Dr. Robert Austin, PhD

**** * ***** ****,

Slidell LA 70461

985-***-****

ad16yp@r.postjobfree.com

Environmental, Safety, & Health Professional

** ***** ** *** ********** construction, site clean-up and/or industrial chemical manufacturing.

Proven background in establishing protocol that improved Safety (employee safety and process safety) as well as establishing new reporting & permit guideline for Air, Water and Waste.

Strategic thinker with leadership skills, gained through maturity and responsibility, and used to build trust with management and plant employees in order to drive and achieve 100% safety compliance.

- Behavior Based Safety

- Safety Audits & Inspections

- Risk Mgmt & Assessment

- Emergency Response Planning

- Certified 1st Responder

- NREMT-B

- Site Security

- Homeland Security Standards

- ISO 9000 & 14000 Trained

- MSHA certified

- Process Safety Management (PSM)

- OSHA 1910, CFR 29, 26, 15, 30, 40

- Fire Protection/ System Maintenance

- Employee Training (bilingual)

- large Quantity Waste Generator

- Incident Investigation & Reduction

- Root Cause Analysis

- Hazardous Communication Standards

- MSDS and HazCom Trained

- OSHA 10, 30, 500, 502

- CHST

- Environmental Compliance

- Title V Air Permits

- Waste Management

- Spill Prevention

- Clean-up and Remediation

- Water Treatment

- Air Quality Monitoring

- HAZWOPER Certified

- USCG Regulations

- SWPPP/SPC Expert

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Austin R Engineering 09/2014 -Present

Environmental Consulting, Including water water treatment, management and disposal

Industrial & behavioral Safety Consulting

Large & Small Waste Generating modalities of removal and disposal

Regulatory & Permitting

SWPPP & SPS Planning and implementation

Construction on-site Safety

Extensive Process Safety Development and Plans for Petro-Chemical Process Plants, Liquid Storage facilities and manufacturing.

Security Facility Planning and Procedures.

AustinEngineering Inc. 09/2014- Present

President

K&S Partnership -, Metairie, LA 03/2013 – 09/2014

Employer profile: Construction Company - Contract

Safety Manager

Ensuring security of construction site and implementation of all safety measures; ensuring that all safety measures are followed. Educating Labor force on safety guidelines used during construction, while continually conducting JSA on all tasks to prevent onsite injuries.

Conducted all accident investigations; determined and reported root cause by using the “Five Why?” method.

Further, established a ‘lesson learned’ scenario in order to prevent incident from occurring again.

Visit and inspect site regularly in order to maintain high visibility while ensuring that all machinery and equipment is being handled, inspected and tagged properly.

Conduct safety construction orientation for contractors and subcontractors in various languages.

Completed the contract

University of Alabama – Birmingham, AL 2011 - 2013

Awarded a Master of Occupational, Safety & Health

As an HSE Professional, strategically decided to complement my earlier ChE education and further improve my Knowledge and effectiveness as a contributor in HSE, which has become my passion.

CTEC, Gulfport, Mississippi 2010

Employer profile: Environmental, Safety & Health Company

Safety Beach Cleanup Operations Manager (contract)

Hired to train and manage 35 safety technicians overseeing 2,500 hundred beach clean-up workers who worked cleaning tar and oil debris throughout Coastal beaches from Bay Saint Louis, MS to Pascagoula, MS area, approximately 50 miles

Established an emergency network of Police and Ambulance first responders who helped in providing immediate attention to any of the workers exposed to environmental elements such as heat, rain and storms.

Completed the contract.

Mississippi Phosphate, Pascagoula, MS 2009-2010

Employer profile: Phosphate fertilizer plant

Safety, Health & Security Manager

Worked in the capacity of Director of Safety, Occupational Health and Security, for Mississippi Phosphates Corporation which at the time had a work force of over 300 employees and 80 on-site subcontractors.

I first was hired as a consultant to develop and establish a new safety program. In order to address the issues from a long term systemic problem resulting in part from not having a solid safety/security foundation. In a short period of time safety became progressively proactive rather than reactive, helping to mitigate potentially dangerous issues in a preventive manner.

