Patrick R. Houle, C.P.G. Email & Phone Number

Coldwater, Mi, Us

Vaughan, Ontario, Ca

Manager for all EHS aspects for plants in Michigan, Indiana, and northern Kentucky. Safety team member responsible for new robotic cell design and implementation. Auditor for corporate EHS programs and ISO 14001. Trainer for LOTO, Confined Space, Crane/Powered Industrial Truck operations and various other OSHA/EPA related requirements. Developed and oversaw the Critical Response Team for incident investigation and first responder activities. Lead management safety walk activities. Site liaison during MIOSHA investigations.

Avon Lake, Ohio, Us

• Managed HSE aspects for plants located in Michigan and Indiana. • Managed the implementation of a specialized hand and arm safety program related to extrusion equipment• Managed in implementation of a molten plastic burn zone safety procedure• Assisted in audits of corporate HSE program merger (Avient purchased Clariant Masterbatch)

Goslar, De

• Team leader on wastewater cost reduction project reducing the waste water cost by over 50% in less than six months. • Managed NPDES, Air quality, and POTW permits. Negotiated the re-issuance of the air quality permit. • Performed audits on new equipment installation including induction furnaces, robots, material blenders, and lathe/CNC machines.• Champion of the ITAR program.• Champion of the ISO 14001 program • Reduced TRIR to below 2.0.

• Oversaw staff performing industrial hygiene projects, Phase I ESAs, Phase II ESAs, LUST Closure reporting, and BEA preparation. • Managed the professional growth of employees. • Managed corporate cliental including banks, real estate companies, municipalities, and food manufacturing industries.• Reported directly to the CFO and company ownership.

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Regional Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Manager responsible for safety and environmental aspects for six plants throughout the United States and Mexico. Assisting business and plant management to drive operational ownership and provide HSE subject matter expertise to accomplish plant and regional HSE goals. Provide direct supervision of site HSE professionals including establishing goals and objectives, coaching, mentoring, and development consistent with corporation goals, targets and behaviors. Provide technical oversight when working with regulatory agencies (local, state, and federal) and outside consultants.

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Manager responsible for safety and environmental aspects of two plants within a market leader in aluminum recycling and specification alloy production. Providing guidance to plant managers and personnel on key safety initiatives, leading teams and performing incident reporting to both corporate management and regulatory agencies. Lead contact when State agencies arrive on site for inspections or sampling events. Regular participant and coordinator of safety meeting and environmental review meetings. Coordinator the collection and reporting on National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) to corporate HSE leaders and state/federal agencies. Team leader for compliance with Federal Homeland Security issues related to storage and control of priority hazardous chemicals. Team leader for permit preparation on major capital improvement projects. Team was multi-dimensional involving plant management, corporate management, engineering, maintenance, regulatory personnel, and consultants. Team leader responsible for determining the feasibility of interactive training and learning management systems (LMS) meeting the requirement of OSHA and corporate annual training. Team participant on KAIZEN event for the improvement of an ingot casting line. Coordinate the collection of samples for waste characterization and provide documentation for disposal approval. Review all capital request documents related to HSE concerns. Participant in plant management meeting with reporting responsibility on the environmental status of the plants and any issues that affect the health and safety of the employees. Team leader for projects related to reporting and communication of HSE information to plant personnel. This team ultimately determined the feasibility of a computer based electronic screen reporting “Real Time” information on a digital display board.

Responsible for all activities of a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) environmental consulting company. Responsibilities include all aspects of project completion ranging from proposal preparation to final invoicing. Special emphasis on corporate health and safety planning and writing site specific health and safety plans. Project experience includes Health & Safety oversight of BOP furnace reconstruction at steel mills with responsibility for the safety of over 120 boilermakers, iron workers, and support personnel during the night shift construction activities. Performing Health and Safety facility verification services at new steel pipe manufacturing facility, responsible for ambient/task lighting survey and air quality testing.

Flint, Michigan, Us

Responsibility to establish Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy (DSP) as a premiere pharmacy supplying clotting factor products for the treatment centers, attend trade shows to present DSP to specific communities, attend meeting with pharmaceutical company representatives, and search non-traditional settings for additional clients. Responsible for patient contact relating to ordering specific drugs and ancillary supplies, patient meetings, and handling patient complaints in a manner that complies with all appropriate laws and regulations from the OIG and ACHC accreditation standards.

Environmental consulting/building science/energy conservation company providing services to industrial, commercial, and residential clients. Multi-faceted consulting with clients on projects that involved environmental problems including indoor air quality, building performance, and energy usage. Additional projects involve industrial hygiene, Phase I and Phase II ESAs, underground storage tanks, and Brownfield redevelopments. Building performance projects include green building design, energy performance design, ventilation systems design and healthy living and environmental design for residential building projects. I have also performed audits related to low income weatherization projects and been a contractor on several projects relating to the correction of energy related issues on low income residential, residential, and commercial projects. Additional projects have included water damage repair, deck construction, plaster repair in historic homes, bathroom remodeling, window construction and repair in historic homes, and home construction general contracting.

President and COO of construction and environmental services company specializing in residential projects

Manager of environmental site investigations, remediation, and regulatory compliance projects at commercial and industrial facilities. Responsibilities included the development and implementation of regulatory compliance strategies, project budgeting, budget tracking, personnel management, scheduling of personnel and equipment, coordination of subcontractors, data review and analysis, preparation and review of technical reports, and quality assurance/quality control.

Consultant and scientist on many Phase I Environmental Site Assessments that involved site reconnaissance, regulatory agency review and site history reviews to determine if the subject property may have been negatively impaired by site activities or the activities of a site near the subject site. Additional site assessment experience included conducting Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, Baseline Environmental Assessments, coordination of subcontractors, equipment, drilling activities for field investigations, implementation of field investigations including soil/groundwater sampling.

Consultant on Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments. Assessments involved historical property use review and on-site investigation of identified risk factors. Other assignments included surveying, magnetometer testing and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveying. Engineering technician involved with several types of construction projects including testing of foundations, soil, concrete, bituminous concrete, and structural steel. Laboratory testing included hydrometer testing, Atterberg limits, Proctor Tests, soil boring log classification, sieve analysis, constant head and falling head permeability tests, laboratory testing of concrete, bituminous concrete.

Bs, Geology

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