Stephen O'Keeffe

Experience

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  Green isle foods

  Jan 1989 - Nov 1990

  Quality and Product Development Manager

  Quality and product development manager for fish processing plants.

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  Almarai Co. Ltd

  Nov 1990 - Dec 1999

  Site Production Manager, Planning Manager

  Almarai is one of the largest integrated Dairy Companys in the world, with farms of up to 10,000 milkiing cows, one of the most modern and largest processing facilities in the world, a transport fleet covering all of the Arabian peninsula and a sales an marketing team covering all of theSaudi Arabia and all GCC states.Involved in the building of one of the largest dairy plants in the world, processing up to 1,200,000 litres of milk per day.Worked as one of the project managers in the building of the plant and decommissioning of the old plants, in commissioning the new plant and then as site production manager from start up for three years. Laterally worked as planning manager for the company setting up systems to better manage external and internal supply chains Show less

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  James Lyons O'Keeffe

  Jan 2000 - now

  Manager and Owner

  www.westcorkproperty.com

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  BioPower Group

  Aug 2007 - Jan 2009

  Consultant

  Working with BioPower team to identify sites suitable for the BioPower solution, for waste to energy and renewable fuels production

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  West Cork Tourism Co-Op

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2009

  Board Member
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  Al Othman Dairy Company

  Feb 2011 - Jun 2012

  Planning Manager
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  Alyoum Food Company

  Jun 2013 - Jan 2021

  Projects Manager Alyoum foods

  2016- 2019 PROJECTS MANAGER at ALYOUM BAKERY, working with my colleague Harry Howarth bakery project manager on 25,000sqm industrial bakery to produce bread loaves, rolls, buns, cake bar, cup cakes, Arabic bread, and pastries.

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  Sama Jordan Investments Alyoum foods

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2021

  Operations and Projects Manager

  2014 to 2016 PROJECT MANAGER ALYOUM DAIRY AND JUICE Project Manager in charge of construction, fit out, and commissioning of new 16,000sqm 250,000 litre per day, Dairy Juice and Water Processing plant.Responsibilities, Coordination and management of all activities on site between Construction companies, Civil, Steel, Flooring, Paneling.Specifying and purchasing all services equipment; Boilers, Refrigeration, Compressed Air, General Mechanical and Electrical installation.Specifying and purchasing all Packaging Manufacturing, Processing, Filling, Labeling and Packaging equipment.Co-ordination of design and specifications between manufacturers of packaging and filling machines.Management of all activities between all installation companies on site.The plant is due to start production in September 2015.Production started on September 20th 2015 Show less

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  Land To Brand

  Jan 2014 - now

  Project Manager
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  Alyoum

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2021

  Operations and Projects Manager

  2016 -2018 PROJECTS MANAGER ALYOUM PLASTICS in charge of the construction and fit out of Alyoum plastics packaging plant.The plant took 18 months to build and now produces PET Bottles for Alyoum Juices and PP In mould Labelled Yogurt and Labaneh pots and lids.Chilled water generation by Grasso-adearest GEA, compressed air by Atlas Copco (8 bar) and Atelier Francois (40 bar).PET bottles produced on 3 single step ASB Nissei machines with Delta bottle packers. The in-mould-labelled Yogurt and Labaneh pots and lids produced using 9 Muller Moulds and Muller robots on 5 Netstal injection machines.1 x 10,000 Haitian injection machines with Yushin take out robot for production of Dairy crates, Bakery baskets and fruit trays.2 x 5,000 Haitian injection machines with Yushin IML robots for cheese pails and lids Show less

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  FBGreen Del Monte Ethiopia

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2017

  Consultant

  Project to develop a dairy farm, dairy processing facility and distribution company in Ethiopia. Did not progress beyond planning stage

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  Baladna Qatar

  Jun 2017 - May 2019

  Project Consultant Baladna Qatar

  2017 -2018 PROJECT CONSULTANT at Baladna Qatar for:a. extension of plant 1 to include pasteurising and filling AVE (Italy) of fresh milk. (5 months)b. Construction and fit out of Plant 2, a manually operated 200,000 litre per day dairy plant with Pietribiasi (Italy) pasteuriser, Alfatek (Turkey) tanks and pipe work and Teknoproses (Turkey) utilities, (7 months)c. Plant 3: 500,000 litres per day of dairy and juice products, GEA processing, Trepko Filling, AVE filling, Combibloc UHT filling, Technica DLE, Grade Grasso Refrigeration, Cochran Boilers, Atlas Copco Compressed Air. ongoing Show less

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  Squid Rewards

  Feb 2019 - now

  Director