NAIT Shell Manufacturing Centre

Mave Dhariwal, MBA, PMP
Operations Manager, NAIT Shell Manufacturing Centre.

Mave gained 15 years of project engineering and manufacturing experience in the UK and Eastern Canada before joining NAIT. 

During his last 28 years at NAIT he has worked as an Instructor & Program Chair in the Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Technology program, as Quality Coordinator in the President’s Office, as Program Design Specialist in the Dean’s Office, and as a Program Consultant for overseas projects in Ecuador and China, on behalf of NAIT, the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

In addition to his role as the Operations Manager, NAIT Shell Manufacturing Centre, he regularly facilitates workshops through the Productivity Enhancement Services Unit for business and industry in continuous improvement, project leadership, project management, quality management, lean manufacturing, and group facilitation skills, etc.  Approximately 400 managers are registered in these programs at any given time and return to NAIT every third week throughout the year. 

He is strongly committed to promoting provincial and national productivity initiatives.  In that regard, he was the co-founder and Chair of the Quality Council of Alberta (QCA), NAIT’s Quality Council, and the National Quality Network (NQN) that led to the creation of the National Quality Institute (NQI). Additionally, he served on the Mayor’s Task Force on Manufacturing to help improve Greater Edmonton Region’s Manufacturing Productivity.  In 1989 he authored the first proposal to create a Manufacturing Centre at NAIT that would assist organizations with their productivity improvement efforts.