Engineer Manager

ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONAL

Email: ***********.**@*****.*** 248-***-**** cell

Web Site: http://www.linkedin.com/in/frederickkoehler

Environmental compliance and program manager with experience in all facets

of environmental compliance (RCRA, CAA, TSCA, CWA, CAA) and program

management for manufacturing operations. Well versed in protocol and

procedure development, cost reduction methods, and liability reduction/risk

management approaches. Proactive and perseverant professional with an

extensive background as a liaison/consultant to government, public, and

investor relations and legal staffs as well as operating personnel. Areas

of expertise include:

. Project management and oversight

. Regulatory interpretation for cost reduction strategies and efficient

compliance program implementation

. Agency and enforcement negotiations

. Environmental compliance auditing, property transfer assessments and due

diligence

. Global compliance strategy implementation

. Vendor contract and pricing negotiations

. Metrics implementation

. Environmental risk mitigation

. ISO 14001 implementation and maintenance

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

. Established global waste handling and disposal criteria used at over

global 200 manufacturing locations and a methodology to analyze

(environmental) audit data (regionally, subject, risk) to identify,

develop and implement solutions for systemic problem areas.

. Authored over 15 bulletins, guidance and advisory documents that

provided the manufacturing operations with compliance direction.

. Supervised an environmental audit review team in conducting

compliance audits at operating facilities and due diligence -

property transfer reviews at discontinued facilities

. Administered and managed the 12 waste contracts ($16,000,000 per

year) involving disposal within the 100 United States and the

maquiladora facilities.

. RCRA financial assurance program manager.

. Reduced the number of Delphi RCRA Part B permitted facilities from

14 to 4.

. Environmental manager at an automotive assembly plant.

. Lead for GM's first RCRA delisted petition.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TD Compliance Specialists Clarkston MI (2009 - current)

Principal Engineer Lead engineer responsible for the management of

proposal development, conducting on-site environmental reviews designed

to evaluate process and administrative problems and issues. Develop

corresponding "work-out" plans and reports that correct and stream line

the impacted business processes.

Magneti Marelli (2011 - 2012)

Project Manager Auburn Hills Michigan - Contract professional

investigating and evaluating various recovery options for a product that

is no longer supported by its principal customer. Coordinate with

production personnel in France and Mexico to supply various salvageable

components for their current product lines. Manage the disassembly

process for retrieving and shipping valuable components and scrapping of

the balance. Settle accounts for suppliers and customers involved with

this product.

Delphi Corporation (1999 - 2008)

Senior Staff Environmental Engineer (and Contract Administrator) Troy MI

- Global subject Matter Expert for waste management including regulatory,

legislative, and (EU) directive initiatives. Activities included policy

creation, regulatory interpretations and program initiation for issues

related to RCRA (Resource Recovery and Reclamation Act - waste,

underground storage tanks, etc.), DOT (Department of Transportation), and

portions of TSCA (Toxic Substances and Control Act) related to PCB

transformers and capacitors. Manager of the hazardous and nonhazardous

waste contracts for 50 domestic and Mexican sites. Composed and issued

contract modifications, scopes of work, and waste reduction and disposal

proposals.

General Motors Corporation (1984 - 1999)

Senior Staff Environmental Engineer Environmental and Energy Staff

Detroit MI (1994 - 1999)

Regulatory and legislative liaison for federal and state initiatives

related to hazardous waste. Instrumental in global policy

development, regulatory interpretations and program initiation for

issues related to RCRA (waste, underground storage tanks), and PCBs.

Lead for several regulatory reform initiatives.

Environmental Manager Orion Assembly Plant - Facilities Engineering

Lake Orion MI (1993)

Managed the environmental compliance programs in the areas of the CAA

(Clean Air Act) - NSPS (New Source Performance Standards) and LAER

(Lowest Achievable Emission Rate) monitoring and reporting, CWA

(Clean Water Act) - NPDES (National Pollution Discharge Elimination

System). MORs (Monthly Operation Reports), DOT and RCRA. Co-chaired

the facility's hazardous material control committee.

Environmental Audit Supervisor - Environmental and Energy Staff

Detroit MI (1992 - 1993)

Supervisor for several teams of engineering personnel in conducting

environmental and health and safety compliance audits and phase 0 due

diligence/property transfer reviews at a number of various

manufacturing facilities.

