I am a chemical engineer, with 15 years experience in industry and manufacturing processes especially in tissue paper industry both paper mills and converting plants in a well-known leading groups in this industry . I started my career in quality control aspect implementing all quality tools, managing quality teams in day to day business, moving up to lead the quality assurance activities, as a certified lead auditor for ISO 9001, 14001 OHSAS 18001 and the management representative for all those systems in addition to ISO 50001, Group standard manual (GSM), FSC (Forest Stewardship council), Food contact certification.

As business and operations excellence manager , I was the champion and change agent to lead the improvement of processes in operations and on business level, I oversaw the process related to strategy formulation including environmental scanning , balance score cards process and KPI settings, risk management and so on.

As a six sigma green built certified, I lead the six-sigma teams to enhance and implement six-sigma methodology in the organization. Equipped with both experiences of management systems leadership and lean manufacturing six-sigma tools, I gain the enablers to continuously improve our processes to good level of satisfactory.

During this journey, I mastered other skills including the management of health and safety hazard identification and risk assessment, environmental aspects evaluation and control, Energy review related to energy uses, 5 S implementation, root cause analysis, customer complaints investigation and management.

I work well with teams, and as a leader and supervisor for production and quality.

I hope I can share with you my knowledge and experience as much as i can.

Elias Soussi