Abdullaziz Hashim Saleh Al-Ghatrifi is an Omani national who has over 20 years of experience in operations and maintenance roles in the oil and gas industry. He is currently an Operation Superintendent at Sohar Aluminium, where he supervises over 60 people. Previously he has held roles as a Maintenance Senior Supervisor and System & Service Senior Engineer also at Sohar Aluminium. He has a diploma in Mechanical Engineering and a bachelor's degree from Ashley University. Al-Ghatrifi has extensive technical and management training and skills in areas such as problem solving, maintenance, safety, and computer programs.
1. Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information:
Name: Abdullaziz Hashim Saleh Al-Ghatrifi
Date of Birth: 22-August-1975
Place of Birth: Oman
Resident: Sohar
Nationality: Omani
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Address: P.O. Box 226 Liwa
Post Code 325
Contacts: Mobile: +968 99234300 & +968 93218619
Email- zizo91975@yahoo.com, Abdullaziz.alghatrifi@Sohar
Aluminium.com
Professional Profile:
• Good presenter and ability to communicate remarkably by using the different
communication tools both in Arabic and English.
• Dependable and reliable in supporting and enabling team effort to produce
genuine
• Have a very wide personal relation due to the good networking skills.
• Very good computer skills and a good user of Microsoft Word, Excel, Power
Point, Outlook and Internet.
• Welcome challenges and new situations Interested in diversifying and working
in a variety of disciplines within the environmental fields.
• Motivation, drive, good time management, excellent in establishing good
relations
• Good in managing meetings and negotiations
• Able to create change in an environment work for better results
• Able & prepared to work under pressure
2. Career History:
May-2013 up to date: Sohar Aluminium
Operation superintendent (Anode Plant Dept. /Rodding & Bath Plant sections):
• Team leader for more than 60 persons
• Cost Controlling (Build and propose budget, control and deliver)
• Empower the teams to function within defined limits (delegate action to the
Lowest possible level)
• Apply a participative management style to lead the team s to a new level of
performance (engage the team in problem-solving and decision-making).
• Create an Area training and development strategy to increase the teams’
• Leadership, technical and inter -personal skills.
• Set stretching team goals and improvement targets; create milestones;
Adjust style and communications to lead and motivate different people;
Align team and individual goals with the Departmental and SA business
Objectives
• Optimize resource usage and minimize waste (e.g.: monitor PPE
Usage; conserve small tools)
• Control time and attendance while maintaining accurate SAP records
• Operate equipment and Plant systems to maximize efficiency and
Minimize waste
• Identify ways to decrease costs and increase productivity or resource utilisation
• Forecast funding for staff, materials, supplies and capital improvement
Projects. Submit and justify budgets
• Analyse, monitor and control expenditure to ensure the Area achieves its
Financial target. Take action to correct budget variances. Work within
Delegated financial limits
• Safety improvements
• Quality and productivity gains achieved through innovation
• Acting Manager role for the department(several times)
May-2011 up May-2013: Sohar Aluminium
Maintenance senior Supervisor:
• Looking after & controlling of spares and routable items
• Being involved in all carbon areas maintenance works (4 operation sections)
• Contractors management
• Leading a team of mechanics and electricians (13 + 9 contractors)
3. • Communicating with the EHS, Central Maintenance and HR
• Following up some of the major projects within the department
• Controlling turnover key works
Sep-2010 to July-2011: Sohar Aluminium
System & Service Senior Engineer:
• Failure Mode Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for the Mill in HBP
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)
July-2008 to Sep-2010: Sohar Aluminium Company
Paste Plant (Carbon Operation) Senior Supervisor
• Look after production process to ensure the good quality
• Look after Equipment and track the equip. system
• Communicate with Maintenance team prior, during and after any PM
or/and services to the equipment
• Check/trouble shoot with maintenance team to solve or rectify any
problem can happen to the equipment
Feb-2007 to July-2008: Sohar Aluminium Company
Anode Baking Furnace (Carbon Operation) Senior Supervisor
• Commissioning Plan
• Fire commissioning for dry out
• Interviewing People
• Set Consumable tables
• Leading a team of 8 to 30 people
• Commissioning (start up) Dry out Fire in Baking Furnace
• Commissioning (start up) Production Fire in Baking Furnace
Jan-1999 to Jan-2007: Well Engineering Supervisor in Petroleum Development
Oman (PDO)
• Supervise all the contractors that are performing Services, Maintenance and
Operations to my company in south fields.
• Assurance of quality of work and safety of people.
4. • Updating, checking and approving (DIMS) Drilling Information Management
System.
• Maintain well history for south Oman well files & Profiles.
• Focal point for south Oman annulus integrity test.
• Writing-up wire line programs for all jobs in South Oman fields.
