Larry Garcia Tobias
***************@*****.***
Apt- 19107
Cypress TX, 77429
Accomplished bilingual safety professional with over 20 years in construction and 3 years of experience in environmental, safety and health training and compliance auditing. Possess comprehensive knowledge of regulatory codes and guidelines; health and safety policies, procedures, and statistics; and OSHA regulations, including various EHS programs and mandatory reporting. A skilled trainer, facilitator, and team builder recognized for outstanding relationship building skills and ability to troubleshoot safety concerns professionally and effectively. HSE Experience
• Conduct daily safety meetings with on-site personnel (toolbox talks).
• Perform daily site inspections and compliance audits, prepare written reports of findings and issue recommendations to correct findings.
• Drive continuous improvement beyond compliance in areas of culture, risk management, and safety management systems to exceed organizational standards.
• Participate in pre-job safety meetings with team members and subcontractors.
• Review pre-task plans and other applicable documentation for completeness to ensure subcontractors are adequately prepared to execute their scope of work safely.
• Remain current on federal, state, county, and local safety regulations.
• Implement, inspect, and maintain job site and office SDS manuals, train employees in SDS procedures.
• Observe and audit work areas to minimize or eliminate hazards in the workplace. (Ensuring employees may work in a safe or hazard-controlled environment).
• Perform daily site compliance inspections.
• Organized and help facilitate weekly all hand meeting to provide weekly project and safety updates to employees.
• Communicated clearly and effectively with employees to provide input and construction HSE suggestion.
• Observe and audit work areas to minimize or eliminate hazards in the workplace. (Ensuring employees may work in a safe or hazard-controlled environment).
• Updated and issued weekly or daily work activities permits dealing with safe work, hot work, confined space, and execution.
• Reviewed JSA’s, JHA’s and STAs per work activity to ensure proper task communication is provided.
• Maintained professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and training. Field Experience
• CRO over seeing Well Sites, Tank Batteries and Gathering Stations in 48 states.
• Direct personnel to alarms in field, document findings per procedure.
• Pipeline Controller/ Field Operator
• Ensure accurate and safe transportation of products. Taking and running samples daily to comply with procedure. Issuing permits and performing LOTO as needed.
• Assist with petroleum product movements in and out of pipeline terminal and or pump stations, storage of products, custody transfer activities with connecting carriers and customers.
• Operate and maintain terminal facilities including tanks, pumps, LACTs, valves and terminal piping, perform general maintenance as needed.
• Performs all monthly DOT inspections, including tankage, fire extinguisher, fire water pump. Etc. and ensures all associated records are completed.
• Rigger worked on maintenance contract projects.
• Assisted Plant Operations and Maintenance with daily schedule in units.
• Operated forklift as needed, loading and unloading piping, material, etc...
• Rigger for new construction of Plains Gas Plant.
• Assisted Plant Operations as forklift operator to unload trucks and trailers in the warehouse.
• Helped maintain and expedite inventory control on a daily basis.
• Rigger building a gas plant for Enbridge and handling other tasks associated with new construction.
• Rigger for Motiva during COP Expansion Project was a safety lead in my Dept. Job History
Maintenance-Safety Coordinator / John W. Stone Oil Distributor Houston, TX
August 2023 – Current
Safety Specialist / Irby Construction
Richland Mississippi
January 2023 – July 2023
Safety Specialist / XTO Energy
Exxon Mobil – Spring, TX
June 2021 – December 2022
Pipeline Controller- Field Operator /
Plains Gas Solution
Plains Gas Solution – Cotulla, TX
February 2018 – May 2021
Rigger / Zachary Industrial
Cedar Bayou Baytown, TX
March 2014 – December 2017
Rigger / S&B Plant Services
Plain Gas Solution – Cotulla, TX
April 2012 – December 2013
Rigger / PCL Industries
Enbridge Energy - Wheeler, TX
February2010 – December 2011
Rigger / Turner Industries
Motiva – Port Arthur, TX
May 2007 – December 2009
Field Operator / Dyn McDermott
Petroleum
Dyn McDermott – New Orleans, LA
September 1987 – April 2006
Skills
• Compliance Audits
• Regulatory Compliance
• Task Hazard Analysis
• Loss Prevention & Root
Cause Analysis
• Injury Management
• Customer Relationship
• Emergency Action Plans
• Trenching and Excavations
• Site audits/inspections
• Environmental Protection
• Behavior Based Safety
• Compliance Training
• Emergency Response
• Oil & Gas Refineries
• Chemical Refineries
Certifications
• OSHA-30
• OSHA-10
• COSS
• First Aid/CPR/AED
• TWIC
• NCCER – CSST / CSSS
• NCCER – Rigger
• Advanced Exterior Firefighter Training
(NFPA 600)
• Hazardous Materials Technician Level 1
(OHSA 1910.120q)
• Oil Spill Emergency Response