Environmental Health Safety Engineer III

• Sep 2022 - Present

Senior Environmental Scientist-Compliance

• Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

Responsibilities: ● Client compliance oversite of hazardous/nonhazardous waste disposal, waste inspections, air permitting, SWPPP inspections/sampling, and wastewater permit/sampling. ● Provide client-based waste characterization, waste profiling, and waste manifesting for compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. ● Stormwater plan creation, review/edit, and finalization for the client. ● Air emission tracking spreadsheet creation based on permit requirements of the client.

Environmental Scientist

• Oct 2015 - Jun 2022

Responsibilities: ● PFAS research, follow current and proposed regulations, and develop internal PFAS chemical tracking for State or Federal reporting requirements. ● Waste characterization, waste profiling, and waste manifesting for compliance with EPA, KDHE, DOT, RCRA requirements and regulations. This requires working in conjunction with supervisors and laborers to review and understanding plant processes, waste generation, and resolve concerns in a timely manner. ● Quarterly, annually and periodic sampling, for Hazardous waste, Non-Hazardous waste, Special Waste, PCB items, and NPDES. ● Review/interpret current with past analytical results from sampling to determine proper determination and disposal of waste. ● Maintain waste tracking (Hazardous, Non-Hazardous, Special waste, and Recycling) for power plants and support locations for Generator Status for both LQG, and SQG requirements. ● Writing, reviewing, and updating HWCP with reference guides, SPCC, SWPPP, and FRP plans along with corresponding evacuation/site maps. ● On-site inspections for RCRA, Substation SPCC, SPCC, SWPPP, PCB, CCR, and Landfills. ● Create and submit reports including Hazardous waste Annual/Biannual report, GHG, AEI, Tier 2, TRI, landfill, SF6 equipment tracking, Title V and any other reports as required. ● Reviewing proposed/finalized CFR and State regulations to identify the potential impact to current processes. ● Schedule and review all Hazardous and Non-hazardous waste shipping paperwork. Tracking manifests according to the CFR timeline and working with vendors to make sure the new e-manifest system (RCRAinfo) has the correct information uploaded so that it matches our physical paperwork. ● On-call spill phone rotation for spills that occur in the field or on-site at the facilities.

Resource Manager/Project Manager

• Sep 2012 - Oct 2015

Responsibilities: ● Waste characterization, waste profiling, waste manifesting, and updating the emergency response provider information for compliance with DOT, RCRA, and HAZWOPER standards. ● Provide customer training for RCRA, DOT, and the hazardous waste management system. ● Provide user guidance and assistance on application installs and computer troubleshooting. ● Vendor account set up and management. ● Invoice creation and approval. ● Providing quick quotes and specialized management for projects that are not included in the statement of work. Ensure customer needs were satisfied with detailed documentation of scope deviations noted for contracts and invoicing. ● Work with the union representatives, and laborers to educate them on processes, address any concerns or questions they have, and take immediate action to resolve any problems or issues that arise. ● Write Procedures for inspections, work instructions, and standardize work. ● Documentation for tracking and charting waste streams departing the client site to show total amounts sent for direct reuse, recycling, energy recovery, incineration, neutralization, and landfilled.

IT Service Desk/Help Desk Tier I

• Jun 2011 - Sep 2012

Responsibilities: ● Deliver excellent customer service to users calling the help desk. ● Coordinate service requests escalation to the proper IT associate for resolution. ● Provide user guidance through application usage, installs and computer troubleshooting. ● Create detailed documentation and process flows. ● Provided new hire helpdesk employee training and oversite when needed. Responsibilities: ● Deliver excellent customer service to users calling the help desk. ● Coordinate service requests escalation to the proper IT associate for resolution. ● Provide user guidance through application usage, installs and computer troubleshooting. ● Create detailed documentation and process flows. ● Provided new hire helpdesk employee training and oversite when needed.

Environmental Health and Safety Engineer I

• Mar 2007 - Mar 2011

-Directed superfund site remediation actives pertaining to budget management, government representative coordination and authorization, changes to the scopes of work, and preventative maintenance activities. -Worked with water department to assure compliance with the MDNR. Including tracking and maintaining water test results for potential contaminates. The permit allowed land farming of the residual waste from the water plant through land application this included sampling of area and lagoon material to determine amounts to be land applied with in the permit ranges. -Coordinated pesticides to be applied plant wide, submitting potential pesticides for government use approvals, tracking MSDS’s, recording pesticide application, maintaining the approved chemical list, and creating the scope of work. Engaged suppliers to find safer pesticide substitutions for pest control. -Appointed as the safety engineer for main production buildings including explosive and high hazardous areas. Provided regulatory guidance for equipment safety acceptances for new and updated equipment so that they were OSHA Compliant before returning to the production line, along with corresponding with the employees to help them understood the regulatory requirements. -Safety audits and safety action teams were apart of incident prevention and proactive approaches in the plant. When an incident occurred, investigations took place immediately. -Conducted training for supervisors and new employees in OHSA compliance, safety and environmental regulations. -Lead-based paint inspector including sampling, monitored any contractors on-site for safety and regulatory compliance, and reporting removal and disposal of lead-based paint waste. -Asbestos inspector which included sampling potential ACM, inspecting confirmed asbestos areas for potential or new damage, and help track Title V air permitting requirements.

Asbestos Inspector/Air Monitoring Technician

• Apr 2006 - Jan 2007

Responsibilities: ● Asbestos inspector that provided visual inspections of the facilities to ensure cleanliness before conducting air monitoring TEM clearance sampling to open the area back up for public usage. ● Consultant on guidance to the state and federal regulations on asbestos cleanup, packaging, and control of the materials while on site. ● OSHA Air Monitoring for the compliance of OSHA regulations pertaining to personal and area sampling. ● On-site analysis of area PCM samples taken during asbestos removal activities. ● Collected asbestos bulk samples following state and federal regulations, and sent to a lab in order to determine if the material was an asbestos containing material. ● Lead-based paint inspections of areas before, during, and after lead removal. Using XRF testing, and area wipe sampling techniques.