Gregory Tatum

Valley, Alabama

Phone: 334-***-****

Email: acuui1@r.postjobfree.com

Summary: Highly experienced in developing, implementing, and continuously improving both the environmental management system and occupational health and safety management system for multinational and global companies, focusing on pollution prevention strategies, monitoring air, water, and soil for accidental hazard releases, combining ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, and SPCC for environmental and occupational safety through leading the compliance audits at multiple facilities. Responsibility in training and development of corporate employees on safety and the environmental management hierarchy which prioritize strategies of Prevention, Mitigation, Recycling, Treatment, and Disposal.

Work Experience

Shenzhen Fengxie Business and Environmental Consulting

Environmental Manager

July 2014 to April 2016

Designing, implementing, training, and continuously improving safety systems based on departmental needs and individual job classifications. Training on safety procedures set by company EMS. Training on lock-out/tag-out procedures in mechanical integrity. Focusing daily on pollution prevention strategies, raw material storage and usage, and health and safety through environmental compliance auditing. Improving safety and decreasing incidents through process safety management strategies and process hazard analyses. Implementing OSHA and EPA regulations and regulatory compliance into newly established foreign government programs.

Performing risk analyses to fully determine, understand and interpret all hazards and potential hazards, determining and mitigating the likelihood of impacts related to those hazards, designing the proper strategy for safety. Performing root cause analyses to determine and understand incidents in order to create corrective actions.

Developing, understanding, implementing, and continuously improving the environmental management system according to the organizational ISO 14001 in decreasing and mitigating environmental impacts and combining OHSAS 18001 Occupational health and safety regulations while increasing manufacturing efficiency and quality for multiple projects and companies through established strategies and the implementation of a 5S management system of lean manufacturing management.

Working with various departments to develop and implement procedures to decrease material usage, control for material inputs and storage, elimination of wastes, decrease cost through avoidance, utilization, waste reduction and resource recovery. Maintained internal relationships to effectively communicate with environmental and engineering staff, operations personnel, and established external relationships with regulatory agencies, EPA, OSHA, Ministry of Environmental Protection, and local government for Tier II and SARA title III reporting.

Developing and documenting written safety information identifying chemical and process hazards, equipment, and technology.

Ensuring compliance with environmental regulations and permit conditions daily. Performing risk assessments and auditing to fully determine, understand, and interpret all potential hazards, mitigating the likelihood of local and global impacts, designing the proper strategy for safety and implementing environmental action response plans. Creating management systems for the differences in EU RoHS and China RoHS.

Ensure proper and timely implementation of facility environmental plans and procedures. Writing and updating environmental reports daily.

Support and lead environmental compliance audits and training at multiple facilities.

Auditing and investigating root causes for corrective actions in waste disposal, safety management, industrial hygiene, fire protection, and safety strategies. Maintaining environmental training and development of company employees in safety protocols and procedures, updating records at all facilities for periods determined appropriate.

Monitoring pollution control systems and preventing accidental releases for air, water, and soil, effluents and emissions, with the use of bag systems, hydro-clones, and developing storm water management and countermeasures in SPCC for wastewater discharge points, investigating and correcting for fugitive emissions and reducing toxic concentrations in water with the use of chemical clarifiers and neutralizers.

China COC Service Corp

Environmental Manager

February 2011 to July 2014

Maintained internal relationships to effectively communicate with environmental and engineering staff, operations personnel and plant managers for the process of safety. Established external relationships with regulatory agencies, EPA, OSHA, and local government in Tier II and SARA reporting. Responsible for investigating P2 options to achieve lower energy usage, emission control, and effluent releases. Investigating for alternative resources and clean technology.

Developing programs for waste reduction to minimize manufacturing cost, waste treatment and disposal cost and improving the health and safety of company personnel. Created a 5S management system for the storage, usage, and labeling of produced goods and raw materials for environmental management through lean management practices. To reduce exposure to hazardous materials, substances, and potential risks.

Creating and implementing tools for the EMS to lower costs associated with disposal and increase production processes. Tools include P2 matrixes and raw material input/output balance sheets.

Investigating and correcting for increased production efficiency and reducing waste generated by changes in production process, equipment, changes in process control and conditions such as retention times and temperatures, and raw material substitution that produce less waste or less hazardous waste.

Implemented Occupational health and safety system and the deployment of all initiatives for company goals and objectives and ensuring goals were met or exceeded. Reduced incidents by continually updating environmental management system based on management of change.

Responsible for the training and development of all company personnel for waste reduction, pollution prevention, and health and safety based on ISO and Six Sigma standards and corporate policy. Developed and continuously improved site HSE management systems to ensure compliance with ISO 14000 and OHSAS 18001 and to maintain corporate responsibility at the highest EPA standards. Investigated all major incidents in safety and near misses.

