A. Neslihan Sismanoglu
Antalya,Türkiye
Summary
Results-oriented professional with a strong foundation in quality management, supply chain, and production processes. Adapts to evolving challenges through effective cross-functional collaboration and strategic planning. Committed to fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence across all organisational levels.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Operational Excellence Director & HSE Representative & Administration Representative
Fresenius Medical Care
Antalya
02.2020 - 02.2026
- Implementing continues improvement tools, companies pursuing operational excellence adopt a mindset of problem solving, teamwork, and top-line growth, allowing them to create more value for customers.
- Process improvement
- Defining diagnostic waste and losses with financial metrics and create project pools
- Implementing lean six sigma tools
- Organizing six sigma projects with DMAIC method
- Lead black belt projects and create EBIT Hard saving, cost avoidance
- Planning Kaizen, Continues Improvement Workshop
- Implementing lean tools
- Organizing idea management, employee involvement
- Spread 5S Culture, TPM
- Train team members about problem solving tools and create continues improvement culture
- Design future-state value streams and prepare actual value stream map for improvements
- Organizing Gemba walks
- Creating structure and lead for Daily Shop Floor Meeting
- Standardize process and monitor the improvement, Visual Factory Management
- Initiate excellence adopt a mindset of problem solving, teamwork, and top-line growth, allowing them to create more value for customers.
- Coordinate Continues Improvement Activities
- Keeping Standards for OEE & OLE
- Idea Management & Kaizen Activities
- Keeping Learning Organization
- Representative of Health, Safety and Environment
- Representative of Administration
- Improvement of All Administration Activities Company Shuttle Service, Catering, Standardize, Improve and Sustain Employee Workplace Condition, General Service
- Responsible for The Occupational Health and Safety Developing, implementing, and overseeing workplace safety programs to ensure a healthy, safe, and compliant work environment for all employees; identifies potential hazards, conducts safety improvements
- Create systematic approach understanding and mitigating the environmental impacts of business activities.
- Manages and directs the daily activities of the environmental health programs through appropriate managerial support, and work supervision; directs the regulation of water programs, land use, solid and hazardous waste, environment for sustainability
- Managing Lean & Green Program
- Environmental Permit Program
- Coordination of Sustainability Program
Production Director & Supply Chain Responsible
Fresenius Medical Care
Antalya
01.2005 - 02.2020
- Establishment and management of all processes such as planning, production, quality control, technical maintenance and shipment in production from the beginning of installation of the factory.
- Coordinates operational strategies and activities to ensure the provision of superior quality while adhering to regulatory and company guidelines and requirements ensuring efficiency and economy.
- Leads to meet key performance indicator (KPI's) of plant.
- Leads the development of area strategic plans, goals and objectives ensuring alignment with those of the region, division and company. Implements, disseminates and administers operations strategies and objectives to ensure the achievement of the division's and company's goals and objectives.
- Implements facility, program and area specific quality goals and action plans in order to achieve company quality standards.
- Experienced professional with a full understanding of strategic procurement; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways.
- In coordination with Plant and Global cross-functional staff, develops, leads, and executes supply strategies including qualification of alternative materials or sources.
- Ensures financial and quality objectives/requirements are clearly identified and met.
- Leads complex R&D projects across all phases: concept, planning of project, project execution and transfer in production
- Collaborating across all the functional areas (R&D, Marketing, Regulatory, Operations and others) necessary to insure successful project completion and delivery
- Creating, optimizing, and driving structured schedules and project plans. Setting and meeting deadlines with quality deliverables, effectively adapting and modifying plans based on changing conditions or data.
- Lead all process of assembly and automation
- Process managements of PVC, polycarbonate, ABS, styroflex
- Leading process of planning, manufacturing, quality control inspection, calibration and maintenance
- Preparation of URS for automation machines, planning of Debug, FAT, SAT
- After installation of production machinery, validation and activation of manufacturing process in this new installed plant
- Established project management methodologies
- Developing professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to create and maintain detailed project plans and schedules, capturing project tasks and deliverables across multiple project phases.
- Periodically and effectively tracks against plan and readjusts as necessary.
- Ensures that cross-functional resources are assigned and held accountable for task completion and outcome.
