Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Riding Horse,Travelling,Cooking
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Erkan Bayraktar

Erkan Bayraktar

Project Engagement Manager
Istanbul

Summary

Results and quality driven, highly motivated and business oriented senior level Project Management professional with 10 +years of considerable experience. Proven record of planning and coordinating project management strategies that has achieved budgeted profitability, quality standards and corporate goals with strong financial acumen.
Demonstrates "hands on" experience in the design, development and project management of Transformation Office Initiatives , new manufacturing, production lines and a good understanding of commercial programme management development.
Pro-active growth mindset in application of self and team leadership. Highly talented in in building team culture with focus on both team and individual.
Excellent skills in stakeholder management with a thorough business and industry understanding. Ability to set directions and strategy, manage business planning, analysis and business complexity. Delivers exceptional results through strategic thinking, innovative problem-solving and working as a leading team member.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Project Engagement Manager(Europe)

CHEP
06.2023 - Current

-Work with the Steering Team to establish and obtain consensus on programme goals, objectives and deliverables. Work with business stakeholders to prioritize requirements.

-Working with Financial Teams for the definition of Project Business Case and Financial Validations.

-Development plans for initiatives in scope, schedule, cost, communication , quality ,resource, risk, procurement and stakeholder managements.

-Develop measures and controls to help ensure successful implementation of initiatives.

-Drive Workstream Leads, Initiative Owners and Milestone Owners adherence to EU Transformation standards and drive quality plans.

-Drive risk/issues management and Lessons Learned workshops to help Identify and manage actions.

-Collaborate with large programs to assist in governance, training and standards and to understand impacts across the rest of the portfolio.

-SME in Change Management -Assisting Project Managers in Change Management Implementation.

-Support Coaching the Transformation team on behaviors, engagement styles, and techniques to support their growth.

-Working in a European business / matrix environment


Strategic Project Manager

CHEP
06.2022 - 06.2023

-Providing leadership to local Country Leadership Team for achieving business goals through successful project implementation with regular progress updates.

-Developing the project strategy, supporting business case and high-level project plans.

-Managing multiple complex cross-functional projects or groups with significant risk and business impact.

-Managing project team, project scope, resources, project reporting, conduct team meetings, and proactively remove obstacles daily and communicate changes to the stakeholders and team members.

-Assessing the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect projects and gain agreement for resolution.

-Lead specific Programmes to be able to cover deep dives, support governance and in the very detail of these programs support in creating initiative plans, including delivered value, planned goals, objectives.

-Develop and execute training and development plans for effective skills in planning, scoping, risk, issue & dependency management and more as needed.

-Develop measures and controls to help ensure successful implementation of initiatives.

-Develop and maintain strong relationships with each initiative owner unit to meet the initiative objectives.

-Support Coaching the Transformation team on behaviors, engagement styles, and techniques to support their growth.


EMEA Senior Project Engineer

Corning
03.2018 - 05.2022

-Developing an overall project plan that includes: scope, objectives, charter, timeline and milestones, risk assessment, financial projections / budget.

-Being responsible for identification of project resources necessary to complete the project tasks and coordinating the project teams efforts towards successfully achieving overall project objectives.

-Managing project deliverables, schedule, budget and quality to the approved project scope.

-Utilizing Corning’s Capital Management System (Capricorn) for project scope development and project execution.

-Managing project engineers and technicians plus matrixed project team members Interacting with leadership and peers to determine project objectives.

-Actively managing the project progress and risks in order to proactively mitigate critical barriers and deliver projects on time.

-Initiating and executing CAPEX optimization and CAPEX Management for initial investments.

Total Productive Maintenance Engineer

Corning
02.2017 - 03.2018

-Leadership and deployment of TPM Pillars in Corning Gebze Plant(Autonomous Maintenance, Planned Maintenance, Equipment Improvement, Leadership& Culture, CMMS, Early Equipment Management, Maintenance Performance)

-Leadership of Cost reduction, Quality, Production Projects (OEE Improvements, Green Belt Six Sigma ,Six Big Losses Analysis.

-Developing, designing and Implementing the TPM strategy for the plant.


Project &Maintenance Engineer

Kordsa
05.2012 - 02.2017

-Leading Maintenance activities(Planned &Unplanned Downtimes) and traceability of maintenance metrics(MTTR&MTBF).

-Leadership of Maintenance and Project Workshops.

-Leadership of Energy Saving and Cost Reduction Projects in maintenance perspective.

-Capex Management.

Marine Mechanical Engineer

YASA Shipping
03.2009 - 01.2012

-Responsible for marine equipments preventive&predictive maintenance (diesel engine/auxiliaries)

Education

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Sabanci University
Istanbul, Turkey
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Yildiz Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey
04.2001 -

Skills

-Waterfall Project Management

-Agile Project Management

-PMP

-Prince2 Practitioner

-PMI ACP

-Change Management

-Business Case

-Lean Management

-Continuous Improvement

-CAPEX&OPEX Management

-Safety Management

-Business Transformation

-Leadership&Team Management

Certification

PMP

Riding Horse,Travelling,Cooking

Interested in Riding Horse and trying to do this activity regularly .

Trying to improve cooking skills 

Like travelling all over the world ,different cultures and experiences.

Timeline

PMI-ACP

04-2027

PMP

03-2027

Prince2 Practitioner

04-2025

Project Engagement Manager(Europe)

CHEP
06.2023 - Current

Strategic Project Manager

CHEP
06.2022 - 06.2023

EMEA Senior Project Engineer

Corning
03.2018 - 05.2022

Total Productive Maintenance Engineer

Corning
02.2017 - 03.2018

Project &Maintenance Engineer

Kordsa
05.2012 - 02.2017

Marine Mechanical Engineer

YASA Shipping
03.2009 - 01.2012

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Sabanci University
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Yildiz Technical University
04.2001 -
Erkan BayraktarProject Engagement Manager