I was charged with the task of salvaging useful JSA of existing procedures and put together a progressive, proactive program by utilizing newer, innovative safety methods such as behavioral methods which are found in the offshore industries. I developed a 14-point safety program that is still being used as well as a contractor orientation method with high standards of safety

I was able to bring down the recordable accident rate from a 19% to less than <1% over a 3 month period and resolved over $850,000 in back workman compensation claims.

Left for a personal emergency relocation back to near my family; that situation is resolved

Kinder Morgan, LA 2006 – 2009

Employer profile: Chemical Industry - terminals

Sr. Regional EHS Specialist

Air (Title V) compliance and reporting, water reporting (NPDES/DMR), and waste regulatory regulations (large and small quantity generator) reporting.

Promoted EHS awareness by building on existing culture and program strengths, maintained communication with all level employees. Promoted positive reinforcement of safety and health rules and regulations

Identified and developed a management process safety plan that ensured compliance with (PSM and RMP)

Conducted formal and informal site audits, internal and contractor job audits, and routine walk-around in order to maintain/establish compliance with set site specific EHS standards and policies.

Developed all site-specific Safety and environmental training curriculum for management and operational personnel, while traveling extensively throughout the region in order to comply with total compliance goals established by EHS corporate.

Trained and certified all first responder personnel at all sites.

Served as Facility Security Officer and maintained site security plan.

EE&G Inc., Miami FL 2005 - 2006

Employer profile: Environmental, Safety & Health Company

EHS LEAD- Construction Recovery for Hurricane’s Katrina & Rita

Responsible for supervising eleven Safety Technicians, while overseeing all aspect of Safety for 1500 contractors in an area of twenty square miles of flooded neighborhoods and businesses in greater New Orleans.

Conducted all aspects of Safety Training in English and Spanish for all contractors throughout all areas of operation.

Cooper & Lake Environmental, Inc., Tracy, CA 1996 – 2005

Employer profile: Environmental, Safety & Health Company

Project Technical Manager

Project development for company services and products including material bulk handing, natural resource, hazardous materials, pollution control equipment for mining, smelters, foundries. As well as consulting safety engineering.

General EHS Project Manager for 14 major water treatment projects, 4 mines (3 surface and 1 below ground coal mine).

EHS and special Mining project engineer performing several different functions in safety and environmental compliance, which also involved activity in non-production out by areas (at areas other than the face), including the planning and overseeing of operation of conveyors, pumps, materials handling equipment, staging of supplies moving and maintenance of ventilation devices. Installation and moving of power distribution equipment.

Developed international (Mexico, Central, South America, Asia) marketing plans for air pollution control and material bulk handling product lines used in the mining, industrial, utility, agricultural, wood and food industries

Participated in engineering research that redesigned, built and tested new products

Conducted domestic and international exhibitions including general/technical presentations

During this time (2002), called up from the Army Reserves for overseas Active Duty; returned after a reorganization and was able to land work on the Hurricane Clean-up Crew

EDUCATION

Ph.D in Urbanization Disaster Restoration Management – George Washington University

M.S. in Occupational Health & Safety - University of Alabama

B.S. in Chemical Engineering - Auburn University

Languages: Oral and written fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, fluent working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Afrikaans and Dari.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Windows, Word, WordPerfect, Power Point, Drafix CAD 3.02, Excel, Lotus, dBase, Dos

SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Health & Safety Planning, Safety Regulation and Compliance Specialist, OSHA Regulations and Permitting, Risk Management Assessment Trained, EPA and Hazardous Waste Regulations, DOT Transportation of Hazardous Material Trained, 40 HAZWOPER Certified, MSDS and HazCom Standard Trained, Wetland Permitting, Air Quality Monitoring and Testing, ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 trained, First Responder Trained. Advance computer sensor implementation and controls, dot net programming expert proficiency. Proficiency in pyhton, Java, and JavaScript.

Military Service: US ARMY Lieutenant Colonel Infantry Retired

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