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EHS Safety Director

Location:
Lawrenceville, GA
Posted:
March 06, 2023

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STEPHEN T. LEMELLE, CSM

**** ********* *****

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30044

Home: 770-***-**** Cell: 404-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

HSE PROFESSIONAL& MANAGER with more than 14 years of combined experience overseeing safety programs, protocols, and adherence. Motivated professional maintaining workplace health and safety to ensure minimized risks in highly hazardous environments. Dedicated leader developing preventive measures, resulting in decreased incidents and injuries and higher organizational productivity.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

EXCESSION TECHNICAL SERVICES – STERLING, VA AUG-2021-PRESENT OHSE DIRECTOR/OHSE CONSULTANT

• Provide ExcessionTS with recommendations on how to provide customers with HSE support.

• Provide oversite to customer safety programs

• Recommend changes or improvements to customer safety programs

• Review all customer safety procedures and documents to ensure they meet OSHA standards

• Set up online Safety training programs for customer employees

• Consult monthly with the customer Safety Council and Committee to provide feedback and updates on Safety and training initiatives.

• Conduct quarterly Safety inspections of all customer work facilities. CH2M Hill/DynCorp Int. LOGCAP IV – Kandahar, Afghanistan Nov 2009 – Jul-2021

HSE Country Manager

• Manage the DynCorp Safety Program, which at its peak reached 17,000+ personnel over 58 bases, enforcing safety adherence and compliance, delegating tasks to 90 Safety Program personnel.

• Spearhead program encompassing 5,000+ contractors in which DynCorp personnel and Armed Forces members received safety training, including OSHA 30-hour, 10-hour, and HAZWOPER 10- hour training.

• Develop metrics to track injuries, accidents, and property damage to mitigate and prevent recurring incidents, resulting in 8 consecutive years of increasingly lowered property damage and OSHA recordable injuries.

• Initiated awards-based incentive programs that recognized regions, sites, and individuals for exceptional Safety performance.

• Safe work practices resulted in an aggregate 0.44 Total Case Incident Rate (TCIR) over ten years in a contingency environment, with more than 172,378,482 man-hours accumulated. This represents a significantly lower TCIR than the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) industry 4.2 average for domestic US operations.

• Ensures that all subordinates are current on changing construction and general safety matters as disseminated by multiple U.S. Government agencies and informs and advises senior management of impactful developments.

• Inspect Safety program adherence at sites, reporting findings to senior management to immediately resolve any non-compliance issues.

• Support the Project Management Office and Task Order Operations concerning safety-related issues.

• Manage Environmental Supervisors and HAZMAT personnel. Oversee and conduct quality control of environmental surveys, environmental compliance audits, environmental inspections, in-house remediation activities, and monthly CDRL reports to USG. STEPHEN T. LEMELLE, CSM

3121 CONNEMARA TRACE

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30044

Home: 770-***-**** Cell: 404-***-****

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• Manage Vector Control Supervisor and Vector Control Technicians to ensure that all Vector Control tasks are carried out in accordance with USG Integrated Pest Management practices. These tasks include servicing dining facilities and all Life Support and Common Access Areas. Also, perform quality control of all monthly Vector Control reports to the USG.

KBR LOGCAP III– Al Taqaddum, Iraq Nov-2006 Oct-2009 Lead HSE Coordinator

• Managed identification processes to maintain health, workplace, and environmental safety standards per government guidelines, conducting regular audits to ensure compliance was met.

• Interfaced with QA/QC and Environmental Department to ensure company HSE requirements were applied.

• Oversaw incident, accident, and injury investigations and monitored compliance with recommended safety remediation research and reporting.

• Educated expatriate and third-country national subcontract employees regularly, coordinating training and safety exercises.

• Collaborated with site security at KBR sites on force protection issues and construction, vulnerability areas, convoy incidents, and health and welfare inspections to mitigate incidents and safety concerns. Raytheon Technical Services – Odessa, Ukraine Oct 2005 - Oct 2006 Deputy Project Manager

• Managed worksite performance and daily operations of the office in the absence of the Project Manager.

• Liaised with Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Ukrainian, and Threat Reduction Office management in Moscow regarding management activities related to enhancing the Ukrainian Navy and Coast Guard’s ability to detect weapons of mass destruction smuggled into the Black Sea area.

• Monitored Ukrainian technical teams and kept the Project Manager informed of developments related to project schedules.

• Procured all project equipment and material orders to ensure preparedness.

• Ensured timely completion of all deliverables to the client and the written submission of monthly and weekly technical and administrative reports.

Project Safety Manager

• Recommended safety improvements, delegated tasks, and approved related initiatives.

• Conducted inspections to ensure Raytheon and OSHA compliance for subcontractor sites Ukrainian Naval and Coast Guard bases.

• Had Ukrainian Project Safety Officer report weekly the safety status of the project. KBR– Kartaly/Uzhur/Dombarovsky, Russia Nov 2000- Oct 2005 Operations Manager/Area Manager/Area Safety Officer

• Managed daily operations of subprojects at field sites, simultaneously managing the decommissioning of Russian SS-18 nuclear missiles and the explosive elimination of their corresponding launch silos.

• Managed Safety program, which accumulated more than 4 million accident-free man hours at the site.

STEPHEN T. LEMELLE, CSM

3121 CONNEMARA TRACE

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30044

Home: 770-***-**** Cell: 404-***-****

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• Developed policies for subcontractor work and assisted PM with project schedules.

• Oversaw environmental monitoring program to ensure no contamination during silo decommissioning, silo elimination, and land restoration. Prior Positions: KBR: Area Safety Manager; US Navy: Special Projects Supervisor/ Analyst/Division Chief; Russian Interpreter and Nuclear Weapons Inspector; Russian Language Instructor; POW/MIA Vietnam War Analyst

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology: Xavier University of Louisiana Graduate of Defense Language Institute: Monterey, CA Graduate of Russian Military Linguist Program: Fort Meade, MD CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Safety Manager (CSM) – NASP Certification #503380 Accident Investigation Technician (AIT) – NASP Certification #503380 Hazard Analysis Technician (HAT) – NASP Certification #503380 Safety Inspections Technician (SIT) – NASP Certification #503380 PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

24 Hour HAZWOPER

Environmental Safety Training

HAZMAT Familiarization Training

30 Hour OSHA Construction Course

30 Hour OSHA General Industry Course

Basic Plus CPR, AED, First Aid for Adults

Construction Safety and Health OSHA Training Course American Red Cross CPR and Standard First Aid Course Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Coordinator’s Course 40 Hour HAZWOPER (Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response) LANGUAGES

Russian (fluent), Spanish (working knowledge), French (working knowledge) ADDENDUM

ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATION TRAINING

Back Injury Prevention

Bloodborne Pathogens

Hazard Communication

Heat Stress

Hearing Conservation

Personal Protective

Equipment

Respiratory Protection

Vector Control

Cold Stress

Ground Guide Training

Ergonomic Awareness

Activity Hazard Analysis

Aerial Lift

Safe Use of Cranes

Demolition Practices

Excavation Practices

Hand and Power Tools

Health and Safety inspections

Incident Investigation

Fall Protection

Vector Control

Cold Stress

Ground Guide Training

Ergonomic Awareness

Activity Hazard Analysis

Aerial Lift

Safe Use of Cranes

Demolition Practices

Excavation Practices

Hand and Power Tools

Health and Safety inspections

Incident Investigation

Fall Protection

STEPHEN T. LEMELLE, CSM

3121 CONNEMARA TRACE

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30044

Home: 770-***-**** Cell: 404-***-****

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