Power Plant Management

Ning Zhang 515-***-****

*** *. ******** ***, ****** Falls, MN 56537 ******@*****.***

Summary

• 5 years of experience in environmental compliance, safety management and process

safety management (PSM) fields

• First-rate skills in presentations, leadership, and problem solving

• Excellent knowledge in Windows Soft Wares including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint,

Outlook, SQL Server

• Effective ability to work independently and as a team member on group projects

Skills

• OSHA, EPA, DOT regulations compliance

• Title V air permit construction and operating permit application

• Annual Air Emission Inventory Reporting

• Storm water permit application

• EPCRA Tier II reporting, TRI reporting

• Safety and environmental training to employees

• Process Safety management and Risk Management Plan auditing, compliance

• Root Cause Analysis and Incident Investigation

• Process Safety leading indicator, lagging indicator and Key Performance Indicator tracking

and development

Education

• M.S. Environmental Science and Management, Duquesne University, Jan. 2012

• M.S. Environmental Health and Safety Management, The University of Findlay, May 2009

• B.S. Pharmacology, Harbin Medical University, June 2007

Selected achievement

• Successfully lead a team to prepare Clean Air Act Title V pre-construction permit

application for a 150 MW power plant for submittal to PA DEP within 4 weeks

• Successfully determined the applicability and requirements of New Source Performance

Standards (NSPS) for modified toluene manufacturing unit

• Developed various OSHA compliance safety programs including but not limited to hazard

communication program, electrical safety program, personal protection equipment

program

• Successfully converted MSDS to GHS SDS for the client’s products, labelled workplace

chemical storage containers, help the client to finish the required transition 2 years ahead

of OSHA timeline

• Conduct monthly safety audits, successfully identified and eliminated safety hazards and

safety program gaps including but not limited to ergonomics, fall protection, blood borne

pathogen, Lockout Tagout program

• Successfully conducted tabletop exercise with the involvement of local law enforcement,

fire department, natural gas company and railroad company; successfully handled major

industrial fire and explosion accident

• Effectively worked with MPCA inspections on air permit and water permit compliance, FM

Global inspection on fire protection system, OSHA safety audits and made corrective

actions

Working Experience

• Environmental, Health, Safety and Security Manager, Green Plains Otter Tail, LLC, Fergus

Falls, MN, Jan 2013 to Present

• Responsible for all aspects of EPA, MPCA, DNR, EPCRA, OSHA, PSM, DOT

compliance including management, documentation, training, underwriting, and

claim processing, OSHA accident investigations and audits

• Perform incident investigations, working with investigation team to determine

damage and assess impact during upset conditions, write investigative reports by

using effective analysis and evaluation skills to determine causes of incidents,

upset conditions and abnormal events that require an emergency response

• Conducted over 100 safety training classes on various topics regarding worker

safety programs in order to control costs

• Successfully identified chemical storage concerns and developed safety

compatibility policies in order to store chemicals safely, which significantly reduced

the possibility of catastrophic chemical incident

• Supervise and support plant process safety management program, conduct 3-year

PSM, RMP audit, conduct PHA

• Experienced and effective working with people of diverse cultures (have

experience training Spanish speaking workers) and backgrounds and interacting

with all levels of management and personnel

• Prepared and revised the Emergency Response plans and procedures for plant

employees, direct the emergency response drill and exercise program, design,

develop and maintain all lessons dealing with emergency response, order and

maintain response equipment

• Process Safety Management Coordinator, Green Plains Holding, LLC at Lakota, Lakota,

IW, April 2012 to Dec 2012

• Developed Confined Space profiles, standard operation procedures, lockout tagout

profiles within half of the scheduled time

• Successfully designed and developed plant-wide valve tagging system, built

database using windows Access, built easy-to-query interface for end users

• Working knowledge of ASME requirements and API standards for pressurized

systems

• Research Assistant, Biology Department, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, February

2010 to July 2010; March 2011 to March 2012

• Successfully designed and conducted microbial extracellular compound separation

and purification procedures by using various lab techniques and instruments

including dialysis, HPLC, gel permeation chromatography, silica column

chromatography. Advanced the project for 6 years.

• Successfully conducted preliminary isolation of acetic acid-resistant mutants of

Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) strain in order to increase lignocellulosic

biomass-based biofuel and bio-product production

• Environmental Scientist, Duquesne University and Pennsylvania Fish and Boat

Commission, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2011

• Monitor water effluent from Winfield Pine passive Acid Mine Drainage treatment

facility at Upper St. Clair, PA, Use ArcMap to create digital real time monitoring

system on key environmental indicators

• Poster presentation and community education

Certificates

• CPR AED First Aid training

• 40-Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response

• OSHA 30-hours Safety Training for General Industry

• FEMA security training certificate

• Environmental Intern Certificate

Related courses

• Applied safety management

• Environmental Health and Epidemiology

• Pollution prevention and industrial ecology

• Production/operation auditing

• Project management and planning

• Risk management for managers

References

• Available upon request

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