KASEM KIDWAS
69/228 Warabodin Village Lumlukka Pathumtani
Pathumtani
Summary
Key summary and highlight Plant Manager at Linde Thailand CSCM Wellgrow operation with more than 24 yrs of experience in operation ,process control ,maintenance ,engineering , planning , project execution and procurement including capex opex planning and safety management key strong about controlling teamwork and people management including supply chain of cylinder filling production planning operation until store and stock management , Management stay use coordination & leadership with proven many success story about Productivity Improvement , Project cost saving, Cost and loss reduction ,Process improvement and Safety management
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
Work History
Plant Manager ASU Talan
Linde PLC
- Forecasted future production needs accurately, allowing for strategic decision-making regarding staffing levels, equipment investments, and inventory management.
- Reduced costs by eliminating materials waste and unnecessary labor hours.
Wellgrow Plant manager –Maintenance Engineering & Supply chain
Linde Thailand
6 2023 - Current
- Lead whole supply chain operation planning and maintenance of cylinder gas filling both pure and mixing in variety of package, planning including logistic of cylinder rotating and return to refill in order to optimize operation cost time and balance service level to response customer need
- Ensuring all activity meet standard of safety, quality and regulation
- Improvement process & de bottle neck, re arrange plant site layout, process control, lost & waste in process, productivity efficiency & cost reduction are key of contribution
- Plant productivity from 75.9 % to 78 %
- Improve plant reliability from 92% to 97% (breakdown reduction)
- Reduction of reject rate from 2.5% to 0.5%
- Reduce operation cost and un necessary activity Ex interbranch of product between site
- Fix cost reduction by 6% of cost stag
- Reduce 10% of Energy consume
Procurement manager – Commodity Manager Tonnage Energy and New plant construction
Linde Thailand
06.2016 - 05.2016
- Lead technical procurement (approx.3,000 Mthb /annum) for all Linde plant, spare part machine, big project & take care long term contract utility power water for plant operation and gas supply routing in Map Ta Phut complex, co working with IEAT EFT BOI and order related function to manage plant operation and supply by pipeline etc
- Lead Energy team to management energy program and plant operation to optimizing and load @ lowest unit cost
- Contribute of company Gap cash flow saving for procurement
- Year GAP Cash flow
- 2013 30 MTHB 90.6 MTHB
- 2014 8.7 MTHB 84.0 MTHB
- 2015 74.6 MTHB 99.7 MTHB
- Project procurement complete on time and budget
- New Air Separation plant in MTP BOI 2,244 mb
- New Compressor with BOI 190 mb
- New Ecova plant with BOI 50 mb
- New CO2 plant with BOI 454 mb
- Pipeline Expansion in MTP area 64 mb
- New purifier unit for Gas supply 32 mb
- Contract Power supply with Glow, PTTGC and PGSC
Plant Manager – ASU Talan Saraburi
Linde Thailand
01.2011 - 06.2011
- Plant Manager of Air Separation plant in Talan Saraburi take care of distillation process to produce Liquid Oxygen Nitrogen and Argon Capacity of 125+250 Ton per day of Liquid Gas
- Lead operation safety and process control of Air Separation unit & Onsite operation of small gas generator remote operate and supply at 2 customer site
- Lead Maintenance and service team
- Improvement plant reliability by implement Condition base monitoring, Predictive maintenance lube oil analysis, temp profile Infrared camera CMMS Maximo, and Partial discharge to increase plant reliability
- Manage and planning of Capex & Opex, and controlling of Unit cost
- Ensure safety directive and requirement have been implement and best practice
- Total 26 staff in this team
- Develop ISO 9001 & GMP
- Gas Loss reduction from 9% to 3%
- Plant Reliability increase from 97% to 99%
- Upgrade plant control system to be fully automatic
- Award - Gold Class honor certificate from Linde Executive Board on safety
- CSR DIW certificate award from Department of Industrial
- Implement GMP
Senior Reliability and Maintenance Engineer South and South-East Asia
Linde Thailand
01.2008 - 12.2008
- A member of regional team to improve plant reliability by implement kay activity and program to manage and improvement apply all plant in S&SEA
- ( PM standardization by Global PM, Spare part sharing, CMMS Maximo implementation, Condition base monitoring, Vibration analysis, Partial Discharge monitor, Lube oil analysis, machine temp profile)
Project Engineer
Thai Industrial Gas A member of BOC Group
01.2003 - 12.2003
- A member of Central Engineering team to design and execution new project plant installation expansion modification follow to best practice and engineering gas standard and procedure, support new business growth, work together with Process Electrical, Design and Engineering Hazop study, P&ID review equipment spec follow to BOC and Linde Standard and safety
Production planning & Process Engineer
Thai Industrial Gas A member of BOC Group
01.2000 - 12.2000
- Develop new system of production planning controlling, supply chain of gas cylinder filling and process improvement, lead operation of gas filling Dry Ice Production, on site generator, cylinder test gas mixing process and Laboratory
Education
MBA - Master of business administration
Kasetsart University
MIE - Master of Industrial Engineering
Chulalongkorn University
PE - Production Engineer
KMUT-NB
Skills
Operations Management ASU CO2 H2 Compressed Gas
Production Scheduling
Safety Management
Team building and development
Sig Sigma Green Belt Certificate (BMGI)
Programcertificatesandawards
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- ISO 17025
- ISO Guide 34
- Green Factory Level 4
- Zero Accident Award 2018
- Zero Accident Award 2019
- TSL and National Occupational Safety & Health Gold Awards from Labor Protection and Welfare
- SAP and SAP PM
- Track About for cylinder management
- Six Sigma tool
- Problem Solving
- Hazop
- Risk assessment
- MHRP site Category 1
- Paragon for Logistic delivery
Lineid
kasemkidwas
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 11/23/73
Keysummary
Plant Manager at Linde Thailand CSCM Wellgrow operation with more than 24 yrs of experience in operation, process control, maintenance, engineering, planning, project execution and procurement including capex opex planning and safety management key strong about controlling teamwork and people management including supply chain of cylinder filling production planning operation until store and stock management, Management stay use coordination & leadership with proven many success story about Productivity Improvement, Project cost saving, Cost and loss reduction, Process improvement and Safety management.
Timeline
Procurement manager – Commodity Manager Tonnage Energy and New plant construction
Linde Thailand
06.2016 - 05.2016
Plant Manager – ASU Talan Saraburi
Linde Thailand
01.2011 - 06.2011
Senior Reliability and Maintenance Engineer South and South-East Asia
Linde Thailand
01.2008 - 12.2008
Project Engineer
Thai Industrial Gas A member of BOC Group
01.2003 - 12.2003
Production planning & Process Engineer
Thai Industrial Gas A member of BOC Group
01.2000 - 12.2000
MIE - Master of Industrial Engineering
Chulalongkorn University
PE - Production Engineer
KMUT-NB
Plant Manager ASU Talan
Linde PLC
Wellgrow Plant manager –Maintenance Engineering & Supply chain
Linde Thailand
6 2023 - Current
MBA - Master of business administration
Kasetsart University
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