RESUME

James R. Becker

adyf18@r.postjobfree.com

HSE Professional

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

St. Petersburg, Florida 33703

727-***-****

COVER

Actively seeking a Position in HSE with a Company that will utilize all of my experience. Spending time in General Industry as well as Construction, I have extensive experience in Specific Safety Auditing with multiple Software programs as well as working to determine root causes of an unsafe acts and/or conditions. Upon this determination, Management is addressed, and information is shared, sometimes creating action plan that would set the precedence of new Safety Best Practice Policies and/ Procedures.

Professional Experience

Batson-Cook Construction Company (December 2018-November 2020) Tampa, Orlando & Jacksonville (SE Florida) (Also was employed w/Batson-Cook “Mulit-Family” arm as a /Project Safety Manager/ Specialist Consisting of a 25-story high rise Residential condominium project in South Tampa)

Safety Health and Environmental Specialist

Acting in Regional Capacity/ Oversee/ Safe working conditions on all projects in Division. Daily Auditing all work sites, reviewing with the project team, determining and reviewing root causes of observed unsafe/ potentially unsafe conditions. Showing examples of Direct as well as Indirect impact accidents can have in an organization.

Recent (Tampa Area) projects: Publix Head Quarters Expansion Project (Lakeland, Florida), Ybor Hotel (Ybor City, Florida), Puraglobe Industrial Project.

Recent (Orlando Area) Projects: Advent Health Ruby Lakes Medical Center, Benton House Assisted Living Facility (Oveido, Florida). December 2018-November 2, 2020 (Division downsize)

-Daily Safety Auditing/ Reviewing with team and eliminating the hazard (Potentially creating new mandate /Specific ally for that particular task.

-NPDES Compliance- implemented by Storm Water Pollution Prevention Planning (SWPPP) Maintenance (All Sites)

-Attend and Lead Pre-Work start meetings as well as OAC and Staff Meetings. Meetings all start w/Safety observations as well as what is being done to correct.

-Associate building lean and Safety Practices (“Nothing hits the floor”) EXAMPLE: using wheels as often as possible-moving heavy loads w/out a crane.

-Met w/ Owner Rep/ report State of Safety within a project/ Site/ Division.

-Led/ Organize Division Safety Committee. (Send out invite w/Agenda to GM/ VP and Safety Committee members) using TEAMS software (Due to COVID-19, Virtual Safety Meetings have become common and extensive knowledge on operation is needed for nearly all meetings as well as training courses.

-Assist and Led root cause investigations/ Prevention of reoccurrence.

-Review Sub Contractor Safety Plans such as proper fall protection for plan in Pre-Con Safety Meetings “Safe Start” meeting.

-Audit / Assessment conditions -Report/ Database Predictive Solutions

-Assist in Pre-Con Safety program (Assess Safety Budget new construction)

-Assign and implement Training for all Employees (Update and Maintain Safety Training Matrix)

-Manage all Work Comp/ GL cases (CCIP status dictating depth of management, however, all injuries and illnesses are tracked and reported to Corporate)

-Inspect maintain COVID-19 Compliance (All sites all levels including local mandate) Pandemic has created more exposure. Maintain record of compliance.

Batson-Cook References:

Division General Construction Manager Conn Crabtree 404-***-**** (All Listed projects)

Corporate Safety Director Nicole Ivers 470-***-**** (All Listed Projects)

Bob Allen Vice President of Operations 813-***-**** (All Tampa Listed Projects)

Nick Larkin Project Superintendent 727-***-**** (VIRAGE)

Bill Madden Health and Safety Manager (West Point) 706-***-**** (Virage/ Ybor Hotel)

International Ship Repair/ Construction Tampa, Florida (Port of Tampa) April 2017-Dec.2018

Maritime/ Construction Safety Officer (Asked to assist in Maritime Construction/ getting a great experience on Maritime as well General Industry is alike as well as putting emphasis on other areas)

-Goals of our Safety Team had been to be current with ISO 14001 / 29001 (additional requirements for ISO 9001), however, Safety Management stressed and put a large emphasis on Shipyard ISO 16961: 2015 as well (Construction OSHA 1926 as well) Safety team worked toward this goal, becoming an on-going process. Making a difference was evident, however, changing the way workers and Front-line Supervisors think would be the biggest challenge.

