Talaat A.
Kader
[email protected]
01000403454- 01145588800
Quality Assurance Manager
Manufacturing planning Strategic Planning Operations Management
SAP/ERP chemical industries oil/ gas Document control
Extensive background in implementation and audit of quality system in several industries including chemical industries,
plastic and petrochemical and in oil and gas manufacturing and services. Demonstrated ability to develop and implement
SAP Quality Systems compliant with international standards. Proven experience in integration of SAP QMS with
production control, sales and distribution, inspecton and procurement. Adept at providing guidance, facilitating sessions
and delivering quality improvement programs to ensure compliance. Trained in Six Sigma and Lean Sigma methodologies
and implementing Quality Control requirements including test specifications, sampling plan, method validation and
instrument qualification. Key strengths are organization, pragmatic problem solving, accuracy, attention to detail and
guiding, influencing and educating project teams to achieve compliance goals.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Customer care &support Business startup skills ISO 9001.14001:2015
Focused Leadership Risk Management QM master Data
Business Planning Strategic planning SAP QM module
Lean six sigma Process management Automation inspection
implementation Research and Development CE marks
API Q2 implementation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TSI Egypt 1/1/2017 --- Now
Quality General Manager
The scope of the company is providing technical expertise and training in the field of quality management
system, EHS management system, project management system in Egypt and Middle East and certified in
safety and environmental inspection. I have the following achievements:
1. Full responsibility in performing quality planning and building quality specific Master data
2. Inspection planning and sampling planning and integration with ERP
3. I have implemented integrated quality and EHS management system in major chemical companies
and oil service companies and construction sites in Egypt and Middle East according to ISO
9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, OHSAS 18001:2007 and shifting to ISO 4500,API Q1ad APIQ2
4. Certified Ionizing radiation protection and inspection and certified in handling and working with
radioisotopes of all kinds in oil fields and scientific research organizations
5. Certified explosives and explosion protection and inspection in chemical companies and oilfield
exploration in addition to long experience and certification in handling and management of
dangerous chemicals and radiation sources.
6. Qualified teams to work as certified internal auditors and inspections.
Lufkin Middle East (GE oil &Gas) 12/2008 – Now
Lufkin Middle East is a branch from Lufkin Industries, Houston, Texas. The scope of this branch is sales and distribution
of artificial lift equipment, installation and servicing in oil fields in Egypt and Oman. I have received formal training in
Lufkin pumping school, Houston, Texas. USA.
Quality system Manager
I have transferred the company from sales office in Egypt into prominent Business and service center and qualified the
company for integration with GE oil and gas. I had taken the initiative of launching strategic process analysis which
resulted in comprehensive business process improvement. Continued customer contact and site tours to enhance
customer retention and customer satisfaction. The position required 30-50% travel to more than 25 locations located in
Eastern and western desert oilfields in addition to Oman oilfields. I have taken the following responsibilities:
1. Led the management team in setting the overall quality objectives and targets and the Quality policy, and the
quality plan of the company. Held responsibility for training and management of all quality-related policies,
procedures, processes, programs, and practices to ensure Lufkin and its contractor’s continuous conformance
with appropriate standards and regulations of the company.
2. I have participated in a cross function team in the market survey and market analysis and identified the target
market of artificial lift in Egypt and Middle East. Identification of customer needs and setting the business plan
accordingly.
3. Implemented formal tender and contract management system to improve proposal win rate from base line 20 %
to target 80%
4. Technical assistance to customers as needed supported trade shows, maintenance seminars and conferences
throughout Egypt, Oman, Dubai and USA.
5. Representing the company in technical and quality conferences in the United States and worked with
Marketing and Engineering on new product development and ideas in addition to participating in safety design
of the product.
6. I have led the team of operations and engineering in the application of the safety design of the product which
represented high competitive advantage in addition to regulations compliance.
7. Oversaw product specifications, supplier requirements, testing, inspections, part verification, equipment
procurement and calibration; corrective actions, non-conformances, benchmarking, and voice of the customer.
8. Scoped comprehensive business process review and improvement program to result in Lufkin Middle East
becoming ISO 9001:2008, 2015, ISO 14001, and ISO 92001 certified and API Q1
Key Achievements:
1. I have implemented Lufkin Middle East and GE oil and gas integrated QEHS management system according to
ISO 9001:2008, 2015, ISO 14001:2004, 20015, ISO 29001, and OHSAS 18001:2008 which constitute
competitive advantage in oil service companies.
2. I have implemented, and certified APIQ1 for the company for the first time for Service Company.
3. I have implemented the company Quality manual and process picture mapping manual and communicated to
field team as the Lufkin documented procedures for process compliance and improvement.
