Management Manager

JOSEPH A. BOLEA

Bristol, Tennessee 423-***-****

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An accomplished and highly skilled top-performing ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH, AND SAFETY PROFESSIONAL with extensive experience in providing powerful leadership, vision and technical expertise in the area of EHS. My vast work experience and extensive certifications have shaped me into a self-motivated professional. I possess both domestic and international expertise in compliance, environmental permitting, risk and crisis management, EHS training programs, facilities management, and hazardous waste/emissions. Proven aptitude for implementing effective and proactive solutions to reduce injuries and accidents, ensure compliance with government regulations, lower expenses, and increase employee engagement. Core Competencies

Safety/Environmental Auditing Hazard Communication Fall Protection Confined Space Entry Lock-Out/Tag-Out Permitting

Job-Site Inspections Project Management Facilities Engineering Security Ergonomics (Humantech) Voluntary Protection Plan (VPP) ISO 14001 and 18001 Management Systems F U N C T I O N A L P R O G R E S S

Environmental, Health, and Safety Management

• Guided multiple sites through ISO 14001 certification for environmental management systems including development and implementation of policies, procedures, and work instructions.

• Studied, reported and developed programs for emerging domestic and international requirements for EHS.

• Provided leadership and management system support to numerous sites.

• Designed corporate-wide EHS/facilities scorecard system to compare site EHS and facilities management performance with regard to overall compliance, injury and accident rates, and other defined metrics.

• Organized EHS committees including cross-functional members.

• Implemented hazardous waste reduction programs and maintained compliance with applicable waste generation requirements.

• Managed air (including Title V facilities) and water emissions reduction programs and compliance efforts with regard to discharges.

• Extensive experience in regulatory relations/negotiations at local, state, and federal levels.

• Evaluated occupational exposures to chemicals in workplace, including sampling for wide variety of contaminants.

• Created innovative approaches to identify and categorize occupational health exposures.

• Provided guidance and management support to numerous occupational health programs, ensuring compliance with regulated standards.

• Led operations management to constantly improve and reduce accident and incident rates across all business segments through proactive programs using development and leadership techniques.

• Developed numerous programs and management systems to address safety issues, such as fall protection, confined space entry, lockout-tagout, hazard communications, compliance, and others. Facilities Management

• Drove standard work processes to ensure maximize up-time of equipment.

• Supported operating system implementation based on Toyota Production System (TPS), gaining synergy by copying exact principles of standardized work and tiered accountability.

• Implemented scorecard system to drive visual management principles and ensure alignment of performance to annual operating plan.

• Created management operating system (MOS) to ensure coordination of sites and ensure alignment of objectives and activities.

• Developed management of change process to allow sites to effectively manage risk and issues concerning change such as through new construction or transition activities.

• Utilized Lean principles to define, measure, analyze, improve, and control to effectively direct projects. Construction/Project Management

• Led EHS efforts associated with design, construction, and renovation of numerous sites.

• Provided management oversight for multi-million-dollar expansion infrastructure construction projects.

• Developed standardized contractor agreements including sub-contractors and conditions of contract and performance expectations.

• Managed multi-million-dollar construction projects, including bid review and approval.

• Served as project manager for numerous large-scale projects, including performing compliance audits, inspections, and assessments.

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Compliance and Sustainable Development

• Wrote numerous regulatory submittals, permit applications, permit modifications, government citation rebuttals, and other correspondences.

• Provided turn-key support and reduced cost while reducing waste generation, increasing recycling and reuse, and minimizing impact on environment through effective systems.

• Engaged engineering development community when working on initial design.

• Performed environmental health and safety design when reviewing project/concepts. E X P E R I E N C E

EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES Bristol, Tennessee

Director, EHS America’s Operations 2012-Current Currently Environmental, Health & Safety Director with primary responsibilities to implement and flow down Corporate EHSMS Management Systems in compliance with key objectives aimed at implementing EHS standards through identification of at risk activities through hazard risk assessments; and resolution of ergonomic injury reduction. Planned and lead implementation efforts for new EHS initiatives, promote advances and improvements through capital projects. Experience and responsibilities include regulated management of EHS operating budget; assessing compliance needs in, environmental permitting, loss prevention and regulatory affairs. Currently leading an effort to establish an EHS Management System to allow Exide to regain its compliance and performance position, as an industry leader, after coming out of 2 bankruptcies in the past 5 years. EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES Bristol, Tennessee

Health and Safety Manager Global 2010-2012 Managed global EHS support organization providing internal resources to service lines for implementing EHS projects, solving problems, applying for permits, driving improvement, sampling for workplace exposure, etc. EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES Bristol, Tennessee

Health and Safety Manager North America 2008-2010 Created EHS flow-down concept designed to ensure alignment of EHS goals through all levels of operational and EHS leadership. Initiated efforts for business continuity planning, and developed and led EHSMS training program. Developed standard work tool for conducting EHSMS management reviews, created and conducted monthly EHSMS learning series webinars for EHSMS elements, and designed EHSMS training. Drove EHS aspects through several major site transitions.

