EHS Manager

KARINLEE KNELLER

**** *********** ***** **********, ** 48182

734-***-**** **********@*****.***

ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH, AND SAFETY MANAGER

Improving Safety and Leadership through Example

PROFILE

Confident, highly energized, effective, and persuasive communicator with strong interpersonal and supervisory skills. Recognized as a motivator and mentor, experienced in planning and implementing successful corporate strategies. Driven to achieve goals and overcome obstacles, a welcome addition to any team. A solution provider who consistently earns the confidence of professionals through the delivery of superior support to the corporate mission.

Well versed in business control regulations, business conduct guidelines, Safety, Health and Security protocols, ISO, Accident Investigation and Injury Prevention, Workers Compensation Program administration and management, as well as effective financial management.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Air Quality Permitting • Title V and RMP Programs • Green House Gas• Regulatory Compliance • Process Hazard Analysis • Incident Investigation • Safety Metric Development • Pollution Control Hazard • Mitigation • Training / Development • Hazardous Waste Management • NPDES Permits• Emergency Response• Wastewater Permitting • PSD/PBR • NSR • Stormwater• Six Sigma Procedures • Lean Manufacturing • Process Safety Management • Industrial Hygiene

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Environmental Manager (contract)

SSOE Incorporated Toledo, OH 2011 to present

Served as environmental permitting contractor, completing requirements for a variety of permits including: Title V, NPDES, Air Permits, and Construction permits. Developed SPCC plans, greenhouse gas determinations, SWPP plans, for the automotive, food , and pharmaceutical companies based in Michigan, Tennessee, and Ohio

Consultant Toledo, OH / Temperance, MI 2009 to 2011

Lead new business development and marketing initiatives for private consulting firm. Provide consultation on environmental, and safety issues for various clientele. Oversaw permitting and authored environmental plans for confidential client.

SSOE Incorporated Toledo, OH 2009

Served as environmental permitting contractor, completing requirements for a variety of permits including: Title V, NPDES, Air Permits, and AST registrations. Developed SPCC plans, SWPP plans, and asbestos abatement Safety plans for the automotive, energy, aerospace, and pharmaceutical companies based in Michigan, Tennessee, and North Carolina.

Safety, Health, and Environmental Leader

Smucker Baker Manufacturing Incorporated Toledo, OH 2007 to 2009

• Established, implemented, and audited safety and environmental programs at 200 union employee, lean manufacturing facility. Developed and implemented program to train hourly staff as leaders for an employee driven safety program designed to reduce injuries. Enhanced employee empowerment and accountability by addition of safety leaders to production teams. Performed process safety start-up reviews and management of change reviews

• Decreased OSHA recordable accidents by 53% and achieved zero lost-time injuries

• Prepared Air Permits for an additional process lines, investigated and reported spills, and avoided fines during negotiations with agencies.

Family Home Hospice Care Temperance, MI 2005 to 2007

Managed staff of six home hospice care providers and oversaw all scheduling for homebound, elderly parent.

Safety, Health, and Environmental Manager

Huhtamaki Food Service Incorporated Waterville, ME 2004 to 2005

Supervised two staff members in the development and implementation of safety and environmental programs. Trained 400 union employees in regulatory safety procedures and designed train-the-trainer program to staff in-house safety fair. Streamlined training process, avoided $80,000 in overtime labor, and improved action items closure by 80%.

• Avoided fines and NOV by successfully maintaining compliance for accidental wastewater discharges to treatment plants. Managed wastewater compliance reporting. Advised Community wastewater committee

• Achieved a 90% reduction in compliance audit deficiencies through employee-directed, safety incentive program. Reduced injuries 30% by establishing one-on-one employee safety training and mentoring program tailored to individual employee’s safety record.

Corporate Compliance Manager

Matheson Tri-Gas Incorporated Miamisburg, OH 1999 to 2003

Produced corporate Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures. Identified facility compliance deficiencies. Oversaw the Material Safety Database Sheet production process. Completed corporate compliance manual following merger and designed database system to track injuries, investigations, and corrective actions.

• Reduced fines by 60% through effective permitting practices while preparing air permits for new installations, writing SWPP plans, completing NOV orders for TRI nitrous oxide emissions.

• Constructed safety incentive program, avoiding $500,000 in medical expenses and reducing lost-time incidents by 80%. Produced comprehensive emergency response program for chemical incidents that saved $100,000.

• Produced Corporate Process Safety Program

• Prepared SWPP Plans, air permits for new installations, TRI Reports and addressed NOVs for seven facilities in seven states.

Environmental Health and Safety Manager

Eurand America Incorporated Vandalia, OH 1997 to 1999

Created comprehensive EHS procedure manual consistent with ISO and GMP documentation requirements and completed process-hazard analysis within six months to meet regulatory deadlines. Prepared and submitted Federally Enforceable Operating Permit that avoided regulatory Title V constraints in plant-wide expansion.

• Reduced environmental compliance audit deficiencies by 90% within a single year.

• Achieved zero lost-time injury incidents and decreased OSHA recordable accidents by 83%. Saved $40,000 in labor through safety program restructuring and implementation of a return-to-work program.

Senior Project Manager/Business Development

Woolpert LLC Dayton, Oh 1989 – 1997

Managed five member staff in $500K project to complete environmental documentation for six naval bases. Directed industrial environmental services. Conducted audits, wastewater studies, storm water management, OSHA-related health and safety programs, indoor air quality, air emission assessments, and solid/hazardous waste management for printing, paper, soap, automotive, plating, and pharmaceutical industries

• Realized annual savings of $100K; conducted indoor air-quality hazard analysis that proved a product line’s profit margin was too small to cover liability and PPE expenses.

• Generated $2 million in year one by developing comprehensive services for industrial community.

• Conducted emissions inventory for welding, machining, and forklift operations and developed emission factors that exempted plant from Title V requirements.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, Biology and Limnology University of Toledo Toledo, OH

Bachelor of Science, Zoology Ohio State University Columbus, OH

CERTIFICATIONS

Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Miami Valley Safety Council • American Society of Safety Engineers • American Chemical Society

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