Maintenance Safety

HUGH G. CLEMMER

**** ******* ***** **** • Greenback, Tennessee 37742

865-***-**** • **********@***.***

SENIOR-LEVEL MANAGEMENT: Environmental Health and Safety

Seasoned, highly skilled environmental health and safety manager with more than 20 years of demonstrated expertise enhancing industrial manufacturing and construction safety and productivity for leading international corporations. Details-focused safety coordinator with extensive experience designing, developing, and implementing targeted safety and preventive maintenance processes, procedures, and programs. Consummate environmental health and safety management professional with a long track record of driving operational efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability. Also, efficient at conducting safety audits.

Industrial Safety • Operations Leadership • Process Engineering • Program Design & Management • Continuous Safety Improvement

Project Management • Building Safety • Safety Inspections • Maintenance Coordination • Preventive Maintenance Programs

Equipment Installations • Regulatory Compliance • Strategic Planning • Budgeting • Team Leadership • Training •Hazardous Waste Removal *Hazardous Waste Tranporting per DOT regulations *DOE Safety Programs * Recordkeeping

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PRIVATE SECTOR CONTRACTOR SERVICE, Loudon, Tennessee • 2001–2010

Safety consulting company that designs and implements maintenance programs and engineering systems.

Safety Coordinator/Production Planner/Facility Maintenance Engineer

Spearheaded the implementation of total productive maintenance, preventive maintenance, and equipment and plant safety programs, processes, and procedures. Oversaw all aspects of plant operations, including production planning, maintenance coordination, and budget management, to help drive profitability and ensure smooth-running operations. Directed lockout/tagout procedures and plant-wide safety programs to achieve continual safety of 80+ employees, as well as temporary workers and subcontractors. Recruited, trained, and managed engineering, maintenance, and production professionals. Ensured continual compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations. Led the plant to obtain VPP OSHA approval.

• Enhanced production by designing and implementing high-speed production areas and zero-down-time job safety analyses.

• Improved overall efficiency and effectiveness by upgrading the existing equipment to robotic-control PLC units and designing and implementing enhanced equipment safety procedures.

• Oversaw maintenance and safety procedures for gas turbines in natural and nuclear gas systems, pressurized water reactor systems, and related equipment at both civil and non-civil sites.

• Consulted with DOE (Dept of Energy) on projects including conducting site safety audits; consulted with DOT (Dept of Transportation) on hazardous waste shipping.

Site Safety and Health Officer (SSHO)

Provided interpretive guidance by the appropriate functional organization (Industrial Hygiene, Safety, Radcon, Fire Protection Engineering, Environmental Compliance, Waste Management, Etc.), identifying potential hazards, implementing corrective actions, and ensuring effective hazard controls in HASP compliance.

GENERAL ELECTRIC LIGHTING DIVISION CHEMICAL PLANT, Cleveland, Ohio • 1995–2001

National headquarters of the lighting division of General Electric, one of the world’s largest corporations.

Mechanical Engineer/Assistant Emergency Health and Safety Manager

Orchestrated and planned production operations to consistently achieve optimal safety, performance, and productivity. Controlled maintenance budgets and generated targeted process and procedure improvements to reduce maintenance costs. Ensured continual operability and high-functioning of production equipment by leading equipment troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair. Conducted projects to maintain and improve production and plant steam equipment, suspension components, and other productions areas. Performed welding and fabrication of conveyors and stainless steel tanks, among other materials.

• In plant safety auditing

• Advanced productivity by effectively redesigning and overhauling production equipment processes and procedures.

• Designed, developed, and implemented inferno gas-fired furnaces and dryers with chilled water returns, as well as related equipment safety procedures.

• Worked extensively with high-speed PLC equipment, steam and electric chemical pumps, automatic filling machines, high-steam boiler equipment, chilled water systems, laboratory equipment, and a wide range of chemicals/hazardous materials.

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Career Note: Professional experience includes positions as Safety Coordinator/Tooling Production Planner & Repair Scheduler with Lockheed of Georgia; and Safety Technician/Facilities Maintenance Planner/Assist with Production Planning and Safety Policies and Inspections with Union Carbide.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, Georgia

Associate of Environmental Health and Safety

Marietta Cobb Vocational Tech, Marietta, Georgia

First Line Supervisor/Management and Employee Empowerment

Lockheed of Georgia

Additional Training: Environmental Health & Safety Policies & Procedures (2 years); Safety Design Training; Hydro Design, Preventive Maintenance, and Scheduling; OSHA 30-Hour Construction Certification/10-Hour Construction; OSHA 30-Hour Voluntary Compliance/10-Hour Voluntary Compliance; Voluntary Protection Program/OSHA Site Training; HAZMAT Training (8 hours); Emergency Responder/OSHA (24 hours); OSHA Field Training (with OHSA Inspector)–Ohio Region; 6-Year Maintenance Program–Policies and Procedures; Hazwoper 40 Training, Hazwoper Supervisor Training, Emergency Responder/OSHA 8 hours, Asbestos & Hazardous Waste Removal and Transportation per DOT regulations. Assist DOE Safety Policies and Inspections

Professional Certifications: Six Sigma Green Belt (Health Care), Black Belt, and Master Black Belt; CPR/First Aid and Blood Borne Pathogen Certification

Professional Memberships: Safety Engineering Society, EPA Consulting Group, Hazardous Waste Removal and DOT Programs

Software Expertise: Microsoft Office

HUGH G. CLEMMER

7125 Sinking Creek Road • Greenback, Tennessee 37742

865-***-**** • **********@***.***

Dear Sir or Madam:

With more than 20 years of demonstrated expertise enhancing industrial manufacturing and construction safety and productivity for leading international corporations, I am now looking to pursue a new opportunity. Throughout my career, I have repeatedly designed, developed, and implemented targeted safety and preventive maintenance processes, procedures, and programs and have demonstrated my thorough knowledge with regard to work activity hazards and the control necessary to effectively prevent or minimize potential worker exposure to substances and health hazards. As a seasoned, highly skilled environmental health and safety manager with a long track record of driving operational efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability, I am confident that I will be successful in this new position.

During my career, my contributions have included:

• Enhancing safety by designing and implementing safety policies on projects – DOT and hazardous waste.

• Improving overall efficiency and effectiveness by upgrading the existing safety policies – federal, state and local - and designing and implementing enhanced employees training and safety procedures.

• Controlling maintenance budgets and generating process and procedure improvements to reduce maintenance costs.

• Advancing safety by effectively redesigning and improving the existing safety processes and procedures.

• Overseeing maintenance and safety procedures for gas turbines in natural and nuclear gas systems, pressurized water reactor systems, and related equipment at both civil and non-civil sites. Also hazardous waste removal and transportation for the DOT pertaining to DOE and EPA policies and procedures.

• Conduct safety inspections and auditing.

It is clear from the above that I have the hands-on and supervisory experience and expertise necessary to continue my long track record of success. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as a brief insight into what I can offer your organization. I look forward to discussing your needs and the many ways I can help achieve your goals. Thank you in advance for your consideration, and I look forward to our conversation.

Sincerely,

Hugh G. Clemmer

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