Kasem Kidwas

Accomplished leader with extensive experience in the Gas Operations industry, excelling in multi-unit operation management, engineering, service, procurement, safety, and supply chain management. Possess a strong academic background in engineering and business administration. Demonstrated ability to lead project improvement, sustainability, and business transformation initiatives, while managing diverse teams in various work environments. Proven success in building high-performing teams, increasing productivity, ensuring safety, fostering robust relationships, and achieving effective cost control in operations and plant management.

• Productivity Project Improvement and Sustainability, Drove and led continuous improvement initiatives that resulted in a 5% annual reduction in CAPEX.
• Energy Utilization, Utilized waste heat in CO2 process, reducing power costs by 16.6 MTHB/yr.
• Installation Project, Standardized installation package, reducing installation time 14 to 7 days.
• Process Improvement, De-bottlenecked process operations and optimized plant tuning, increasing production rates by 5%, equating 109 tons per day in LCO2 production.
• Plant Layout Optimization, Redesigned workflow for cylinder filling and storage, reducing total movement in the filling process.
• Loss Reduction, Reduced tanker filling losses from 6% to 3%.
• Plant Utilization Optimization, Managed plant loading to optimize TOU power costs during peak and off-peak times, as well as demand charges.
• Business Mergers - Operational and Supply Chain Efficiency and Cost Savings, Led the operational integration of merging companies, identified final operational location and personnel post-merger, relocated plant and machinery, resulting in streamlined processes and significant cost savings.
• Service Center Team Integration, Reorganized two service teams to align with customer locations by geography, reducing travel costs and increasing flexibility and enhancing efficiency, response times, and customer satisfaction.
• Utilization and Optimization, Combined two operations and reorganized the plant layout, achieving a 3% fixed cost reduction, increased utilization, and reduced workflow in cylinder movement, saving 17.4 million THB.
• Asset Management, Asset utilization after combining an operations Capex reduction by 4.9 MTHB.

• Thai, native
• English, proficient

• Certified Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma
• Site Manager License Certificate in Toxic Gas and Cylinder Safety Management
• Certificate in Competency-Based Training, Train the Trainer
• RSE SHEQ Academy Certificate
• MASCI Certificate for ISO 9001 & 14001 Transition (2015)