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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Retaining all responsibilities from previous position with additional accountability for EHS legal services incorporating a wider breadth of risk mitigation.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Providing strategic oversight for Environmental Health and Safety matters.Leading a team of 48 EHS professionals with 6 direct reports. Designing and implementing new tools such as the IMPACT software created to drive EHS performances to levels considered as industry excellence. Creating process excellence through corporate assurance.Maintaining corporate governance, while building strong business partnerships with leaders of all functional areas.Building strong collaborative links with local community groups, federal agencies and governmental forums.

Bloomfield, Ct, Us

Responsible for assuring compliance with all applicable federal and local regulations.Tasked with strategic implementation of behavoral based safety through out the JVS organisation to create best in class performance in all lagging and leading indicators. Creating a robust safety process which ensured compliance and gained commitemnt from all levels with in the buisness. Acted as a consultative support for all senior leaders. Providing support for facilites in North America and China,

Moline, Il, Us

John Deere Co. Ltd Des Moines Works (JDDMW) 2013 – 2014Senior Health and Safety Engineer Approving area lay out changes, including construction and mechanical designs. Implementing a safety strategy that will continue to drive JDDMW to a level of excellence in safety, designing and presenting new and innovative safety training material, making various ongoing recommendations regarding safety practices answering day to day safety enquiries, ensuring ongoing compliance to relevant legislation. Ensuring relationship between functional areas are affective.

Irving, Texas, Us

Group Global Safety Manager, With five direct reports and two indirect reports.Responsible for replication of best practice across all fields of EHS to ensure excellence in performance at all levels of the business. Working at GM and VP level to advise and steer new dynamic recipe for improvement throughout the whole organisation including facilities in North America, France, UK, China Responsible for implementing a culture change model, designed to achieve excellence in safety performance. Inclusive of a unionised facility (KK East Peoria, Illinois) in year one designed and implemented the “Vision Zero” process which achieved 46% improvement in RIF, 65% in LTCFR 85% in Lost Days.

Irving, Texas, Us

Caterpillar Advanced Systems and Components Division. With six direct reports and eleven indirect reports. Working at VP and director level, responsibilities included various global “Best Practice” projects, divisional succession planning, budgeting, training, and strategic planning.responsible for two divisions, eleven manufacturing plants in North America, and globally.

Peterborough, Gb

Responsible for a team of safety, environmental, fire and security professionals covering a site of more than 4500 employees, also supporting 5 other Perkins facilities including sites in Brazil and the US. Responsible for advising and guiding the board, and business units on matters of strategic importance, and local compliance with respect to health, safety and environmental issues. Following a career progression, in addition to environmental, health and safety responsibilities, the role incorporated a number of other direct activities including:• The assessment of the fire protection capability, compliance to legislative Fire Assessment Protocol• The assessment and implementation of new security systems and procedures including; control card access, CCTV. Executive home surveillance. • Negotiating a new multi-site, multi-year security contract with a 3rd party provider. Responsible for leading the site strategy to reduce all incidents and injuries in its target campaign of “TARGET ZERO”. The campaign was successful in reducing accidents and injuries in the workplace and has led to overall reduction of injuries to circa 75%. The significant reduction in accidents / injuries was achieved by the following• Cultural behaviour based safety process.• Implementation of management system to ensure close out of incidents.• Design and implemented a advanced risk assessment process.• Effective safety communications network, which included an intranet web site, safety alerts, safety bulletins and a high impact safety newsletter.• Fully validated health, safety and environmental training.• Best practice based on benchmarking of other facilities (DuPont).• Liaison with company insurers for compensation claims and dispute of non-work related claims.

Ehs Executive Leadership

Chartered Member 2007., Occupational Safety

Bachelor'S Degree, Environmental, Health And Safety Practice