4. Won the largest tender in Lufkin history of delivery, installation, operations and maintenance of Sucker rod
pumps and PCP for 15 years in Oman oilfields for PDO.
5. Achieving the highest market share in Egyptian market with a ratio of 95% through providing high level
customer support and problem solving techniques by a carefully selected service team.
National Medical industries NMI 4/2005 – 12/2008
NMI is privately held company for the manufacturing the dialyzers filters and bloodlines in addition to distribution of
dialyzers. I have led the company in the application of integrated QMS of ISO 9001:200, ISO 13485 and ISO 14971
Quality/ Regulatory affairs Manager
Key Achievements:
1. Quality planning for all manufacturing plants which included two blood lines and dialyzers filters manufacturing
plant in addition to all utilities such as boilers, cooling towers, chillers and ethylene oxide sterilization unit.
2. Leading the application of GMP, Good Laboratory management GLM and industrial hygiene in all departments.
3. Implementation of integrated quality management system according to ISO 9001:2000, and ISO13485 and risk
assessment according to ISO 14971
4. Reviewed and approved 150 procedures and documents relation to quality, manufacturing, purchase, customer
complaints, product validation, design verification and design validation.
5. Quality inspection and quality audit of raw materials and in process semi-finished products in addition to the
final inspection according to the international standards.
6. Process, Product validation Designed and implemented the SOP of process, and product validation within the
company according to FDA and EEC directives.
7. Designed and applied the procedures of validation and verification of Ethylene Oxide sterilization.
8. Participation in cross function team in the products design and product verification and validation.
9. The application of verification and validation procedures within the company and with the major and main
customers.
10. Sterilization validation Held responsible for the process of product sterilization by ethylene oxide unit indoor
and outsourced Gamma radiation sterilization.
11. Managing the process of sterilization by using gamma radiation according to the requirements of FDA.
12. Laboratory qualification and validation :Managing the validation and qualification of chemical and
microbiology laboratory and leading the ISO 17025 certification by the application of the following procedures:
Design qualification DQ
Installation QF
Operation qualification
Performance qualification
13. Reviewed and approved the documentation and provided guidance in the start-up and development of the
laboratory to support the Quality Control requirements including test specifications, sampling plan, method
validation and instrument qualification.
14. Developed, qualified and validated analytical methods for new products and line extensions that ensured accurate
and complete results that met dialyzers filters standards.
15. Authored SOPs and trained staff on analytical methods and ensured consistent and accurate samples and
collection of data.
16. Developed a 21 CFR Part 11 assessment process for newly acquired computer systems and the acquired data that
allowed system owners to easily determine the scope of compliance and any gaps in coverage and provided a
generic set of test cases to cover all requirements.
17. Led the roll out of the risk-based approach to computer systems validation by leading diverse business and IT
teams in the development of risk assessments of computer systems that provided a pragmatic analysis of business
processes and validation requirements..
18. Regulatory affairs applications: Representing the company with the regulatory organization in the Ministry of
Health, Ministry of industry and the organization of standardization.
19. Held responsible for new products registration.
20. Responsible for overseeing and validating technical files for 50 products to include product specs, test history.
Risk analyses. Regulatory labels and clinical summaries.
21. Research and interpret new medical devices directives and apply findings t existing products currently marked in
Europe. Make recommendations for required product and label changes based on regulatory guidelines.
Alcoa CSI- Egypt 4/2003– 4/2005
Alcoa CSI Egypt is a branch of the American multinational Alcoa.. The company specialized in the manufacturing of
polypropylene and polyethylene closures for beverage and water by using compression molding techniques. I have
received formal training on Alcoa business management from USA, Mexico, Spain and Bahrain.
Quality/ Process Manager
I have worked in cross functional team to establish the company in Egypt and participated in all startup processes that
included plant layout, selection of contractors, construction, material procurement, machine commissioning, machine
installation, operations, developing and implementation of standard operating procedures for production, operation, and
quality and product design. I have been the key person during the construction phase and reported directly to project
manager in USA.
Key Achievements:
1. QC/QA design and implementation: Established the quality department and laboratories of final product,
raw material and semi-finished product inspection. I have also established R& D laboratories for new products
design. I have prepared, written and verified and implemented all SOPs concerning laboratory analysis,
quality audits and quality improvements.
2. I have set the raw materials specs that comprised PP, PE, PVC, Additives, inks and solvents and performed all
testing to select the best vendors.
3. I have successfully qualified local suppliers for FDA approved homopolymer Polypropylene which saved
40% of raw materials costs and lead time delivery.