-Daily AM Staff Meetings (Pre-Task work plan with all Managers of each dry-docked Vessel

-CP Hot work and Air Quality testing in all pre-planned work areas (Hot work on fuel tanker vessels as well as several other types of vessels) Initial Start w/ Marine Chemist and check all confined spaces. Sometimes over 200 places on a given vessel to check and confirm/ Document per US Coast Guard Standard).

-Lead Safety Meetings

-Environmental Compliance (All Levels) Federal Admissions observer/ tester (Smoke School)

-NPDES Management

References:

Anne Kington Safety Director/ Manager 312-***-****

Turner Construction Company (April 2016-April 2017)

Project Safety Manager

Spring 2016-Spring 2017 Contacted to Site Safety Manger George M. Steinbrenner field Enhancement project.

This was an accelerated Schedule, demolishing areas, adding new facilities/ field/Enhancing. Spring to Spring, had to be

completed. Finished Project/ Stable position

-Lead Safety Meetings Site Wide

-Audit Job site

-Work Comp Management

-Insurance audits

-Orientate / Drug screen all new hires

-Lead all Underground identification of potential conflicts (Water/12KV power lines) Created a plan w/underground company, going beyond local locates. Civil drawing would identify unforeseen pipes. Used an underground service (Badger) to vacuum topsoil in a grid like manner, exposing and damaging piping. I then identified on Civil layout. General/ Typical locates not always accurate, avoiding a 12 KV TECO (Tampa Electric Co) existing power supply. Cable was off by 3 feet depth and ran 12 feet to the North. Underground scope of work (Pile cap) would have made contact with this line.)

-Enforce all Safety Mandate

-Attend all meetings w/Owner and team -Coordination/ OAC

-Work closely with DEMO Sub Contractor (Crane Safety Planning/ Fall Protection Planning/ daily Housekeeping)

Reinhard Group of Florida (March 2010-Feb. 2016) In November of 2015 Company started to disband after being sold off into several parts into the first Quarter of 2015.

Field Safety Director/ Consultant

-Auditing of working areas (Documentation and review with all levels of management)

-Developed and improve Safety protocol and drive the Companies Production to work together with the Safety Aspect

-Teach/ Speak (Public) on the Culture of Safety in the Workplace and how to change it

-Green Building (Lean) practices incorporated with Safety.

-Train/ Document/ Maintain Records of all Facilities Inspected

-Track all delinquencies and report w/ action items for Correction (s)

-Audit all client properties as well as Construction Projects

-Manage all GL/WC claims

-Evaluate Risk assessment for existing and future projects

-Incident Investigations (Root Cause/ Recommendations)

-Developed Safety Program (General Industry (CFR (1910) as well as CFR (1926) Construction.

Manhattan Construction Company Tampa, Florida (October 2006-March 2010) Brought to project by General Superintendent to come aboard, exulcerated Schedule demanding Strong Safety Presence as well as involved in daily detail orientation as Site Superintendent. The “Duel prong” role had its Pros and Cons. I was able to learn a lot about the Challenges of Superintendents in more depth, however, also was able to show Team that the two can be done together. High Quality, Schedule Production and most of all, maintaining all Safety requirements.

Project Superintendent/ Site Safety

-Developed, implement, inspect and maintain MOT (Management of Traffic)

-Maintain and keep Compliant NPDES (SWPP Storm Water Pollution Prevention Planning)

-Field Operations Safety and Logistics.

-Assist in Coordination of Concrete pours as well as safe access/ Egress of all operations.

-Crane Safety Placement and operation (Maxim crane assist placement and logistics of crane contact)

-Layout and assist in field Engineering on site. Monitor and Manage each floor (Assessing Safety and auditing daily)

-WC/ GL Claim Management

-Train and orientate all new hires to site

Turner Construction Company Orlando, Florida (September 2003-October 2006)

Site Safety Engineer/Manager

-Attend all Meetings (Staff, OAC etc., start w/Safety concerns prior to meeting start)

-Walk field daily (All 25 Floors)

-Inspect Cranes, Scaffolding, handrails temp and perm

-Lead Site Wide Safety Committee/ Walk field with Reps from each large Sub Contractor and Safely Audit the site as a team.

-Inspect MOT (Management of Traffic-per City Specifications)

-OTI 500 Courses (OSHA Training Institute) (Georgia Tech)

-Current CPR/ First Aid (Red Cross)

-HazWoper (Supervisor Refresher Training)

-Supervisor Safety Leadership Course (Signal)

-International Dangerous Goods Training (Port of Tampa Bay & Executives)

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