Jonathan M. Strobel
Crestwood, MO 63126
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Summary of Qualifications
Mr. Strobel is a highly qualified Quality, Environmental Health & Safety Professional with over twenty years of quality, environmental and safety regulatory compliance management experience as a consultant and EHS Manager in both the public and private sectors. Expertise includes: Implementing Quality, Environmental and Safety Management Systems, Industrial Environmental Health & Safety Program development, implementation and management. EHS Compliance Auditing, and Corrective Actions, Air and Water Permitting, Solid and Hazardous Waste Regulatory Management, Emergency Planning and Response, CERCLA Site Investigations and Risk Assessments. NEPA EIS, Permitting, and Licensing of large engineering and construction projects including dams, airport runways, chemical, and nuclear power plants.
Academic Background
Bachelor of Science -Environmental Science
University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1987
Training and Certifications
Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, Master Level (1992-Current)
Certified Lead Auditor, ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
MDNR Licensed Monitoring Well Installer, (2005)
Certified USEPA AHERA Building Inspector (1991- current)
Certified OSHA 40-Hr Health & Safety for Hazardous Waste Site Operations (1988 – current)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Compliance Auditor
USEPA Region VII CERCLA Hazard Ranking System and Revised HRS
USEPA Region VII Field Investigation Team Preliminary Assessment, Site-Investigation, and RCRA Facility Assessment Project Manager
USEPA Region V Superfund Technical Assistance Response Team
Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Certified Low Level Radiation Safety Certified OSHA Permit Required Confined Space Entry
OSHA Trenching and Excavation Safety Training
USDOT Hazardous Materials Trainer
OSHA 29 CFR 120 24-Hour First Responders Emergency Training Environmental Health and Safety Training Officer, OSHA 29 CFR 120 40-Hour HAZWOPER
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Professional Experience
Quality, Safety, and Environmental Manager
Abengoa Bioenergy of Illinois 2011 – Present
Currently leading Chemical Manufacturing operation’s QS&E Department, including development and program implementation of ISO Certified Quality, Environmental, Safety, Sustainability, and Green House Gas Inventory Management Systems. Regulatory compliance management of Air Construction, and Title V Air Permits, Sustainability and Greenhouse Gas Reporting, LDAR Program, NPDES Stormwater and Wastewater Permit, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Safety Procedures and Training, and overall EHS and Quality management programs. Successful implementation of a Behavioral Safety Program. Management of the quality. Analytical lab and EHS Departments. Successfully reduced OSHA lost time injuries to zero. Achieved zero environmental compliance regulatory violations.
Sr. Project Manager
Professional Environmental Engineers, Inc. 2008–2011
Served as Emergency Responder for the USEPA Region V Superfund Technical Assistance Team contract. Senior consultant for developing and implementing industrial client environmental and safety compliance management programs, including Air, Water, SPCC, and Hazardous Materials permitting and reporting, developed procedures, plans and conducted training. Successfully lead large enterprise ISO 14001 Environmental Management System implementation project.
Project Supervisor
Paul C. Rizzo Associates, Inc. 2007-2008
Project Supervisor responsible for managing regulatory compliance programs for two large high profile engineering and construction projects. Successfully authored AmerenUE’s Callaway Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 NRC Construction and Operation License Application’s Environmental Report. Authored the Alternatives Analyses Chapters including Siting Study, Alternative Transmission and Cooling System analyses, and the no build alternative.
Environmental Project Supervisor for the AmerenUE’s Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Dam Rebuild managing the air, water, and waste permitting and compliance management.
Environmental Department Manager
SITEX Environmental, Inc. 2005-2007
Developed business and increased revenues and profits by improving client relationships, and management of projects and staff for a multi-disciplinary full service Environmental Science and Engineering Department. Projects included Hazardous Waste Management, Environmental Site Assessments, Risk Based Site Characterizations, Groundwater Investigations and Remediation, UST Closures and MRBCA Risk Assessments. Successfully managed large redevelopment projects including Brownfield Remediation and Historic Tax Credit Applications and VCP Projects. Improved Industrial Air and Water Permitting Consulting Program, and Comprehensive EH&S Compliance Auditing and Training Program Implementation. Permitting and compliance reporting for industrial client’s CAA, CWA, NPDES, RCRA, CERCLA, SPCC, and EPCRA.
