Manager Safety
Resume:
Michael Putz
Aiea, *****, Hawaii, US
Mobile Phone: 480-***-****
Secondary Phone: 480-***-****
E-mail: abgwqq@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE
MY 27 years of training, and experience in safety, production, supervision,
maintenance, scheduling and project management I belive will be a good match for an
employer looking for continued growth. Maintaining a safety culture, profitability and
efficiencies are a continued effort in any operation and I believe I would be a great
asset. To keep people motivated, involved, informed and listened to and basic
communication I have found pays big dividends in the bottom line.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Project / Site Safety Manager
August 2011 - present
Southwest Tank Scottsdale, AZ 85258
Construction - Industrial Facilities and Infrastructure
This is a temporary position that I was asked to assist with by Southwest Tank. The job
is a fuel tank bottom replacement at Pearl Harbor. Southwest tank was formed by a
group of professionals that broke away from my former employer MMI Tank & Ind.
This temporary position starts end of August through October? My wife wanted to be
closer to family and friends so we will be moving to Oahu on 8/16/11. Southwest Tank is
aware of this move and asked my if I was interested in assisting with the project, fully
understanding the need to secure permanent status with an employer at our new
location.
The responsibilities will be site safety and all related issues, daily review of JSA, work
place inspections etc. Equipment and supply inventory / budgeting, time / progress
management. Daily interaction with goverment and OSHA reps.
HS&E Manager
November 2008 - April 2011
MMI Tank & Industrial Services Mesa Arizona 85207
Construction - Industrial Facilities and Infrastructure
Recruited by the President of this fuel and water tank,pressure vessel, millwright,fab
and mine supprt company who was trying to grow the business and needed a safety
program as well as budgeting, inventory control and overall supervisory help.
First order of business was to create an HS&E Manual as well as a I2P2 (Injury and
illness and prevention plan) Then a training matrix was created that was composed of
20 topics, (fall protection,lock,tag try out,electrical,fork lift safety etc.) after this was
completed meetings and training needed to begin to make certain all management and
hourly people bought in and fully understood what was expected.Training was
conducted annually and or more frequently if something within the guidelines changed.
A safety commitee was formed with the responsibility to do safety audits which included
recognizing unsafe acts and conditions through out the organization, shop, office,
yard,or jobsite document findings and corrective measures.
A more extensive safety audit program was put in place and cunducted by myself which
included all of the areas mentioned above. The results of the findings were discussed
and corrected immeadiately if possible with the persons involved, if they could not and
were not IDLH, schedules for corrections were made. Audit findings were shared with all
safety commitee members for training purposes as well as input.
Customer relations was also a large part of my responsibilities.I worked very closely
with OSHA on a voluntary program and MSHA (MIne Safety and Health Administration)
as we also worked on mine sites.
The fruits of everyones dedication came in the form of a EMR (employee modified rate)
number that went from 1.9 to .9 which landed us contracts with some high profile
clients. Most large companies will not consider a contractor if the EMR is over 1.0 We
were also able to drop MMI Tanks TRIR (total recordable rate) number from the
companys 3 year average of 9.4 to 3.3
In addition I had some operational responsibilities due to my production, process and
maintenance backround. I helped keep shop and yard production flowing, quality of
product recognized and addressed being as efficient as possible in all
areas.Organization of an accountable shipping and receiving department was also
established. The remainder of my operational duties were assisting field crew formeman
with preperation for mobilization.Administration of discipline in both safety and general
work ethics was required from time to time.
Facility Manager
October 1997 - November 2008
Harborlite Corporation / World Minerals Superior Arizona
Metals and Minerals
Facility Manager responsible for entire operation. Perlite Ore (Industrial mineral used as
a filter aid, mainly in the brewing and vintintng industry(Anheuser Busch 20% of our
business) cryogenic insulator as well as filler for paints and plastics.