Staff Engineer - EAS - Industrial Waste Activity Detroit MI (1991 -

1992)

Provided project oversight for remediation projects and acted as the

environmental engineering interface between Legal Staff and various

environmental agencies for issues occurring in five GM divisions.

Lead legislative and regulatory negotiator and program initiator for

USTs (Underground Storage Tanks), pollution prevention, and packaging

waste proposals potentially impacting GM.

Divisional Environmental Engineer Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac (BOC)

Group - Warren MI (1988 - 1991)

Divisional expert responsible for CWA compliance programs and permits,

included project oversight, interface to GM Research.

Associate/Project Engineer - Environmental Activities Staff (EAS) -

Audit Team Warren MI (1984 - 1988)

Conducted internal Air, Water and Waste compliance audits at over 100

GM manufacturing operations and hazardous waste disposal and recycling

operations.

EDUCATION

B.S. Chemical Engineering - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, GPA

Major 5.4/6.0

SIGNIFICANT TRAINING and CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Engineer 620******* State of Michigan

Certified Hazardous Materials Manager - Master Level - October 1995 No.

6488

Six Sigma Green Belt 52 hours Training

Michigan OSHA Walk Through for Manufacturers 5 hours

Delphi Problem Solving Process 8 hours

Delphi Environmental Training 32 hours

Risk and Vulnerability Assessment 16 hours

DOT Hazardous Material Transportation (49 CFR 172 Subpart H).16 hours

Financial Fundamentals in GM 24 hours

Finance and Strategy 16 hours

Root Cause and Decision Analysis 24 hours

RCRA Subpart CC 8 hours

Wayne County Air Emission Evaluation Training 16 hours

Property Transfer Environmental Auditing 16 hours

Hazardous Material Chemistry 8 hours

GM Environmental Certification Course 40 hours

A. D. Little Audit Team Leader Training 16 hours

EHS Leadership and Management 8 hours

Michigan Part 201 Implementation 8 hours

General Motors - Worldwide Facilities Group = Certificate of Recognition -

ADDENDUM

Regulatory Expertise

. RCRA Haz Waste 40 CFR Parts 260 - 265

. UST 40 CFR Part 280

. Used Oil Part 279

. PCB 40 CFR Part 761

. DOT 49 CFR Parts 171, 172, 173

. Hazwoper 29 CFR 1910.120

Other Competencies

. CAA Title 1

. CWA Sections 402 and 307

. ATF 27 CFR Parts 20, 21, 22

. OSHA 40 CFR 1910

Software

MS Office Applications - Access, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Project

Manager, Word

SAP, Olimpic - purchasing programs

@Risk, Minitab - Statistical Analysis

Entech - Energy and waste cost program

EMIS - Environmental Management

WISER - DOT

CSIS - MSDS

Autocad

EPIM - BOM database

Trade Association Experience

MVMA Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association - Now known as Alliance of

Automobile Manufacturers

MMA Michigan Manufacturers Association

NAM National Association of Manufacturers

API American Petroleum Institute

CMA Chemical Manufacturers Association Now know as American Chemical

Council

Aluminum Association

STI Steel Tank Institute

RCAP RCRA Corrective Action Project

CIBO Council of Industrial Boiler Owners

Authorships - Bulletins and Notices

. Regulatory Classification of Igniter (Explosive) Waste, 8/17/2005

. SREA Site Evaluations, 6/29/04

. Construction and Demolition Debris, 9/11/03

. Transportation Security Awareness Plan Guidance, 7/25/03

. Global Common Procedure Environmental Standards for Waste

Management, 7/1/02

. Mercury Control and Spill Response, 4/5/02

. Mexico PCB Regulations, 4/9/2002

. Fluorescent Light Ballasts Containing PCBs (polychlorinated

biphenyls), 3/8/2002

. Air Emission Regs for Waste Activities Subpart AA, BB, and CC

(Privileged and Confidential),12/16/1996

. Michigan Hazardous Waste Regulation, 11/20/1996

. Hazardous Waste Land Disposal Restrictions Phase lll, 5/21/1996

. RCRA Used Oil Regulations Part 279 Technical Amendments, 4/26/1994

. RCRA Used Oil Requirements, 2/14/1994

. PCB Update - Removal, Replacement, Retrofill or Decontamination.

(Privileged and Confidential), 7/16/1993

. Hazardous Waste/Toxicity Characteristic Determination, 7/15/1993

. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Update (Privileged and

Confidential), 2/12/1993

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