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Richard Gatare

Production Supervisor. Energetic. Passionate about Technology.

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Kigali, Rwanda
Packaging Team Leader at Heineken Rwanda (BRALIRWA)
Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
Joined March 17, 2021

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English
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Fluent
French
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Intermediate
Kinyarwanda
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Native or Bilingual
About
Mechanical Engineer with leadership skills in a production environment. Possess skills in manufacturing Occupational Safety and Health. Heineken certified Machine Safety Specialist. Knowledgeable in Total Productive Management. Loss deployments and reduction. Microsoft Office skills
Experience
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Heineken Rwanda (BRALIRWA)
Sep 2019 – Present
Kigali, Rwanda
Packaging Team Leader
Linking Packaging Autonomous Maintenance Pillar with the Progressive Quality Pillar by following up on Root Cause Failure Analyses and making sure that they are completed correctly. Supervision of a production and utilities team and ensuring that the safety, quality and performance standards are abided with while aiming for a good performance. Implementing safety and food safety standards. Monitoring the 5S, housekeeping, HACCP and order on the production line. Ensuring a sustainable production environment. Seeking information and improvement opportunities and making sure that quality improvement activities within area of responsibility are executed. Looking for potential solutions to any deviations from packaging process standards and making effective communication to higher level. Evaluating effectiveness of AM activities and identifying improvement opportunities and cooperating with the PM Pillar. Developing training materials and train and coach the people. Capturing and evaluating performance data and proposing improvement actions. Developing plans and managing resources to drive improvements in the department and process performance. Ensuring cost-efficient execution of the activities necessary to meet the output requirements by setting priorities. Supporting the budgeting process. Cooperating closely with suppliers. Managing projects OTIF in the department.
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Heineken Rwanda (BRALIRWA)
Nov 2015 – Aug 2019
Gisenyi, Rwanda
Senior Packaging Operator
Representing the packaging department in the Brewery Safety Pillar and working as a machine safety specialist. Being in charge of the Mean Time Between Assist/Touch (MTBA/T) tool data collection, analysis and reporting in the packaging department. Taking part in the Daily Control System (DCS) level 2 meeting where actions are taken to solve problems and prevent them from reoccurring. Participate in the making of and ensure that Root Cause Failure Analyses (RCFAs) are carried out in the right way. This is followed by taking part in deep analyses in order to complete the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) loop. Working as the lead operator by operating the critical packaging machines. Ensuring that fellow operators carry out thorough root-cause failure analyses and reporting. Being in charge of tag management in the packaging department and following up on maintenance to make sure all planned and corrective activities are carried out. Packaging operators place tags and solve some of them, and require help from the preventive maintenance department for the rest.
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