Air Force Safety

Waylon J. Koehler

*** ********* **** *******, ** 71023

318-***-**** **********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE: Seeking a position as Safety Professional.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 23 years of experience supervising, training, and motivating team members in the most challenging, sometimes austere, environments. Outstanding strategist distinguished for dynamic, versatile, proven leadership and team-building skills and excellent conflict resolution abilities. Demonstrated management skills that enhance productivity and drive sustained organizational performance. Equally capable of working autonomously or as a member of a team to materialize leadership’s vision. Well verse in quality and safety practices, systems, and procedures while understanding the human psychological element. Relevant skills include:

Leadership

Inventory Control

Budget management

Safety/Security

Process Improvement

Computer literate

Critical thinking

Training

Coachable

Supervision

Reliable

Transparency

EDUCATION

Masters of Science with Honors, Occupational Safety & Health, 4.0 GPA, Columbia Southern University, Orange Beach, AL

Bachelors of Arts with Honors, Psychology, 3.9 GPA, American Military University, Charles Town, WV

Associate in Munitions System Technology, Community College of the Air Force, Montgomery, AL

EXPERIENCE

Jun 13-Nov 17 Superintendent Barksdale Air Force Base, LA and Kunsan Air Base, ROK

Award winning leader! Supervised, mentored, and led over 500 personnel at the Air Force’s premiere munitions unit in Korea and cruise missile units in the United States. Three-time division annual award recipient

Lauded “best in 5 years” by Inspector General for transforming flailing unit into World Class organization

Routinely liaised with Base Safety office regarding LOTO, confined space, fall protection, and personal safety matters…briefed/trained 300 personnel quarterly of trending safety issues

0 issues on 36 consecutive external safety inspections

Used and taught multiple Root Cause Analysis processes to fix safety issues/trained new QA assessors

Identified antiquated JSAs and JSTG on 96 routine tasks…OSHA/ANSI compliant within 2 weeks

Achieved “no findings” on headquarters inspection 1st time in 10 years by incorporating stringent safety principals into maintenance and production efforts

Created and enforced safety metrics and standards for 360 person unit resulting in the identification and correction of missing forklift, HAZCOM, HAZWASTE, and PPE training

Owned $2.3B munitions arsenal; insisted upon safety/security compliance and demanded 100% inventory quality…zero lost items/zero incidents

Rated “Excellent” with no defects found on Air Force Safety inspection by preparing 380 personnel, 84 vehicles worth $4.9M, $300M equipment account, and $1B infrastructure consisting of 67 facilities

Coached and mentored command’s best Conventional Munitions Team by inoculating safety standards

Jun 12-Jun 13 Munitions Manager Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar

Performed 30 safety assessments on 74 DoD contractors & enforced $501M contract--oversaw Air Force's 2nd largest arsenal/$2.6B that supplied combat munitions to 14 Southwest Asia locations

Nov 04-Jun12 Munitions Supervisor Moody Air Force Base, GA & Pope Air Force Base, NC

Lauded as Afghanistan’s "best munitions program" by Central Command by leading 2.8K safe operations

“Excellent” readiness inspection results by providing training during 2K events on six exercises

Jun 02-Nov 04 Quality Assurance Inspector Pope Air Force Base, NC

Conducted over 12K assessments on maintenance, programs, products, systems, and industrial safety

Single-handedly created Quality Assurance computer database; production increased four-fold

Led 30 mm explosive mishap investigation; immediately identified reason of mishap enabling emergency action technical data change

Increased qualified inspectors by 20% by seeking out cross-utilization training for safety inspections

May 95-Jun 02 Munitions Specialist Pope Air Force Base, NC & Andersen Air Base, Guam

Additional duty weapons safety program manager; safed over 5K personnel

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