• Acid Stimulation and Wire Line supervision.
• Checking well bore equipments.
• Checking tools and equipment to be used for the operations.
• Checking well bore fluids.
• Checking well profiles.
• Supervising contractor while doing maintenance for tools and equipment.
• Writing the well services weekly highlights of South Oman.
• Manage all SAP work for my section activities such as wire line, Stimulation,
Perforation, Pumping unit, etc…
• Authorized to sign all tickets related to my work supervision, which exceed
$500,000.
• Looking after the different Road Safety campaigns.
• Champions for enhancing the HSE site supervision for my team
• Manage all HSE related issues of the Wire line and Stimulation contracts as per
Company policy and standards through an effective supervision of the Contract
HSE Plan.
• Responsible for the HSE training of our team (Planning & Follow up).
• Managing the HSE Permit to Work issues
• Carry daily HSE tool box talks
• Responsible for the follow up of the different environmental non-compliances
• Responsible for the follow up of legal permits.
• Responsible for the follow up and check of our drinking water quality and food
hygiene.
• Responsible for the Close –out of the different HSE Audit findings.
• Looking after the implementation of the different HSE issues related to the
contracts we have in our department and ensure effective monitoring of these
HSE issues.
• Member in no LTI (Lost Time Injury) Club (HSE Club aims to minimize the HSE
Incidents).
• Carry the different HSE inspection for our department facilities and our
contractors.
• Looking after Waste Management (Disposal of different well services waste).
5. Jan-1997- Dec-1999: Wells Information support for Well Engineering Department
in south fields (PDO)
• Entering and updating of subsurface data.
• Entering and updating of subsurface equipments (well bore).
• Checking well situation (gas wells, oil wells, water wells and injection wells).
• Carry out all maintenance and trouble shooting activities for all oil & Gas surface
equipment such as:
• Turbines, gas equipments.
• Diesel engines.
• Export pumps.
• Compressors.
Education:
• 1994 : Secondary School
• 1997 : Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (BETECH)
• Jan 2012: Bachelor in science – Mechanical Engineering (Distance Learning
/ Ashley University –USA) Not attested in Oman
Professional Training:
Management Courses:
• Report Writing
• Change Management
• Time Management
• Negotiation Skills
• Advanced Supervisory Skills
• Interviewing Skills Program
• Working Together program
6. • Supervisory Development Program
Technical Courses:
• EP00 - Introduction to Exploration and Production business.
• Problem Solving
• TPM (Total Preventive Maintenance)
• Beam Pumps Operations.
• 1st
Middle East CRBN Conference
• Well Stimulation techniques.
• Turbines.
• Coiled Tubing Technology.
• Electrical submersible Pumps (ESP).
• Gas Lift Engineering.
• Wire line Operations.
• Brine and Acid Pumping.
• Updating Drilling Information.
• SAP.
• 3 years Extensive training as oil & gas Equipments Techniques.
• Well Control.
HSE Courses:
• Incident Investigation.
• Lean Meeting management.
• Tap Root.
• HSE Induction.
• Fire Warding.
• Oil Spill Management ( clean-up)
• Environmental legal compliance.
• First Aid & Basic Life support
7. • Incident Reporting.
• HSE tool box talks
• H2S Awareness.
• Job Hazard Analysis
• Supervising Safety
• Hazardous Awareness & communication
• Chemical Hazard Awareness.
• STOP ( Safety Training Observation Program)
• Defensive Driving.
• Gas Testing.
• Permit To Work (PTW)
• Public Health
• NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials) awareness.
• HSE Site Supervisions.
• Waste Management
• Waste Consignment notes.
• HSE Inspections
• Training on IMPACT System ( Program on the notification and follow-up of
incidents)
Oral Communication Skills:
• Very good presentation experience with a
variety of audience
• Very friendly & outgoing personality with
different people
• Able to present myself with confidence and
professionalism.
Computer Skills
• Good in using word processing, spreadsheet
and database management software. Have
worked with Word, excel, Access and statistics.
8. Well experienced with Internet using and
applications.
Work Ethic:
• High ability of learning
• Able and enjoy working as part of a team to word
a common goal, but also have proven ability to
manage a team or working individually with
minimum supervision
Welcome challenges and new situations
Interested in diversifying and working in a variety of
disciplines within the environmental fields.
Motivation, drive, good time management,
excellent in establishing good relations
Good in managing meetings and negotiations
Able to create change in an environment work for
better results
Able & prepared to work under pressure
Personal Interests
• Reading, travelling, walking and soccer
Countries Visited
France, Canada, Belgium, Netherland, Syria, Lebanon, Malaysia
Languages
Speaking Reading Writing
English Very good Very good Very good
Arabic Mother tongue Mother tongue Mother Tongue