Manager Safety
Resume:
David J. Strunk
Lodi, CA
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GENERAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Safety program development and practices implementation
OSHA, EPA and other regulatory compliance
Safety training of all levels of employees
Job site auditing for work condition safety
Accident investigation (Tap Root)
CERTIFICATIONS
Degree in Industrial Management
Authorized Instructor, OSHA 500, 30 Hour and 10 Hour classes – U. S. Dept. of Labor
Instructor for the 40-Hour and the 8-hour OSHA Hazardous Waste Operations Training CA
Certified Instructor for Trenching and Excavation Competent Persons-Speed Shore Inc., Houston, TX
Certified Instructor for Fall Protection - Scaffold and Fall Arrest Institute, Houston, Texas
Certified Instructor for Tower Safety - ComTrain, Monroe, WI
Certified Instructor for Tower Rescue - ComTrain, Monroe, WI
Certified Instructor for Radio Frequency Safety Awareness - SRI, Kiowa, Kansas
Certified instructor for vehicular traffic flagger - Safety Center, Sacramento, California
Instructor for Confined Space and Air Monitors - Authorized through the OSHA 500
Instructor for directional drilling machine safety – American Directional Drilling Machines
Instructor for Hazardous Materials (OSHA) and the Illness and Injury Program (OSHA)
OSHA T & D 10-Hour – Transmission and Distribution Partnership through Quanta Services
Compliance Course for Hazardous Materials Generators - RCRA (Co-sponsored by Calif. EPA)
General Employees Radiation Training (GERT) - Rocky Flats, Colorado
Completed the Gas Tester training seminars - CAL/OSHA, Department of Mines, Sacramento, CA
Completed the Responsible Safety Person training seminar – CAL/OSHA, Dept. of Mines, Sacto, CA
PERTINENT QUALIFICATIONS
OSHA knowledge and compliance
Experience with Department of Defense, Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior
11 years in construction safety management
14 years of power plant safety experience plus Electrical Transmission and Distribution
Substation new build and updating
Approved for gas pipeline safety by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and Sierra Pacific (Nevada)
Illness and Injury Prevention Program
Lock-out / Tag-out training
Confined Space Entry Program and Procedure
Tower and high building safety and rescue
Radiation (RF / EME) safety
Training of all affected management and employees for the various programs
Physical audit of facilities, jobsites, and equipment for regulation compliance
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS (EPA & Department of Toxic Control):
RCRA and CERCLA
Hazardous materials waste generation control and minimization
Training of all affected management and employees for the Hazardous Materials Program
Personal experience handling hazardous materials in controlled environments Level D, C, B and A
David J. Strunk
Lodi, CA
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Military Project Experience
I have had a Secret clearance but it is inactive at this time. My experience on U.S. Government projects
includes the following locations.
Dept of Energy, Rocky Flats, CO (nuclear)
DoD, Camp Pendleton, CA
DoD, Travis Air Force Base, CA (chemical)
DoD, Fort Irwin, CA
DoD, Yuma Proving Grounds, AZ
Dept. of Interior, Western CO
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA (nuclear)
Work Experience
Par Electrical Contractors, (Quanta Services), St. Louis, MO– Safety Coordinator
This is an electrical transmission project, known as the TRTP (Tehachapi Renewal Transmission Project).
The customer is Southern California Edison and the project consists of removal of existing 220 Kv. Lines,
towers and foundations then replacing them with 500 Kv. towers and lines primarily through the Angeles
National Forrest. Because this project traverses a National Forrest and is in the State of California, it is
burdened with the most extensive list of environmental issues ever placed on a project of this nature. I am
still with Par.
MYR Group, Rolling Meadows, Illinois Safety Supervisor – Wind Mill Project
MYR Group is a nationwide company that specializes in electrical construction. My assignment was Safety
Supervisor during the construction of a Wind Farm (electrical generators) in Oklahoma. We installed all of
the electrical components of the facility. This includes a new substation, underground conductors, overhead
transmission and distribution lines and connection to an existing substation.
