ZAIDHASSONEH.
Shop floor to senior leadership. Hands-on, approachable, data-led — bringing clarity to complex, regulated environments for over two decades.
AUD
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~300+ each
A leader shaped by scale, regulation and the floor itself.
A snapshot of where Zaid has worked, what he has led, and the operating style that follows him from shop floor to senior leadership.
Industries
- Pharmaceuticals — cleanroom & cytotoxic compounding
- Glass packaging — Beverage & FMCG
- Industrial analytics — manufacturing, construction, robotics, education, hospitality, workforce
Roles
- Technical specialist
- Frontline & continuous improvement
- Plant management
- Operations & analytics leadership
Geography & scope
- Australia · South East Asia · USA
- Single-site and multi-site global operations
Scale & complexity
- $220M USD greenfield company start-up
- State-of-the-art manufacturing
- 300+ staff per site across 13 sites
- ~$20M annual P&L per site
- High-SKU changeover across legacy & modern facilities
Operating style
- Calm, visible leadership
- Collaborative — values input at all levels
- Low-ego, solutions-focused thinking
- Clear expectations
- Simple data people actually use
Sustained operational improvement — measured in millions, earned on the floor.
Across regulated, high-volume, asset-intensive environments where a single percentage point can be worth millions — these are the outcomes Zaid’s teams have delivered.
OEE corrected
+24.6 percentage points.
What got reduced.
Two decades. Three companies. One direction — up, and never out of touch with the floor.
Baxter International Inc.
Global Operational Excellence & Analytics Lead
- Lead operational excellence and analytics capability across regulated manufacturing and compounding environments.
- Introduced practical, role-based performance views that surface issues early without creating reporting burden.
- Partner with operations, quality and site leadership to remove noise and improve decision quality at the point of work.
- Influence performance and workforce outcomes globally without direct authority — capability, trust, alignment.
Senior Operational Excellence — Strategic Transformation & Innovation
- Introduced data-led operating rhythms that improved decision quality while maintaining GMP and safety standards.
- Supported site leaders through complex change with a focus on capability building, not top-down control.
Arglass Yamamura
Vice President — Operations
- Executive lead for operations during a $220M USD greenfield company start-up — a state-of-the-art glass packaging facility.
- Established the full operating system from first principles: safety, quality, production readiness, maintenance, performance cadence.
- Built the organisation and leadership structure — hiring and onboarding at scale while maintaining operational control.
- Stabilised high-SKU, high-changeover production in an asset-intensive, continuous manufacturing environment.
Senior Plant Engineer / Head of Continuous Improvement
- Led construction-phase operations, equipment specification & procurement, commissioning and transition to steady-state.
- Established core SOPs, training frameworks and early problem-solving capability — hands-on with vendors, engineers and operators.
O-I Glass
Plant Manager / Operations Leadership
- Led large, unionised glass packaging operations in 24/7, asset-intensive environments.
- Accountable for safety, quality, cost, delivery and workforce stability across mature, high-volume sites.
- Delivered sustained operational improvement by addressing core design, system and operating-rhythm constraints.
- Maintained trust and stability while navigating industrial relations, cost pressure and organisational change.
“ Uses data to support judgement and accountability — not replace experience.”
People-first. Data-led. Never out of touch with the floor.
20+ years in regulated, high-volume environments. Progressed from technical, shop-floor roles to plant, regional and GM-level leadership. The way Zaid operates didn't change — just the scope.
Brings structure to complex operations
Reduces noise, enabling better decisions where the work happens — not three levels up.
Builds capability, not dependence
Ownership at all levels rather than dependence on escalation. People grow under his leadership.
Data supports judgement
Practical performance visibility that supplements experience and accountability — never replaces them.
Calm and visible on the floor
Low-ego, solutions-focused thinking. Approachable to operators, credible to executives.
Shop floor → Global
Relative scope of accountability over the career — from a single line to operations & analytics across regulated sites globally.
Bringing clarity to complex operations — wherever they sit.
Open to senior operations, plant, regional and global roles in regulated and asset-intensive manufacturing — and to advisory work where the right pair of eyes and a calmer rhythm would help.