• Developed site leader tool kit to be used toward EHS.

• Won Exide’s EHS Excellence Award for two of my locations two years consecutively (2007 and 2008). EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES Bristol, Tennessee

Health and Safety Manager 2005-2008 Used professional judgment and operated independently while performing professional duties in several major areas of the organizational Environmental Health and Safety Program, including general occupational and manufacturing safety, environmental regulation compliance, hazardous waste and materials management and emergency response.

• Cut accident and incident rates while implementing effective corporate EHS programs and management systems.

• Increased employee engagement by driving improved communications through EHS Teams.

• Reduced workers compensation premiums by 40% in first three years.

• Conducted and directed all activities related to Health and Safety.

• Updated and implemented an air monitoring program ensuring regulatory compliance with current standards Supervised individuals that work with maintenance and other departments pertaining to safety and environmental issues

• Represented company in all regulatory dealings associated with permit renewals, notices of violation, permit exceedances, environmental non-conformance, and OSHA compliance.

• Strengthened change management leadership and management of change processes. EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES Bristol, Tennessee

Occupational Safety Specialist 1999-2005 Responsible for the leadership of the Health, Safety and Environmental EHS functions to assure compliance with federal, state, and local requirements, as well as, customer and internal requirements. Strategic planning and customer interface, internal and external, to assure expectations are met and continuous improvement processes are implemented.

• Conducted and directed all activities related to Health and Safety.

• Responsible for fiscal planning, facility scheduling, vendor contact, negotiations and development of customer base. Joseph A. Bolea, Page 3

• Coordinated and worked with OSHA, DEQ, EPA and other regulatory compliance agencies.

• Supervised individuals that work with the maintenance and other departments pertaining to safety and environmental.

• Developed and implemented new EHS program by instructing onsite training bringing plant into compliance with DOT/OSHA/EPA regulations.

A D D I T I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E

National Safety Council Ark-La-Tex Chapter, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1999-2000 Led all aspects of EHS implementation, compliance through environmental health and safety audits. SKYLINE CORPORATION, Bossier City, Louisiana, Shipping and Receiving Manager (EHS), 1992-1999. Managed finished goods product shipments and general item warehousing, storage and distribution. Responsible for "on time customer delivery" of all finished products produced and for individual customer shipping requirements to include product pre-ticketing, special labeling, packing, pre-packing, electronic transmission requirements that are necessary to manage shipments going to regular and key customer accounts. Led all aspects of EHS implementation, compliance, and delivery to include environmental health and safety. Lowe’s Corporation, Bossier City, Louisiana, Shipping and Receiving, 1990-1992. Safely and accurately calculated, built and assembled customer orders to prepare them for delivery, inner-yard transfer for customer pick-up. Supported incoming material from vendors. Label all parts for tracking per ISO requirements and company policy. Adept at engaging customers in constructive discussion, maintaining an accurate returns log and working with departmental managers to solve customer concerns.

I N T E R N A T I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E

International management experience, including program leadership, for locations in Canada, India, and United States. E D U C A T I O N

Kennedy University, B.S., Safety Engineering 2007

C E R T I F I C A T I O N S

Louisiana State University Certified Occupational Safety Specialist # 736430 (COSS) Certified/Accredited Occupational Hearing Conservationist, # 70002 (CAOHC) Certified/Accredited Environmental and Safety Compliance Officer # 531889 (CESCO) Certified Waste Management Professional, # 147353 (CWMP) Registered Environmental Professional (REP)

State of Tennessee Notary Public

P R O F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T

Certificate in Leadership and Management Development, Northeast State Community College Tennessee University of California Berkeley Center for Occupational & Environmental Health (COEH) Certificate Advanced Safety National Safety Council (ASC) Advanced Certificate Principles of Occupational Safety and Health National Safety Council (POSH) Advanced Certificate Safety Management Techniques National Safety Council (STM) A F F I L I A T I O N

National Eagle Scout Association

Professional member of American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Northeast Tennessee Chapter Kingsport Area Safety Council and the National Safety Council National Registry of Environmental Professionals (NREP) National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA)

Battery Council International (BCI)

Tennessee Safety & Health Council

Marsh Regional Blood Center Donor Recruiter and Community Partners National Safety Council USA Membership / Full Congress Member S E L E C T E D A C C O M P L I S H M E N T S

Awarded Eagle Scout October 13, 1988 by Chief Scout Executive Bill Lane and Honorary President Ronald Reagan. Recognized for continuous dedication to Occupational Safety and Health by the National Safety Council. Recognized by The City of Bristol, Tennessee Public Works Department, City Manager for my role in aiding and overseeing prompt response for a fuel spill including preventing the migration of material into roadside drainage. C O M P U T E R S K I L L S

MS Windows, Proficient in Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, OFFICE, Internet and Email. Wrote and edited contract proposals and able to learn new software quickly.

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