Environmental Health and Safety Manager

• Dec 2022 - Present

• Responsible for driving Environmental Health and Safety compliance, while building cross functional relationships and facilitating a behavioral based culture. • Ensure company compliance with all applicable EHS Regulations. • Practice transparent compliance by utilizing EHS walk-throughs, corrective action logs, risk assessments and behavioral based safety observations. • Champion efforts to audit physical conditions and safe work practices and researching standards, regulations, etc. • Implement, educate and maintain policies, practices, and programs associated with all phases of occupational safety, health, accident prevention, and environmental compliance. • Lead and investigate employee near miss, corrective action, incident investigation, root cause discovery and reporting efforts. Ensure cross communication with sister sites. • Recommend, develop, implement and create programs in order to reduce work related incidents or injuries with emphasis on prevention efforts geared toward near miss reporting, zero incident-injury goals and risk mitigation efforts. • Manage EH&S training programs including but not limited to Emergency Action and Fire Prevention, Hazard Communication, GHS, Process Safety Management, Lockout/Tagout, Proper Storage and Disposal of Hazardous – Non Hazardous Waste. • Gather and interpret data needed to provide on time delivery of annual EH&S state and federal reporting. • Provide timely new product/process safety reviews via the Workflow System and actively participate in Management of Change efforts. • Create strong and effective Hazardous Waste Operations/Spill Response Team. Serve as site's Incident Commander. • Foster EHS Committee(s) that will aid in a strong and sustainable safety culture. Show less

Operations Chief

• Jun 2022 - Present

Chairperson of the Board

• Jan 2021 - Present

Assistant Operations Chief

• Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

Township Team Lead

• Dec 2019 - Dec 2021

Instructor

• Jul 2022 - Present

Certified Glock Armorer

• Sep 2016 - Present

Certified to repair and maintain all Glock firearms using factory parts not available to the public. Certified to repair and maintain all Glock firearms using factory parts not available to the public.

Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

• Feb 2020 - Nov 2022

• Responsible for daily functions of an EH&S Specialist at a crop protection research and development facility. • Responsible for prequalifying of 400+ vendors annually includes reviewing their safety history and writing conditional approvals as needed. This was performed using an internal database as well as ISNetworld. • Managed Near Miss database by assigned and categorizing ~300 near misses annually. • Developed virtual safety orientation for contractors which is required annually to work at Corteva. • Implemented Personal Safety standards for laboratory, operations, and maintenance personnel (Electrical, Machines Safety, Isolation of Energy, Line Equipment Opening). • Responsible for Environmental Reporting and Plans including Water, Air and Waste (FESOP, SPCC, Water Quality and Contingency Plan). Show less

Supervisor Field Service

• Apr 2016 - Feb 2020

• Managed nine full-time on-site Field Service Engineers and three admin to ensure workorders were performed safely and on time.• Presented quarterly report to customer which included financials as well as response time, down time, work order counts, etc.• Implemented Dow Agrosciences safety initiatives as they applied to SiteMAX. • Delivered monthly SiteMAX safety meetings.• Investigated all laboratory instrumentation near misses and documented in Customer’s Near Miss database. Show less

Advance Field Service Engineer

• Dec 2012 - May 2016

Manager

• Apr 2003 - Nov 2012

Senior Technologist

• Nov 1995 - Aug 2002