Experience

Pomona Freeze Dried Foods

• Türkiye
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Oct 2019 - Present

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The Hub Food

• Türkiye
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Operations Supervisor

  • Aug 2018 - May 2019

  • Leading production activities at HUB Food in a kitchen environment through the management of production, quality, purchasing, warehouse, logistics, maintenance and data-entry teams. • Responsibility on production KPIs such as yield, OEE, inventory, quality complaints, OEE, # of near-miss & incidents.• Preparing shift plan and production schedule through optimising the use of resources, inventory and waste level.• Responsible for the compliance of production with quality standards and product receipt & specifications.• Responsibility on cost control through preparing and revising product receipts, calculating realized product costs and analyzing profitability.• Performing purchasing activities for production & branches through optimizing the cost, stock level and quality.• Managing warehouse and logistics operations to deliver the right products to the right location at the right time with right quantities.• Leading lean six sigma activities to improve labour efficiency & eliminate wastes within the supply chain operations.• Implementing new projects based on market requirements and kitchen capacity.



Ozum Gida

• Plant Operations Supervisor

  • Oct 2015 - Jul 2018

  • Leading canned fruit manufacturing activities in Ozum production plant.• Responsibilities on operations management (KPIs such as yield, inventory, quality complaints, OEE, COPQ, # of near-miss & incidents), plant financial planning, white collar and blue collar leadership, efficient use of sources.• Conducting detailed scheduling and production planning.• Responsible for product quality standards at competitive costs.• Leading EHS activities to ensure environmental protection, safety at work and occupational health and safety.• Managing purchasing activities (from fruit purchases to pack materials) through optimisinig price, lead time and quality.• Coordinating repair & maintenance activities with plant budget and people.• Performing and monitoring lean six sigma activities at plant through preparing value stream maps, finding and eliminating sources of wastes and so on.• Initiating new projects based on market needs and plant capacities.• Leading machine investment projects in order to increase outputs.



3M

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Process & Pre-Order & Production & Planning Engineer -3M Cerkezkoy Automotive Division

  • Jul 2014 - Mar 2015

  • Performing planning engineer role in addition to previous roles in auto division.• Responsibility on invetory management like strategic material purchases, determining inventory on-hand and safety stock levels, transportation ways of material purchases (ocean-air-land) and so on.• Preparing weekly machine loads and production schedule for each machine based on different manufacturing lead times through optimising change overs. • Scorecard responsibility on planning KPIs such as OTIF, inventory on hand, # of backorders, sales forecast, non-moving stocks, cost of freights and so on.• Conducting S&OP meetings to understand the reasons of deviations between the forecasts & actual orders to increase service level performance and optimising inventory on-hand.• Planning and controlling customer shipments (sample shipments as well) and managing urgencies to avoid line-stops.• Following new projects’ starting and phase-out stages in order to avoid facing stock-out circumstances or keeping unnecessary inventory.• Conducting LSS projects to reduce the cost of supply chain operations.

• Process & Pre-Order & Production Engineer - 3M Cerkezkoy Automotive Division

  • Sep 2013 - Jul 2014

  • Leading manufacturing activities of adhesive tapes in 3M plant in addition to pre-order and process engineer role.• Shopfloor and blue collar management through leading a team of 70 blue collar emloyees (team with technicians, foremans, operators, shift leaders).• Responsible for the compliance of production with quality standards and product specifications.• Preparing shift plans based on production programme through the efficient use of labour and capacity and considering possible bottlenecks.• Responsibility for performing safety actions and taking sensible precautions to ensure a safety work environment.• Scorecard responsibility on yield-waste performance, product cost, OEE, # of incidents, operators performance, # of shopfloor kaizens and so on. • Leading lean six sigma activities, kaizen events, process improvement projects to improve quality, cost effectiveness, labour efficiency and yield performance.• Performing operator evaluation system and following their performance in terms of speed and desired product quality.• Preparing standart work schemas for each station and monitoring the compliance of operators’ behaviours with these schemas.• Leading blue-collar suggestion sytem through weekly evaluation and making rewarding decisions for qualified suggestions.• Preparing skill and self-development table for blue collars and responsible for their target skills with a time plan.• Responsibility on financial planning for new operators, salary increases, operator trainings based on division annual budget plan.• Conducting tier-3 morning meetings in the shopfloor and following actions that are taken in these meetings.

• Process & Pre - Order Engineer - 3M Cerkezkoy Automotive Division

  • Jan 2013 - Sep 2013

  • Implementing key account leader role on the factory side for varying OEMs (such as Suzuki, Porsche, Audi, Fiat).• Managing all activities related with these OEMs from the project start to the phase-out stage (like conducting PPAP, making cost calculations and preparing quotations, providing time plan for each project step, handling quality problems during the project, monitoring sample and serial production phases).• Being in close collaboration with sales teams from different countries and making annual OEM visits to understand customer needs in place of market.• Performing lean activities, green belt projects and continous improvement studies in the shopfloor to achieve cost reductions in different OEM projects.