Sherif Rady has over 18 years of experience in factory management, production, quality, safety, and engineering roles. He is currently the IP/NCE Manager at Nestle Waters Egypt, where he is responsible for rolling out Nestle's Continuous Excellence program across all factory departments. Previously, he held various positions at Nestle Waters including Production Manager, Projects Manager, and Engineering & Project Manager for Nestle Waters' Arabian Peninsula market.

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Sherif Rady
Manager at Nestle Waters
Email Address: sherifrady2004@yahoo.com or sherif.rady@eg.nestle-waters.com
URL: http://ae.linkedin.com/in/engineersherifrady
Mobile Phone Number: +2010-222-19500 (Business)
Career Objective
To transit my enthusiasm, creativity & experience into a position,where I continue to provide the strategic/ tactical
leadership critical to retaining valued customers of an organization.
I am targeting to get a challenging and creative Leading position in Technical, Manufacturing or Operations
Management with a reputable, dynamic and nationally recognized corporation that will allow for growth and a chance to
contribute my education,skills and experience. I’m willing to move for the right full-time opportunity.
Qualifications
- Total 18 years of experience within the fields of Factory Management, Production, Quality, Safety, Environment,
Packaging, Maintenance, Engineering and Projects, People development, Leadership, ISO and Continuous
Improvement.
- Hands on experience in the field of Water& Beverage technologies,Bottling in PET/PC/HDPE/Glass containers, Lines’
Vertical Startup, Reliability/Performance improvement, Water treatment, robot palletizing of finished products,
Injection, Blow molding, mechanical design, machines design and manufacturing, Chemicals and Food Packaging.
- Never failed in a challenge -Thanks to God- as I effectively set, follow up and achieve objectives, targets and plans.
- Effectiveness in leading large teams and organizing team works for achieving the best cost-effective results at shortest
time.
- Participated in a major change initiative, without direct supervision,in a complex environment; contributed strategically
and practically to the design and execution of the initiative.
- Cross-functional and multi-cultural experience with outstanding experience of living and working in different countries
- Experience of working with Senior Management
Personal Information
Birth Date: 1-July-1976
Nationality: Egyptian
Visa Status: Residency Visa expired (both Saudi and UAE).
Marital Status: Married + 3 kids.
Driving Licenses: UAE (validuntil 2021); KSA (validuntil 2019); Egypt (validuntil 2014)
Education
Present: M.Sc. (Master of Science), Major; Environmental Engineering Management & Technology
Pre-Master Researcher Started Aug-2012, passed in January 2015.
Minor: Win-Win ecological Economical Benefits By Modifications of Poly Ethylene Terephthalate PET
(Lightweighting).
Expected final Seminar Date: Aug-2016.
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering Management & Technology,Mansoura
University.
June
1999:
Research and Pre-Masters: Packaging
Compiled a Research about the "Optimum Design of Shoulder for Vertical-Form-Fill-Seal VFFS Packaging
Machines ".
Research and Pre-Master Grade: Excellent.
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Production Engineering and Mechanical Design, Mansoura University,
Egypt
June
1998:
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Industrial Design and Production Engineering.
Graduation Grade: Good, the 5th rank over Production Engineering Department.
Graduation project: "Design and manufacturing a prototype of medium grains automatic packaging machine".
Graduation Project Grade: Excellent.
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Production Engineering and Mechanical Design. Mansoura University, Egypt
Professional Experience
Present
Nestle
1st Position: Production Manager. (Jun2012-Aug2013)
Job Definition:

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Waters
Egypt
Managing all production activities in order to meet/deliver the planned demand supply volumes; at the right quality,
safety, environmental and cost conditions.
Job Description and achievements:
- Managed over 200 employees, 11 production lines (HOD/Retail PET Still water/Retail Glass Sparkling/Injection
and blow molding production lines) and 18 SKU’s.
- Succeeded to inspire the employees and change their mindsets/cultures despite of the very critical country
conditions (revolutions and strikes).
- Succeeded to lead the production teams to break all the previous records in volumes, efficiency and performance at
all production lines.
- Rebuilt the production teams and reorganized the structure for a proven better added value; and created many
competitive activities and procedures.
