Quality Assurance Engineer

Kathryn J. Dunbar

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Kennewick, WA 99338

509-***-**** Cell

dr8xzp@r.postjobfree.com

Over 25 years with Department of Energy contractor experience with environmental management, waste certification, remediation, regulatory compliance, construction oversight, ASME NQA-1 quality assurance and project management/ technical support experience.

Track record of successful responsibility for major government projects involving construction oversight, TRU waste characterization, CERCLA, NEPA documentation, implementation and ensuring compliance with TRU, mixed, low level, and hazardous wastes, ensuring applicable disposal and laboratory requirements, training, D&D, transportation compliance, waste minimization/pollution prevention and regulatory permit implementation and management of TRU, hazardous, radioactive, mixed, and solid wastes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WRPS

[Tank Farms Contractor to Department of Energy at Hanford Site]

Richland, Wa 10-01-08 to present

Sr. Environmental Quality Assurance Engineer

• Certified ASME NQA-1 lead auditor and ISO 14000 EMS Internal Auditor

• Specialized in environmental QA, construction, design, build

• Vendor audits (NQA-1 nuclear)

• Construction oversight, NDE, welding, crane, rigging, ASME

• Oversight of sampling and analysis process for closure and investigative

• NQA-1 software assessments and environmental data assessments

• Perform laboratory audits in compliance with the Hanford Analytical Services Quality Assurance (HASQARD) consensus program

• Construction oversight, NDE, welding, ASME

• Review documents for quality adequacy, implementation & effectiveness pertaining to the Environmental requirements

• Perform assessments, management assessments and independent assessments

• Oversee lab data generation and quality control

• Field and lab activities compliance

CH2MHill

[Tank Farms Contractor to Department of Energy at Hanford Site]

Richland, Wa 03-08 to 10-01-08

Sr. Environmental Quality Assurance Engineer

• ASME NQA-1 Lead auditor certification

• Specialized in environmental QA, construction, design, build

• Vendor audits (NQA-1 nuclear)

• Construction oversight, NDE, welding, crane, rigging, ASME

• Oversight of sampling and analysis process

• NQA-1 software assessments and environmental data assessments

• Certified NQA-1 lead auditor and ISO 14000 EMS Internal Auditor

• Review documents for quality adequacy, implementation & effectiveness

• Perform assessments, management assessments as needed for environmental, & air permitting

• Vendor and Subcontractor Audits

• Oversee lab data generation and quality control

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BWXT-Pantex – DOE “Q” Cleared

[Contractor to Department of Energy (NNSA) at the Pantex Plant]

Amarillo, TX 10-06 to 03-08

NQA-1 Lead Auditor

• Lead auditor for ASME NQA-1 Audits/Assessments

• Review documents for quality adequacy, implementation & effectiveness

• Specialized in environmental QA, construction, design, build, crane & rigging

• Vendor/supplier audits (NQA-1 nuclear)

• Develop and implement ASME NQA-1 program & certification training

• Training of auditors for ASME NQA-1 certification

• Corrective action, causal analysis, root cause

• Operational readiness (ORRs)

• Perform assessment, management assessments as needed across plant site

• Assist with implementation of ASME NQA-1 program requirements

• NDE welding oversight

WSMS

[Contractor to Department of Energy at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)]

Carlsbad, NM 1-03 to 10-06

Senior Environmental Engineer

• Project Lead for permit compliance of WIPP Hazardous Waste Facility Permit (HWFP)

• Hazardous Waste Facility Permit development, modifications, and write (Class 1-3)

• ASME NQA-1 Lead Auditor Environmental/Regulatory Audits/Assessments

• Construction oversight, NDE, welding

• Regulatory Compliance Assessments

• Vendor/supplier and Subcontractor Audits (NDE) (NQA-1)

• Project Lead for WIPP Permanent Marker Program

• Project Lead for WIPP reporting and recertification requirements for EPA Disposal Permit

• Pollution prevention (P2), affirmative procurement

• Mixed, low level, PCB, and TRU waste permit compliance

• Implementation of permit in operational activities

• Evaluate adequacy of effectiveness of permit performance

• Aid in research project permit compliance in underground

• WIPP waste acceptance criteria (WAC) and waste analysis plan (WAP)

• Regulatory analysis of PCBs, TRU, mixed, & Low Level waste requirements for WIPP site implementation

• Innovative ideas to meeting operations and regulatory requirements

• Project Lead for NEPA requirements at the WIPP

• NMED/EPA compliance requirements integration at WIPP

• Project Lead for Environmental compliance assessments of all permitted and non-permitted areas (air, water, radioactive, and hazardous waste)

S.M. Stoller

(Contractor to Department of Energy at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant)

Carlsbad, NM 12-00 to 1-03

Quality Assurance NQA-1 Certified Lead Auditor

• Technical specialist – RCRA, P2, Affirmative Procurement

• Audit technical aspects for TRU waste acceptance certification at the WIPP (HWFP, WAC, WAP)

• Specialized in environmental QA, construction, design, build, crane & rigging

• Vendor/supplier audits (NQA-1 nuclear)

• Peer Review 40 CFR § 194.22 (NUREG 1297 compliance guidelines)

• Audit ASME NQA-1 work processes at the WIPP site

• ISO 14000 Certified

• Trend analysis for deficiencies tracking

• Conduct of Operations, NDE, Construction oversight

• Developed procedures, plans for QA functions & responsibilities

• Wrote QAP for DOE WIPP site

• Developed matrices for sites procedures, programmatic requirements of ASME NQA-1 and DOE requirements