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Environmental Management System Administrator:
Lambert St. Louis International Airport
Expansion Program Management, 2002-2005
Responsible for the development and implementation of the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) for the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport’s Environmental Management Program. Responsibilities included defining and implementing a comprehensive management program for the Airport’s compliance with applicable Federal, State and local Environmental Regulatory requirements.
Conducted internal and managed external audits of the Airport EMS and implemented the corrective action process. Developed EMS manual and control procedures based on management policy. Developed EMS Training materials and conducted training.
Installed, populated and implemented the Airport’s Environmental Management System EPOCH Software Program for the management and reporting of the Airport Authority’s Environmental Permitting such as Air, NPDES, Emergency Planning, Training, Wastewater, RCRA Hazardous Waste, USTs, CFC, and PCB Equipment and Ground Water Management Programs.
Authored Construction Contractor Technical Specification Environmental Requirements and reviewed contractor deliverables such as Hazardous Waste Manifesting, Work Plans, Health and Safety Plans, Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans
Manager, Sales and Environmental Coordinator
XENERGY Inc, St. Louis, Missouri, 1996 - 2002
Responsible for identifying and developing business opportunities for XENERGY which best match XENERGY’s qualifications, capabilities and expertise with the customers’ specific energy services needs. Mr. Strobel is responsible for sales and marketing of Energy Savings Performance Contracting, Shared Energy Savings Contracting, as well as engineering design and construction consulting services. Mr. Strobel developed, managed and very successfully implemented a targeted National Sales & Marketing Action Plan which resulted in sales of over $9 million of direct professional services revenue to new clients during the past five years.
Mr. Strobel was XENERGY’s U.S. Postal Service Account Executive and worked closely with USPS Environmental, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers to tailor custom energy projects to meet the unique project requirements of the USPS. Mr. Strobel works to ensure that client expectations are met through all phases of project performance and continually strives to improve XENERGY’s performance and relationship with the client.
US Postal Service – Midwest Area Environmental Manager
Environmental Services Company, Inc. , Saint Louis, Missouri 1994-1996
Developed and implemented an award winning, innovative and cost-effective Environmental Compliance Program for over 6,000 facilities in 10 states (included 6 industrial facilities over one million square feet in size). Program included developing and implementing an Environmental/Safety Management Program.
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Gateway District Environmental/Safety Coordinator: Responsible for Storm water, Air and Waste Water permitting. Provided technical guidance, training and support to facility managers and employees for implementation of safety, and environmental compliance programs. Responsible for developing various environmental and energy contracts, project work scopes, negotiating work orders and managing contract environmental health & safety consulting firms.
Identified full range of applicable federal, state and local EH&S laws and regulations, which govern Postal Facilities operations in 1200 facilities in Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois. Planned, prioritized, developed, coordinated implementation and monitored success of environmental policies, operating and administrative procedures, programs and plans to ensure Postal Service OSHA & EPA regulatory compliance.
Successfully negotiated with state and federal regulatory agencies and resolved EPA and OSHA Notice of Violations without fines or penalties. Trained and maintained documentation of over 1200 craft employees for OSHA and EPA regulatory required H&S training.
Environmental Scientist
Dames & Moore, Inc. – St. Louis, MO 1993-1994
Responsibilities included managing numerous Phase I–III Environmental Site Assessments and Environmental regulatory compliance audits of multi-state industrial and manufacturing facilities to support client’s operations and acquisitions / merger objectives. Mitigated and remediated hazardous spills for a major trucking terminal. Clients included ALCOA, Emerson Electric, Magnatek, and Bank of America. Performed CERCLA Audits of abandoned placer mines and pipeline facilities in the State of Alaska for the state EPA.
