Mike Baker

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Senior Leadership in Safety & Environment @ GE Vernova
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada, Canada
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About Mike Baker

A visible learning leader with an extensive career portfolio. My career is dedicated to growing new businesses and leading big step change improvements in HSE & Operations/Maintenance performance and Risk Management within the Energy, Mining/Resource and Academic sectors by focusing on people, strategy, leadership, collaboration, and simplicity. Extensive senior corporate and front-line operations exposure and experience at multiple different plant and processing environments, and companies across all scales and sizes. I am proud of my diverse business exposure and augmented experience over broad range of roles that advance continuous improvement, Lean deployment, cost leadership, organizational change, and cultural transformation across entire asset lifecycle. Equally comfortable in mega projects as well as medium and small-scale operations and projects. I have a passion for leveraging quality of HSE systems fuelled by strong leadership, with unwavering attention to the realities, challenges and opportunities of energy transition. At present I plan to continue my learning in innovation, risk management and adult learning. My future desired roles include senior manager & director/VP level where I can use my decades of experience to guide organizations and to coach/mentor younger staff. I also plan to teach at the college or university level on a part-time basis.My strengths, in-role experiences, & competencies include HSE risk management, Water, geochemistry, Air, and GHG expert, Mining and Energy, Impact Assessments and Regulatory permitting, Expertise and cross-Functional collaboration across HSE, Project & Construction Management, Operations & Maintenance, Lean and CI subject matter expert, Renewable Power (wind and solar), Natural Gas, Insitu Oilsands, Upgrading & Co-generation, Shales, Data & Analytics, Supervision, Training & Coaching teams, Academia Research, Partner & Contractor Oversight, Senior Leadership Teams effectiveness, Water Treatment

