Shawn Maffenbeier
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Credentials
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Professional Agrologist
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Experience
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Astute Environmental and Regulatory
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Canada
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Environmental Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Project Manager
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Feb 2022 - Present
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Senior Environmental Scientist/Project Manager
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Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
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Vertex Resource Group Ltd.
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Canada
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Environmental Services
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300 - 400 Employee
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Senior Project Manager
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Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
Highlights• Program managed two large area base environmental closure program (>100 oil and gas sites) within central Alberta. Challenges included working in remote conditions, working alongside the abandonment crew, resourcing for one day turnarounds for historical spill response, and tracking budgets and additional work items within a lump sum payment system.• Maintained good relationships, teamwork, and technical field guidance and reporting support for up to 15 professionals within the Calgary, Sherwood Park, and Regina offices.• Completed a two month rushed detailed site assessment (DSA) reclamation program (>80 wellsites) for cultivated and native grasslands throughout southern and central Alberta. Challenges included resourcing, tight timeline for collecting reliable data, QA\QC data from a collector app, and sorting out sites that were not ready for DSA.• Maintained good working relationships and provided deliverables on time and within budget for over three major clients with program portfolios ranging from 25 to 100 projects.
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Ghostpine Environmental Services Ltd.
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Canada
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Environmental Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead, Reclamation & Remediation /Environmental Inspection
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May 2016 - Apr 2018
• Granted the lead role for reclamation, remediation, and environmental inspection for Alberta within 1 year of service. Provided peer review of numerous soil and groundwater assessments for pipelines and infrastructure projects.• Completed a complex Phase 1 ESA for Ethylene Distribution System and Feed Stock pipeline network with approximately 200 km of pipeline which included visual inspections of pumping stations, block valves, metering facilities, inline inspection launching and receiving sites, and gas/manufacturing plant sites.• Conducted an environmental inspector position for a pipeline refurbishment project for Midstream company. The multi discipline project required long hours, timely frac-out spill observation and clean-up, ongoing regulatory reporting, daily environmental reports, and prompt communications with chief inspectors, contractors, and safety advisors. • Designed and managed club root sampling programs for two large pipeline projects (> 60 km) within high and lower risk sites. • Directed and reviewed several post construction reclamation assessment reports along several pipelines which identified issues with respect to landscape and soils, (ie crowning, subsidence, admixing) vegetation (ie bare areas), and weeds.
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Project Manager/ Environmental Scientist
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Jul 2001 - Jan 2016
• Project managed and supervised large-scale remediation projects (> $1,000,000) dealing with multiple source areas including flare pits, drilling waste disposal areas, land treatment areas, well bore and historical pipeline spills.• Completed numerous Tier 2 evaluations which minimized plume size for groundwater and soil exceedances ultimately reducing remedial costs by up to 50%. • Managed numerous soil and groundwater assessments, a wastewater feasibility study, flood assessments and reclamation on First Nation Lands (O’Chiese, Siksika, and Tsuut’ina). The projects included stakeholder engagement and development of a multidisciplinary team to complete the scope of work. • Conducted several high-risk wellbore exposures within the Turner Valley area. The tasks involved exposure, safety inspection, and remediation/reclamation of wellbores.• Prepared, field implemented, and reported EPEA soil and groundwater monitoring proposals and programs including decommissioning and reclamation plans important for regulatory compliance.• Conducted several post and pre construction borrow pit assessments for large-scale highway projects.
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EnviroSORT Inc.
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Canada
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Environmental Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Environmental Technician
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1997 - 2001
Segregating, sorting and transporting hazardous waste products in accordance to TDG regulations for commercial establishments, performed regulatory internal audits for a waste transfer facility, supervised over a 100 public household hazardous waste round ups for municipal towns within Alberta, client communications and training of new workers. Segregating, sorting and transporting hazardous waste products in accordance to TDG regulations for commercial establishments, performed regulatory internal audits for a waste transfer facility, supervised over a 100 public household hazardous waste round ups for municipal towns within Alberta, client communications and training of new workers.
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Education
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Langara College
African Field Studies (Located in Kenya)-post graduate studies -
University of Alberta
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Environmental Conservation Sciences