineering document and paper work
- Direct the engineering of water control, treatment, and distribution projects
- Participates along with other managers in facing external technical inspections and all related issues
- Actively Participates in All Safety Issues including plans, measures and corrective action
Equipment Maintenance Manager / Engineering Assistant Manager
Riyadh pharma Co.
12.2013 - 04.2017
- Play a central role in continuously improving for operational performance
- By working closely with teams across the organization to deliver robust engineering solutions
- Significant track record within the pharmaceutical industry, with strong team leadership skills and an expert knowledge of manufacturing equipment and processes
- Strong communication skills, time management, team work, computer and analytical skills
- Managing and leading the day-to-day operation and all Maintenance plans to ensure the alignment with Company plans and objectives and troubleshooting activities including Corrective Maintenance (CM), Preventive maintenance (PM) and Autonomous Maintenance (AM) for all production equipment (150 production equipment including 15 full production lines mainly from well-known European brands)
- Leading the Maintenance team in all Production plants (6 Supervisors, 6 Engineers, 14 Technicians)
- Participating in improving, developing and monitoring production performance and calculating the machine UPTIME, Productivity, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Total Run Time
- Plans and implements work plan and validate new procedures in order to test, integrate, upgrade or reconfigure the line elements including ideas for improvement to current practices and participate in defining contingency plans
- Upgrading for the engineering department system to comply with cGMP and GEP
- Contacting the machines suppliers and manufacturers for requesting spare parts and new equipment s and systems
- Participating and executing FAT and SAT tests for some production equipment and new project
- Participating in Studying, planning and executing new projects for purchasing new systems and equipment to increase the productivity and capacity of the production equipment in all Project management stages
- Preparing URS for new required equipment and systems
- Participating in preparing and executing the qualification activities and documents (FS, DS, IQ, OQPQ) in all new production equipment (Equipment Validation)
- Following up the training for engineering department team
- Facing the different compliance audit from different international companies and authorities
- Participating in the internal audit and self-inspection activities in different departments
- Following up the daily administrational and financial responsibilities in the engineering departments
- Evaluating and hiring new talented engineering staff with good experience (8 new employees during 2015)
- Participating in Technology transfer activities (from engineering side) with different international manufacturers such as (Merck, Mylan, Abbott, Janssen Cilag, Norgine…etc)
- Member in new product committee as an Engineering department representative
- Applying LEAN studies project (six sigma concept)
- Complies with all relevant safety, quality, health and environmental procedures to ensure a healthy and safe work environment
- Prepares the Engineering department budget and ensures that the activities within this department is implemented processed as per the assigned budget
- Set annually the Key Performance Indicator for Engineering Department and Engineering Employees
- Applying the 5S methodology in the workshop for organizing, cleaning, developing, and sustaining a productive work environment
- Managing and controlling the Spare parts inventory by using ERP system
- Using the ERP (oracle 12) and Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) for managing planning and scheduling all maintenance activities
- Attending different technical trainings workshops, international seminars and exhibitions
- Installing and operating the Trace and Trace T&T system including Serialization and coding (Three machines from Laetus) and Purchasing new Trace and trace System including Serialization and Aggregation (Eight machines From Jekson)
- Member in White paper technical Committee for managing the change controls in the Company
Maintenance Manager
AL-Taqaddom Pharmaceutical industries Co. (TQ pharma)
01.2010 - 12.2013
- Participating in establishing new pharma plant (TQ pharma)
- Following up electro-mechanical contractor during the establishing phase
- Establishing the maintenance section system including:
- Preparation of all documents and other technical requirements
- Direct supervision and evaluation for maintenance team
- Preparing and scheduling preventive maintenance programs for Production equipment and utilities
- Establishing calibration system including:
- Documents and related SOP
- Selecting and purchasing the calibration instruments for all calibrating all measuring and sensing devices
- Coordinating with external contractor to execute the required calibration
- Qualification activities (FAT, SAT, IQ, OQ, PQ) for all equipments, utilities and engineering systems including:
- Plans, testing protocols and SOPs preparation
- Executing and supervising all qualification activities (Water treatment qualification, HVAC qualification and production equipment qualifications)
- Coordinating and supervising all installation activities with manufacturer’s representatives
- Testing and commissioning for all solid dosage form production equipment
- Projects planning
- Facing the JFDA, GCC and Japanese Audit as representative for engineering and validation departments
Maintenance Head
JOSWE-medical (Jordan Sweden medical and sterilization Co.)
