Quarry to Dispatch
Scroll to run the line — his core competencies, laid out along the cement production process.
Profile
Worked for different public & private organizations as supporting to meet their strategic objectives & specific needs. I have gained the required knowledge to work competently to apply my gained skills in a challenging & dynamic environment that fosters positive attitudes, a proactive work style, and teamwork with common shared goals.
Joined Chemical Industry Corporation, Mugher Cement Enterprise — then the only cement factory in Ethiopia — as a Maintenance Engineer fresh out of university, and rose through Section, Division and Department head responsibilities to Mugher site cement expansion Project Manager during the establishment of a 3,500 tpd production factory. Worked as a consultant and erection team member at National Cement, and as Procurement & Supply Manager for Chemical Industry Corporation, Mugher. Consultant / erection & installation specialist across lime, plastic, gypsum, steel, and cement industries. Currently Project Manager of Abay Cement for a 5,000 tpd / 2.25 million-tonne cement production project, and led the technical group in the study of Ethiopian Chemical industries under the Public Enterprises Agency.
Also teaches Engineering Design courses to pre-university students — lesson planning, classroom management, peer learning — and served as Ex-President of the Cement Club across all sports fields (football, athletics, basketball, tennis, handball), with committee assignments at the Ethiopian Football & Athletics Federation.
Signature Achievements
Experience History
Reverse-chronological — from current EPC project leadership back to the first role on the plant floor.
Key Competencies
Training, Seminars & Engagement
Trained, benchmarked and visited plants across Europe, China, Brazil, Africa, India and the Gulf — plus consulting on gypsum board, powder and chemical factory start-ups, and the rehabilitation of Diredawa, Messobo and National cement.
- —Total Quality Management — Ethiopian Management Institute
- —TQM & ISO 9000 Implementation course — Quality and Standards Authority of Ethiopia
- —Maintenance Training — Ethiopian Management Institute
- —Different trainings on Rolling Bearing Technology (General) — SKF
- —Cement machinery/technology training from Haver & Boecker, IBAU Hamburg, Venti Oelde, HELMKE, MAGOTTEAUX, RHI Magnesita, Schenck Process, Qlar
- —Manufacturing Planning & Control — Ethiopian Management Institute
- —Integrated Performance Management System — Ethiopian Management Institute
- —Change Management — Ethiopian Management Institute
- —Kaizen, Corporate Governance and Risk Management
- —Executive Project Management — Ethiopian Research & Development Institute
- —Corporate Leadership, Corporate Finance to Non-Financial Leaders, Corporate Governance
- —Industrial product packaging visit & experience sharing — Stockholm, Sweden
- —International maintenance seminar, F.L. Smidth A/S — Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019
- —Bricking solution, Sub-Saharan seminar — South Africa, 2014
- —Technology & Bricking training in Austria, by RHI — 2018
- —Refractory training in Brazil by Magnesita Refractories GmbH — 2017
- —Training on Process Control Equipment, Endress+Hauser — Switzerland, 2015
- —Cement machinery & gear technology experience sharing in Spain, CMD France — 2017
- —Casting Technology training & visit, Fundiciones de Estanda S.A. Anzizar — Beasain, Spain, 2017
- —Industrial safety, fire vehicle & rescue equipment engineering — Porto, Portugal
- —World Trade Fair — Shanghai, China
- —Technology on VRM — LOESCHE Symposium 2017, Düsseldorf, Germany
- —Energy – Innovation – Performance, refractory technology — REFRA-Kolloquium, Berlin, Germany, 2016
- —Training in cement technology, Chengdu Design and Research Institute, China, by SINOMA/CDI Ltd.
- —Technology selection for lime, gypsum powder and board plants in China — 2010 / 2011 / 2015 / 2017
- —Benchmarked cement plants, heavy machineries & refractory facilities across China, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Brazil, Kenya and South Africa
- —Administration Course & FIFA Regulations, 2014 — The FIFA Education Program, Addis Ababa
- —Project handling, review meetings & design approvals with SINOMA, CNBM, FLSmidth, Hengyuan International (HY), ACC, Holtec
- —Visited Libya (Tripoli), Egypt, Tunisia, South Africa etc. for sport-related training and games with the Ethiopian Federation
- —Part of the management group negotiating contract agreements & engineering document approvals — Mugher expansion, coal-firing projects (domestic & abroad), Diredawa cement, and Abay industrial development in cement, iron & MDF
- —Member, National Committee under the National Steering Committee for the study of the Ethiopian chemical industry sector
- —Trained engineers of different disciplines for Abay, Mugher, Diredawa & Messobo Cement Factory on projects, technology & maintenance
- —Techno-commercial committee member, Ethiopian Fertilizer Project by OCP & Chemical Industry Corporation
- —Idea generation with team involvement to establish one of the cement projects in the country
- —Invited to speak: 11th Africa Cement Trade Summit, March 2019, Marrakech, Morocco (not attended due to program overlap)