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North Little Rock, Ar

Responsible for providing leadership and direction to regional management to ensure compliance with corporate environmental programs. Assisting front line, mid-level, and executive management to achieve corporate environmental objectives. Day to day responsibilities include compliance with federal and state regulations pertaining to DOT, CWA, RCRA, NPDES, SARA, FRA, CERCLA and TSCA. Coordination of FRP and ERP compliance programs for two bulk crude oil storage facilities. Responsibilities include providing status reports to management on critical compliance issues and conducting regulatory compliance assessments. Over sight of management personnel during regulatory agency inspections, compliance audits, emergency response, hazard assessments, internal exercises and post incident corrective actions. Designated program manager for regional FRA, TSCA, NORM, ACM and GAP assessment programs.

Little Rock, Ar

Responsible for developing and implementing corporate EHS programs across seven states. Supported and develop procedures, training and presentations related to programs, regulatory changes and internal needs to provide consistent communications to division personnel.Supervised direct reports located in multiple states. Performed annual goals and objectives reviews with direct reports and developed annual performance plans. Reviewed proposals, budgets and managed 3rd party training programs across multiple regional assets. Provided support for the analysis of regulatory policy positions, including coordinating input from all affected internal stakeholders. Provided regulatory guidance in regards to waste management programs. Provided EHS support during capital construction projects involving multiple internal and external stakeholders. Responsible for responding to company incidents including but not limited to emergency response, spills, releases, pipeline failures, employee/contractor injuries/illnesses, and vehicular incidents. Implemented industrial hygiene programs, near miss investigations, safety alerts, emergency action plans, mock audits and emergency response drills. Responsible for responding to company incidents including but not limited to emergency response, spills, releases, pipeline failures, employee/contractor injuries/illnesses, and vehicular incidents. Day to day responsibilities include compliance with federal and state regulations pertaining to DOT, NFPA, NIOSH, OSHA, CWA, CAA, RCRA, NPDES, SARA, RST, CERCLA and TSCA.

North Little Rock, Ar

Responsible for the effective implementation of the corporate EHS management system for an ISO 14001 manufacturing facility. Project manager for a $ 200,000 safety improvement initiative.Team leader responsible for the effectiveness of area safety committees. Reduced overall workplace incident rate by 50%. First year reduction in Workers Compensation costs of 15%. Second year reduction in Workers Compensation cost of 50%. Responsible for developing safety and environmental training modules conducting workplace sampling for occupational health issues, job safety analysis, internal audits, behavior based observations, surveillances, and accident investigations. Day to day responsibilities include compliance with federal and state regulations pertaining to DOT, NFPA, NIOSH, OSHA, CWA, CAA, RCRA, NPDES, SARA, RST, CERCLA and TSCA. Coordinate the participation of management personnel during regulatory agency inspections, compliance audits, emergency response drills, hazard assessments, contractor safety inspections and post incident corrective actions. Project manager for a $100,000 water treatment improvement project.

North Little Rock, Ar

Licensed operator of locomotives by remote control or manually. Responsible for the safe movement of freight trains within the regional transportation hub.

Little Rock, Arkansas

Responsible for writing 16 site specific Stormwater, Spill Prevention and Waste Reduction Plans. Provided on site USACE Section 404 permitting assistance to regional engineering offices.

Seguin, Tx

Supervised the EHS compliance programs for manufacturing facilities located in five different states. Established OSHA compliant programs and plans to include Emergency Response, Lock Out Tag Out, Respiratory Protection, Confined Space Entry, Hazardous Materials Communication, Power Industrial Vehicle Operator Certification, Hearing Conservation, and Catastrophic Crisis Management. Coordinated internal audits, emergency evacuation drills, incident investigations and job safety hazard assessments. Trained management to perform ergonomic evaluations and implement corrective actions to facilitate the reduction of accident claims. Compiled and analyzed data on Workers Compensation claims achieving a 30% reduction in overall cost. Experience includes Phase 1 site assessments, hazardous waste disposal site audits and identifying SARA 313 reporting requirements.

Fort Smith, Arkansas

District field inspector responsible for industrial site inspections, complaint investigations, and compliance sampling.