Amine Chafai
Erlangen
Summary
Experienced leader with a strong background in IT/OT and business processes within LPT and MPT factories, adept at guiding distributed teams and managing complex global projects. Proven ability to achieve strategic objectives and drive digital solutions within factory environment through effective leadership and collaboration.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Global Business Template Owner MES@SE
Siemens Energy
11.2024 - Current
- Building and leading the global MES template team with members across Germany, Austria, Romania, and Brazil
- Providing technical guidance, instruction, and support
- Monitoring template development and ensuring that plants requirements are fulfilled
- Point of contact towards SAP, responsible for negotiating the establishment of SE requirements as standard functions within SAP DM (MES)
Head of Planning Large Power Transfomer Europe
Siemens Energy
10.2022 - 12.2024
- Managing factory loading and planning for LPT cluster
- Leading planning teams in Weiz, Zagreb, and Nuremberg
- Overseeing planning of offers and orders and factory loading
- Defining, tracking, and reporting on planning KPIs to cluster management
- Establishing a data-driven planning approach utilizing SAP, Snowflake, Alteryx, and Tableau to enhance decision-making
- Optimizing factory loading through the implementation of long-term planning strategies oriented on bottleneck resources and portfolio mix
Digital Transformation Manager - PT Segment
Siemens Energy
12.2020 - 10.2022
- Leading, planning and budgeting segment-wide IT projects
- Developing PT digitalization roadmap
- Managing cross-functional teams to develop and execute IT-projects
- Establishing Snowflake as centralized data warehouse for each plant, enhancing data accessibility and analytics capabilities using Alteryx, and Tableau
- Leading the implemention of connected factory IIOT platform within PT, driving machine connectivity and real-time data integration
- Building a DTO Community to foster best practice sharing and collaboration across the segment
IT Project Manager - PT Plant Nuremberg
Siemens Energy
09.2016 - 12.2020
- Leading the implementation of multiple applications (advanced planning tool, shift planning, UiPath, QlikSence, e.g.)
- Acting as the primary point of contact between business and IT, ensuring alignment on IT project goals and requirements
- Leading the implementation of multiple applications (advanced planning tool, shift planning, shopfloor managment, UiPath, QlikSence, Machine connectivity for IOT use cases e.g.)
- Leading the optimization of SAP Project System (PS) and Production Planning (PP) modules, and PLM (Agile CADIM) to support and enhance business processes
Education
Bachelor of Science - International Information Systems Management
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Bamberg, Germany06-2016
Skills
- In-depth knowledge of business processes and IT/OT within PT factories
- Strong communication skills and proven proficiency in stakeholder management and collaboration
- Effective leadership and team development
- Experienced in driving digital transformation in shopfloor environment
Languages
German - native speaker
English - fluent
Arabic - native speaker
French - advanced
IT skills
- SAP PS, PP, SD
- SAP DM (MES)
- OpCenter/ Preactor APS
- Tableau, Power BI, QlikSence
- Alteryx
- Snowflake
- AWS / IIOT connected factory
- Agile CADIM
- LPT PPS
Timeline
Global Business Template Owner MES@SE
Siemens Energy
11.2024 - Current
Head of Planning Large Power Transfomer Europe
Siemens Energy
10.2022 - 12.2024
Digital Transformation Manager - PT Segment
Siemens Energy
12.2020 - 10.2022
IT Project Manager - PT Plant Nuremberg
Siemens Energy
09.2016 - 12.2020
Bachelor of Science - International Information Systems Management
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
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