Manager Engineer

David Tonkery

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Indian Land, South Carolina

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Resourceful, creative, and driven Safety and Environmental professional with six years of diverse progressive experience.

Possesses superior skills related to the creation and implementation of diverse and all-encompassing Safety and Environmental

management systems, with a track record working both independently and as part of a team. Consistently recognized for

providing company leading safety and environmental initiatives, meeting stringent deadlines, adhering to quality work standards

thereby delivering outstanding results.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HSE Manager Metso, Charlotte NC 2009 – 11/2013

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Safety and Designed new Safety and Environmental Program, by analyzing current historical

Environmental data, interviews, and implementing current industrial standards (ANZI, ASME, NFPA,

Program etc)

Development • Created new Safety and Environmental program for field services, construction, and

manufacturing areas of company.

• Championed push for OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 implementation throughout West

Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, and Florida.

• Created Auditing program including scheduling, training, and documentation.

• Implementation of above targets led to TRIR on average of less than 50% of industry

average and LTIR of 0 for 4 of 6 years.

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Industrial Hygiene Developed and implemented a new industrial hygiene program (Including baselines for

hearing, weld fume generation, hex chrome, and paint solvents), resulting in full

compliance with applicable government regulations and industrial standards.

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Key Performance Analyzed existing company reporting procedures to determine the current state of the

Indicators safety and environmental programs

• Prioritized what the most important KPIs regarding the current state of the Safety and

Environmental programs

• Motivated change in management to accept these new KPIs as drivers in their departments.

• Instituted inspection program for each location based on location needs, historical data, and

Safety and

Environmental industrial standards.

Compliance • Recruited and trained local management in implementation of these inspection programs.

• Delegated responsibility for compliance to production team, which allowed the local Safety

and Environmental coordinator ability to properly audit the program.

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Emergency Action Collaborated on the implementation of this plan with local management and HSE

Planning and Crisis coordinators.

Management • Drove responsibilities throughout line organization at each plant location and construction

sites.

• Scheduled annual testing dates with performance guidelines, resulting on average (33%)

increased performance from year 1 baseline.

• Produced training logs for each location, while delegating maintenance of logs to

Training and

Development supervisors.

• Championed push for going to a global Learning Management System, which led to a

diverse training program (OJT, Classroom learning, shop-wide exercises, and e-learning)

• Collaborated on Global safety team to develop job task specific requirements throughout

organizations from President to shop floor employees.

• Collaborated on global audit team with audits in Automation and Foundry locations in

Auditing

Brazil.

• Audited many different aspects of Metso’s US operations from Roll Shops in Aiken SC, to

Bio-fuel fired power plants in Texas and Florida.

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• Developed local auditing program that looked at Safety and Environmental planning and

operations throughout all Metso operations.

Local HSE Metso Power Lancaster Service Center, Lancaster SC 2008 – 2010

Manager/Production

Support

• Generated systems to track weld and common consumables throughout shop

Supply Management

• Adapted current ERP system to shop needs for tracking weld rod, wire, and flux usage.

• Tracked incoming shipments of materials to ensure production had materials prior to

starting projects

• Designed production carts for use throughout shop and in yard

Plant Engineering

• Collaborated with production and maintenance on general shop layout

• Conducted time studies on multiple pieces of equipment for baseline measurements to help

improve productivity in shop.

• Delegated construction of Hazardous Waste and Oil Waste buildings

• Composed work instructions for all shop equipment

HSE Manager

• Implemented training program for shop personnel

• Developed local Industrial Hygiene program (Noise, Fume Generation, Hex Chrome, Paint)

• Directed study on waste generation in shop and customized a global shop waste reduction

plan centered on electricity reduction, water reduction, and waste reduction.

• Prepared and completed daily and monthly compliance audits

• Conducted routine training on plant-wide hazards

• Reported all environmental reports to EPA (Tier II, Form R, SPCC, SWPPP)

• Organized training for all incoming sub-contractors

CSA Engineer/Field Metso Power, Charlotte NC 2007-2008

Engineer

• Collaborated with teams in India to manage incoming structural steel and ensure it met

Engineering and

Engineering requirements

Management • Conducted material take-offs from existing drawings from 3rd party suppliers

• Sized beams for retrofits on existing economizer and super heater packages

• Submitted Daily Reports to Project Team in Charlotte, NC

• Communicated to sub-contractors daily progress reports as well as daily inspection findings.

• Solved problems during boiler construction using skills in reading and understanding

P&ID’s, ISO drawings, project blueprints, and properly communicating with various tradesmen

and off-site designers and engineers.

Graduate Assistant West Virginia University, Morgantown WV 2005-2006

• Tutored and mentored groups of students for the NSC funded STEM program at WVU.

Mentoring

Managed • Scheduled caterers, housing, daily activities, classroom sessions, and transportation for students

Project during visit

EDUCATION

West Virginia University, Morgantown WV December 2006

Master of Science Industrial Management Systems Engineering

West Virginia University, Morgantown WV May 2005

Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering

• Member of Chi Epsilon

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PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

EIT

ASP

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