Robert Michael Howell, Jr.

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Waterville, Maine 04901

Personal: 207-602- 9122 ac1qbn@r.postjobfree.com

SAFETY MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

~ “Specialist in Building Long-Term Relationships and

Identifying Improvement Opportunities that Drive Efficiency and Quality” ~

KEY COMPETENCIES

20 Years MSHA & OSHA Trainer

Environmental Trained

Trench/Excavation Trained

Bilingual: Spanish/English

HAZCOM/HAZWOPER Trained

Rigging & Iron Work History

OSHA 500 Train the Trainer

DOT Compliance

Project Safety Management

Proactive Culture Driven

Industrial Hygiene Trained

Organizational Development

EMT/Emergency Medical Tech.

Commercial & Industrial Const.

Leadership/Team Building

First Aid & CPR

Heavy Equipment Trainer

Bilingual Training/Motivation

16 Years in Construction

LOTO/Confined Space Trainer

Workflow Optimization

Risk Mgmt./Workers Comp.

Electrical & NFP Experience 70E

Work Place Safety Analysis

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Exceptional experience in developing written bilingual Spanish programs and training Latino workers. Strong verbal Spanish communication skills working on up to multi-billion-dollar large-scale projects.

Supervised as many as 55 contract safety professionals and quality control/safety employees as well.

Extensive experience with MSHA Part 46, 48 and 50 requirements for above ground mining; OSHA VPP Voluntary Protection Program, CAL OSHA SHARP, Golden Gate & Nevada OCIP programs where Nevada OSHA approved OCIP Safety Manager, trained in HAZWOPER, HAZCOM & GHS.

Implementation, trained, set up BBS behaviors based safety programs to boost accident prevention.

Facilitated NCCR National Curriculum for Construction Education and Research training program.

OSHA 500 Train the Trainer performing extensive 10 & 30-hour training throughout my career.

20 Years’ experience orchestrating all aspects of OSHA 1910 and 1926 safety programs, emergency response, medical treatment set up, return to work programs, workers compensation and compliance auditing.

Proficient in solving problems and implementing solutions under tight deadlines. Hands-on safety professional capable of efficiently adapting to any work environment presented.

Extensive training and development in Emergency Incident Command; Department of Transportation (DOT); Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Process Safety Analysis Programs.

Emergency Medical Technician – Basic approved by the Texas Department of Health.

Have met all the requirements and am preparing this year to take both of the board exams for Construction Safety and Health Technicians (CHST) and then working on the Certified Safety Professional (CSP).

16 years’ experience in both Industrial and commercial construction safety settings and vast diversified experience on how they both work in all trades at all project levels.

Basic Plus training thru the Freeport, TX American Safety Council as well as DOW Chemical training.

I will continue my working on my Bachelor’s degree in safety engineering at Columbia Southern University via correspondence once I’m settled into my new stable position.

REFERENCES:

Scott Collins - Lead Safety Professional -Yates Constructors at TPCO - 850-***-****, ac1qbn@r.postjobfree.com.

Robert Reichert - Lead Safety Professional -Yates/MEI at Kemper - 228-***-****, ac1qbn@r.postjobfree.com.

Daniel T. Hopper JR. PhD/PE/NREMTB-PhD Safety Consultant-423-***-****, ac1qbn@r.postjobfree.com

Brent Kaleta – North American Safety Director – ABB Construction– 919-***-****, ac1qbn@r.postjobfree.com

Professional History

ABB Construction Inc. – (October 2016 – June 2017)

ABB Construction is a global pioneering technology leader that works very closely with the utility, power & infrastructure industries to rewrite the future of innovation & unrealized efficiencies for those industries.

Safety & training professional as owner’s representative & construction management company with 2 general contractors on this first & largest of its kind in the Americas $140 million GIS Substation in Washington, DC.

Howell Safety Management Consulting – 1099 - Owner Consultant – (July 2016 – October 2016)

Vestas Wind Systems and Enel Green Power.