4. Process Validation: I had the responsibility of designing and formulation of the products and validated the
new products and validated with our major multinational customers.
5. I have solved lot tons of technical problems within customer’s factories especially in bottling process.
6. Achieved market share of 95% of the Egyptian market directly after start-up due to high quality of product
and customer support.
7. Integrated Quality management system: I have established standardized process set ups allowing
production processes to be more consistent and proceduralized the operations to be acceptable by customers
during customer audit.
8. Application of lean /six sigma tools such as process mapping, statistical analysis and root cause analysis that
resulted in the following:
Scrap rate reduction
Production efficiency Increased to 95%of the standard.
Labor reduction by 20%
6. I have implemented integrated Quality, environmental and safety management system according to ISO
9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007
7. I have established GMP system and HACCP and industrial Hygiene related to food contact packaging
materials. Provided technical services to bottlers and co-packers in regard to scientific, regulatory, technical
and quality issues relating to production of PepsiCo products. Drove quality improvements through evaluation
of facility data from trade reports, consumer complaints and internal and external auditing.
8. Customer support: Ensured compliance with PepsiCo and Cola standards and requirements, as well as
protection to company information and sensitive documents.
9. Provided technical services to bottlers and co-packers in regard to scientific, regulatory, technical and quality
issues relating to production of PepsiCo products. Drove quality improvements through evaluation of facility
data from trade reports, consumer complaints and internal and external auditing.
10. Provided support for all products, process and line qualifications by writing qualification protocols,
coordinating all aspects of application of qualification protocol.
11. Eliminated closure complaints for hard-to-open across water and carbonated beverages drink segments, with
complaint rates falling by 70%.
12. Created customer satisfaction survey and distributed survey to manufacturing facilities for feedback on level
of field support and programs offered. Used information in increasing satisfaction from manufacturing plants
by 20% from base-line year.
Technopack. 7/1997 - 3/2003
Technopack is the largest Middle East Company in the manufacturing of Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene film
BOPP and Metalized polypropylene film in addition to Cast Polyethylene and cast polypropylene films for packaging
of food, detergents, cigarettes and pharmaceuticals.
Quality/RD Manager
Recruited to be change agent to improve the quality of products and the quality of processes and to overcome the high
percentage of scrap, defected materials and the high percentage of rejected products by all customers. The company
was in a situation of severe losses and I had been recruited to restore the company to profitability and know how
improvement. I have managed raw materials formulation and raw materials research to be compatible with the situation
of the production lines.
Key Achievements:
1. Implemented, certified and maintained integrated quality/ environmental management system according to
ISO9001:200 and ISO 14001 and then OHSAs 18001
2. I have established long term and short term research on both BOPP line and cast line to study the problems of
plastic deformation due to stretching beyond the elastic limit, corona treatment decay due to additives
migration, thickness variation, film brittleness, that resulted in problems in printing registration and
lamination.
3. I have introduced considerable improvement in the performance of the extrusion process, chill roll
temperature and stretching temperature and changed the stretching ratio and changed the film formulation and
design which constituted very considerable technical improvement.
4. I have performed the research also in coordination with customer and through excessive customer factories
visit and inspection of films and raw materials during film processing.
5. I have reduced the additives ratios especially slips agents and antistatic to reduce migration and keep the film
wettability for long time. I have saved 95% of the additives every day which saved more than LE 200000
every day.
6. I have reduced the percentage of scrap to be the minimum according to 2 sigma process and taking the scrap
to efficient recycling process and added to the product and simultaneously keeping the high quality and the
standard specs of the film.
7. I have reduced the rejected materials to zero and enhanced customer satisfaction due to the improvements that
mentioned above.
8. I have improved the performance of the cast line and economically operated it after standstill and designed
new products to meet new customer’s requirements.
9. I have introduced and qualified new raw materials suppliers to work with Technopack to guarantee the
continuous production flow. I have qualified Sabic, OPC, Solvay; Schulman, and other companies.
10. Due to the above mentioned improvements and due to new products design, the market share has been
elevated to more than 90% of the Middle East market.
11. The company has tripled the production capacity by expansion and adding new BOPP lines of 40 ton/day to
raise the production capacity from 20 ton/day to 60 ton /day of BOPP film in addition to cast film of 10
tons/day.
12. I started the company with 20 tons production capacity with efficiency less than 60%, 20 % rejected and off
specs, and ended with capacity of 70 tons of efficiency 96%
13. I have introduced high-impact staff improvement initiatives that increased performance and morale through
proper training, dedicated leadership, and unwavering employee support.