Mike Baker's Current Company Details
GE Vernova

Ge Vernova

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Senior Leadership in Safety & Environment
Mike Baker Work Experience Details
  • Ge Vernova
    Environment, Health And Safety Manager
    Ge Vernova Nov 2024 - Present
    Will be supporting the Steam Power / Gas Power business and front-line workers. Excited to dive back into Lean and Continuous Improvement and its application in EHS. Looking forward to learn the GEV management system !
  • Enbridge - Power Operations & Projects
    Safety & Reliability Supervisor - Enbridge Power
    Enbridge - Power Operations & Projects Sep 2020 - Present
  • Shell Energy North America (Canada) Inc.
    Safety & Environment Manager - Shell Canada Light Tight Oil - Unconventionals
    Shell Energy North America (Canada) Inc. Oct 2017 - Present
    London, England, Gb
    HSSE Manager - Responsible for leading team of HSSE professionals that support Shell's Canadian Light Tight Oil Assets in Fox Creek and Gold Creek area of Alberta
  • Shell Energy North America (Canada) Inc.
    Senior Lean Coach / Advisor - Heavy Oil - Thermal Insitu
    Shell Energy North America (Canada) Inc. Jan 2012 - Present
    London, England, Gb
    construction and operations planning for Peace River Carmon Creek Thermal insitu Project
  • Shell Energy North America (Canada) Inc.
    Manager - Operational Excellence & Ci - Insitu & Foothills Assets
    Shell Energy North America (Canada) Inc. Jan 2014 - Jan 2017
    London, England, Gb
    In this position, I steer the overall Operational Excellence Journey for the insitu business, working very closely with the excellent teams at our Peace River and Cold Lake Operations. Shell has an established 28 blade operations excellence program including people, processeses, plant, and production. This program provides the foundation for "how work gets done" in the business and is an integral part of the growth plans for insitu production and for our continuous improvement journey.• Designed first-rate strategy and tactics and led the effective deployment that generated 30 - 50% reduction in unit lifting costs. Led HSE field team that delivered 4 years at Goal Zero through the use of proactive / leading measures and served as figurehead for successful internal HSE-MS audit.• Designed vision, strategy and tactics for multi-year operational excellence program to grow organizational culture and capability for a multi-billion-dollar facility using internal and external benchmarking techniques and compliance and performance and optimization of internal work processes and standards. • Lean Coach and Trainer. Provided top-notch oversight of multiple A3 improvement projects that delivered significant efficiency improvements across operations and maintenance. Collaborated cross-functionally to advance communication and comprehension of key missives and critical updates across wide geographic and business lines. Engaged with multiple manufacturing lean programs to learn and master best practices.
  • Shell Energy North America (Canada) Inc.
    Manager, Environmental & Regulatory Compliance
    Shell Energy North America (Canada) Inc. Jan 2010 - Jan 2012
    London, England, Gb
    Leading the internal and external environmental and regulatory compliance improvement program for oilsands (insitu, mining, and upgrading).• Provided conscientious oversight of all internal and external HSSE reporting for multiple business assets. Supervised internal HSE analyst during the development and deployment of global reporting tools. • Supervised and provided oversight for all internal and external GHG emissions compliance and reporting, including purchase and management of carbon offsets during dynamic period of regulatory change.
  • Enbridge
    Manager - Safety & Reliability - Enbridge - North America Power Operations
    Enbridge Dec 2022 - Nov 2024
    Calgary, Ab, Ca
  • Royal Dutch Shell - Mining / Energy
    Environment, Health And Safety Manager
    Royal Dutch Shell - Mining / Energy Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
    • Designed world-class goals, strategy, and tactics for operations and projects that achieved a year-over-year 50% reduction in significant safety incidents, spills, and environmental non-compliances. Effective management of hazard recognition, investigations, actions, closure of significant incidents including external regulatory compliance. • Achieved step change improvement in road safety through visibility, transparency, coaching, and application of cutting-edge in-vehicle monitoring technology. Led a high-performing HSSE field team and achieved improved team and customer survey results and successfully promoted 5 members of the team, which fostered talent pool efficiency, performance execution, relevant metrics, and overall team or organizational cohesion levels.• Used HSE leading and lagging performance as an effective integration tool across lines of business and functions - Achieved consistently high feedback from customers and stakeholders on the quality of HSSE support to the front-line business across operations, projects, and wells functional organizations.• Acted as highly-competent Shell HSE and Safety Representative on the Joint Health and Safety Committee, the Country Crisis Management Team and Energy Safety Canada / the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, to engage relevant parties and stakeholders in various geographic regions.
  • Royal Dutch Shell
    Manager - Operational Excellence - Unconventionals Foothills Gas
    Royal Dutch Shell Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
    In this position I led a team of process improvement professionals who worked in a challenging "mature harvest" business environment. We successfully worked across three operating Gas plants and three separate operations organizations across large geographic spread to promote and successfully complete various lean and continuous improvement projects across the business. Our focus was on culture, cost, operations, and maintenance. One highlight was the successful applica;tion of CI concepts including simple visual management to a $100M+ major asset turnaround. This project was tons of fun and it was a real thrill to be boots on the ground with turnaround staff and contract personnel working as one team !
  • Shell Canada
    Environment Team Lead - Upstream Americas
    Shell Canada Mar 2007 - Dec 2009
    Leading the Environment Team for insitu oilsands and upstream gas activities across Shell Canada (Alberta & BC).• Responsible for delivering a $10M Environmental Impact Assessment. Delivered on time and on budget and high quality such that it led to the shortest mining oilsands joint review panel hearing on record (3 days).• Delivered multiple and successful regulatory approvals and renewals to the satisfaction of business leaders and leader of a multi-discipline team of regulatory professionals (14 staff), including mentoring, coaching, development, recognition, and promotion. Demonstrated leadership on multiple multi-stakeholder committees aimed at facilitating common understanding between industry and communities.
  • Shell Canada
    Oilsands Eia Coordinator - Muskeg River Mine Expansion Project
    Shell Canada Jan 2004 - Mar 2007
    Responsible for gettting the successful EIA and project application approval for the Shell Muskeg River Mine Expansion Project, including project managing the regulatory process.
  • Shell Canada
    Senior Environmental Specialist
    Shell Canada Jan 2002 - Jan 2004
    Supporting regulatory and environmental activities during startup and ramp up phase of the new Athabasca Oil Sands Project
  • Rio Tinto Minerals: Diavik Diamond Mines Inc.
    Site Environmental Coordinator
    Rio Tinto Minerals: Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. 1997 - 2001
    Development, Regulatory Permitting.Site tailings and waste rock geochemisty strategy and monitoring programSite regualtory compliance and site environemental management during construction
  • University Of Waterloo
    Research Associate
    University Of Waterloo 1996 - 1997
    Conducted hydrogeology and geochemistry field sampling programs focussed on contaminant hydrogeology. Sites included mine tailings, metal contamination, nutrient contamination

Mike Baker Skills

Environmental Impact Assessment Environmental Awareness Petroleum Gas Energy Industry Upstream Project Planning Energy Project Management Oil And Gas Safety Management Systems Mining Change Management Natural Gas Earth Science Hydrogeology Factory Environmental Compliance

Mike Baker Education Details

  • University Of Waterloo
    University Of Waterloo
    Geochemistry
  • Mount Royal University
    Mount Royal University
    Project Management
  • Mount Royal  College
    Mount Royal College
    Project Management

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