2nd Position: The factory was burnt in February 2013, and besides being a production manager I have been
appointed as a Project Manager for the fast recovery of 3 production lines (Bulk 6L, Retail Glass and Retail PET)
Job Description and achievements:
- A very successfulstory of Recovering 3 production lines after fire incident only in 74 days.
- The lines started back to produce sellable bottles with a better efficiency and quality although the severe damage
occurred due to the fire impact on the lines.
- Once the line started production, I was overloaded being the production manager for the lines running continuously
24/7 and in the same time being a project manager for the rest of lines.
3rd Position: Projects Manager. (Aug2013-Aug2015)
Job Definition:
 To ensure Vertical start-up and sustained performance, by proper preparation of Operations and leadership of the
start-up phase.
 Projects, Operations and Startup Manager for High Speed Retail/PET Line 72kbph @0.6L, High Speed
Retail/PET Line 40kbph @1.5L. (Still water), Total Budget 16 Million USD.
 Lightweight and short neck conversions for all production lines and injection machines, Budget of 7 Million
USD.
 E2E (End to End) Project Managerfor the replacement of Tamper evident Sleeve applicator machine to increase
the Asset Intensity (line Performance) by total 7%.
Job Description and achievements:
- Share the Project design phase; Prepare the User Requirement Specifications by assessment ofcurrent operations,
define the machines overspeeds and buffer accumulation capacities and defining the success criteria of the project.
- Construction phase: Coordinate product/process licenses with the factory managers and the regulatory team.
- Installation phase: Lead the daily operations review meeting, Start building the Snag-list and Ensure the staffing
and training process,e.g. conducting the TT&T program, Coordinate Raw/Pack/consumables materials
availability.
- Commissioning phase:Test all I/O of equipments, validate the specs of outputs and approve the First Sellable
Palette. Develop and manage master startup plan –including the ramp-up curve- for commissioning, qualification
and verification phase,designed to achieve a vertical start-up with sustained performance.
- Start-up Qualification phase:coordinate/manage the operational team and ensure product, equipment, line and site
certifications are completed on time and approve the line Site Acceptance Test.
- Start-up Verification phase: Ensure closing the Snag-lists and Ensure Equipments and Operators can sustain the
ramp-up curve.
- Handover phase:Ensure a proactive and effective handoverof the project to the operational team including the
final Manufacturing dossier (MD), HACCP, QMS, Maintenance Documentations, Production SOP’s, etc.
- Design, Study, justify, Procure, Install and commission all parts required to convert the neck of PET bottles into
short-neck and change the bottle design to be lightweight. (including caps,labels and sleeve tamper
- Achieved a best-in-class vertical startup ramp-up curve for High Speed production lines not only before
Lightweight but also after lightweight!
- Achieved the fastest and most difficult lightweight conversion project over 3 production lines, 8 SKU’s in only 6
months, with a very tight time schedule and limited resources.A project of 3 million USD savings peryear that has
increased the company net profit COP1 by 15%; avoided 1600 tons of annual waste to the environment; reduced
total cost of production by 6% and increased the production lines reliability by more than 10%. The project has
successfully achieved higher consumer satisfaction results due to new, modern, energetic and convenient to use
bottle shape.
4th Position (Current) IP/NCE Manager. (Aug2015-Present)
IP stands for “Industrial Performance” while NCE stands for“Nestle Continuous Excellence” is a long journey
initiative of Continuous Improvement Engaging Everyone’s Heart & Mind in a Consumer-driven War on Waste; this
is covering all Continuous Improvement initiatives e.g. TPM (Total Performance Management) and LEAN. The
journey is 9-10 years (1.5/foundation + 7 years TPM + 1.5 LEAN).
Job Definition: Is to Roll out the NCE across all the Factory’s Departments, this includes providing the training and
the guidance to all the team by acting as the center of knowledge.

