Lee Travis Email & Phone Number

Canada

Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, US

• Leading Health, Safety and Environment in the construction and technical services industry that strengthens and develops North America's infrastructure.
• Reporting to the CEO, and accountable for the corporate health, safety and environment strategy, implementation, and administration of the HSE programs. Leading a team of 12 team members, inclusive of 1 Director and 3.
• Established a corporate HSE strategy to align all corporate and business units under a unified HSE program to increase consistency and compliance across the entire organization to ensure performance in meeting customer.
• Implemented an integrated and comprehensive safety management system, a cloud-based application to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the HSE process to improve compliance and performance.
• Established a new HSE organizational structure to align and define roles and responsibilities in support of business unit requirements and to ensure equality and equity between team members.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Designed and executed corporate wide safety culture plan that improved company safety maturity measures by 25% through business unit safety cultures alignment across 3 countries and languages.
• A trusted and sought out consultant to corporate Health, Safety and Emergency Management leadership team – provided inputs, linkages, audits, and incident investigations that ensured department programs alignment to.
• Recognized accomplished developer, implementor, technical expert for high-risk safety procedures including safety work permit, job safety analysis, excavation, ground disturbance, confined space, fall protection.
• Partnered with Business Unit leadership to support on-site inspections, audits, and incident investigations to identify gaps, root causes and create corrective and preventative action plans to mitigate gaps and.
• Spearheaded integration efforts of the Incident Management Program within individual business units for a newly acquired $10 billion company - Columbia Pipeline Group.
• Achieved industry recognition as Co-Chair of Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, Health and Safety Taskforce, as a contributing member of Canadian Energy Pipeline Association Safety Culture Committee and a.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Tapped to take over Safety Management role – collaborated with Director and successfully navigated 5-month dynamic, 3 country re-organization – earned trust of 12-member team maintaining safety program integrated into.
• Monitored Health and Safety trends with leading and lagging indicators, communicated performance to Board of Directors, Executives and Senior Level Leadership teams along with Business Unit and Project leaders.
• Facilitated, coached, and mentored Management and department personnel to seamlessly maintain performance and implementation of safety program in alignment with Operational Management System.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Directed day-to-day operations of 15-member Supplier Pre-qualification team and oversaw Supply Chain Administration Manager during rapid company growth and major project expansion - ensured adequate contractor.
• Managed 2500+ vendor Safety Pre-qualification Program (ISNetworld) and coordinated administration of the corporate fleet vehicle, freight and customs, in-house contractors, document control and quality assurance.
• Identified and implemented several strategic initiatives to simplify and streamline vendor safety pre-qualification process which achieved $200K yearly cost savings and increases vendor compliance and approval ratings.
• Negotiated new corporate fleet vehicle service vendor reducing cost by 22% - reduced cross boarder tariffs, increased shipping compliance – in alignment to NAFTA.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Headed, planned and implemented the health, safety and environmental processes for the 130+ member U.S. and Canadian pipeline construction and maintenance project teams, who managed a $300 million annual spend.
• Reduced critical safety incidents to zero by implementing ground disturbance and excavation risk hazard control measures, during the pipeline construction season, which previously accounted for 53% of excavation.
• Established and facilitated the Joint Health, Safety and Environment Committee which empowered worker safety input.

Strathmore, Alberta, CA

• Directed the daily operations of this internationally recognized and specialized safety training organization, who develops and delivers safety compliance and safety leadership training to major oil and gas company.
• Established and maintained high quality customer service while experiencing 200% growth in sales over a 5-year period.
• Built alliances with external stakeholders, organizations and clients such as Common Ground Alliance and the National Safety Association for Canadian oil and gas producers.
• A competent technical safety instructor for health and safety regulatory compliance courses including confined space, fall protection, hazardous atmospheres, respiratory protection, incident investigation, work permits.
• Recognized as a technical expert in ground disturbance and underground facility damage prevention and served as the Chair of the Alberta Common Ground Alliance Committee.