Ayaz Zafar

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DOB: 02th February 1993
Residential Address: H#11, Block L-1, Sunrise Road, Valencia
Town, Lahore
Phone Number: +923325567323
Email: ayazzafar@live.com

SUMMARY

Mechanical Engineer, Business Graduate & avid book reader with a cumulative experience of 7 years in the industry. I
like to execute tasks meticulously to ensure value addition in every stage and process with leading change
management within the organization using Kotter’s model & strategic resource allocation

WORK EXPERIENCE

✓ Ismail Industries Limited Mar-2022-Present

Deputy Manager - Projects
➢ Execution of 2 Million Euro Nutrition plant (Project of UN – World Food Programme) expansion with
additions
40 Tons of daily production capacity.
➢ Working with production team for design, procurement and installation of HFFS wrapping machine.
➢ Savings achieved of 0.2M PKR by redesigning the lighting layout for office area.
➢ Coordinating with vendors to arrange change parts for Crown and Cloud-9 chocolate.
➢ Designing and comparative study on PET recycling plant for Bottle Grade Chips project following the
Waterfall project management techniques & tools.
➢ Hygiene by design compliance for MORO chocolate line for Mondelez.
➢ Develop feasibility study of a new hard candy production line on Greenfield and Brownfield basis

✓ English Biscuit Manufacturers Jun 2019-Mar 2022

Project Executive
➢ Execution of Master plan with additions of 750 TR refrigeration capacity plant.
➢ Close liaison with production team to facilitate shifting of Steel band Line-7, Imaforani Oven & 1300L Tonelli
Mixer.
➢ Savings in north of 10M by doing market comparison of material rates on Aluminum cladding
➢ Averted nearly 2-month operation loss by rationalizing testing / inspection routines.
➢ Reduced consultancy and project management cost by using figures from PBS published CPI index
➢ On-boarded new vendors in services and suppliers to help reduce capex in around 15M+ PKR
➢ Aggressive follow up of procurement cycle to ensure scheduled PO completion days
➢ Applied Kotter’s change management model to make revamping and improvising project accepted and adopted
by user departments.

✓ Unilever (Walls Ice Cream Factory) Oct 2018-May 2019

Project Engineer
➢ Unilever ice-cream factory capacity expansion project worth € 9MM named "Raftaar".
➢ Execution as per Unilever's SHE 400 standards of brownfield expansion.
➢ Mini-cornetto line assembling with production capacities of 18400 cone per hour of Jupiter 306, and filling
line of 10 lanes and 60 strokes per minute, 1.5 KM freezing line at -40C & 1.5Hrs retention time and packing
line
of 1400 Boxes per hour.
➢ Installation and erection of new Walter's cone baking & Tetra Pak's filling, Gram's freezing and CT Pack's end
of line in shutdown of 1.5 months.
➢ Procurement of electrical and mechanical material as per the new expansion layout.
➢ Certificate of recognition on successful shutdown with zero TRIR

✓ MEP Solutions (PepsiCo Lays/Lotte Kolson/Nishat Emporium) Jun 2015-Sep 2018

Project Engineer
➢ Leading execution at site as per ASME, NFPA, ASHRAE, SMACNA & IPC standards
➢ Coordinating with Thailand & South Korean-based consultation team for approvals and RFIs.
➢ Scheduled shop drawing preparation and approval as per site priority
➢ Coordinate between different functional groups to eliminate wastage.
➢ Received Certificate of Recognition for achievements at PepsiCo projects
 ➢ Conducting daily progress meetings with international clients’ OEM.
➢ Highlighted and resolved potential integration issues between civil, PEB, process equipment, and allied utility
services

ACADEMICS & PROJECTS

✓ Master of Business Administration (Evening) Aug 2019- Feb 2022

Karachi School of Business & Leadership (KSBL)
Accounting Finance & Control: OPEX optimization
➢ Worked in a team of five people to analyze financial reports of Arcelik (Dawlance) and present data using
innovative and intuitive approaches to company.
➢ Applied key knowledge of accounting, finance & control using accounting-based indicators, benchmarking,
relative evaluation & value drivers.
➢ Financial projections were made to estimate the OPEX incurred and savings achieved using GDP forecast.
➢ Build inventory management framework for DPL-1 site using continuous review EOQ model of multiperiod
inventory.

✓ Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering Aug 2011-Jun 2015

National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST)
➢ Lead a team of three people to design & fabricate a laboratory scale model of solar sterling engine.
➢ Key knowledge of fluid mechanics, design of machine elements, basic electrical engineering and CAD
modelling skills were applied to make a functional laboratory scale model of turbine.
➢ Able to generate electricity of 15 watts from lab scale model.

CERTIFICATIONS
✓ TPM Management Course. (PIM)
✓ Lube Oil Analysis (Magpier)
✓ Bearing RCDA (Schaeffler FAG)
✓ Firestopping Basics (STI Technologies)
✓ FIT Level 1 Training (Firestop University)
✓ Welding QA/QC (TWI)
✓ Scaffolding Training (Bureau Veritas)
✓ Project Management Techniques (LinkedIn Learning)
✓ Food Factory Design (MUG)
✓ Major Engineering Project Performance (Coursera)

PROFESSIONAL & TECHNICAL SKILLS

✓ Total productive maintenance (TPM)
✓ Occupational health & safety
✓ Proficient in AutoCAD, MS Office, PowerBI

HONOURS & ACHIEVEMENTS

✓ Certification of Appreciation for successful completion of “RAFTAAR” project with zero TRIR (Unilever)
✓ Certificate of Recognition for identifying and resolving design issues in snacks plant project (PepsiCo)
✓ Merit scholarship for academic performance (NUST)
✓ Got 1st position in green building competition. (NUST)

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

✓ Organized DHANAK (Awareness Program for Special Children) by ECSS-PNEC.
✓ Served as Secretary (Communication) for ASHRAE.
✓ Environmental and sustainability committee member in KSBL

LANGUAGES
✓ English (Proficient), Urdu (Native)