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Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada

Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Worked as an operator and instrumentation technician. Operating a pilot plant that produces ethanol from wood chips. The plant was not designed to operate in the winter months.

Sarnia, Ontario

16 years experience in the Wastewater treatment field that includes asset management and First Line Supervisor experience. Professional, creative thinking and team leadership who goes the extra mile to get the job done.

Petrolia, Ontario

Responsible for managing one extended aeration wastewater treatment plant in Petrolia and one lagoon system in Oil Springs. CH2MHILL held contracts with these two different municipalities to operate and maintain their systems. I was deemed the “Overall Responsible Operator” according to the Ministry of the Environment. Duties include:Managed all aspects of operating and maintaining the facilities such as holding regular communication meetings with the municipalitiesOrganising sub-contracts for maintenance, scheduling operational work and both preventative and corrective maintaince work and logging and closing out of all maintanence work on the computerized maintenance system. Writing weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports including developing standard operating procedures and job safety analysis.Responsible for all health and safety at the two projects including training, reporting and inspecting of the jobsites and work practices.Responsible for procurement of all goods and maintaining applicable budgets.Responsible for the supervision of one staff member.Responsible for operating and maintaining compliance of the systems within the guidelines of the Environmental Compliance Approval (formerly called a certificate of approval) including laboratory analysis of samples.

I started off working in the driers as a yard man moving trailers and taking samples of the dried product. 6 months later I was moved to the water stream where I operated the biggest section of the plant. I took samples of the different areas of the water stream, mainly the drum thickeners. The water stream included the inlet screens, grit removal, lamella tanks, odour control units, SBRs and the UV plant. In late 2009 I volunteered to move to the Thermal Hydrolysis plant which also included operating the anaerobic digesters and the combined heat and power plant. I took samples and analysed them in order to troubleshoot the process.2006- 2008: Daly Duties, Crumlin, Dublin 12.Position: When I first moved to Ireland I started working as a gardener and landscaper with Daly Duties. I gained much experience in the area, and even took up a course in horticulture. I had done the accounts with the company, dealt with clients and had integrated well into the Irish culture.

Waste Water Treatment Plant (30,000 cubic metres per day flow) As sub-foreperson, I performed all of the operational duties (see below) as well as organised and ran operational meetings. Organised operator duties, team schedules, submitted work notifications and assisted plant maintenance staff in implementation of all work programs. Ordered chemicals and supplies and submitted the payroll. I performed monthly health and safety inspections. I wrote various reports for management and the ministry of the environment.

Treatment Plant (30,000 cubic metres per day flow)As part of the operating team, I took samples of all parts of the plant (including the incoming flow, the primary clarifiers, MLSS, secondary clarifiers, anaerobic digesters, ferric chloride and chlorine)and analysed them in the lab and made appropriate changes to the process. I operated all pumps and associated equipment with the plant and 22 outlying pump stations. As part of a team we performed annual maintenance on the process including cleaning out tanks and wetwells for inspection. As a team, we converted our calculations from manual to spreadsheet form and changed from running the plant based on SRT only to a Total Mass Control of the process, encorporating all of the mass in the plant.

In this role I analysed and removed copper from the wastewater effluent using a batch treatment process. I was a management representative on the Joint Health and Safety Committee, and prepared various chemical inventories.

I analysed and removed copper from the wastewater effluent of a printed circuit board manufacturing process using a decationising and electrowinning system. I ordered and handled hazardous materials, and performed various laboratory duties including titrations and spectrophotometry.

Instrumentation And Control Engineering Technician

Certificate In First Line Management, Management

Environmental Technology

Diploma, Environmental Technology