Summary
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Work history
Computer Experience
Accomplishments
Education
Hobbies and Interest
References
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Güven Karakaş

Güven Karakaş

Eskişehir,Turkey

Summary

Experienced Production Manager leading and delivering large-scale manufacturing projects within cost, quality, efficiency, lean and timeframe targets to achieve organizational objectives and desired profitability while ensuring compliance with company standards. Engages balanced, optimized teams and stakeholders with activity, motivation, safe to increase efficiency and performance through successful policy planning and implementation. Flexible, calm, organized, team oriented, and proactive under pressure, providing responsive production line leadership

Skills

  • Manufacturing leadership
  • Vast HVAC knowledge
  • Chemical processing expertise
  • Flexible
  • Continuous improvement
  • Lean Six Sigma
  • Performance evaluation
  • Production scheduling
  • Process standardization
  • Lean manufacturing
  • MTM
  • Product Quality and risk assessment
  • Surface pretreatment against corrosion
  • Primer cathodic coating
  • Product inspections
  • Quality problems of painting
  • Maintenance planning TPM
  • Waste water treatment

Work history

Head of Production

Demirdöküm A.Ş.- Vaillant Group GmbH
Bilecik, Turkey
04.2015 - 07.2024
  • Directed and motivated 8 (white collar), 350 (Blue collar) production staff for steel panel radiator and small parts (used for boilers, heaters) production plants under 42.000 m² closed area.
  • Enforced health and safety requirements for worker protection, keeping accidents and company liability at minimum. (Number of accidents have been reduced to zero in 2023 from 15 in 2022)
  • Set clear budget targets and established successful controls to control operational and capital expenditures. (~7 million Euros in total)
  • Kept up to date with digital transformation of industrial processes to improve manufacturing operations. (New routing structure have been prepared for around 27.000 SKU codes in SAP with their time studies for the project of central production and material planning)
  • Reviewed production issues, orders, schedules, priorities, sequences, material availability and implemented flexible corrective action plans, enhancing operational efficiency. Established plans governing production policies, daily operations and long-term planning. (Tact time of panel radiator plant: 9 sec. with an annual capacity of 2,5 million pcs. Tact time of parts production plant: 11 sec. with an annual capacity of 1.800.000 pcs.)
  • Executed strategies aligned with business objectives (such as production plan attainment, overall equipment efficiency, line reject rate, efficiency, first pass yield rate) and provided employees with direction and focus with daily shopfloor meetings.
  • Coached employees in developing and achieving individual performance goals with setting annual targets and reviewing at least 1 time a year.
  • Researched and implemented innovative processes to decrease costs and improve product quality and efficiency. (e.g. 15 % technical scrap reduction with the usage of coil form of copper tubes)
  • Coordinated maintenance processes to keep equipment operating correctly and maximize overall equipment efficiency to universal standard.
  • Oversaw plant operational structures, optimized logistics and workflows to meet demands. Digital kanban system started in 2024 in between of part production plant and wall hang boiler plant.

Production Manager

Demirdöküm A.Ş.- Vaillant Group GmbH
Bilecik, Turkey
01.2012 - 04.2015
  • Directed and motivated 5 (white collar), 270 (Blue collar) production staff for steel panel radiator production plant under 32.000 m² closed area.
  • Reviewed production issues and implemented corrective action plans, enhancing operational efficiency.
  • Implemented staff training and development to improve team expertise and performance.
  • Coordinated and controlled all production processes, ensuring products were delivered on time and within budget.
  • Improved efficiency and productivity by eliminating waste and production constraints.
  • Held team meetings to discuss product value and vision while allowing team members to give ideas and suggestions.
  • Led recruitment of manufacturing staff members, overseeing selection, training and performance new employees.
  • Negotiated rates with suppliers and managed relations to maintain adequate levels of quality supplies.
  • ·Collated and assessed data to reduce resource wastage and redundant operations.

Quality Represent - Paint shop Process Engineer

Demirdöküm A.Ş. – Panel A.Ş. - Koç Group
Bilecik, Turkey
06.1997 - 01.2012
  • · Worked as a quality represent for ISO - OHS standards, CE Mark and kite mark licenses BSI, NF, DIN, RAL for Panel A.S. Company
  • · Dealt with customer complaints and service issues. Maintained documents, records and updated staff on changes to quality documents for continued compliance and standardization.
  • Oversaw panel radiator and towel warmer assembly work, directing activities from initial set up to final product packaging.
  • Maintained clean, organized working areas to create, productive environments with minimal risk to reduce and eliminate accidents, near misses.
  • Identified operational problems and proposed solutions to management.
  • Tracked employee performance, assessed daily team and shift output and implemented corrective actions to close gaps and remove barriers.
  • Coordinated and monitored wastewater treatment unit and paint shop activities as surface pretreatment, electro deposit coating, powder coating and their curing processes.
  • Coordinated mechanical maintenance of wastewater treatment unit and paint shop equipment such as power and conveyor system with 18.000 meters in length in 10.000 m², pumps, burners, heat exchangers, rectifiers, cathodic ion selective cells, ultrafiltration, powder coating reciprocators, booths, powder paint management centers including their spare parts
  • Coordinated raw material consumption of paint shop and wastewater treatment operations and performed saving projects

Computer Experience

MS Office
Advanced
MS Excel
Advanced
SAP PO Modules
Advanced
Minitab
Upper intermediate

Accomplishments

  • Best practice project awards about safe environment, efficiency, cost reduction (awarded 5 times in Vaillant Groupwise plants (2025-2022)
  • Startup of complete towel radiator production plant in China (2004 in Chung Mei, 2008 in Wuxi)
  • Disassembly and machine transfer of complete panel radiator production plant from Germany and start up with optimized layout in Turkey (2006 in Neunkirchen, 2007 in Bozüyük)
  • İstanbul Industrial Chamber Environmental award (improvements of wastewater treatment units of Demirdöküm Company)
  • Cost reduction of powder paint usage (with the method of 6 Sigma) (%55 decrease within 5 different projects)

Education

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering

Middle East Technical University
09.1989 - 05.1994

Hobbies and Interest

Reef marine aquarium

References

References available upon request.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

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