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Health and Safety Specialist for a three unit steam electric plant, two hydro plants and two remote combustion turbine sites. Responsible for all aspects of occupational safety compliance, including plant operations, and outage activities. Accountable for reviewing and developing safety processes and procedures Conductor of onsite safety audits of facilities.Investigator and evaluator of new safety equipment for appropriateness.Industrial Hygiene monitoring program manager and coordinator.Member of the Zero Injury Team.

Performed all daily preventative maintenance duties and other duties as required to support plant operations.Executed Fix It Now (Critical Repair) duties on a monthly rotational basis.Worked on emergent issues when needed such as pulverizer rebuilds and tube leak repairs.Member of the plant Safety Council.Resource shared as Mechanic and Safety Specialist.Qualified on personal air monitoring and confined space monitoring.

Developed and implemented safe operating procedures for employee safety training.Conducted periodic surveys, audits of protective equipment and manufacturing environments.Conducted all personnel safety and industrial lift truck training.Documented, investigated and reported all safety incidents.Responsible for environmental safety of plant and grounds.Assisted Maintenance Technicians on operational, environmental and safety issues.

Developed and implemented written programs for employee safety training. This included the following: Hazard Communication, Confined Space Entry, Lockout/Tag-out, Hot Work, Hazard Assessment, Personal Protective Equipment, Respiratory Protection, Hearing Conservation, Emergency Action Plans, Fall Protection, Industrial Lift training, Contractor Training, and Accident Investigations.Implemented Industrial Hygiene Assessment process emphasing hazard exposures.Supervised periodic surveys, audits, and assessments of protective equipment and manufacturing environments.Conducted all personnel safety and industrial lift truck training.Documented, investigated, reported, and resolved all safety incidents and employee accidents.Developed and implemented OSHA audit inspections required by North Carolina.Responsible for hazardous systems audits, findings and resolutions.Conducted training and maintained DOT records for 11 commercially licensed drivers.

Responsible for production equipment, building repairs and other assigned maintenance duties.Fabricated and installed stainless steel, galvanized steel, mild steel, fiberglass and PVC piping systems.Replaced large-scale electrical motors and performed precision coupling alignments. Rebuilt large-scale gearboxes, pumps and agitators for plant process.Performed preventative and predictive maintenance actions.Installed new equipment and their drive components on capital projects.