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Industrial Performance Manager will be responsible for driving operational improvement projects as well as working
on cross-functionalteams to commercialize innovative products in the category. Continuous improvement efforts
will focus on making sustainable gains in asset intensity,quality, safety,cost,and delivery. Methods for achieving
and sustaining improvements will be based on Nestle Continuous Excellence, TPM, and LEAN fundamentals. The
team member will need to collaborate closely with category, factory, and other internal partners to achieve project
objectives. The team member will be responsible to carry out assignments of a broad nature while exercising
considerable judgment and creativity. The team member needs to be able to carry out appropriate financial analysis
to validate/support proposals and gain support of key stakeholders.
Job Description & achievements:
NCE:
1- Design and communicate NCE strategy and roll out plan for the Factory.
2- Coordinate and monitor execution of NCE roll out within the Factory.
3- Responsible for the effective establishment of appropriate Function Pillars for the Function in the Factory.
4- Drive Continuous Improvement & Productivity Savings Projects
5- Utilize Nestle Continuous Excellence tools and methodologies (Goal Alignment, GSTD, DMAIC, Loss Tree
Analysis,IPA, etc.) to drive sustainable operational improvements and report them into the I-nexus/OPEX.
IP:
1. Determine means to reduce material usages,material losses and rework, and to achieve energy savings.
2. Support Business Innovation and Renovation Efforts
3. Determine the optimum machine speed,production cycles and line crewing that are required for master
scheduling,as well as for short term planning and control.
4. Work collaboratively with product development, marketing, supply chain, finance, and operations to bring new
products to market and meet the defined project objectives.
5. Updating the AnnualProduction recipe and Line Operational Standards.
Dec 2010
– Jun
2012;
Nestle
Waters
Dubai
Position: Factory Manager at Nestle Waters Dubai Factory
Job Definition: Oversee plant operations including Safety, Environment, Food Safety, Quality Control/Assurance,
Production, Manufacturing, Packaging, Water Treatment Processing, RO, Blow Molding, Planning, Monitoring,
Organization, Control, Team Building, Documentation, ISO, Training, Engineering, Maintenance, Projects,
Managing Improvement, People Development, Business Integration and Total Performance Management.
Job Description & achievements:
- Reduced the total cost of Manufacturing by 9% for 2011 while maintaining a remarkable improvement trends for
Quality, Safety & Environment and People development; through initiating plans and processes ofeffective
utilization of manpower, equipment, facilities, materials, and capital by targeting the ZERO waste, Zero defects
and ZERO failures.
- Passed the ISO 22k surveillance audit with zero gaps.
- Lead the factory team for being certified for ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 22000, NQMS and currently for the
FSSC.
- Reduced the Water usage from 2.3 Liter per Liter-filled to 1.76 over one year 2011.
- Maintained the highest levels of compliance to local regulations, international standards, 3rd party auditors and
Nestle standards and Tools such as HACCP, ISO 9k, ISO 14k, ISO18k, ISO22k, FSMS, NQMS, NCE, TPM, 5S,
BBS, GMP, GWP, HPE, SAM, MOMO, MPCSw, CST, CDM, etc.
- Established a strong training tool for managing the training plans for technical department employees.
- Setting targets,objectives & Budget of Technical Department.
- Direct and coordinate Factory Technical operations within company policies and procedures; following the
guidelines of the Total Performance Management TPMN
- Confer with department heads to ensure coordination of inter-department operations.
- Responsible for achieving company goals cascaded for technical department.
- Plan, organize and direct the factory operations to ensure the most effective return on assets.
- Establish and direct annually the Factory Operations Master Plan in integration with business top priorities.
- Monitor the improvement and progress of plans through Operations Review Meetings scheduled Quarterly,
Monthly, Weekly, Daily and every shift where decisions are made based on the Key Performance Indicators, root
cause analysis and effective action planning.
- Cascade the annual objectives of the department to the divisions and sub divisions.
- Encourage use of new techniques and focus on fact based problem solving.
- Establish and maintain a positive community and team relationship and fostera well-trained and motivated staff.
- Select and train plant supervisory and administrative staff and conduct employee performance reviews.
- Review and release weekly and monthly reports to the higher management.
- Provide the technical support and knowledge not only to the technical team but also to the supporting activities
such as Purchasing department, Store Department, Security, HR, Distribution, Sales, Marketing and Finance.