The facility was made up of a Quarry, Crushing Plant, Processing Plant and Shipping
deptment.Resonsibilities included safety awareness and training,MSHA (MIne Safety
and Health Association) interaction, all environmental issues (dust
control,SPCC,SWPCP) meeting production schedules, trouble shooting, maintenance,
budgeting, securing solid numbers for a three year rolling capital projects program and
contracting.Administration of discipline when necessary.
The process plant posed a challenge as it was old and not very efficient, so working
closely with the R&D and Q&A departments to improve operation was a rewarding
challenge. Together with buy in from all employees we were able to ma ke positive
changes with Fuel, energy and system output.
Process Control
June 1993 - October 1997
Celite Corporation / World Minerals Lompoc CA. 93436
Metals and Minerals
Same mining company as above owned by World Minerals, this also ia an indus trial
mineral mine Diatomaceous Earth (DE) used for same type of industry as the Perlite
operation.
Job responsibilities included safety and awareness, maintaing four multi million dollar
production systems in efficiency, quality of all products and minimization of waste and
less desirable bye products, maintaining a product schedule for each system and grade
of product as well as prioritizing maintenance and electrical personnel to needed
systems.
Production Supervisor
October 1983 - June 1993
Celite Corporation / World Minerals lompoc CA. 93436
Metals and Minerals
Production / Shift Floor Foreman, same company as above Celite Corp. / World
Minerals.
Duties included a major continued focus on safety, awareness, communication and
training. Other duties included housekeeping, maintaining quality of packaging,correct
packaging according to schedule, first responder trouble shooting to all area's of the
process facility to assist maintenance and electrical personnel,administration of
discipline when necessary, MSHA interaction and close communication with the
process controlman to insure success of entire shift.
Welder / fabricator / counter &yard sales
September 1981 - October 1983
Larsen Fence Buellton, CA
Construction - Residential & Commercial/Office
Fence building and supply company.
Duties included fabrication of all basic and custom gates, cattle guards. and pole barn
essentials off drwaings and prints. Also assisted with all general yard / counter sales,
large customer interaction required.
Weldr / Sheet Metal Specialist
September 1978 - September 1981
United States Air Force Vandenberg AFB, CA
Government and Military
Welding and Sheet Metal Fabrication, base support attached to the Civil Engineering
Squadron.
EDUCATION
Professional,
September 1978 - April 2011
Various providers California, Arizona,Texas and Georgia
Various Military Tech schools (Texas)
Various Interpersonal management courses (CA)
Various leadership developement courses (CA)
Various safety seminars (CA,AZ)
Imerys safety university (Georgia 4 day)
SPC (Statistical Process Control) (CA)
ISO Trained (CA)
ISNetworld familiar
Various MSHA (Mine Safety and Health Administration) seminars (AZ)
Recognized MSHA Trainer
Dust control Engineering Options Seminar (AZ)
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Major achievements include, no serious accidents, incidents or near misses on any of
my watches.
Establishing a functional safety program with my former imploye r( MMI Tank) in which
we dropped all safety related numbers down EMR from 1.9 to .9, TRIR from an average
9.4 to 3.3 and being rewarded with lower insurance premiums and addition clients that
promoted company growth.
Harborlite (Perlite facility) Increased profitability by recognizing outdate natural gas
delivery system which led to change out of furnace (drying) system, a 10% mothly
savings of fuel, and increasing through put of the process facility from 24 tph to nearly
30 tph without comprimizing quality nearly 25% increase.This enabled us to complete
weekly shedule in 4 days leaving fridays as a down scheduled maintenance day.
Honors / Awards
Acceted 3 Sentinel of safety awards for the Harborlite AZ location. This is the oldest
mining award issued by MSHA, also 1 Joseph A. Holmes safety award
INTERESTS
Being around my family, outdoors, hiking, fishing, boating, golf. volleyball, softball
REFERENCES
Al Gavle
Senior Technical sales, Southwest Tank
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Professional
Melissa Herrick
Project / Site Safety Mgr., Southwest Tank
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Professional
Chris Hayward
General Manager Harborlite Perlite Division, Harborlite Corporation / World inerals
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Professional
Kristin Ruprecht
Controler, DWG Construction
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