- Assigns responsibility and manages deliverables of core and project level to cross functional team members; interacts with line managers.
- Giving direction to production department employees, planning the manufacturing process, operating the ERP system, ensuring coordination and control in the production area
- Responsible of managing for 3 automation machines and 8 assembly conveyors, around 1.200 employees for three shifts
Head of Quality Management System (QA&QC) & Management Representative
Fresenius Medical Care
Antalya
08.2000 - 01.2005
- Managing quality assurance and quality control departments
- Management Representative
- Responsible final release of final finished product
- Establishment all CE Marking, ISO 13485, ISO 9001 EN norms
- Installation, validation and activation of all quality control laboratories (Technological QC Lab., Microbiological QC lab., Chemical QC lab.)
- Responsible to release all validation for Cleanroom (ISO 14644), EtO Sterilization process (EN 550), all test methods, process methods
- Responsible supplier audit, supplier approval and supplier compliant management
- Responsible to create quality assurance contact for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)
- Calculation of supplier score cards and definition limits for supplier KPI's
- Create and sustain good quality documentation system
- Organization for Non-Conformities, Corrective and Preventive Actions also for SCAR (Supplier Corrective Action Request)
- Corporate lead auditor
- Responsible all quality assurance and quality control team
Research and Development (R&D) Engineer
Atac International Spinning Production Plant
Antalya
08.1998 - 08.2000
- Coordinate the efforts of scientific trial new products to improve performance of products
- Develop products and market researchers towards the creation of new products
- Improve of current products or other research activities, including scientific research.
- Manage and plan research and development activities of an organization, specify goals and budget requirements and manage the staff.
- Implement production assessment for new designs
Production Engineer
Atac International Spinning Production Plant
Antalya
06.1997 - 08.1998
- Coordinate, plan and direct manufacturing and production processes of spinning machines and weaving looms
- Responsible for reviewing production schedules
- Line balancing
- Coordination of process flow
- Responsible of managing for, around 900 employees for three shifts
- Responsible IPC, quality standards
- Responsible for OEE
Education
Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt -
More Steam University
Ohio, United States10.2023
Certified Lean Training -
Die Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany10.2012
Master of Science - Chemistry (M.Sc.) -
Mediterranean University
Antalya, Turkey09.2005
Master of Business Administration (MBA) -
Mediterranean University
Antalya, Turkey09.2001
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) -
Aegan University
Izmir, Turkey06.1997
Skills
- Minitab
- SAP P11
- SAP P12
- SAP P25
- IBM Statistical package for Sciences (SPSS)
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Power BI
Certification
- Black Belt (Six Sigma)
- Corporate Auditor
- Certified Occupational Health and Safety A Class
Custom Section
B
Volunteer Experience
- Supporting Projects and Financial Found Raising for the Installation of Y.K. Perge School-2007
- Organization Camp for Youth with Disabilities-2010
- Breast Cancer Awareness-2012
- Initiation Library for Primary School-2014
- Installation of Music Room for Children Diagnosed with Down Syndrome School-2015
- Initiation Garden for Kids on the Autism Spectrum School-2016
- Supporting Athletes with Physical Disabilities Involving Limb Loss-2016
- Renovation of Perge Antique Theatre Ruins Historical Monuments-2016
- Training for Robotics Coding for Kids-2017
- Runatolia 10 km Marathon-Full Scholarship For 5 Girls Annual Education-2018
- Supplying Air Ventilation Machine for Covid-19 Pandemic-2019
- Runatolia 10 km Marathon-Full Scholarship For 7 Girls Annual Education-2019
- Runatolia 10 km Marathon-16 Walking Stick Called As We Walk For Visually Impaired Teenagers-2020
- Runatolia 10 km Marathon-6 Wheel Chairs For Kids with Spina Bifida-2021
- Organization of Leadership Academy for Youth with Disabilities-2022
