Mark Knofler

Mobile: 0433493932 49 Railway St, CARLTON, NSW 2218 Email: knofler91@hotmail.com

Career Overview :

Mechanical Engineer with a Master of Science in Mechanical and Manufacturing from UNSW. Five years’
track records include manufacturing requirement planning, production scheduling, process improvement,
incorporating lean philosophy, facilitation of continuous improvement in fast manufacturing environment.
Key role in successfully passing Quality Certification audit of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 through preparing,
installing and training personnel on ISO procedures.

Technical Skills

 Ability to prepare DMAIC proposal for process improvement showing financial benefit and
capital expenditure
 Understand process, identify waste and improve efficiency through applying Lean
manufacturing philosophy in system
 Experience in structured problem solving methodologies such as Process Mapping, root cause
analysis, 80/20, 5W1H
 Interprets and scopes overall project requirements including necessary individual equipment
and system components.
 Ability to prepare quality assurance documents for ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
 Excellent IT skills with Excel, Access and Visio.

Transferrable Skills

 Motivated, pro-active and energetic, thorough and organized in works

 Written skill demonstrate logical consequence, purpose, importance and audience requirement
 Verbally communicate clearly with cross functional teams in sharing and implementing ideas.

Selected Achievements

 Worked in a team that successfully passed ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification.
 Completed Masters degree with distinction from the University of New South Wales
 Team member for various process improvement projects.
 Engineering economic decision analysis for procuring weaving machines

Work History

Operations support engineer April/2008 – Present

Gemjute Ltd, Bangladesh ( A US$12 million jute product manufacturing company )

 Ensuring appropriate information and resource is available to manufacturing facilities and

procurement department and follow up till on time delivery (DIFOT).
 Identifying opportunity to increase efficiency, reduce cost and improve quality through value chain
analysis in regards of man, machine, material.
 Reducing customer complaints by analyzing quality reports, identifying source of defects, designing
and implementing process improvements using tools like process flow chart, cause-effect diagram,
80/20 rules.
 Identifying improvement obstacles, prepare DMAIC proposals, thinking innovative solution and thus
work towards continuous improvement.
 Impart training for line managers, machine operators and outside contractors

Major Achievements:

 Building an environment of total quality management with in 6 months by training line managers and
supervisors the 7 waste, 5S, TQM philosophy and encouraging them to apply in field. I have
collected around 350 suggestions from all level of which 6 were selected to be cost savings.
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 Reducing wastage by 1% and at the same time eliminating a certain fabric fault by 90% through
identifying the source of defects, improving process and training operators.
 Reducing the overall expenditure by 3% by reorganizing the orgonogram, process improvements
and rearranging process routing .
 Worked with SAP team to prepare bills of materials, man-hour, machine-hour for each product
which was going to be in full operation in three months.

Planning Engineer April/2004 – March 2008

Bengal Denim Ltd, Bangladesh (Leading Denim Textile mill of US$52 million project)

 Leading a team of 4 to prepare production schedule for day to day operations.

 Monitoring and reporting production status and informing marketing to quote earliest delivery time.
 Advising production personnel regarding quality change, raw material report, customer requests.
 Maintaining liaison with suppliers to confirm raw materials’ delivery.
 Identification of waste centers and formulate minimization procedures.

Major Achievements:

 Optimizing production planning and reducing on time delivery failure by 80% through designing and
developing excel based production planning program.
 Increase accountability and reduce wastage by 8%, installing excel based input-output report for
each stage of production.
 As a member of MR team, successfully passed the Quality Certification audit of ISO 9001 and ISO
14001 through preparing, installing and training people on ISO procedures.
 From process mapping, reorganize the orgonogram and complete the training program that enables
the head operators to do minor maintenance and supervise production which in turn reduces
machine down time, improve productivity and allow more ownership.
 Applying Engineering Economic decision, helped management to understand that a Swiss made
looms cost 1.5 times more than Chinese made looms but when considering life cycle, the Swiss
made give more economic value. And management bought 10 Sulzer HP 7300 looms.

Shift Engineer Jan/2002 – Dec/2002

United Summit Power Plant, Bangladesh (Top indigenous private energy generating company)

 Monitor and control electricity generation according to client’s demand.

 Prepare maintenance schedule for Caterpillar Gas generators, auxiliary pumps, compressors.
 Prepare logbooks, maintenance report and generation report to assist Plant Manager.
 Assist the mechanical team in schedule maintenance and in breakdown maintenance.

Specialized Training:

 Operation of Gas turbine Power Plant organized by Power Development Board, Bangladesh
4 weeks Practical training at a government owned 20Mw Barisal Gas Turbine Power Plant.
 Occupational Health and Safety Training organized by Bangladesh Employees’ Federation
3 days training workshop “ Workplace Safety”
 Training workshop on ISO 9001 and 14001.
Education:
Master of Science – Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
University of New South Wales, Feb/2003 – Dec/2003
New South Wales, Australia
Major: Industrial Management Track
Major Course: Production Planning and Control, TQM, Concurrent Product and Process Design
Bachelor of Science – Mechanical Engineering (August 2001)
Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology
Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Reference: Reference will be provided upon request.