Consulted to Vestas Wind Systems A/S at the Hancock Wind Project in Aurora, Maine where 17 of the largest & tallest wind turbines in North America – the Vestas 3.5 megawatt V117 turbine with 117-meter towers were installed. What a climb! Then consulted to Enel Green Energy at the Aurora Solar Project a 150-megawatt solar field in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

W.G. Yates and Sons Construction Co. – (August 2013 – May 2016)

W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Co. is a global industrial construction management and direct hire services provider that operates mostly in the Southern United States.

Charged as safety and training professional for an expansion to the DOW Chemical SDO Plant.

Authorized as a heavy equipment trainer & trained on: Excavators, Boom Forklifts, Loaders, Dump Trucks, etc...

Charged as Lead safety and bilingual training professional for the $2.5 billion TPCO Steel Plant.

Charged with all bilingual training on site for 250+ workers for the building and Start Up of the $5.5 billion new Kemper County Power and Chemical Processing Plant for MEI Electrical a daughter company of Yates performing all of the startup construction for this first of its kind coal fire power plant that turns its’ waste stream into sellable products thru chemical processing.

Charged with all bilingual training on site for 500+ workers for the building of the new Tesla Tiger Gigafactory Battery Plant in Nevada. This plant is to be the largest battery plant and single building in the world at 13 million square feet.

Charged with safety, emergency response and training for the 3 months fall outage at the Interstate Paper Mill in Georgia with a work force of 400.

Managed safety, emergency response and training for the 5-month spring outage at the Rock-Tenn Paper Mill in Virginia with a work force of over a 1000.

Managed safety, emergency response and training for the 3-month winter outage at the Androscoggin Verso Paper Mill in Maine with a work force of 400.

Managed safety, emergency response, human resources, drug screening & charged with all training on site for 700+ workers for the building of the new Buffalo Creek Gas Plant in Oklahoma.

Howell Safety Management Consulting – Owner Consultant (May 2009-2013)

Howell Safety Management Consulting my own consulting company that provided safety resources, coaching and compliance needs to businesses that don’t require direct hire safety.

Steady State Safety/Helix Electric Corp. /G&R Electric – New Mexico and Texas

Recruited as the corporate safety coordinating consultant for all of G&R Electric offices in East Texas including Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston, Bay City, Texas City & Galveston.

Performed total quality safety performance auditing and evaluations for all work sites in the Central and East Texas region from Dallas/Fort Worth to Galveston.

Interfaced with workforce, company supervisors, their clients, subcontractors, etc. in order to continually improve safety performance goals thru coaching teams on at-risk factors and trends.

Tracked and trended where the site and regional liabilities were and coordinated training and supervisory improvement coaching according to auditing data and my evaluation of their needs.

Wrote/revised safety protocols and made recommendations to corporate executives based on my evaluations as needed to accommodate their ever-changing company needs.

Facilitated a behavior based auditing program that saw a reduction of at-risk behavior by 65% in my first 120 days working for the company. Performed OSHA 30-hour training; advised corporate safety program on incident tacking, trending and aided in implementing a corporate behavior based safety program.

Steady State Safety/Helix Electric Corp., Signal Energy and Sun Edison Solar Energy

Consulted on safety for a 30-megawatt First Solar Cimarron Solar plant in New Mexico. Where over a half million solar panels were installed including a one-megawatt R&D tracker field.

Consulted on safety for 270 workers at this site for six months without a lost time or record-able injury and then went on to continue that record on all other sites supervised for Helix Electric.

Facilitated a safety committee to help identify at-risk trends and come up with solutions that would avoid incidents. The most important part of this group was to learn safety forethought for themselves and then take that back into the field and mentor what they were learning about safety to others.

Went on to be lead safety manager for 3 more First Solar plants throughout New Mexico with a total of 12.5 megawatts and then a 10-megawatt tracker site for Helix, Signal Energy and Son Edison Solar.

ProEnergy Services – Tacoa, Venezuela (March 2009-May 2009)

ProEnergy services is a worldwide equipment services provider to the power generating and oil & gas industry.

