Experience

Bhate

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Project Technician

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  Program Management:I prepare weekly and monthly status reports for the government client. Review all reports prepared by team members. I assist the Program manager with developing program budget. Assist government client with ensuring facility maintains compliance with health, fire, safety, and program regulatory requirements. Key Management Controls. I plan monthly budgeting with fueling vehicles and expense reports for the contract. Develop and maintain employee schedules. I helps the Air Quality Manager with Annual Emissions Inventories. I periodically inspects equipment and performs routine preventive maintenance work. I provide work leadership to less-experienced contractors and sub-contractors. I have current knowledge of relevant technologies for the position. I maintain management files and databases; prepare correspondence, reports or documentation. I implements training programs though EPA base websites for the staff. I implement monthly safety topics for review for staff.Hazard Waste Compliance Support: I inspects all fuel points and bulk liquid storages for hazard waste compliance. I collect samples of building materials for the presence of lead and asbestos in accordance with DPW Environmental Division asbestos and LBP plans or other SOPs and in accordance with current laws and regulations.I inspect to ensure the area is cleared of all environmental issues/liabilities related to Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT), solid waste, grey water pits, wash racks, and spills. Units cannot rotate back to their home station until their area is cleared of potential environmental liabilities. I conduct these inspections 12 times a year.I’d perform routine inspections on up to 20 established Hazardous Waste Accumulation Points (HWAP) throughout the installation. Inspections are done once a quarter in accordance with (IAW) DPW Environmental SOPs and management plans. These also contain the required checklist and report formats.



General Dynamics Information Technology

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Task Lead Technician

  • Feb 2016 - Dec 2016

  Program Management and Accountability Support:I help the Environment Compliance department with escorts contractors. I influence organizations and contractor operations to comply with all environmental regulations. I support environmental programs by doing field work and technical research using organizational, investigative and communicative skills. I operates electronic equipment and conducts sampling with the current line of instrumentation. I maintains records pertinent to special sampling projects performed in conjunction with governmental agencies and private institutions.Air Quality Compliance Support:I inspects all combustible generators, engines for air quality compliance. Inspects all paint sprayer that emit VOC’s. Monthly fuel samples from contractors and Army units. I issue out state issue air permits for equipment. I work side by side with the state Inspector from “Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District” conduct requirements to comply with the Air Permit Compliance Program, to include quarterly inspections of all air permit facilities and documenting findings. For the purpose of air emissions compliance, a facility is anything in which a valid air permit has been issued against. The air permitted facilities consist of 60-180 stationary and portable generators, 20-30 boiler units, 8-10 spray paint guns and line strippers, 2 retail gasoline dispensing facilities, 1 non-retail gasoline dispensing facility, 3 stationary bulk fuel storage tanks, 8-10 commercial and tactical mobile fuel trucks, 8-10 portable aboveground storage tanks for gasoline and diesel dispensing, 6 parts washers, 1 NBC Chamber, and WTE Plant. These inspects shall occur on a quarterly basis to ensure compliance with permit conditions, which involves record keeping, testing, any other permit compliance requirement, maintaining and entering data into the permit databases.

• Sr. Evnironmental Technician

  • Dec 2013 - Feb 2016

  Air Quality Monitoring Support:I provide support for the PM10 Monitoring Program on a daily basis. The PM10 monitoring program consist of 8 sampling sites in which one (1) is located within the cantonment area while the other seven (7) are located long the boundary of the base. The PM10 monitoring program calls for travel to each sampling site to set PM10 Sampler to run in accordance with U.S. EPA 6-day sampling cycle, U.S. EPA PM-10 Reference Method: RFPS-1298-127. The PM10 sampling shall be conducted following the method and procedures set forth in Title 40, CFR, Part 50 (40 CFR 50, Appendix J) and in the EPA Quality Assurance Handbook (EPA/600/4-77/027a), section 2.11. I performed flow checks and full calibration as required, as well as retrieving and changing the sampling filters, troubling shooting and repairing sampling machines, recording the required data for the samples, proper handling and storage of the filters and shipment of the filters and data to a laboratory. I’d obtain quarterly meteorological data at Fort Irwin. I’d maintained an automated sampling log on the days PM10 sampling is conducted, to list any unusual weather condition, vehicle and troop activity near sampling sites and any machine malfunctions. I’d ensure through communication with Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District laboratory personnel that the proper handling procedures for all PM10 sampler filters to include initial filter equilibration, initial filter weighing, filter exchanging, post-collection equilibration and post-collection weighing are conducted as outlined in the Partisol Model 2025i Air Sampler Operating Manual and the 40 CFR 50, Appendix J, and EPA 600/4-77/027a, section 2.11. I’d ensure the weights of all filters returned by the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District laboratory personnel after post-weighing are recorded into a database and that reports are provided to the Government on a quarterly basis.