- Runatolia 10 km Marathon-Vaccination Support For Kids with Spina Bifida-2024
- Podiatric assessment and support for children with orthopedic impairments-2025
Projects
Lean Six Sigma Projects: Details can be provided, Black Belt Projects, Scrap Reduction for 6008 Cassette(560 K EUR, EBIT Saving & Process Improvement): Project Leader, Green Belt Projects, Heparin Line Automation Gluing Efficiency Project with Taguchi DoE Project Leader, Definition of Prester Specification for 6008 Cassette to Reduce Release Time: Project Coach, Assembly Personnel Qualification Improvement Project: Project Coach, Multifiltrate Cassette Production Qty Improvement: Project Coach, Blister Machine Downtime Reduction: Project Coach, White Belt Projects: Details can be provided, 6008 GO LIVE CORE TEAM (CFT Member for Red Dot Award) and Production Leader in Antalya Plant (2016-2020), 6008 L Production (CFT Member) (2018-2020), 6008 Paediatric Production (CFT Member) (2018-2020), 6008 Production (CFT Member) (2016-2020), Multifiltrate Cassette Production (2016-2018), Multifiltrate Cassette Paediatric Projects (2016-2018), Transformation Projects for Production (from PGN to Antalya) (Project Leader) (2016-2018), Design Transfer Projects to ANT Plant (Project Leader) (2005-2019), Design Transfer of Genius from Belarus to Ant Plant (Project Leader) (2006-2010), Design Transfer of Enteral to Ant Plant (Project Leader) (2006-2010), 4008 Tubing System GO LIVE, 5008 Tubing System GO LIVE, Genius Tubing System GO LIVE, Enteral Tubing System GO LIVE, 6008 Production GO LIVE, Multifiltrate Cassette Production GO LIVE, Pediatric Bloodline Production GO LIVE, Transformation Projects for Production (from PGN to Antalya), Design Transfer Project to Ant Plant, P720 Projects, Heparin Line Automation Installation Production Team Leader in Ant Plant, Infusion Line Automation Installation Production Team Leader in Ant Plant, Installation of 8 Assembly Conveyors, SAP GO LIVE, SAP P11, SAP P12, SAP P25, Reload It GO LIVE, SAP GO LIVE, Certification for ISO 9001 and ISO 13485, Quality Control Laboratory Initiation, EtO Sterilization Initiation (EN 550), CE Certification of Novamed, Assurance of Cleanroom according to ISO 14644, Initiation of Double Deck Shipment, Good Packaging Projects, P720 Projects, Starting 5008 Bloodline Assembly at Fresenius VRC Team-Serbia: Year 2006, Reynosa GEN II Benchmark Project-North America: Year 2013 & Year 2017, P720 Project at Fresenius VRC Team-Serbia Year 2013, Changshu Special Task for Assembly-China: Year 2014, Reynosa 5008X Quality Leakage Improvement Project: Year 2025, Mentor Program in Fresenius Global Manufacturing Quality System (Completed), Mentee by VP Quality from England, Mentor - QC Team in Changsu Plant, 2002 EtO Sterilisation (Team Member as Quality Representative), 2017 Antalya Plant Class 8 Cleanroom (Team Member as Production Representative)
Training
- Six Sigma Conference, 2023-11-02 to 2023-11-04, Belek / Antalya, Panelist - Lean Six Sigma- Continuous Improvement Practices Health Sector & Lean Six Sigma A. Neslihan Kilincel Sismanoglu, OPEX Director, Novamed Fresenius Antalya Plant, https://spac.com.tr/_konferanslar/lss8/programen.html
- Public Image Seminar, 2019-09-10 to 2019-09-11, Baku, Azerbaijan, Panelist - Public Image Seminar- Continuous Improvement Practices A. Neslihan Kilincel Sismanoglu
Languages
English
Advanced
C1
German
Beginner
A1
Italian
Beginner
A1
Timeline
Operational Excellence Director & HSE Representative & Administration Representative
Fresenius Medical Care
02.2020 - 02.2026
Production Director & Supply Chain Responsible
Fresenius Medical Care
01.2005 - 02.2020
Head of Quality Management System (QA&QC) & Management Representative
Fresenius Medical Care
08.2000 - 01.2005
Research and Development (R&D) Engineer
Atac International Spinning Production Plant
08.1998 - 08.2000
Production Engineer
Atac International Spinning Production Plant
06.1997 - 08.1998
Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt -
More Steam University
Certified Lean Training -
Die Technische Universität Darmstadt
Master of Science - Chemistry (M.Sc.) -
Mediterranean University
Master of Business Administration (MBA) -
Mediterranean University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) -
Aegan University