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Yousef Albdiwi

Jeddah

Summary

Senior Electrical Engineer with expertise in Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. Led decarburization initiatives that improved sustainability across KSA Technology Centers.

Assign tasks based on each engineer’s strengths and workload. Set clear expectations, priorities, and deadlines. Demonstrated leadership in optimizing maintenance processes and reprogramming machinery, resulting in enhanced equipment performance. Focused on delivering quality assurance in factory settings.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Electrical Engineer

SABIC
Thuwal
07.2015 - Current
  • Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.
  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  • Maintained professional, organized, and safe environment for employees and patrons.
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by resolving disputes promptly, maintaining open lines of communication, and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
  • Resolved staff member conflicts, actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground.
  • I coordinated design reviews across electrical, mechanical, and civil teams.
  • I managed a team of six engineers, overseeing task assignment and progress tracking.
  • I delegated responsibilities based on team members’ strengths and development goals.
  • I empowered junior engineers by giving them ownership of subproject's.
  • Set clear engineering goals and explain why they matter.
  • Align your team’s tasks with the bigger mission (project, client, or societal impact).
  • Start every project with well-defined scope, deliverables, and success criteria.
  • Lead decarburization for KSA technology centers to achieve 2030 vision.
  • Assign tasks based on each engineer’s strengths and workload.
  • Set clear expectations, priorities, and deadlines.
  • Monitor team performance and provide feedback regularly.
  • Resolve conflicts and keep team morale high.
  • Collaborate with global SABIC Technology Centers to reduce carbon neutrality.
  • Play a key role in developing a full assessment, achieving and contributing to SABIC's ambition to raise awareness and be inspirational.
  • Proposal for KSA Technology Centers to assess and create a roadmap to achieve carbon neutrality to be executed in the following years.
  • Set individual KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and team targets.
  • Align the team’s efforts with delivery milestones and technical standards.
  • Develops project objectives by reviewing project proposals and plans, and conferring with management.
  • Determines project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements, assigning personnel to phases and elements, and reviewing bids from contractors.
  • Determines the project schedule by studying the project plan and specifications, calculating time requirements, and sequencing project elements.
  • Aware of electrical (HV, LV), CCTV, fire alarm, civil, plumbing, and mechanical systems.
  • Control projects and ensure installation, construction, and commissioning by applying standards.
  • Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice maintenance vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
  • Effectively delegate any maintenance issues to be resolved on each shift, and small projects to the right skills in the team, planning and managing effective work.
  • Develop a Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedule, ensure full preventative maintenance is carried out, plan for missed maintenance activities, and lead the team to deliver effectively.
  • Audit and ensure compliance of the engineering data systems.
  • Manage the team to ensure machine availability, reactively managing dysfunctional machinery with the shift management.
  • Optimize equipment according to standard procedure, enhancing performance and product quality, and ensuring the achievement of all Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
  • Manage the process of the introduction of new machinery, plant, and equipment, from drawing up the specification to managing suppliers, through to full installation in collaboration with all relevant parties.
  • Conducted risk assessments on departmental processes and tasks to identify potential hazards.
  • Managed onsite team to ensure compliance with legal and company requirements.
  • Manage and lead the team, ensuring adequate staffing levels.
  • Motivate and coach the team to operational success.

Electrical Engineer

Hadeed-Sabic
AlJubail
07.2013 - 08.2015
  • Electrical Load Calculation.
  • Handling Electrical Projects to Improve the Factory Productivity.
  • Verification of cable schedules and cable sizing calculation.
  • Review and verify the single line diagram.
  • Improve the mill's availability by applying ideas and implementing them.
  • Leading technicians to complete the preventive maintenance program.
  • Writing work procedures and instructions for every piece of equipment that is related to electrical and instrumentation.
  • Working in HT and LT transmission lines and substations (33 kV).
  • Monitor site progress through weekly meetings with subcontractors and the main contractor.
  • Guide and direct site engineers and supervisors, as applicable, to ensure that project deliverables fully reflect QA/QC requirements and other specific guidelines set by Sabic.
  • Tracking of testing equipment and instruments for calibration records.
  • Maintain AC/DC drives, motors, and troubleshoot them.
  • Researched new methodologies and developed new procedures to apply principles of electrical theories to the projects.

Maintenance Engineer

Schlumberger
AlKhobar
04.2011 - 07.2013
  • Improve the layout of tool maintenance, minimizing the turn-around time of the tool maintenance, and reducing the spaghetti phenomenon.
  • Improve drilling and measurements asset performance, and cost of service delivery.
  • Improving maintenance effectiveness.
  • Service quality, delivery, and flawless job execution.
  • Spare parts kitting: Combining tool maintenance spare parts into kits for each service level to reduce service waste time, and storing them in the service lab.
  • Designed a special tool to remove electronic chassis from the collar.
  • Minimizing the time of the continuity test by integrating nine steps into one.
  • Implementing predictive maintenance techniques to ensure the right maintenance is performed at the right time.
  • Improving process speed of the workshop. Ensuring that all maintenance steps and tasks are value-added, and by employing cost-effective, labor-saving technology.
  • Minimizing the time of the continuity test by integrating nine steps into one.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering Technology

Northern Kentucky University
12.2010

Skills

  • Lean and Six Sigma
  • Leadership
  • Reprogrammed machinery
  • Quality assurance
  • Factory environment
  • Familiarity with the industry
  • Maintenance circuit breakers
  • Maintenance switchgears

Certification

  • Leadership Principles (Harvard Business University, eight weeks)
  • Sustainable Investing (Harvard Business University, eight weeks)
  • Financial Accounting (Harvard Business University, eight weeks)
  • Certified Maintenance Engineer, Schlumberger, nine weeks
  • Lean and Six Sigma, one month
  • Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

Profile

https://bold.pro/my/yousef-albdiwi/451r

Timeline

Sr. Electrical Engineer

SABIC
07.2015 - Current

Electrical Engineer

Hadeed-Sabic
07.2013 - 08.2015

Maintenance Engineer

Schlumberger
04.2011 - 07.2013

Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering Technology

Northern Kentucky University

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