01.2009 - 01.2010
- Following up all maintenance activities in the company including the production machines supplying utilities such as generator, boiler, air handling units, water treatment, chillers….etc
- Coordinating with all contractors for all new projects and following up them during the execution
- Administration and technical Managing for the maintenance team
- Following up the execution of Preventive maintenance programs (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly)
- Managing the spare parts inventory
- Managing all documentation activities
- Issuing and writing the periodic technical reports for the management
Product Manager
Neotech Jordan
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Full supervision and execution for all activities related to promotion the industrial equipments specially GE products (temperature and pressure Calibration equipments, Validation equipments, Gas and liquid Flow meters, Data loggers, indictors, Transducers and transmitters, Gas analyzers, moisture analyzers and other sensing products)
- Preparation quotations for the all potential customers
- Make the required service and maintenance for the GE products
- Periodic tours to all potential customers including the pharmaceutical, Gas, Oil, Power plants, and petrochemicals industries
- Searching for a new markets and opportunities
- Attending GE distributors meeting in dubai
- Preparing business plans for marketing GE products and actions plans for covering all potential sectors
- Issuing periodic reports to the upper managements for all activates
- Establishing a data base for the customers, quotations, addresses
- Participating in specific tenders with GE products
Engineering processes coordinator (maintenance engineer)
The Jordanian Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Co.(JPM)
04.2004 - 01.2008
- Supervising on all maintenance activities on the production equipments especially the electrical and the electronics activities
- Following up the execution of Preventive maintenance programs (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly)
- Issuing and writing the periodic technical reports for the management about the ratio of breakdowns to the total operating time for the production equipments and instruments
- Execution the required qualification for the production equipments including (IQ, OQ, PQ), and complete and prepare the required protocol and plans and reports and record all obtained data, and filling up all inspection check lists
- Preparing the standard operating procedures documents (SOP) for production equipments maintaining and operating, and making the required updating and modifying for there documents
- Participating in determining the maintenance and engineering section policies and organizing the daily work with section head, and participation in setting the governing system for the section
- Establishing a calibration system for applying the required calibration and verification for the temperature sensors and pressure gauges periodically
- Writing the instrument user guide (IUG) for most of the instrument (balances, calibration instruments, labs instruments) in the production department
- Operating and following up the technical support for the ERP system (Baan system)
- Make the required communications with the machine manufacturers and spare parts suppliers
- Following up all electrical and electronics breakdowns including the electrical control panel and wiring and control units such as PLCs, frequency inverters
- Analysis and studying the breakdowns in order to reduce it, and issuing the reports to the management
Education
BSc. - Electrical/Electronics Engineering
Princess Sumaya University For Technology (PSUT) /Royal Scientific Society (RSS)
Amman 01.1998 - 01.2003
Skills
- Strong communication and negotiation skills
- Time and workload management
- Team work
- Computer skills
- Analytical skills
- Project Management
- Logistics management
- Operational efficiency
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Operational planning and forecasting
- Employee training
- Technical reports writing skill
- Project budgeting
- Business administration
- Strategic planning
Languages
Arabic
Native
English
Advanced
Certification
Member in following :
- Jordanian Engineers Association .
-Saudi Engineers Association.
-Steering committee member in ISPE middle east affliate
Custom
Reading
Personal information
- Date of birth: 03/31/80
- Marital status: Married
Timeline
Projects and Engineering/Plant Operations Director
Spectropharma
10.2020 - 11.2024
Engineering and Projects Manager
Madinat Al-Dawaa (Med city pharma)
03.2019 - 10.2020
Engineering And projects Department Manager
TQ PHARMA
04.2017 - 03.2019
Equipment Maintenance Manager / Engineering Assistant Manager
Riyadh pharma Co.
12.2013 - 04.2017
Maintenance Manager
AL-Taqaddom Pharmaceutical industries Co. (TQ pharma)
01.2010 - 12.2013
Maintenance Head
JOSWE-medical (Jordan Sweden medical and sterilization Co.)
01.2009 - 01.2010
Product Manager
Neotech Jordan
01.2008 - 01.2009
Engineering processes coordinator (maintenance engineer)
The Jordanian Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Co.(JPM)
04.2004 - 01.2008
BSc. - Electrical/Electronics Engineering
Princess Sumaya University For Technology (PSUT) /Royal Scientific Society (RSS)
01.1998 - 01.2003
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