Recruited for safety on an international assignment in Venezuela to install six 40-megawatt energy turbines.

Supervised five Venezuelan safety professionals and over 350 Venezuelan workers.

Learned to work under Venezuela federal safety regulation known as SHAW and taught the Venezuelan safety professionals how to incorporate American behavior based safety innovations into their practices.

Tishman Construction Company (May 2008-March 2009)

Tishman Construction Company is one of the world’s largest contract management companies with signature project like the original twin towers NY and the New York One World Trade Center.

Approved by Nevada OSHA as an OCIP safety manager to manage safety operations as a part of the construction management team on $5.5 and $2.8 billion projects and charged with the supervision of 55 safety professionals and 4000+ contractors on the Echelon Casino project in Las Vegas, NV and 1400 in Atlantic City, NJ. One of only two safety managers asked to relocate to Atlantic City to supervise safety for the Revel Casino and Resort, supervising 1,400 personnel on site, 30 safety professionals and stewards.

Performed OSHA 30-hour training; managed all safety, advised corporate safety program on incident tacking and trending and developed a behavior based safety program for implementation on a nationwide corporate level.

Aerotek/Van Ert Electric – (Jan. 2007 – 2008 May)

An established national leader in the electrical service & power industries catering to telecommunications & high voltage.

Senior safety manager at the $1.5 billion GE IEEC power plant in Romoland, California where our team achieved a safety record that set a national precedence according to OSHA, CAL OSHA and The American Society of Safety Engineers of 2.89 million man-hours worked in eleven months without a lost time accident.

Trained over 100 workers in the OSHA 10 and 30-hour programs for Unions and site contractors.

Casey Industrial Corporation – (July 2005 – November 2006)

An Industrial company providing industrial construction general contracting management services nationally since 1947.

Mentored by Danny Hopper Ph.D. of Occupational Safety and Health Philosophy, developed a safety management training & advancement program for up & coming safety professionals, aided corporate in establishing a behavior based safety program and mentoring program. Then was promoted to Lead Safety manager over a $100 million coal fire power plant expansion in San Antonio, Texas. Transferred to Norfolk, VA to direct demolition and expansion of United States Gypsum plan, developed protocols for asbestos and lead abatement and demolition.

Schuff Steel Company – (June 2004 – July 2005)

A world industrial leader in steel design, engineering, management, erection and fabrication with plants nationwide.

Interacted with 125 union ironworkers on $450 million NFL stadium. Planned, audited and supervised erection of 7,500 tons of steel erection and coordinated safety for the heaviest single steel pick ever attempted on land of 5600 tons spanning 700’ by 300’ & lifted to a final resting elevation of 297 feet above the stadium floor, seen on the National Geographic Channel.

Texas Wind Power – (January 2004 – June 2004)

Now Cielo Wind one of America’s most experienced wind farm developers experienced in engineering & construction.

Supervised a 167-turbine wind farm valued at $171 million. Supervised constructing more than 100 miles of roads, rights of ways, pipelines, fiber optic lines and transmission lines, writing the lock out/tag out program for terminating and commissioning turbines in substations. Supervised installation of 60 miles of high voltage towers to hold two 390kv overhead power lines and building of two 300kv substations on this 60-square mile wind farm.

Kiewit Pacific Building Group – (November 2002 – January 2004)

A Fortune 500 construction, mining and engineering powerhouse that has been in business since 1884.

Had the privilege to work with a company who has the best corporate safety record in the construction industry, performing more than 500 projects worldwide every year. AWARDED SAFEST PROJECT IN 2003. Oversaw $71 million Chuckchansi Casino Resort & $800 million Anchorage, Alaska International Airport C Terminal.

EDUCATION

Associate of Science in Occupational Safety and Health,

Minor in Emergency Medical Technology, GPA 3.45/4.0

Graduated May 12, 2000 - Odessa College – Odessa, TX

AFFILIATIONS

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American Society of Safety Engineers, National Association of Safety Professionals, World Safety Organization, Construction Safety Council, Boy Scouts of America

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