Manuel Bros., Inc., (Quanta Services), Grass Valley, CA Safety Manager, Safety Director
Manuel Bros., Inc. (MBI), was a mid-sized California General Engineering Construction company. We did
civil, tunneling, electrical, with an emphasis in telecommunications – both underground and wireless. I was
Safety Manager, then Safety Director, at MBI for 9 years. My duties included all of the functions of the
Safety Manager; Workers Compensation Manager; and Third Party Claims Manager. In safety, the major
items that I performed were: policy development; practices implementation; regulatory knowledge and
compliance; job site safety audits; accident investigations; and employee training. I am, or have been, an
instructor in over 12 subjects. I have completed the CAL/OSHA Department of Mines training for Gas Tester
and Safety Representative for mines and tunnels.
Until the economy caught up with us, MBI had a work force that varied from 150 employees to almost 400
employees and sub-contractors working in five states simultaneously, resulting in me traveling 80% of the
time. Our TIIR, Lost Time Rate, and Mod Rate were consistently about 35% below the industry average.
Because of the diverse duties of my position, combined with the multi-state locations, I became familiar with
various states’ OSHA regulations, and very good at time management and in multi-tasking. Mr. Smith,
President of Manuel Bros., Inc, provided me with a letter of recommendation upon my departure.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (power plants), San Francisco, CA Safety & Rigger
For 10 years I was one of five employees who constituted the company East Bay Division Safety Audit
Committee. The five were from separate power plants and were each responsible for enforcement of
company policies, Federal OSHA mandates and State of California Industrial Orders at our respective
facilities. Additionally, the Safety Committee members performed quarterly physical audits of five separate
power plants to assure full compliance with safety matters and employee work practices. I accomplished this
while I worked as a Journeyman Rigger in the maintenance department of the power plants, doing routine
maintenance and unit overhaul of power plants that included Moss Landing, Morro Bay, Pittsburg (CA),
Antioch (CA), and the Geysers (CA) power plants.
Onsite Environmental Services (now Aerotek), Alameda, CA Safety Coordinator
For almost two years I devoted my time to expand my practical experience working with hazardous materials
in construction. I fulfilled the duties as the responsible safety person while working on projects which
include the U. S. Department of Energy nuclear facility at Rocky Flats in Denver, Colorado; the remediation
of a petroleum pipeline system on property owned by the Port Authority of San Francisco; Level-3
telecommunications installation for Peter Kiewit Co.; and on a soils contamination arrest project at Travis Air
Force Base, in California. Additionally I worked for 7 months at a Level I toxic waste disposal facility, with
extensive air and chemical monitoring and the vast majority of the work being done in Level A personal
protective equipment.
McGehee Equipment Co., Ukiah, CA Safety Manager
This was a contract position in which I completely restructured the Safety program and the Hazardous Materials
program for a manufacturing company that was ordered by CAL/OSHA to make the
changes because the Mod Rate was 1.60 and the Total Injury Incident Rate (TIIR) was 70%
above the industry average. The company was situated in 3 acres of buildings on 15 acres
of land. They employed 75 people who make computer controlled heavy equipment by
shipping in the raw material (steel plates) and shipped out the completed machinery.
The items that I addressed were: new policies; new procedures; and employee training. I also addressed the
Hazmat issues which included: employee training, proper use; decrease in volume of hazardous waste
materials; waste materials shipping and manifests, and design and building of a proper hazardous waste
facility. I also had to correct issues such as: overhead crane inspections, repairs, and certification; machine
guarding; auditory testing; illumination issues; and corrections of violations; machine shop safety such as
proper machine operation; eye wash stations; fire protection; acetylene and oxygen use and storage. I also
had to restructure the respiratory program and procedures for the employees who applied the paint to the
finished product.
One major accomplishment was being able to reduce the hazardous materials waste stream by 65%, which
brought it under the recommended EPA standards. Another accomplishment was that we had no OSHA
recordable accidents while I was there.
After 14 months we had satisfactory final wall-to-wall inspections by three branches of CAL/OSHA (cranes,
health, and safety), the EPA, the Fire Marshal, the building inspector, and the company insurance provider.
My contract was completed but the owner was so satisfied that he left me on the payroll, with full pay and
benefits, for two more months and paid for me to relocate to my next job. It took 14 months and just under
$300,000 to correct the deficiencies. The sole owner sold the business four years later for $26,000,000.00.
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