14. I have been selected to be the management representative to certify the company to ISO 9000 and Technopack
was the first to be certified in Egypt.
AMC SPREA - Misr 4/1993 – 7/1997
AMC Sprea is Italian company for the production of thermosetting plastic products, melamine molding compounds,
urea molding compounds and phenol molding compounds. I have established Quality department from scratch. Set the
specs of raw materials and final products and supervision on all reaction processes. I was responsible for the
formulation and setting the process conditions of all products.
Lab/ RD manager & technical manager
Recruited to establish the chemical and physical and RD laboratory from scratch. Coordinated efforts with production
and material managers to produce for quality and design new products to expand market share and increase profits for
the Egyptian branch of AMC Sprea. Established the laboratory and Quality department from scratch.
Key Achievements:
1. Participated in the design of laboratory department layout that included RD laboratories, physical, chemical
and water treatment laboratories that cover all company’s activities.
2. Created all inspection and laboratory analysis procedures and SOPs after researches and benchmarking with
AMC Sprea in Italy and the raw materials producing company.
3. Generating process design, equipment sizing and specification for treatment systems, estimating design
parameters from published literature when data not available for a given type of wastewater. Design and
perform bench scale and pilot treatability studies for evaluating and selecting treatment processes (physical,
chemical, and biological) for a given waste stream.
4. Supported logistics department by creating the specs of all raw materials that included Urea, Melamine,
Formaldehyde, Methanol, zinc Sulphide, zinc Sulphide as a catalyst in addition to pigments and fillers. The
main raw materials, catalyst, additives and fillers. Participated in establishing the approved supplier list.
5. Succeeded to procure the main raw materials from the local markets especially Formaldehyde which
constituted 60% of raw materials, Urea, barium sulphate, methanol, calcium carbonate, etc. after series of
researches with the Italian mother company.
6. Waste water treatment: As per the requirement of the Municipal organization, I have started the project of
building waste water treatment plant which included chemical, physical, biological and odor treatment of
waste water. Treatment technologies designed include dissolved air flotation, clarifiers, aerobic, anoxic and
anaerobic biological treatment systems, chemical oxidation, coagulation and flocculation, carbon adsorption,
ion exchange, etc.
7. Water treatment plant for industrial water and boilers: required to feed the Formaldehyde production plant
and also to feed the boilers which required demineralized water of Zero conductivity.
8. I have replaced the Italian factory manager in product design and product formulation issued the bill of
material for products and set the operations parameters for reactors.
EDUCATION
1. Bachelor of Science in chemistry (BSC.): Ain Shams University – Faculty of Science.
Concentration in industrial chemistry and organic, non-organic and physical chemistry. Minor
in Business, math. and Physics
2. Higher studies Diploma in Total Quality Management: American University in Cairo,
concentration on designing for top quality and achieving customer satisfaction and statistical
process control
3. Higher Studies diploma in Biophysics: 1 year from the Faculty of science, Cairo University this
concentrated on radiation protection and somatic and non-somatic effect of ionizing radiation.
4. Higher studies diploma in Business Administration: Ain Shams university, Faculty of
commerce, 2-year diploma that covered corporate finance, strategic management, operations
management and negotiation skills and management theory
5. Higher studies diploma in Managerial economics: Al-Azhar university : 2 years
6. Higher studies diploma in human resources planning and development: Al-Azhar
University, 2 years which concentrate on Strategic management, human resources management,
strategic planning, theory of management,
7. Master of Business Administration: Cairo University, faculty of commerce. I have finished the
program in 3 years that covered the following courses:
Marketing management Strategic management
Organizational behavior International business
Operations management Managerial accounting
Managerial finance Human resources management
Research methodologies Quality management and six sigma
Leadership and negotiation Information technology
8. NEBOSH international diploma 2014
9. Nebosh international general certificate 2009
10. Sucker Rod Pumps installation, and maintenance from the Pumping school in USA.
11. 5 week training in USA, in the application of X-ray and ionizing radiation in quality inspection of
metallic industries and in welding inspection.
12. In house training in Metrology and gauges calibration by Martin Marietta, USA.
13. Certified Quality manager/auditor by the Austrian Organization of Quality
14. Certified ISO 9001:2008,2015 auditor by DNV and IRCA certified
15. Certified ISO 14001:2004,2015 lead auditor by DNV, IRCA certified
16. Certified OHSAS 18001 lead auditor by DNV and IRCA certified.
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
1. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio)
2. Photo Shop, Integrated ERP Software
3. ERP,SAP
4. SAP QMS
5. SAP triple S in supply chain and logistics
Languages
English,
French
German