KENAN DEVECİ

• Provide leadership, technical knowledge and operational experience toward achieving safety performance, costs and operating efficiencies and customer satisfaction
• Enhanced safety standards with implementation of comprehensive safety training initiatives for all employees.
• Create and sustain a working environment within the factory where the engagement of the employees are high (with a recent engagement score of 83%)
• Mentored and developed staff members, promoting professional growth opportunities within the organization.
• Proven leadership for the change management during the implementation of new projects at my Plant such as SAP, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, capacity expansion
• Implemented Stable Operation tools to reduce deviations from the production plan by identifying and resolving process and equipment issues to minimize production downtime (3% decrease in EDT)
• Extensive experience as an active leader at OPEX (Operational Expenditures) planning and management
• Decision maker for the base and non-base Capex (Capital Expenditures) Plan and leads the commisioning / start up phase of the projects
• Extensive experience for building close cooperation between the local and global teams to ensure and improve the exchange of best practices and knowledge
• Active role for performing annual SWOT analysis which contributes to Plant / Business Unit short & long-term strategy
• Built strong relationships with regulatory agencies and ensured compliance with all environmental permits

• Main areas of my responsibility were planning, production execution, stock management of raw materials and final products by ensuring high OTIF value, customer satisfaction, product quality, people safety and operational cost control at factory
• Utilized data analysis tools (Power BI, OSI PI) to identify and resolve production issues
• I maintained an effective cooperation between Technical Service, Quality, Supply Chain and Production Departments aiming to take quick and effective actions for customer complaints
• I was responsible for reaching out best practices from other locations of Cargill and implementing them at my factory
• Active leader during ISO50001 certification of the plant
• Evaluates workforce needs through work force planning process and takes necessary actions (Development Plans, back-up plans, future needs, etc.)
• Follows up Production performance through KPI Score Card process and initiates/controls necessary projects and actions to reach/exceed the targets
• Conducted regular performance reviews with my team , identifying areas for their improvement and implementing developmental plans
• Fostered a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging open communication between my team members and regularly soliciting feedback on operational procedures

• Leading a plant team of 450 employees
• Project Manager for a greenfield project with a capex of 70 M€ in China - new fructose, glucose and powdered dextrose channels
• Base & non-capex preparation and management of the plant
• Accountability for short & long term budget preparation & execution
• Accountability for diversifying the portfolio
• Optimization of the process at the plant in order to increase the yield & efficiency
• Creating the safety culture at the Plant
• Creating the collaboration between the plant in China and Head Quarter in Belgium

• Leading a production team of 40 operators and 1 supervisor
• Accountable & responsible for taking the actions on time to meet/exceed KPI metrics (efficiency, yield, production volume, production compliance, quality, cost)
• Ensures that all quality regulations and certifications (HACCP, GMP, ISO etc..) are understood by refinery team, put in place, verified and followed by corrective and preventive actions
• Follow up on complaints and inspections / audits
• Following the performance of operators in refinery team continuously, improving their performance and skills by implementing yearly Performance Development Plans
• Effective utilization of idea creation system by evaluating new ideas from operators and coaching them during the implementation period

• Leading a production team of 21 operators
• Responsible for keeping capacity utilization of the production channel at maximum
• Managing improvement projects (base-capex) contribute to achieving the optimum yield, chemical & water consumption and energy efficiency
• Organizing all maintenance activities within the production channel
• Leading projects related to capacity expansion, cost reduction & quality improvement in production channel
• Following the best practices from corporate and implementation of the feasible ones at production

• Implemented an effective energy management program throughout the factory targeting to achieve energy KPI's
• Implemented a 'new idea creation' system at factory
• Leading energy efficiency projects (13 MW Gas turbine, flash dryer, heat exchanger configuration, pinch analysis, etc)
• Organize regular trainings for the plant team to increase their awareness for energy efficiency
• Benchmarking of energy consumption figures with other location's consumption in order to figure out the opportunities
• Implemented pinch analysis method which was very useful to find energy reduction opportunities and create new projects at the plant

I

• Leading a shift team of 20 employees
• Managing all plant facilities during shift
• Providing that all the shipments are carried out on time and in full
• Following energy, water and ingredients consumption during shift and taking necessary actions on time to meet/exceed KPIs
• Coordinating all maintenance activities during the shift