Environmental Manager Construction

JOHN L. HUFF, MS, REP

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Golden, Colorado 80401

303-***-**** office 303-***-**** mobile

E-mail – **********@***.***

SUMMARY

An Environmental Health, Safety Professional with extensive leadership experience in Regulatory Compliance in the areas of Safety management and permitting. I am also a highly respected, seasoned professional in Safety, Workers’ Compensation, disability case management, training, cost savings, lost work time reduction, environmental and facility design and compliance, remediation, environmental cleanup and industrial hygiene in the following industries: Consulting, oil and gas, facility design and construction, mining, manufacturing, and brewing.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Extensive experience in Washington, DC working with regulatory agencies on environmental, safety and health program development to include changes to the Federal Register for field implementation.

Developed, implemented, and managed new Environmental and Safety Management programs at ARCO Coal and ARCO Oil and Gas Co., resulting in major loss reductions for the company.

Liaison for ARCO Oil and Gas Co. with Santa Barbara County, Dept. of Oil and Gas. EPA and Coast Guard for obtaining permits for the building of a new offshore platform in the Santa Barbara Channel.

Designed and deployed a computer program to provide case management for Adolph Coors Self Insured Workers’ Compensation covering 10,000 employees throughout Colorado.

Designed and implemented an 18-month program reducing Workers’ Compensation losses from $2 million per year to $.03 million per year at Ketema Manufacturing, Inc.

Established a company-wide Medical Disability Management Plan at Ketema, Inc. leading to more effective case management and reduction of lost work time.

President of the Beer Industry Safety Advisory Group.

Managed alongside other industry groups to impact Federal Safety Regulations resulting in a savings to Coors more than $24 million.

Safety and Environmental Manager on major construction projects such as the Uranium Mill Tailing Remedial Action Program, construction of Denver International Airport, the demolition and remediation of the Rocky Mt. Arsenal (8yrs), construction of large surface mining projects in Wyoming (4 yrs).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

First Team Consulting, LLC 1994 to present

Consultant ES&H

Lectured across the country on disability management to several organizations including the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians, International Sleep Products Association and North American Die Casters Association.

Provided Safety, Fire, Life, Environmental Remediation and Workers’ Compensation services to national clients on major construction projects such as the demolition and remediation of the DOD Rocky Mt. Arsenal (8 years), the construction of Denver International Airport (2 yrs), Construction of major surface mining facilities in Wyoming (4 yrs.), managed the safety for Coors Brewing Co and their entire Construction Co. (7yrs)

Providing environmental consulting services to manufacturing operations, conduct emergency planning and response training and management training in EHFLS program development

Ketema Manufacturing Inc. 1993 to 2001

Manager of Safety & Environmental Compliance

Managed the EHFLS function for a multi-state high tech manufacturing firm.

Reduced Workers’ Compensation losses from $2M to $.03M in eighteen months

Managed, designed, and supervised environmental clean-up of soil and water contamination projects in PA, AZ, & CA. saving the corporation over $3M and obtained “No Further Action” certifications.

EDUCATION

Master’s Degree, Environmental Management, University of Denver

Master’s Degree, Safety Management, West Virginia University

Bachelor of Arts Degree, Industrial Education, Fairmont State College

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND CERTIFICATES

Registered Environmental Professional #5354 DOE Integrated Safety Management

American Society of Safety Engineers Hazardous Materials Incident Command

DOE Conduct of Operations Training J. Juran Total Quality Management

FSC Football Hall of Fame

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