Zipporah Nyabuto
Moi University
Kenya

Carbon & ESG Analyst Certificate
Certificate from the University of Cambridge Online
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Management Trainee (New Product Introduction Champion) at MAS Intimates
A dedicated chemical and process engineer who is always seeking out new opportunities to expand her knowledge and skills, has a drive to succeed and well prepared to take on challenges facing the technical industry.
Experience
MAS Intimates
Management Trainee (New Product Introduction Champion)
February 2024 - August 2024
Overseeing the seamless running of the 8 stages of the New Product Introduction (NPI) process to deliver noise free size set samples for seamless handover of new styles to bulk production.
Planning date and time for the Design Risk Analysis (DRA) meeting by discussing with MAS Design Studio Team and conducting the meeting as per the schedule.
Following up the actions and review from the DRA meeting at the daily NPI meeting at the department.
Overseeing the Provisional Design Risk Analysis (PDRA) stage by confirming manufacturability.
Conducting pre-provisional meeting with the plant style allocated team.
Following up Pre-Production (PP) schedule and organizing PP meetings accordingly.
Ensuring Final Tech Pack availability 3 days before PP meeting.
Tracking and updating the critical path hit rate of the NPI process on the NPI Tracking Sheet.
Updating weekly the lagging and leading department Key Performance Indices (KPIs).
Performing 5 Whys and 8 Step problem solving for the KPIs that fail to meet their targets at a meeting with the eco team members.
Attending the monthly KPI review meeting with the plant’s General Manager.
Updating the individual KPIs of the staff members at the department on the KPI green board.
Updating the weekly progress of the pillar-wise action plans as well as the action plans on the department’s project A3 document.
Maisha Mabati Mills Limited
Production Attachee
June 2022 - August 2022
Carried out mechanical and physical tests on pre-painted metal such as methyl ethyl ketone rub test, flexibility test, impact test and color spectroscopy.
Performed quality control tests on raw materials and finished products.
Operated and maintained the furnace oil three pass tube boiler.
Carried out analytical tests such as aluminium zinc bath analysis, coolant PH, acid base titration and effluent analysis.
Conducted destructive tests on painted steel sheets such as hardness, cupping, tensile, and bending tests.
Performed instrumental analytical techniques (X-ray spectroscopy) using the atomic emission spectrometer (Meta-vision) machine to check metal composition.
Sotik Tea Company Limited
Production Attachee
July 2021 - September 2021
Carried out general engineering maintenance as well as inspection of machines.
Assisted in carrying out quality control functions and their scalable outputs towards environmental conservation.
Recorded and reported all operational indices that affected quality and ensured that appropriate corrective action(s) were taken.
Was instrumental in the enforcement of ISO 22000:2018E Food Safety Management System.
Education
Certificates & Badges

Carbon & ESG Analyst Certificate
Certificate from the University of Cambridge Online
Issue date: Jan 29, 2025
Projects
I led the heads of departments of the eight departments (Planning, Production Control Unit, Technical, Production, Quality, Merchandising, Raw Materials, and Lab and Inspection) that the successful implementation and running of the 8 stages of the NPI process rely on through the realignment of the Swimlane lead times to ensure that each stage is completed on time and the customer deliveries are made on time. After the meeting where we discussed the roles that each department plays in the NPI process and the challenges they face, I then drew an updated Swimlane diagram using the Visio software whereby I clearly highlighted the roles of each member in each department and the updated lead times that were agreed upon during the meetings. This ensured that each person involved in the NPI process actualization was well informed of their roles to avoid confusion and proper confusion.
During my attachment at Maisha Mabati Mills in Ruiru, I observed that the company uses up large amounts of money to purchase fresh hydrochloric acid to be used for pickling of the hot rolled coils (HRCs).
Hence this project was conceived with the objective of cutting down that cost by regenerating the spent pickle liquor from 5% concentration to 18% (same as that of the fresh HCl). My group members and I decided on using the spray roaster technology and we designed the entire regeneration plant from mass and energy balance to designing the equipment using AutoCAD, site location and layout, and environmental impact assessment.
The project entailed using galvanic sludge from a steel manufacturing company in Ruiru, Kenya, where I was attached for my second attachment. The motivation for pursuing the project was finding a use for the sludge which the company had no use for so they disposed of it in Dandora landfill in Nairobi where it pollutes the environment since the sludge contains iron which is a heavy metal. Another motivation for the project was to come up with a cheaper housing option than the concrete bricks in the market because construction cost in Kenya is high and most Kenyans cannot afford to build their own homes since they are already earning less than a dollar a day. We mixed the galvanic sludge with clay in different ratios then after air drying and oven drying we tested for the compressive and flexural strengths of the bricks to find which ratio gave us the most superior mechanical properties.
Languages
English
Professional
Skills
Teamwork
Report Writing
Leadership
AutoCAD
Heat and Mass Balance Calculation
Continuous Process Improvement
Lean Manufacturing
Analytical Chemistry
5S
Kaizen
Environmental Impact Assessment
Mass Transfer