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Reason for leaving: Back to home country to look after my sick parents,moved internally in Nestle Waters to the
available vacancy in Egypt that time “Production Manager”, then assigned for Project Management once the factory
burnt in the fire incident.
August
2005 –Dec
2010;
Nestle
Waters
Riyadh
(Saudi
Arabia)
Last Position: Engineering & Project Managerfor Nestle Waters Arabian Peninsula Market (effective: 10-Jan-
2009) which covers 7 factories (Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Medina, Bahrain, Qatar and Dubai), having the same
below mentioned responsibilities over all the engineering managers in those factories. The position is also called
“Market Engineer”.
Previous Position: Maintenance Engineer- Engineering Manager for Nestle Waters Riyadh Factory
Nestle Waters - Riyadh- AlManhal Water Factory
Job Definition:
To manage the engineering & maintenance activities in the factories owned by Nestle Waters within the Arabian
Peninsula Market, this includes 7 factories: (Jeddah, Dammam, Madinah, Riyadh, Dubai, Qatar and Bahrain).
Job Description & previous achievements:
- Setting targets,objectives & Budget of Engineering & Maintenance every year.
- Managing & leading the engineering & maintenance staff in order to achieve the targets.
- Implementing & maintaining a computerized program for Maintenance Planning & Control (MPCS-w)
- Establishing measurable KPI's for all Engineering & Maintenance activities and relevant SHE & Quality.
- Analyze production stoppages &downtime and Condition Monitoring reports and feedback to the MPCSw.
- Plan the maintenance Work Orders for preventive, corrective, condition-based and project types.
- Applying the CDM methodology (consequence driven Maintenance) to minimize the Total Production Cost.
- Continuous analysis for stoppages in order to avoid the re-occurrence of the same failures.
- Developing manpower by training programs, total responsibility about HR for my staff.
- Implement procedures for best utilization of Industrial Services (Refrigeration, compressed air, boilers …etc.).
- Managing professionally the projects in the market starting from the justification and design phase up to the
commissioning, hand over and project closing, decision maker for capital investments and projects.
- Shared in VEA (Value Engineering Analysis)exercise. Also shared & conducted many master plan sessions.
Direct reports:
- Factory Engineers and Maintenance Heads in the AP. (12 engineers)
Indirect reports:
- Maintenance technicians, Planners, helpers, technical operators,technical secretary, technical store keepers,
technical purchasers,project engineers,contractors, sub-contractors,Safety officer, fabricators …etc.
Reason for leaving: Moved internally in Nestle Waters as a promotion.
February
2003 -
June 2005;
Framchem
Egypt
Production & Maintenance Engineer (Full Time)
Framchem SA, Abo Rawash Giza, Egypt: French chemical Co. producing chemicals for industry & agriculture.
Job Role/Department: Technical
Production & Maintenance Engineer for production lines,
-Production lines follow up and maintenance: (Chemical products -powder and liquid- formulation, packaging in
bags and bottles, sealing, labeling, cartoning And final packing)
-Quality control and assurance for products.
-Workers control: safety,evaluation, productivity, attendance,attitude, etc..... direct reports ~40 employees.
Reason for leaving: Better Opportunity by joining Nestle.
February
2001 -
February
2003:
Shift Engineer (Full Time)
Talkha Steam Power Station 210 MW. Talkha, Dakahlia, Egypt
Job Role/Department: Technical Department.
Shift Engineer (Turbine Operator Engineer),
Local and control desk operator, direct reports ~15 employees.
April 1999
- February
2001:
Production Engineer, Head of Assembly Department, (Full Time)
Engineering Services for Packaging (Espack); Manufacturing Packaging Machinery Production Engineer,
Head of Assembly Department for all packaging machines models produced.
Was responsible for the supervision on manufacturing workshop, assembly workshop, product test run & feedback
processes and direct reports ~30 employees.
Reason for leaving: Better Opportunity by joining Nufarm/Framchem, a leading multinational company.
September
1998 -
Maintenance and Installation/Commissioning engineer (Full Time)
Engineering Services For Packaging (Espack). 6th of October city, Giza, Egypt; Manufacturing Packaging

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April
1999:
Machinery
Maintenance and construction engineer(After sales service for packaging machines produced by the company).
