De Pere, Wisconsin, United States
Seasoned EHS professional with demonstrated track record of positive influence and growth of safety culture and programs. •Dedicated "change agent" for organizational safety culture transformations. •Responsible for numerous human resources functions including, but not limited to affirmative action, employment law compliance, success profiles, member handbooks, independent contractors, and harassment and workplace violence prevention. •Responsible for numerous risk management functions including, but not limited to enterprise risk management, lobbying, corporate insurance, due diligence, and bonding. •Manage company insurance policy placement and administration (WC, Auto, General Liability, Property, Professional Liability, Cyber, Management Liability, Drones, CPL, Travel, Builders Risk, Marine, and Umbrella) •Tier 4 Project Manager with experience including, but not limited to roadmap development, visual work flows, risk registers, resource planning and tracking, and project execution. •Integrated knowledge of Lean methodology and tools including, but not limited to waste walks, after action reviews, 7S, 5 why problem solving, kaizen, and standard work development. •Extensive experience in developing corporate policies, standards, and manuals across a diverse set of industries. •Large scope Environmental compliance experience across all functional areas: Water, Waste, Air, Sustainability, etc. •Experience in designing and implementing EHS Management Systems including ISO 9000, ISO 14000, and OHSAS 18000. •Provide safety consultation services to external business clients including mock OSHA audits along with regulatory inspection and abatement support. •Manage client safety qualification process including maintaining highest achievable grades in third party safety registries (ISNetworld, Avetta Safety (formerly PICS), Browz, PEC). •Lead Foth's internal Community Team that helps to sustain Foth's culture through numerous teams including Community Service, Inclusion, Peer Networking, Culture Onboarding, and Sustainability.
I joined Foth initially as a member of the Production Solutions business unit to build safety programs to help support member safety, competency safety, and client safety. In 2013, I transitioned to Foth & Van Dyke, LLC where I now provide corporate safety, organizational risk management, and sustainability leadership for over 700 members across 25+ locations, while maintaining total recordable incident rates below 1%. •Maintaining total recordable incident rates below 1% and accomplished over 13 years (14 million hours) without a lost time, restricted duty or transfer (DART) incident and over 2 years without a single OSHA recordable incident (2 million hours). •Reduced insurance Experience Modification Rate (EMR) from 0.84 to the lowest achievable floor of 0.66. •Deliver technical safety expertise to all engineers across multiple disciplines (mechanical, electrical, process, structural, project management, compliance, permitting, remediation) and industries (Food and Beverage, Consumer Products, Pharmaceutical, Industrial Manufacturing, Chemical Manufacturing, Civil, Public, Mining). •Direct construction management safety for multi-million dollar projects across multiple states. •Guide and oversee safety risk assessments for custom machine designs and equipment integration. •Drive safety as a competency through member development: OSHA, MSHA, ANSI, ASME, ISO, NFPA standards as well as construction and project management. •Provide safety consultation services to external business clients and manage client safety qualification process including ISNetworld®, PEC Safety, Avetta and Browz™.
When I joined Broadwind Energy (Tower Tech Systems at the time), I was the first full-time safety professional in the company's history. While building the organization's safety programs, I drove continuous improvement initiatives to change the overall safety culture of the organization. During my time with Broadwind, I had a span of control over five facilities containing over 400 employees. •Decreased total recordable incident rate from 35.5% to 2.9% over 4 years and accomplished over 825 days (1.8 million hours) without a lost time incident. •Successfully navigated OSHA, EPA, and DNR random inspections. •Assisted with the design and build of two 150,000 ft.² facilities in 6 months. •Integrated Gensuite® electronic environmental health and safety management system. •Contributed to ISO 9000 registration and served as an auditor for the implementation. •Delivered safety leadership for a workforce with over 400 employees located at 5 facilities in 3 states. •Governed all EPA/DNR compliance including, but not limited to hazardous waste manifesting and reporting, NESHAP, Form R’s, and permitting (storm water, air, construction, general permits). •Managed sustainability projects and ISO 14000 development.
I initially joined Burger Boat Company as an Employment Specialist and was quickly promoted to EHSS Manager. As the EHSS Manager, I drove positive safety culture change for an organization that had been in business for over 135 years working in a high risk industry. Our operations were simultaneously regulated by General Industry (1910), Maritime (1915), and Construction (1926) Standards. •Decreased OSHA total recordable incident rate from 37.2% to 6.2% while increasing total headcount by over 240 employees. •Reduced insurance Experience Modification Rate (EMR) from 0.93 to 0.83. •Governed all OSHA/EPA/DNR compliance and oversaw all training and security related activities.
Throughout my years working at Banner Packaging, a division of Bemis Company, I had the opportunity to work in each of the major departments in the company. I also got the opportunity to grow as a teacher as I would train all new hires in the printing department. I grew a great respect for the manufacturing industry and its workers. This respect is what drove me to pursue Human Resources and Safety. I knew it was my passion to do all I could do to help the manufacturing workers I grew to care for.