Highly motivated and experienced Environmental Health & Safety professional with proven history of EHS
success stemming from process improvements using automation, capital expense projects based on top
loss, World Class Manufacturing implementation, and data driven sustainability improvements. Experience
in creating EHS procedures for compliance assurance that can be successfully trained, understood, and
followed by the hourly workforce.
Develop and support the implementation of EHS procedures, work standards, and best practices at both the
Beloit, KS and Cawker City, KS facilities.
✓ Project manager for the global implementation of Enablon incident management, metrics reporting,
and action tracking for over 150 sites around the world.
✓ Developed/Implemented Site Procedures including a Heat Illness Prevention Procedure using the
NEP guidelines that included time-of-day work adjustments, earlier stop times, and ice/water
machines in all departments.
✓ Implemented safety project (kaizen) drawings that created
competition between all employees to find and fix unsafe conditions in their areas.
✓ Implemented a safety appreciation program that fostered employee engagement and rewarded SAFE behavior with “Caught Being
Safe” cards that employees could turn in for snacks, treats, drinks, and other small items.
✓ Ensured multi-site compliance with Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), EPA,
OSHA, DOT, and AGCO corporation’s standards. Compliance included: Large quantity generator
biennial reports (for hazardous waste), special waste disposal, wastewater (pretreatment permit/SM
4500-H compliant field lab), stormwater, Tier II, Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), Class II Air Permitting, machine guarding,
LOTO, and more.
Develop EHS team of 13 associates and leaders. Lead all team members to ensure consistent compliance
with EPA, DOT, OSHA, and company policies. Improve safety processes/procedures for the network by
benchmarking with other facilities and home office to ensure practicality for all. Automate administrative
tasks/processes using Microsoft Office tools to reduce non-value-added activities.
✓ Implemented site contractor safety program to ensure compliance with company standards for all
visitors and contractors coming on site.
✓ Developed processes/procedures including trailer control records (TCR) procedure, pest activity
reporting procedure, incident reporting procedure.
✓ Removed risks associated with identified top losses by implementing engineering controls and
process changes.
Oversaw implementation of the 7-step world class manufacturing methodology for Safety in a manufacturing
setting. Lead team of four to successfully expand this methodology throughout 11 different functions in the
manufacturing areas. Worked with the engineering teams across several states to perform Machine Safety
Risk Assessments for new equipment being installed inside of the facility.
✓ Develop training materials for lockout-tagout, confined space, work at heights, overhead cranes, PIT.
✓ Created extensive trends databases and charting to identify and visualize top losses by work-zone.
✓ Capital expense projects attacking top losses including overhead crane attachments, safety visuals projectors, and work-zone perimeter guarding for high-risk area.
✓ Machine Safety Risk Assessments complaint in both OSHA and ANSI standards.
✓ Review, approve, and create LOTO procedures using the Brady Link360 software.
✓ Developed layouts/designs using AutoCAD computer aided design software to create emergency evacuation and take shelter visuals along with security layouts, capital expense project designs and visualization.
Led the World Class Manufacturing Environmental (ENV) Pillar to a score of 1 within a year. Oversaw
implementation of the 7-step world class manufacturing methodology for environmental in a manufacturing
setting. Reduced major environmental impacts like Styrofoam and plastics by working with our industrial
engineering team to reduce amount of production parts coming in non-recyclable packaging.
✓ Score of 1 achieved during external WCM audit.
✓ Identified and reduced major aspects and impacts including Styrofoam through vendor packaging
changes and oil absorbents through a washable absorbent program that recycled both the oil and the
absorbent.
✓ Reduced waste transportation costs by 23%.
✓ Improved Zero Waste to Landfill percentage from 89% to 93% within one year.
✓ Eliminated $113,000 in waste transportation and sortation costs for the site within one year.
✓ Semi-Annual Wastewater Treatment Compliance Report for the City of Tulsa.
✓ Implemented SPCC and SWPPP program updates when new fulfillment center was added on
property.
Worked with the senior EHS manager and two peers on site to promote safety culture in the manufacturing
areas. Performed job safety risk assessments on all work areas in the facility and worked closely with the
engineering and production teams to correct unsafe conditions in the workplace. Also provided employees a
way to report unsafe conditions, unsafe acts, and near-miss events in the facility to support a reduction in
incidents.
✓ Job Safety Risk Assessments for all work areas completed and used to implement safety controls.
✓ Implemented near-miss, unsafe act, and unsafe condition reporting for all employees.
✓ Master trainer for Forklift, Overhead Crane, Manlift, Lockout-Tagout, and Die Carts.
✓ Rolled out ergonomic study program using the Humantech online software.
✓ Root Cause Analysis with the production team to ensure root causes of incidents and events were found.