Rochester, Minnesota, United States
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Accomplished EHS Professional with over 40 years of progressive leadership experience across the renewable energy, aerospace, petroleum, and food manufacturing industries. Proven expertise in program management, compliance assurance, environmental permitting, and ESH auditing across 31 states and Canada. Adept at leveraging modern technology, including AI proficiency, to develop multi-media EHS policies, training, and communications. Strategic leader with a track record of driving behavior-based safety initiatives to reduce injury frequency rates.
● Directed comprehensive EHS program management for a 140 mmgpy ethanol refinery. ● Coordinated PSM and RMP program compliance. ● Managed BBS safety initiatives and introduced basic HOP principles to the workforce. ● Acquired and utilized AI and virtual reality proficiency to create and disseminate multi-media EHS policies, procedures, training, and communications. ● Improved employee safety training from piecemeal, unverified and/or unverifiable, to 100% verified completion.
● Led pre- and post-construction permitting and compliance support for major Ethanol and Wind Energy Projects. ● Managed environmental permitting for air emissions, wastewater discharge, stormwater management, petroleum storage, and hazardous waste. ● Developed and directed pre-construction and post-construction avian and bat population/fatality studies. ● Directed stack testing to verify performance guarantees at newly constructed ethanol plants.
● Developed and implemented comprehensive environmental management systems and compliance assurance programs for ten geothermal power plants in Southern California.
● Managed environmental and safety initiatives for a large-scale wet corn mi ling/ethanol refining operation spanning 2 manufacturing facilities, 17 shipping terminals, and 3 grain storage sites. ● Coordinated the implementation of behavior-based safety initiatives that reduced recordable injury frequency rates by >50%. ● Prepared Risk Management Plans for facilities located in Minnesota and Nebraska. ● Represented company and industry interests on numerous committees and organizations including CIBO, RFA, Minnesota and Nebraska Safety Councils.
● Colaborated with a core group of professionals to build Lockheed’s Corporate Environmental, Safety and Health (ESH) Department from the ground up. ● Co-authored the Corporate ESH Audit Program policies manual and led extensive ESH audits at manufacturing and testing facilities across 22 states and Canada.