Manager of Environmental, Health, Safety and Security. Management Representative for Responsible Care RC14001. Train team on Life Critical Safety Systems. Conduct audits and inspections. Member of the emergency response teams (First Aid Responder, Confined Space Entry and Rescue, Incipient Fire Brigade, Hazwopper). Lead incident investigations. Manage DPCC, CRTK, SMR for MCUA, SPPP, Title V, and NJPDES site permits. Provide leadership for the development, implementation, enforcement and continuous improvement of company’s environmental, health and safety policies, procedures, and processes. • Define, model and communicate a positive “Zero-injury” and Zero harm to the environment” culture.• Provide leadership in Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security compliance initiatives, including employee training.• Manage all site OSHA compliance activities. Provide process engineering expertise with a focus on Process Safety Management (PSM); Management of Change (MOC); and Process Hazard Analysis (PHA). Conduct and support process safety audits and audit follow up. Maintain critical documentation of EHS&S programs.• Lead site Emergency Response Team; conduct drills, and provide required training.• Co-chair and provide technical support and direction to the Perth Core Safety Team (CST).• Manage the plant’s responsibilities under the Title V air permit. Assure that the plant maintains all requirements set forth to minimize emissions.• Manage the plant’s responsibilities under the EPA and NJDEP as they pertain to plant waste. Assure that the plant maintains a Pollution Prevention Plan and actively works to reduce, an reuse waste generated by the plant.• Manage Responsible Care RC14001

Provide leadership for the implementation, enforcement and continuous improvement of company’s environmental, health and safety policies and processes. Plan, direct and implement new corporate policies, procedures and standards at five sites. Successfully identified the need for and established ten major safety systems and OSHA compliance throughout the corporation including: policy and procedure development, training, implementation, visible management, facility and area specific safety auditing and record keeping. Partner with OSHA by participating in their Outreach program to make improvements in industrial hygiene, training programs, and safety infrastructures.Develop and manage EHS programs so that employees are injury free and have a high degree of consciousness and ownership about safety and health issues through continuous communication strategies, such as bulletin board postings, signage, safety topics of the month, safety newsletter, seminars, etc. Track metrics, develop EHS budget and communicate EHS progress, status and issues to the entire organization including high end presentations to executive management team.Conduct and document Job Hazard Analysis for all manufacturing job functions that included personal protective equipment and necessary training requirements. Design and implement modified machine guards and safety devices to eliminate hazards and conform to OSHA standards. Redesign existing work stations to improve on ergonomics and streamline the manufacturing processes. Continue to support corporate engineering team eliminating the need for a part time mechanical project engineer.Manage environmental permits to ensure compliance and interfaced with regulatory agencies on environmental matters. Manage and develop environmental sustainability initiatives including calculating and tracking the carbon footprint, improvements in recycling and trash reduction, energy conservation, and minimizing waste of raw materials.

Manage multiple projects of various types and magnitude to successfully meet company goals.Use Six Sigma concepts (Define Measure Analyze Improve and Control) and Lean to enhance manufacturing processes to reduce waste, increase production, reduce operator interface, improve health conditions and reduce hazards in the plant.Improve working conditions, solve excessive heat problems in the plant and ventilate confined spaces to meet OSHA requirements and drop the temperature (during summer months) by 25 degrees.Designed and managed an office expansion project to house 25 new employees and relocate an R&D tooling center to an alternate location in the plant.Project managed and designed modifications to the parking lot to add twelve more parking spaces.Redesigned and improved ergonomic work cells in the packaging line by streamlining the process, eliminating static, and reducing uncomfortable repetitive motions.Assisted in the design, construction and start-up of an 180,000 sq. ft. facility in China (from green field to occupancy) including process design of injection molding manufacturing for food utensils.Project Managed and assisted in the design, construction and start-up of a 250,000 sq. ft. facility in Kentucky (from green field to occupancy) including process design of 10 extrusion thermoforming lines for food display products.Participate in the design of a new corporate office by developing building layouts, office designs, a corporate fitness center and a state of the art R&D center for use by architects. This significantly reduced the cost to architectural design firms.

Responsible for managing medium to large scale engineering projects from start to finish. Primary focus on mechanical installations, equipment design and modifications. Emphasis on introducing new technologies, increasing productivity, ease of operations, improve safety and staying competitive in the tape manufacturing industry.• Design conceptions, equipment specifications, design reviews, equipment acceptance, installations and start up to make sure that equipment meets the needs of the company. • Created project plans, identified unanticipated complications and met with internal departments, vendors and contractors to outline and put in place the necessary actions required to accomplish a common goal and to keep projects on track and within budget. • Generated capital expense reports including project summaries, justifications, anticipated results and financial requirements to obtain upper management approval, generate awareness and to stay within the predetermined corporate annual budget. • Designed, developed and installed explosion proof, intrinsically safe mixing department to enable mixing of raw materials and save money on purchasing costly premixed ingredients for making adhesive. • Supervised contractors, installers, maintenance mechanics and electricians during project phase and coordinate operator and preventative maintenance training for all in-house personnel to insure proper installation, use and care of new equipment.

Responsible for mechanical project engineering of industrial printing presses and web converting equipment for in-house use including design, detail and implementation of new machinery to mass produce continuously evolving printed advertisements for the marketing industry. • Planned, organized and expedited projects and supervised installations of entire web handling systems and modifications of industrial machinery to insure companies niche market in printing industry. • Generated purchase orders, tracked project finances, created milestone schedules and projected status reports to insure procurement of necessary machine components and to make sure that projects stay within budget and on time. • Administered and developed standards for an AutoCAD network system and obtained in-house auditor certification for ISO-9001 (Quality Management Systems) and ISO-14001 (Environmental Management Systems) to insure engineering department stays up to date with industry standards. • Designed and detailed high-speed imagers, former conveyors (folders), cutters, drying bridges, ribbon turn-bar gluers and a variety of other industrial machines and servo driven electromechanical devices to improve processes, increase productivity and significantly reduce downtime for maintenance. • Assisted in the development of improved application processes for micro-encapsulated perfume slurries, lipsticks, and various cosmetics into blister pack samples that helped to reduce waste and improve product quality.

Responsible for conceiving, laying out and designing of moderate to high speed pneumatic and electromechanical bulk solids material handling conveying equipment to satisfy the needs of costumers in the pharmaceutical and food handling industries.• Performed necessary design calculations, generated bills of material and developed sheet metal layouts and CNC laser programs that helped guide and assist fabricators and assemblers to produce uniquely original equipment in timely manner. • Supervised projects of engineering staff allowed senior management to develop project scopes and increase engineering throughput. • Worked with and provided technical guidance to the machine shop and production departments to eliminate confusion and increase productivity.