Engineer Management

ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONAL

Compliance; Risk Management; Cost Reduction, Strategic Direction

Email: abjyso@r.postjobfree.com 248-***-**** cell

Web Site: http://www.linkedin.com/in/frederickkoehler

Results driven environmental compliance and program manager with experience

in all facets of environmental water, waste, air and PCB compliance (RCRA,

CAA, TSCA, CWA) and program management for manufacturing operations. Well

versed in protocol and procedure development, cost reduction methods, and

liability reduction/risk management approaches. Proactive and perseverant

professional with an extensive background as a liaison/consultant to

government, public, and investor relations and legal staffs as well as

operating personnel. Areas of expertise include:

. Project management and oversight

. Regulatory interpretation for cost reduction strategies and efficient

compliance program implementation

. Technical advisor to WE CARE (Waste Elimination and Cost Awareness

Rewards Everyone - pollution prevention) regional committees

. Agency negotiations

. Environmental compliance auditing, property transfer assessments and due

diligence

. Conversion of government regulations into actionable,

understandable plant-level procedures (EMS), corporate strategic

direction and requirements (see addendum)

. Global compliance strategy implementation

. Vendor contract and pricing negotiations

. Environmental risk mitigation

. Investor Surveys Submittals

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

. Negotiated water (NPDES and waste (TSDF, Closure and Post Closure,

Corrective Action) permits and permit conditions.

. Supervised all the environmental aspects at a large automotive

assembly plant.

. Initiated and lead the successful effort to remove several

parameters from Michigan's TCLP hazardous waste regulations.

. Established global waste handling and disposal criteria used at over

global 200 manufacturing locations and a methodology to analyze

(environmental) audit data (regionally, subject, risk) to identify,

develop and implement solutions for systemic problem areas.

. Authored over 15 bulletins, guidance and advisory documents that

provided the manufacturing operations with compliance direction.

. Supervised an environmental audit review team in conducting

compliance audits at operating facilities and due diligence -

property transfer reviews at discontinued facilities

. Administered and managed the 12 waste contracts ($16,000,000 per

year) involving disposal within the 100 United States and the

maquiladora facilities.

. Coordinated and managed the RCRA financial assurance program.

. Reduced the number of RCRA Part B permitted facilities from 14 to 4.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DELPHI CORPORATION (1999 - 2008)

Senior Staff Environmental Engineer (and Contract Administrator) Troy MI

(2005 - 2008) In addition to duties described in the 1999 to 2005

timeframe (below) I administered the hazardous and nonhazardous waste

contracts for 50 domestic and Mexican sites. Composed and issued

contract modifications, scopes of work, and waste reduction and disposal

proposals.

. Implemented waste cost (handling, transportation, and disposal)

and generation rate data tools which tracked the cost, volume and

type of each waste shipment. Analysis of this dataset allowed

for internal and external reports and cost savings initiatives.

. Audited waste invoices totally approximately 1500 invoices or

$16,000,000 per year.

Senior Staff Environmental Engineer Troy MI (1999 - 2005)

Responsible for activities related to waste management including

regulatory, legislative, and (EU) directive liaison for domestic and

international initiatives. Instrumental in policy creation, regulatory

interpretations and program initiation for issues related to RCRA

(Resource Recovery and Reclamation Act - waste, underground storage

tanks, etc.), DOT (Department of Transportation), and portions of TSCA

(Toxic Substances and Control Act) related to PCB transformers and

capacitors.

. Composed and supervised the compliance implementation for the

required DOT Security Plans necessary for most of Delphi's

domestic hazardous (waste) materials shipping locations.

. Initiated and managed the financial assurance mechanisms for

Delphi's TSDF, corrective action sites and Underground Storage

Tanks. Spearheaded and drove the reduction of this obligation

by reducing the number of existing TSDF Part B permits from 14

to 4.

. Established and managed Delphi's Global Waste Facility

Evaluation Program and domestic SREA (Superfund Recycling

Equity Act) evaluation program.

. Compiled data (GHG emissions, water discharges, waste metrics,

etc.) for submittal to investor surveys (DJSI, GRI, CERES).

Starting in 2003, Delphi was recognized and added to the Dow

Jones Sustainability Indexes.

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION (1984 - 1999)

Senior Staff Environmental Engineer Environmental and Energy Staff

Detroit MI (1994 - 1999)

Regulatory and legislative liaison for federal and state initiatives

related to hazardous waste. Instrumental in policy development,

regulatory interpretations and program initiation for issues related

to RCRA (waste, underground storage tanks), and PCBs.

. Received Presidential recognition for contributions to the Land

Disposal Program Flexibility Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-119). This

change to RCRA, amongst other things, removed the theory of "de-

characterized" hazardous waste which allowed GM to avoid

spending $100 million over 10 years.

. Established various RCRA compliance policies for over 100 GM

facilities, such as LDR (Land Disposal Restrictions Phases ll

and lll, and Subparts AA, BB, CC compliance.

. Initiated and lead the successful effort to remove several

parameters (Cu, Zn, and CN) from Michigan's Hazardous Waste

regulations.

Environmental Engineer Orion Assembly Plant - Facilities Engineering

Lake Orion MI (1993)

Accountable for compliance programs for all environmental aspects -

CAA (Clean Air Act) - NSPS (New Source Performance Standards) and LAER

(Lowest Achievable Emission Rate) monitoring and reporting, CWA

(Clean Water Act) - NPDES (National Pollution Discharge Elimination

System). MORs (Monthly Operation Reports), RCRA - handling and

shipments of hazardous and industrial waste at this automotive

assembly plant.