(EGCS) Environmental and Geospatial Consulting Services, Pensacola, Florida

Environmental Project Manager

May 2009 to January 2011

Created a joint, corporate operation that reduced the amount of hazardous substances, pollutants, and contaminants reentering a waste stream, reduced hazards to public health, and reduced or eliminated the creation of pollutants through the efficiency in the use of raw materials and the protection of natural resources by conservation.

Created and implemented the occupational health and safety guidelines following EPA and OSHA platforms explaining differences in policies (EU and China RoHS) for Chinese companies. Implemented incident investigational procedures and reports.

Coordinated and demonstrated the monitoring of waste water, hazardous substances including biological and chemical (BOD, COD), and inspected facilities for existing or potential dangers and health hazards. Responsible for writing and implementing the safety procedures and the emergency preparedness and response plan. Conducting training with the incident command system.

Audited for compliance and environmental management system with the motivational strategies of teamwork and employee involvement. Ensured compliance with government regulations and company EHS standards and procedures. Extensive knowledge of corporate security and environmental social responsibility.

Created a multidiscipline responsibility of company employees, and informed upper level management on the combined effort of auditing company EMS. Responsible for performing in collaboration the turnkey completion of multiple P2 projects, creating and managing the HSE systems in the project management for the Asia-Pacific, the South Asia, and the China Water Project.

Created a P2 program that focused on eliminating pollutions or using a more cost effective approach.

Highly experienced with NPDES

Sundance Products

Environmental Health and Safety Manager

Buford, Georgia

Aug. 2000 - Feb. 2009

Investigated all facilities for hazards and potential hazards, corrected through environmental audits for continuous improvements.

Responsibilities included weekly reports of open liabilities, reports of closed liabilities, and monthly reports of corrective actions.

Experienced in analytical data in water and soil testing, inspection, and assessing environmental impacts related to pollutions and chemical spills; knowledge and updating of MSDS; highly knowledgeable in legal issues and risk management.

Responsible for reduction of waste, decrease of raw materials, cleaner technology substitutes, or the recovering of raw materials from created waste.

Audited for compliance and environmental management for government requirements in release of hazardous substances.

Maintained corporate training and development of company employees including third-party contracted workers, trained employees in all machinery and ISO operations for quality assurance through hands-on, provided corporate training for the decrease of industrial waste and to create a more efficient quality of manufacturing.

Involved in all incident investigations with auditing of engineering and administrative controls with follow-up of corrective actions.

Developed, coordinated, and implemented Health, Safety, Environmental, Industrial and Process Safety Programs and lead the Safety and Hazard Assessments including Process Hazard Analysis and Job Safety Analysis with total facility safety awareness. Direct objectives included total facility inspections, product inspections, fire safety, chemical safety, inventory, and storage, commercial fleet inspection including tractors/ trailers and dollies for single, double, and triple hookup for over-the-road drivers. Complete safety knowledge and training including Hazmat for entire facility, staff, and contracted drivers in supply chain and logistics.

Special Skills and Knowledge

LOTO, Process Safety Management, Management of Change, Incident Investigating, Storm water management, Waste water management in primary and secondary treatment, Knowledge of ISO 13485 and 14971 for medical devices, ISO 17025 system testing and calibration, OSHA 3010 soil mechanics, RoHS, WEEE. Good working knowledge of ArcGIS, Arc Hydro and Flood modeling on ESRI platform, Exceptional knowledge in satellite technology in project management; Knowledge and experience in product testing and conformity. Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, SharePoint, EMS and QMS Excel with Mitutoyo Instrumentation, Chemical and Biological Laboratory, Chromatography, Spectrophotometry, Stoichiometry, BOD, COD, pH, Coliforms.

Certifications

ISO 9001, 14000, 14001, OHSAS 18001, Social Accountability ISO 8000, 26000, Safety Management; Toxic Release Inventory; Restricted Substance Control; Oil and Gas Hazard Safety; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures (SPCC); Identifying Hazardous Wastes (RCRA, TCSA, RCRA Special Regulatory Provisions)

Education

BS Environmental Science/ Environmental Engineering

University of North Georgia

Dahlonega, Georgia

BS Geographic Information Science

University of North Georgia

Dahlonega, Georgia

Seeking a position for advancement opportunity.

Willing to relocate. Ability to travel 90 percent of time in USA and Abroad, Attention to detail, Team leader skills, ability to work across multi-platforms with knowledge of all departments, Strong problem solving skills, proven project management experience, ability to work alone or in group.

Working proficiency of Chinese Language.

References available on request

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