Senior ES&H specialist, manager, or health physicist. Short term contract, consulting agreement or permanent employment.
JAMES E. (JIM) TARPINIAN
249 W Schreyer Place
Columbus, OH 43214
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimtarpinian
614.754.9267 jim.tarpinian[at]gmail.com
SUMMARY
Highly experienced environmental, safety and health (ES&H) professional skilled in developing, administering and improving ES&H programs for world-class government and commercial contractors. Skilled in communicating “the big picture,†simplifying complex issues and driving practical solutions that achieve a sustainable safety culture and which lead to high performing organizations.
• Demonstrated solid leadership in occupational safety and health management, health physics, environmental remediation and waste management.
• Created workplace environments that maintained regulatory compliance, achieved substantial reductions in workplace injuries and minimized exposures to radiation and hazardous substances.
• Led initiatives that resulted in achieving 1M safe work hours on 7 occasions.
• Achieved internationally recognized registrations for VPP, ISM, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.
Principal and owner. Providing consultation to commercial and government clients on Environmental, Safety, and Health performance strategies, technical and managerial support, safety culture and change management. Specific areas of expertise include ES&H management, culture evaluation, human performance, integrated safety management, leadership development, coaching and mentoring, facilitation, and training.
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE, Columbus, OH 2007 – 2009
Vice President, Corporate Environmental, Safety, Health and Quality (ESH&Q)
Provided corporate leadership, technical support services and independent oversight for operations, including 6 national laboratories and 100+ international, commercial and government research facilities and operations, representing over $5B in gross revenue.
• Established enterprise-wide ESH&Q strategy, objectives and goals and assessed performance against those goals.
• Substantially improved the perceived value of the Corporate ES&H function through organizing and leading the ES&H Community of Practice.
• Achieved sustained improvement in safety performance resulting in a 47% reduction in injury rates.
• Developed widely adopted guidelines for Department of Energy contractors to understand, assess and improve safety culture, resulting in documented improvements at all 6 pilot DOE facilities in the first year.
BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY, Upton, NY 2003 – 2007
Director, Environment, Safety, Health and Quality (ESH&Q)
Led up to 190 ESH&Q professional and administrative staff and managed an annual budget of $30M for over 2,500 lab staff and over 4,000 visiting researchers.
• Rebuilt the leadership, confidence and effectiveness of the ESH&Q Directorate.
• Exceeded 90% of all contractual goals for ESH&Q performance each year, earning over $4M in award fees from the Department of Energy.
• Successfully maintained ISM verification while achieving the 1st registration in the DOE complex for internationally recognized OHSAS 18001 safety and health standard and ISO 14001: 2004 environmental standard.
• Achieved over 1M safe work hours twice earning recognition from the DOE’s Director of the Office of Science.
• Achieved high standard of regulatory compliance resulting in no regulatory actions or penalties.
BECHTEL HANFORD, INC., Richland, WA 1994 – 2003
Manager, Safety, Health and Quality
Developed, implemented and provided oversight of safety, health and quality programs for the $1B 10-year DOE Hanford Environmental Restoration Contract. Functional responsibilities included radiological safety, industrial hygiene, industrial safety, fire prevention and emergency preparedness. Met all project safety and health goals.
• Managed staff of up to 170 personnel and subcontractors and an annual department budget of $25M.
• Reduced workplace injuries by 80% and achieved 1M safe work hours five times over the life of the project.
• Achieved high personal customer satisfaction ratings from DOE, resulting in significantly improved relationships between DOE and contractor management.
• Achieved DOE VPP Merit status.
EDUCATION
MS, Radiological Sciences and Protection, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
BA, Biology, University of Connecticut at Storrs
CERTIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Certified Health Physicist, American Board of Health Physics (ABHP)
Certificate for the Executive Program in Safety Management, (ASSE)
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Joyce P. Davis Memorial Award, American Academy of Health Physics, 2004
For distinguished excellence and professional achievement
Elda E. Anderson Award, Health Physics Society, 1991
For significant administrative, educational and / or scientific contributions to the profession of health physics
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Plenary Member, Health Physics Society (Elected Fellow 2002)
Professional Member, American Society of Safety Engineers
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