. Computed, compiled and submitted the NSPS reports detailing the

facility's hourly VOC emission rates.

. Coordinated and managed all industrial and hazardous waste

shipments.

. Compiled and submitted environmental reports such as SARA 313

report, RCRA annual report, NPDES monthly operating reports,

etc.

. Conducted worker training as necessary for their job functions

related to the environmental program.

. Co-Chair of the plant's Hazardous Material Control Committee.

Environmental Audit Supervisor - Environmental and Energy Staff

Detroit MI (1992 - 1993)

Supervisor for several teams of engineering personnel in conducting

environmental and health and safety compliance audits and phase 0 due

diligence/property transfer reviews at a number of various

manufacturing facilities.

. Conducted about twenty Phase 0, and 1 due diligence/property

transfer reviews.

. Created and implemented an environmental management systems

audit and internal protocols for property transfer review.

Staff Engineer - EAS - Industrial Waste Activity Detroit MI (1991 -

1992)

Provided project oversight for remediation projects and acted as the

environmental engineering interface between Legal Staff and various

environmental agencies for issues occurring in five GM divisions.

Lead legislative and regulatory negotiator and program initiator for

USTs (Underground Storage Tanks), pollution prevention, and packaging

waste proposals potentially impacting GM.

Divisional Environmental Engineer Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac (BOC)

Group - Warren MI (1988 - 1991)

Divisional expert responsible for CWA compliance programs and permits,

included project oversight, interface to GM Research.

. Project oversight on the upgrading of two wastewater treatment

plants.

. Lead engineer on the negotiations of several NPDES and sanitary

sewer permits at this division's assembly and metal fabrication

plants.

. Lead engineer for the Phase 1 (concept design and data and cost

model development) portion of the EMIS (Environmental

Management Information System) for the BOC group.

Associate/Project Engineer - Environmental Activities Staff (EAS) -

Audit Team Warren MI (1984 - 1988)

Conducted internal Air, Water and Waste compliance audits at over 100

GM manufacturing operations and hazardous waste disposal and recycling

operations.

. Created and implemented a corporate on-line disposal facility

database for domestic concerns.

. Conducted over ninety environmental audits in water, waste and

air areas of various domestic and international GM

manufacturing facilities.

. Promoted in-place during this tenure from associate engineer to

project engineer.

EDUCATION

B.S. Chemical Engineering - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 5/1980

SIGNIFICANT TRAINING and CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Engineer Candidate

Certified Hazardous Materials Manager - Master Level - October 1995 No.

6488

Six Sigma Green Belt 52 hours Training

Delphi Problem Solving Process 8 hours

Delphi Environmental Training 32 hours

Risk and Vulnerability Assessment 16 hours

DOT Hazardous Material Transportation 16 hours

Financial Fundamentals in GM 24 hours

Finance and Strategy 16 hours

Root Cause and Decision Analysis 24 hours

RCRA Subpart CC 8 hours

Wayne County Air Emission Evaluation Training 16 hours

Property Transfer Environmental Auditing 16 hours

Hazardous Material Chemistry 8 hours

GM Environmental Certification Course 40 hours

A. D. Little Audit Team Leader Training 16 hours

EHS Leadership and Management 8 hours

Michigan Part 201 Implementation 8 hours

General Motors - Worldwide Facilities Group = Certificate of Recognition -

GM's First Successful RCRA Delisting Petition. Effort resulted in an

annual cost savings of $250,000.

Web Site: http://www.linkedin.com/in/frederickkoehler

ADDENDUM

Regulatory Expertise

. RCRA Haz Waste 40 CFR Parts 260 - 265

. UST 40 CFR Part 280

. Used Oil Part 279

. PCB 40 CFR Part 761

. DOT 49 CFR Parts 171, 172, 173

. Hazwoper 29 CFR 1910.120

Other Competencies

. CAA Title 1

. CWA Sections 402 and 307

. ATF 27 CFR Parts 20, 21, 22

. OSHA 40 CFR 1910

Trade Association Experience

MVMA Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association - Now known as Alliance of

Automobile Manufacturers

MMA Michigan Manufacturers Association

NAM National Association of Manufacturers

API American Petroleum Institute

CMA Chemical Manufacturers Association Now know as American Chemical

Council

Aluminum Association

STI Steel Tank Institute

RCAP RCRA Corrective Action Project

CIBO Council of Industrial Boiler Owners

Authorships - Bulletins and Notices

. Regulatory Classification of Igniter (Explosive) Waste, 8/17/2005

. SREA Site Evaluations, 6/29/04

. Construction and Demolition Debris, 9/11/03

. Transportation Security Awareness Plan Guidance, 7/25/03

. Global Common Procedure Environmental Standards for Waste

Management, 7/1/02

. Mercury Control and Spill Response, 4/5/02

. Mexico PCB Regulations, 4/9/2002

. Fluorescent Light Ballasts Containing PCBs (polychlorinated

biphenyls), 3/8/2002

. Air Emission Regs for Waste Activities Subpart AA, BB, and CC

(Privileged and Confidential),12/16/1996

. Michigan Hazardous Waste Regulation, 11/20/1996

. Hazardous Waste Land Disposal Restrictions Phase lll, 5/21/1996

. RCRA Used Oil Regulations Part 279 Technical Amendments, 4/26/1994

. RCRA Used Oil Requirements, 2/14/1994

. PCB Update - Removal, Replacement, Retrofill or Decontamination.

(Privileged and Confidential), 7/16/1993

. Hazardous Waste/Toxicity Characteristic Determination, 7/15/1993

. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Update (Privileged and

Confidential), 2/12/1993

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