Joseph Opoku Acheampong
BERLIN
Summary
Accomplished Process Engineer with more than 8 years enforcing compliance and improving steps in production using data and analytical tools for a 55M yield in a year with 0.5 process loss and downtime hours ensuring full compliance to a plant efficiency of 96%. Successful and driven individual committed to proactive planning and goal-oriented work in commissioning a detergent plant and ethanol plant to operate at optimum plant capacity with maximum profit sales in a year.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Process Engineer in Charge
Kasapreko PLC
03.2023 - 10.2025
.
- Developed and implemented process improvements to reduce costs and increase efficiency in industrial production of 4.8M Liters in a month.
- Reduced downtime and increased production capacity with strong maintenance plans to 28days Production time in a month.
- Evaluated proposed project investments by conducting cost-benefit analyses to achieve 95% plant capacity.
- Ensuring a monthly achieved target of 4.8 Liters production with 0.2 loss in a month.
- Conducted evaluations of equipment and machinery to verify optimal performance and efficiency to achieve yearly yield of 55M Liters.
Detergent Process Supervisor
Wilmar Africa Limited
03.2019 - 02.2023
- Collaborated with internal teams to streamline operations across materials handling, production, and shipping for a daily production of 70tons.
- Established operational objectives and work plans and delegated assignments to subordinate operators to achieve year production of 22k tons.
- Created and implemented strategies for improving operational efficiency and accuracy to 96% .
- Strengthened performance metrics tracking and analysis to enhance tactical and strategic company plans of double yield in 2 years.
- Interpreted work order information and specifications to plan, schedule and complete jobs precisely for daily and monthly target.
Management Trainee, Fractionation & Refinery Plant
Wilmar Africa Limited
10.2018 - 02.2019
- Operation of a 1000 tons per day refinery taking into consideration right parameters such as color, FFA and moisture content.
- Efficient optimization of refinery parameters to achieve a yearly yield of 400k tons.
- Operation of fractionation plant process and ensured efficient utilization of utilities to reduce loss to 0.5% in a year.
- Gained knowledge of company policies, protocols and processes to be the best trainee for 2021.
Education
MSc. - Data Analytics
BERLIN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND INNOVATION
Berlin, Germany04.2027
Bsc. - Chemical Engineering
KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Kumasi, Ghana07.2017
Skills
- ENGINEERING : Process flow analysis, Manufacturing Improvement , P/ID Controls, Design safety and Validation , AutoCAD features
- Data Analytics : Machine Learning (ML),Predictive Analytics, Python, SQL,R ,Prompt Engineering,AWS,Github
- TOOLS: Tableau ,Big Query, Power Bi, Jupyter Notebook, Power Query, Advanced Excel, SAP,Oracle,MS Office tools,Pivot Tables,Linux,Athena
- BUSINESS :Manufacturing Improvement ,Project Management, Plant Commissioning,Inventory Management
- SOFT SKILLS : Performance Improvement Tracking,Leadership Skills,Strategic Planning and Evaluation,Teamwork,Stakeholder management
Accomplishments
- Commissioning and operation of the first ever detergent powder and sulfonation plant in Ghana with 70 tons monthly production .
- Emerged as part of the top three (3) best performing graduate in the management trainee program at Wilmar Ghana Ltd.
- Commissioning and Production the first FRANCE INTERIS 150k liters per day Ethanol Rectification Plant (Largest in West Africa) with Kasapreko PLC.
Certification
- GOOGLE DATA ANALYTICS PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE
SQL, R, BigQuery, Power Bi, Tableau, Pivot tables, Data Cleaning, Data transformation, Data Visualization
- GOOGLE ADVANCED DATA ANALYTICS CERTIFICATE
Predictive Modeling, Time-series analyses, Python, Statistics, Supervised & Unsupervised ML
- JOMACS DATA ANALYTICS CERTIFICATE
Advanced Excel, SQL, Python, Power Bi, Data Modeling,AWS,Github
Languages
English
Fluent
French
Intermediate
German
Beginner
Timeline
Process Engineer in Charge
Kasapreko PLC
03.2023 - 10.2025
Detergent Process Supervisor
Wilmar Africa Limited
03.2019 - 02.2023
Management Trainee, Fractionation & Refinery Plant
Wilmar Africa Limited
10.2018 - 02.2019
Bsc. - Chemical Engineering
KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
MSc. - Data Analytics
BERLIN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND INNOVATION
Trainings
- Certificate (04/2024 – 04/2026)
Basic First Aid and Fire Training
- Wilmar Ghana - Management Training (05/2019 – 08/2019)
Emotional Intelligence, Financial Literature, Microsoft Word, Inventory Process & Supply Chain
- Kenya Wilmar - KAPA Oil Industries(03/2019 – 05/2019)
Sulfonation Production Process and Lab Analysis on Process
Lean manufacturing process and optimization a monthly yield of 24tons
- Uganda - WILMAR INT. BIDCO (02/2019 – 02/2019)
Detergent process and lab analysis of final powder and chemistry raw materials.
Packaging machines, routine maintenance schedule to achieve loss of 0.2% and downtime of 0.5hours monthly