• Vendor and Subcontractor Audits

• Records management assessment

• Review contract modifications to meet regulatory requirements

• Audit aspects related to compliance with HWFP State/federal/local environmental

requirements

Fluor Fernald (formerly FERMCO) June 1993 to July 2000

Cincinnati, OH (Fernald Project)

Tech/Program Specialist III

• Regulatory compliance liaison for Fluor Fernald Legal Counsel

• Specialized in environmental QA, construction, design, build, crane & rigging

• Vendor/supplier audits (NQA-1 nuclear)

• Identify sampling requirements, characterize TRU, mixed wastes, low level wastes & disposal criteria for On Site Disposal Facility waste acceptance criteria

• Evaluate/characterize wastes for D&D from process areas and laboratory

• Reclassifying Hazardous Waste Management Units determinations for OEPA/DOE

• Review new environmental regulations for site applicability and implement as required

• Environmental Vendor Audits

• Regulatory Compliance Assessments

• Evaluate new DOE Order 435.1 for Waste Management

• Developed safety self-assessment procedure requirements for FEMP projects

• Wrote Root Causal Reportable Accident Annual Report for 1999

• Conduct of Operations & Operational Readiness Review member

• Develop program for "Behavior Based Safety" at FEMP

• Reevaluate DOE product classifications to determine RCRA status if change in product classification to waste

• Interpret/review DOT requirements for transport of hazardous/radioactive materials

• Pollution prevention assessments (PPOAs), environmental assessments (EA), NEPA, categorical exclusions, environmental impact statements (EIS)

• Baseline determination/assessment - up front planning (TQM, teams, organizational)

• Emergency Planning & Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) notification, reporting, strategy & policy

• RCRA/CERCLA integration issues site-wide

• Interpretation of Federal/State Regulatory Policy issues as applies (RCRA, CERCLA, LLRW)

• Interpretative issues of hazardous waste pertaining to day to day work practices, disposal, transport, minimization, recycling issues, SW846 sampling protocol

• Audits, Surveillances, Operational Readiness Reviews, regulatory inspections of SAAs, HWMUs, Lab, & construction areas

Bartech Technical Services October 1990 - June 1993

Subcontractor to Fluor Daniel Fernald

Cincinnati, OH

Environmental Engineer (Fernald Project)

• Review waste stream characterization/determinations for disposal for TRU, low level, mixed, and hazardous waste options

• Review waste characterization sections in RCRA Part B and develop RCRA/CERCLA integration strategy for waste characterization

• Develop Regulatory Compliance Guides (RCG) as needed for hazardous waste

• Assist Laboratory in meeting regulatory compliance for generated hazardous waste, mixed, & LLRW

• Audit RCRA Annual Report to ensure compliance

• Correspondence with OEPA on regulatory issues as needed

• Engineering support services for disposal of low level radioactive waste and mixed waste streams

• Waste generation to disposal flow diagrams

• Regulatory compliance surveillance concerning low level radioactive waste/mixed waste management, handling and storage requirements

• Generator support to maintain regulatory compliance of waste

• Recycling effort support for waste/waste minimization/waste reduction

• Project Engineer for low level/mixed waste stream disposal from characterization to method of disposal

ERA, Inc. May 1989 - October 1990

Subcontractor to

Westinghouse Environmental Management Company of Ohio (WEMCO)

Cincinnati, OH

Environmental Engineer (Fernald Project)

• Develop sampling and closure plans for Hazardous Waste Management Units (HWMU)

• Develop programs for low level radioactive and hazardous waste disposal, segregation, characterization and minimization management

• Responsible for waste management program meeting regulatory low level radioactive (NTS-NVO-325) disposal permit requirements

• Coordinated/Responded to FMPC/NTS audit of waste and characterization programs

• Develop/set-up non-contaminated radioactive and mixed waste segregation program

• Updated FMPC Waste Disposal Permit for NTS/NVO-325

Westinghouse Materials Company of Ohio April 1984 - May 1989

Cincinnati, OH

Waste Technologist (Fernald Project)

• Developed/wrote FMPC Waste Disposal Permit for NTS meeting NVO-325 requirements

• Coordinated FMPC/NTS audit of waste programs

• Project coordination and responsibility for disposal, storage, transport and segregation techniques for radioactive, non-radioactive and hazardous waste sources (P2), waste minimization

• Working knowledge of state and federal levels for environmental compliance and transport regulations (RCRA, TSCA, CERCLA, SARA)

• Developed and wrote procedures for radioactive, hazardous, mixed and non-radioactive wastes

• Developed and conducted training sessions for waste, health and safety (OSHA) areas

• Developed annual training, qualification history, and certification reviews

• AutoCAD drafting and design for engineering applications and technical illustrations

EDUCATION

Xavier University BA English (Pre-Law)

Cincinnati, OH

Continuing Education

• ISO 14000 Certified Auditor

• Certified NQA-1 Lead Auditor

• Kepner-Tregoe Causal Analysis

• Six-Sigma Yellow Belt

• Registered Environmental Manager (NREM)

• Registered Environmental Auditor (REA)

• Operational Readiness Reviews

• DOT certified Hazardous Materials Transportation

• Westinghouse Environmental School of Excellence

• CERCLA

• RCRA – Hazardous Waste 40 hour

• Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal and Transport

• Hazardous/Toxic Waste Management Certification

• Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Waste Material

• Training Certification in Hazardous Materials

• Train the Trainer

• Situational Leadership

• Communications Leadership

• Technical Writing

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