- Note: Transferred internally to Production department after showing higher design and manufacturing abilities and
saving 6% of production cost per machine by succeeding to locally manufacture some expensive imported parts .
Reason for leaving: Moved internally in ESPACK as a promotion.
Skills
MS Office Excel, Word, Power point, Outlook, Visio, MS Project. Expert More than 10 years
AutoCAD 14, 2000, 2004, 2007 up to 2012 Intermediate More than 10 years
MS Windows,Dos, Internet surfing. Expert More than 15 years
Capability to be a leader and Team work organizer. Expert More than 20 years
Mechanical Desktop V6, Solid Works Design Beginner 6 months or less
Courses, Trainings, Seminars, Workshops and Key learning
 Egypt different Trainings in establishing a Cardboard carton paper factorand converting rubbish into fertilizer factory.
 Riyadh, 2007, HSE Foundation & Internal Auditors Course, Based on ISO 14k & 18k, by Bureau Veritas.
 Riyadh, 2007, ISO 22000:2005 FSMS Awareness Session, by Bureau Veritas.
 Nestle Uzbekistan, 2008, Nestle Waters Engineering Workshop – 1 week training for Maintenance & Projects.
 Nestle Egypt, 2008, Nestle Global Audit (NGA) Support, 1 month.
 Riyadh, 2009, PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) training course by PROLIFIC.
 Dubai, 2009, Nestle Waters Zone AOA Engineering Workshop – 1 week training for Maintenance & Projects.
 India, 2009, Nestle Zone AOA Factory Engineering College – 1 week training for Maintenance & Projects.
 India, 2009, Nestle Zone AOA AMM Workshop – 1 week training for Asset & Maintenance Management.
 Japan, 2009, TPM Foundation Basics – 1 week training for Total Performance Management by Nestle & JIPM.
 Riyadh, 2010, ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management SystemAwareness Training Course, by Bureau Veritas.
 Riyadh, 2010, PMP & Japanese Kaizen – 1 week training for Projects & Programs Management Process.
 Riyadh 2010, Essentials for Management Soft Skills – 3 days by Nestle France + Contact Consulting UK.
 Dubai 2011, PIC3 (Person In Charge level-3), 3 days by TUV and Dubai Municipality for Quality and Food Safety.
 Dubai 2011, Essentials for Management Soft Skills (Train the Trainer) – 5 days by Nestle France Human Resource
Leadership Management in coordination with “Contact Consulting UK”.
 Dubai 2011, Safety and Environment workshop, 5 days by Nestle Waters France Management and Technology.
 Turkey 2013, Projects Operations & Startup Management, 5 days by Nestle Waters Turkey Project team.
 Dubai 2014, Projects Operations & Startup Management, 5 days by Nestle Group Projects Management Trainers.
 Cairo 2014, ETS Energy Target Setting workshop, 5 days by Nestle Waters Management and Technology Trainers.
 Cairo 2015, SLBB –Safety Leadership Basic Behavior- Champions Training, 3 days’Workshop by ProfessorRonny
Lardner, Chartered Occupational Psychologist.
 Dubai 2015, NCE Foundations Basic Training and Introduction to TPM & LEAN, 4 days by NCE/TPM Manager
of Zone-AOA at Nestle Waters Management and Technology Head Office in Dubai.
 Banha 2015, Crisis Management Workshop in SHE, Security and Food Safety, 1 day by Nestle Regional Security
Manager.
Languages
Affiliations & Membership:
 EEA; Egyptian Engineers Syndicate.
 SCE; Saudi Council of Engineers.
References available upon request
Arabic Native Proficiency
Mother tongue + knowing the slang accent of most of Arabian
countries
English Professional More than 20 years, High Working Proficiency
French Beginner
More than 5 years,Limited working proficiency with excellent
accent, I can retrieve my excellence in only 6 months if needed.
Japanese,Urdu,
Tagalog
Beginner
Less than one year, only by contact,not professionalcourses,but
planning to learn Urdu, Japanese and Spanish professionally.