Program Manager, Environmental Site Assessment
Huntingdon Engineering & Environmental, Inc. – St. Louis, MO 1991 – 1993
Responsible for Environmental Compliance Auditing project management. Managed numerous Phase I – III Environmental Site Assessments, Compliance Audits and remediation services for various clients including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Air Force, Army National Guard, law firms, real estate developers, insurance, financial institutions and industrial operations.
Served as Team Leader performing over 30 state and federal EPA & OSHA Compliance Audits for Army National Guard operations in the states of Ohio and Illinois for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Audits included regulatory compliance reviews and corrective actions for the Clean Air Act, RCRA, CERCLA, NEPA, Clean Water Act, TSCA, SARA, DOT, and OSHA.
Maintained excellent project management track record for safety, technical competence, regulatory compliance and cost-effective project performance.
Served as Environmental Health and Safety Training Manager, conducting 40-hour OSHA Hazardous Waste Site Operations Health and Safety and 8-hour annual refresher training. Produced laboratory MSDS database for OSHA compliance.
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Project Manager and Assistant Field Analytical Support Program Coordinator
USEPA Region VII - Field Investigation Team Contract
Ecology and Environment, Inc., Kansas City, MO 1990-91
Performed CERCLA Preliminary Assessments, Site Investigations, and Hazard Ranking Scoring of numerous uncontrolled waste disposal sites in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. Projects included site regulatory/history review, site reconnaissance, preparation and implementation of quality assurance project plans, health and safety, and sampling plans and final reports. Final reports included contaminant migration analysis and health risk assessment determinations for National Priority List site scoring. Operated mobile gas chromatography laboratory to support site investigation field operations.
Field supervised all phases of groundwater contamination assessment projects. Experienced in well placement, drilling oversight, field geologic logging and documentation, sampling, well construction, well development, aquifer testing, delineation of contaminant plume migration and conducting post remediation groundwater quality verification sampling programs. Performed analytical data QA/QC, interpretations and validation. Served as Team Leader on the Corporate Environmental Emergency Response Team.
Project Scientist/Field Team Leader
USEPA Region VII - Technical Enforcement Support Contract
Tetra Tech, Inc., Kansas City, MO 1988 - 1990
Responsible for verifying implementation and documentation of EPA approved Quality Assurance Project Plans and Health and Safety Plans for RCRA Post Closure Monitoring and Corrective Actions. Performed project coordination and field operations oversight on behalf of the EPA for responsible party field activities such as monitoring well location, installation and sampling and remediation activities. Included technical and progress reporting to EPA program manager with emphasis on deviations from approved plans.
Managed the EH&S work plan of the construction of a contaminated soil containment cell at a dioxin-contaminated site on behalf of USEPA Region VII.
Served as Project Health and Safety Officer for a Biological Treatment RCRA Closure Project at Amoco’s former refinery in Sugar Creek, MO. Responsible for health and safety training, daily air monitoring, and overall implementation of the Health and Safety Plan for OSHA compliance for closure operations.
Research Associate III/Volatile Organic Analyst, Environmental Chemistry Division
Radian Corporation, Sacramento, California 1987-88
Performed volatile organic analyses of soil and water, conducted quality control reviews and prepared data packages for U.S. Air Force environmental contract.
Student Research Assistant, Water Quality and Lake Studies Institute
University of Wisconsin-Madison 1985-1987
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Professional Affiliations
St. Louis Regional Commerce & Growth Association (RCGA) - Environmental Council
Gateway Society of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers
Awards
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport Award of Excellence for Outstanding Performance and lasting Contribution for developing and implementing the MSDS Management System., St. Louis, MO March 9, 2005.
United States of America Executive Office of the President, National Performance Review - “Hammer Award.” For contributions to “building a government that works better and costs less.” St. Louis, MO 1997.
RCGA Gateway Clean Air Alliance – “Environmental Excellence Award.” For Clean Air Project Initiative
Zeasman Scholarship Award for Environmental Management Excellence,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985.
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