Kamran Siddiqui
General Manager – Operations & Manufacturing
Executive Profile
Executive Operations Leader with twenty-two years of spearheading large-scale industrial manufacturing, plant engineering, and supply chain transformations across Pakistan's premier textile conglomerates. Proven track record managing multi-site facilities of 1,200+ personnel, 340+ high-speed air-jet looms, and continuous wet-processing plants. Consistently drives operational turnaround, slashing unplanned downtime from 11% to 6.2%, reducing energy consumption by 14%, and maintaining flawless compliance with EU/US export standards (OEKO-TEX, GOTS, ISO 9001/14001).
Key Strategic Outcomes & Commercial Wins
- —Reduced unplanned plant downtime from 11% to 6.2%, saving Rs. 38M in production recovery costs.
- —Delivered cumulative OPEX savings of Rs. 84M across power, spare parts, and chemical consumption.
- —Maintained 100% compliance pass rate across European buyer sustainability and labor audits for over a decade.
Leadership Experience & Appointments
General Manager Operations
January 2014 to Present
Siddiqui Textile Mills (Pvt) Ltd
- Command overall operations for spinning, weaving, and finishing facilities encompassing 340 air-jet looms and 1,100 workers on 24/7 rotating shifts; produce 2.4M meters of monthly greige and finished fabric with annual sales of Rs. 7.2B.
- Reduced plant-wide unplanned mechanical downtime from 11% to 6.2% over four years by instituting Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) regimens and localized spare parts inventory buffers.
- Cut specific power consumption per loom hour by 14.2% following rigorous energy audits, variable frequency drive retrofits, and smart load-shifting during peak tariff windows.
- Negotiated strategic annual service contracts with machinery vendors, achieving recurring operational savings of Rs. 24M annually while improving equipment availability.
- Achieved zero major non-conformances across nine consecutive social, environmental, and quality audits by European buyers (IKEA, Inditex, Marks & Spencer).
Plant Production Manager
May 2006 to December 2013
Chenab Textile Mills Ltd
- Supervised high-speed dyeing, printing, and finishing lines for export orders; elevated on-time export shipment fulfillment to 96.8% in final three years.
- Conducted structured weekly continuous improvement circles with 18 floor supervisors; lowered chemical and dyestuff wastage by 16% per kilogram of processed fabric.
- Successfully led the plant emergency response and rehabilitation during 2010 Indus floods, restoring 80% operating capacity within 11 days with zero recorded safety incidents.
Assistant Production Manager
August 2002 to April 2006
Nishat Mills Ltd
- Supervised weaving operations across 120 projectile looms; optimized shift changeover protocols to reduce operator idle overtime by 19%.
- Assisted in plant ISO 9001 quality management system audits and standard operating procedure documentation.
Strategic Initiatives & Capital Projects
2.2 MW Rooftop Solar & Waste Heat Cogeneration Installation
Conceived and executed Rs. 220M industrial clean energy transition, yielding Rs. 4.8M in monthly electricity cost reductions and eliminating 2,400 metric tons of carbon emissions annually.
Plant-Wide SAP S/4HANA & IoT Loom Telemetry Deployment
Led operational rollout of SAP production planning module integrated with real-time sensor telemetry across 340 looms, boosting overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) by 11.4%.
Education
BSc Textile Engineering
National Textile University (NTU), Faisalabad
1998 - 2002 • CGPA/Marks: 1st Division (82% Marks)
Executive MBA (Operations Management)
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
2010 - 2012 • CGPA/Marks: 3.70 / 4.00 CGPA
Executive Expertise
Industrial Plant Management · Lean Manufacturing & TPM · Capex Planning & Budgeting · Labor Union Negotiations · Export Standards Compliance · Power Cost Conservation · Quality Assurance Systems · Supply Chain Operations
Credentials & Fellowships
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, TÜV Austria (2018)
- Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), APICS (2016)
- Lead Auditor ISO 9001:2015 QMS, SGS Pakistan (2019)
Languages
English (Fluent) · Urdu (Native) · Punjabi (Native)
References: Mian Muhammad Tariq, Chief Executive Officer, Siddiqui Group of Industries, [email protected] · Engr. Shahid Rasheed, Dean Faculty of Textile Engineering, National Textile University, [email protected]