Safety Management

Objective

To excel in a challenging position that will utilize my proven Environmental, Health and Safety Management expertise and exercise my strengths as a leader and valuable team contributor.

Work Experience

The Kroger Company–Columbus Bakery; Columbus, Ohio

4/2014 - present

Safety and Regulatory Compliance Manager

Responsible for all Safety and Regulatory Compliance programs for 600,000 sq ft manufacturing facility employing 530+ union and non-union employees.

Direct day-to-day activities of the Safety Office including supervision of three Safety Coordinators.

Behavioral Based Safety Director - lead interdepartmental safety team in driving positive safety cultural change.

Direct Root Cause Analysis investigations for all OSHA Recordable injuries and facilitate team involvement for corrective action development and implementation.

Developed and conducted facility wide physical and administrative safety audits, developed action registers, assigned departmental tasks and drove items to completion.

Developed 'Near Miss' and 'Opportunity for Improvement' program to increase employee engagement in the safety process.

Drove 100% completion of all required occupational health and safety training facility wide.

Lead facility during unannounced OSHA inspection, including citation response and informal hearing activities.

Acted as Incident Commander for emergency activities including fire events and HAZWOPER (ammonia refrigeration system).

Responsible for all regulatory reporting requirements including air emissions reports and permitting, industrial waste water inspections and perming, Tier II, Form R, etc.

Worthington Industries – Cylinders Division; Columbus, Ohio

11/2006 – 4/2014

Environmental Health and Safety Manager

•Directed all environmental, health and safety initiatives for a 24/7pressure cylinder manufacturer employing 400+ employees.

•Drove 100% safety compliance across all levels of the business with a goal of ZERO OSHA recordable injuries. Surpassed injury-free days record twice and achieved lowest injury rate and number of occurrences in company history.

•Developed and maintained EHS programs to ensure compliance with all OSHA, EPA, DOT and Municipality regulations, requirements and permits including:

oTitle V Synthetic Minor emission reports, permit renewals and modifications

oHazardous waste reporting, Universal Waste management, RCRA compliance and training

oIndustrial Pretreatment SMDR sampling, reporting, permit renewals and modifications

oSPCC and SWP3 implementation, modification, sampling and training

oOEPA ebiz - Air Services and eDRUMS experience

oAnnual Tier II and Form R reporting

oSustainability/Environmental Metrics data collection, analysis and reporting

•Achieved a true 'Safety First' culture by holding all employees accountable for not only their own safety, but also of their co-workers. Used positive reinforcement, behavior based safety, and safety committee involvement to engage all employees in 100% Safety, 100% of the time.

•Decreased BWC claims costs by 40% during 2009-2014.

•Reduced drummed waste volume and cost by 35% - realized cost savings of $15K annually

•Reduced hazardous waste volume through process improvement to qualify as small quantity generator, reducing costs and liability risk.

•Managed ISO 14001 program including internal and external audits, procedure creation, deployment and approval as well as internal auditor training.

•Conducted OSHA annually required training for entire facility and facilitated specialized training when needed (advanced electrical safety, confined space retrieval, etc.).

•Completed ergonomic assessments of all jobs at facility and implemented numerous corrective actions to reduce musculoskeletal injuries.

Worthington Industries Steel Division; Columbus, Ohio

10/2005 – 11/2006

Environmental Coordinator

•Responsible for the management of all environmental aspects of large-scale cold rolling and steel processing facility.

•Upkeep of ISO 14001:2004 EMS including procedure writing and external and internal auditing.

•Responsible for all air/water/emergency reporting requirements including Non-Title V, Form R, City wastewater SMDR, storm water NPDES, BUSTR Remedial Action Plan and monthly Free Product Recovery reports, Tier II CEPAC reporting and corporate-wide RoHS certification.

•Liaison for EPA, local Fire Department and other government and community organizations.

•Facilitate new-hire environmental training.

•Oversee all facility waste management issues including wastewater, solid waste, universal waste, oil for reclamation and supervise bulk oil deliveries for EHS and Quality program compliance.

•Schedule external maintenance and repair of various fluid systems.

•Operation and calibration of on-site wastewater treatment ultra-filter.

•Coordination of environmental improvement projects with production and maintenance personnel.

•Communication of all aspects of plant-wide environmental issues with facility upper management and corporate management.

•Development and implementation of value-added cost reduction improvement projects. *Promoted to WI EHS Manager – Cylinders Division in 11/2006.

Honda of Canada Manufacturing (HCM) – Various Roles; Alliston, Ontario

09/1999 - 2/2005

Environmental Compliance Specialist – 10/2003 – 2/2005

•Member of the Safety/Environmental Group, Project Leader (P/L) for the National Pollutant Release Inventory report (NPRI, TRI/Form R in the US) and Ont Reg127 report including project management, communication with various government agencies, data collection, analysis, calculations, management presentations and generation and submission of reports using government issued software.

•P/L for the Waste Survey Report (sewer by-law), quarterly wastewater sampling, contaminant tracking, management presentations and generation and submission of report to the Township.

•P/L for stack emission testing and annual waste audit. Reported monthly plant wide VOC emissions to both the Planning Dept and the Environmental Committee, reported to both the Provincial and Federal Governments for Gasoline Regulations, screened new materials for use and updated chemical database, wrote ISO 14001 Environmental operating procedures, assisted Lead Auditor in internal department environmental audits, wrote articles for the plant-wide Environmental Communication board and magazine.

•Operated weather station and facilitated the company wide Environmental Orientation Training Package to all new Associates. During this time at HCM, I also joined my second NH Circle with a theme to reduce recyclable material going to landfill and I received my '5 Year Service Award'.

Assistant Production Team Leader – 05/2002 – 10/2003

•Promoted to Zone Operator (Assistant Team Leader) - responsible for the daily management and scheduling of 20+ Associates in C-1 Zone in the Weld Dept in Plant 2, both line-job training and ISO 9000/14000 document training for all new associates, performing all zone processes and supporting other zones for production support and overtime. In 2002, I formed and was the leader of a NH Circle focusing on an ergonomic related safety issue in C-1 Zone. My Circle's invention of a new style of air gun and overhead support system, once fully integrated, was able to eliminate all injuries at a difficult zone process and had a cost savings in excess of $100,000 per year – received 'QC Tools' Award and was a finalist for HCM's submission to the Ergo Cup. Received my '500' and '1000 REACH Point Milestone' awards for participating in the company wide REACH improvement program. *Promoted to Environmental Compliance Specialist in 10/2003.

Weld Line Production Associate – 09/1999 – 05-2002

•Performed all zone line processes including mig welding, hand-spot welding, grinding, and various parts installation. Due to my high quality of work and attention to detail, I was often asked to support other zones for production overtime. Consistently volunteered for the opposite shift Saturday production overtime and also for pre and post shift preparation and housekeeping duties. Due to my work ethic, leadership, teamwork and commitment to quality, in 2001, I was one of a select few to be chosen as a member of the New Model team for the prototype build of the Honda Pilot SUV at Honda of America Mfg’s (HAM’s) research and development facility in Marysville, Ohio. *Promoted to Assistant Production Team Leader in 05/2002.

EDUCATION

Georgian College; Barrie, Ontario

8/1994 - 6/1998

•Bachelor's Degree – Environmental Engineering Technology

•Three year academic program plus intern positions - Achieved Honors standing on Deans list

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