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Paducah, Ky, Us

Paduach, Ky

Managing a small marine surveying and appraisal company.

Paducah, Kentucky, United States

Performed management consulting for a small privately owned river transportation, shipyard, and limestone aggregate terminal.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Provided the corporate leadership for all disciplines for a multiple facility organization including: mining, logistics, maintenance shop, land management, and material testing laboratory. Directed the development of long-term operational, safety, health, environmental, financial, and major investment plans including: large-scale mining plans, ES&H initiatives, major equipment purchases, land acquisitions, and capital investments. Demonstrated a personal commitment to understanding and developing employee safety, health, environmental, and cultural initiatives to enhance the safety and environmental performance and develop a top tier workplace culture. - Demonstrated the leadership to ensure each facility adjusted expenses and production to maintain a competitive position in an ever declining coal market. - Led the development and implementation of a Human Performance Initiative (HPI) plan to further improve the safety, environmental, and operational performance. - Managed major capital projects ($140 million plus) from conceptual idea through final operational acceptance. - Chaired the Confined Space Team that redesigned the Confined space program, company wide, to eliminate risk and enhance employee application. - Commissioned the installation of all corporate accounting, procurement, and asset management systems and policies at a large-scale mining operation to verify corporate alignment. - Established Standard Work writing procedures for safety, environmental, and operational tasks to develop a more consistent application of work standards.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Senior leader for fuel preparation, transportation, and maintenance shop organization. Directed the development and implementation of all operational, safety, environmental, cultural, financial, and major projects for 140 employee group operating five facilities in three states. Led all corporate related activities associated with federal and state regulatory compliance in each state jurisdiction. Managed the development and performance of the safety and environmental programs both from a corporate perspective and plant level. Led the labor relations contractual responsibilities including: negotiations, compliance, and grievance settlements. - Lead a diverse team of corporate disciplines to complete the regulatory seperation of a terminal facility to ensure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements. - Implemented the first ever application of all corporate safety, health, and environmental policies resulting in zero safety and environmental events in the second year. -Successfully navigated through regulatory, legal, and trust requirements to fund benefit obligations. - Introduced Uniform Event Analysis (UEA) and Latent Cause Analysis (LCA) to enhance event investigation techniques and develop a broader learning culture across the organization. - Established a contractor employee training program to ensure contractor safety and environmental performance equivalent to internal performance expectations.

Chesterfield, Missouri

Led the logistics group consisting of twenty dispatchers overseeing the daily logistics for an eighty towboat and 3,300 barge marine fleet operating on the inland waterways. Directed the barge maintenance and barge construction group responsible for all the maintenance and capital expenditures.

Chesterfield, Missouri

Directed the engineering and construction group performing the vessel mechanical operations, maintenance, and fueling processes for an eighty towboat fleet. - Established an Engineer training program for boat engineers to advance safety, environmental, and technical skills. - Directly oversaw the engineering design and construction of thirty towboats at more than $200 million in capital investment. - Lead the procurement group purchasing more than $200 million in fuel and supplies annually. - Implemented revised fueling procedures resulting in zero fuel spills while transferring 100 million gallons annually.

Metropolis, Illinois

Provided the plant level leadership for all aspects of the Operations, Maintenance, Safety, Environmental, Labor Relations, and Financial for a 17 million ton terminal and railcar maintenance shop. - Developed and executed business plans allowing the plant to remain low-cost delivery option for company’s generating plants. - Personally provided the plant leadership for the development, application, and performance of the safety, health, and environmental to ensure the highest level of employee safety and environmental stewardship resulting in below industry incident rate and zero environmental events during this time period. - Led the Safety Ergonomic Committee eliminating numerous risks. - Delivered scheduled product without a single contractual default and generating $30 million in gross revenue annually. - Led the logistical coordination between the delivery of coal by rail and the coal loading onto river barges for multiple customers without a single contractual deficiency. - Directed the evaluation and scheduling of a multi-year mechanical conveyor system maintenance renewal process performed by internal labor resulting in more than $1.0 million in savings. - Lead management’s responsibilities to negotiate and apply the labor contract.

Metropolis, Illinois

Directed daily operations and maintenance for 17 million ton terminal and railcar maintenance shop, overseeing frontline supervision, workforce scheduling, logistics, O&M expenditures, and communicating with customers, railroads, and barge lines. Managed daily operational level safety and environmental activities, ensuring application and compliance with all corporate, plant, and federal requirements. - Planned and executed plant operations, maintenance, and logistics for rail deliveries and barge loading along with product storage for multiple customers. - Led the plant safety team performing safety inspections, event investigations, development of OSHA compliance plans, and development of safety communications and OSHA training criteria. - Responsible for understanding, training, and applying all aspects of the federal and state EPA permits. No violation over this period. - Directed planning for both short and long-term plant maintenance resulting in 95% plant availability. - Coordinated inspection and configuration of trains, performing railroad required inspections and maintenance, without receiving a single violation. - Oversaw the daily application of labor contract including: job assignments, work schedules, employees policies, overtime distribution, and grievance hearings.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Safety Engineering Technology

Associate Of Science - As, Mechanical Engineering