To move into a suitable position that will provide great benefit to a potential employer by way of utilizing my work experience to the fullest.
ANDREW G. THOMSON
13 Quail Lane
Honey Brook, PA 19344
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CAREER SUMMARY
This summary illustrates a proven and successful safety and training Manager with 10 + years experience with managing in a diverse set of field and corporate environments encompassing a varied set of duties and responsibilities. It further demonstrates a wide variety of career experience in project management in the utility power generation and distribution industry, building trades, natural gas and petroleum pipeline transportation infrastructure and telecommunications industries. Regulatory compliance in safety and quality along with resulting incident rate reduction and reduced insurance premium costs have been the cornerstones of a long and rewarding history of value added contribution to the management efforts of any corporation that I have been engaged by. Areas of expertise include:
• Incident Rate Reduction • Incident Investigation • Regulatory Agency Interface • Non-destructive Testing
• Quality Assurance • Safety • Risk Management • Technical Writing
• Auditing • Research • Evaluation • Training
• Team Building • Performance Metrics • Presentation • Program Development
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Level (3) Communications, Broomfield, CO
Regional Manager – Health Safety & Environment 2006 – Present
Northeastern USA Regional Manager – Health, Safety, and Environment. Duties including development of safety program manual sections, incident investigations, facilities safety inspections, training and support of employees in all areas of HSE, training module development and review, ergonomics assessments, field management and dissemination of insurance company facility loss prevention surveys, operational safety review of operations throughout the Northeastern United States, contractor and vendor site safety compliance auditing, establishment, implementation of and direction of corporate facilities safety committee policy and process, defensive driving instruction, motor vehicle background checks, DOT motor vehicle program administration, single point of contact for 1,000 + employees in the Northeastern United States.
InfraSource Underground Construction Services, Inc., King of Prussia, PA 2000 – 2006
Regional Manager – Safety & Training / Quality Assurance Program Director
October 2000 to November 2001 – Manager, Wireless Construction Division. Responsibilities included bidding and executing bid contracts to build large and small scale wireless antennae sites for AT&T, contract review, estimating, and electrical sweep testing of coaxial cabling installed for antennae, material competitive pricing, ordering and storage, site as-built documentation and turnover, contract Quality Assurance Administrator and QC Inspector.
November 2001 to May 2002 – Manager, Contractor of Choice bid work for PECO Energy during electrical transmission cable replacement and gas main installation and replacement. Responsibilities included contract review, estimating, ordering and storage, site as-built documentation and turnover, contract Quality Assurance Administrator and Inspector.
May 2002 to October 2005 – Quality Assurance Program Director, Safety and Equipment Manager, InfraSource – Mid-Atlantic Pipeliners and Trinity Industries Incorporated – Safety responsibilities include training of 200 employees in OSHA Compliance, CPR and First Aid, Railroad Safety, Annual Safety Seminars, Department of Transportation Gas Operator Qualification, OSHA 1910.269 Qualified Electrical Worker training, Fusing, Competent Person and Trench Safety, Respirator, Crane, Side boom, Forklift, and New Employee Orientation. Quality Assurance responsibilities include daily administration of the quality
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assurance program including auditing of the weekly quality control site visits of six qualified Inspectors, quality and safety evaluation of approximately sixty field construction crews, quarterly auditing of the existing quality assurance manual, development of new Quality Manual subsections as pertinent and under ISO 9000 compliance, establishment of hold point criteria for QC site inspections, quarterly revisions as necessary to the existing Quality Manual. Maintenance and data entry of employee qualification and training information in locally held computerized databases, tracking, and disposition of all QC Inspection sheets and monthly performance indicator development for client contacts.
November 2005 to December 2006 – Northeast Division Regional Manager of Safety and Training for InfraSource Underground Construction Services. Daily duties including training on, and oversight of the implementation of all corporate and local safety programs within the Northeastern multi-state region of the United States. Daily oversight of the activities of four subordinate safety managers within the division. Quality Assurance Program Director for PECO Energy contract services with oversight of six Quality Control Inspectors.
Janx Inc., Woodbridge, NJ 2000
Operations Manager
January 2000 to October 2000 - Operations Manager of a 500 member non-destructive testing company. Responsibilities included developing new product technology, estimating, contract review, radiation detection equipment calibration and repair, welding inspection and testing procedure development, Assistant Radiation Safety Officer, company Quality Assurance Program Director, company OSHA Compliance Officer / Regional Safety Director. Overlapping duties in daily scheduling and outfitting of twenty field Non-destructive testing crews in the New York / New Jersey metropolitan area.
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS
• Level-1 Radiography; Magnetic particle; Dye penetrant; Ultrasonic/ Thickness and angle beam testing. Written and practical examination. 1986.
• Level-2 Radiography; Magnetic particle; Dye penetrant; Ultrasonic/ Thickness and angle beam testing. Written and practical examination. 1989.
• Radiation Safety Qualification:
American Society for Nondestructive Testing
Industrial Radiography Radiation Safety Personnel
Certification: X-ray and radioactive materials.
Certification # 510280694 – 1995.
• McElroy Mfg. Certified UltraMc Operator (Ultrasonic polyethylene joint inspection) June 1995.
• AWS Certified Associate Welding Inspector (API 1104 code discipline) 1996
• Mueller Resources Management Academy Milwaukee, WI.
Studies in management and leadership training, accounting, crisis management planning, public speaking, estimating and job costing. January – February 1996
• Level-3 (company certification); Radiography; Magnetic particle; Dye penetrant; Ultrasonic/ Thickness and angle beam testing. Written and practical examination. 1998.
• Tower climbing safety and rescue training. November 2000.
• Quality Assurance and Control seminar for PECO Energy – an Exelon Company. May 2002.
• Rocky Mountain Education Center – Red Rocks College, Denver Colorado
U.S Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration Training Institute
Construction Outreach Training – O.S.H.A 500 Authorized ten and thirty hour construction safety trainer under OSHA 1910 and 1926. September 2003.
• MBA Safety Training - CPR and Basic First Aid authorized facilitator and trainer. September 2004.
• Smith System Space Cushion Driving Instructor certification – March, 2007
• Norfolk Southern / Conrail worker on track safety authorized instructor – December, 2007
• Over 120 hours of Radiation Safety course work spanning the 15 years spent in the NDE Industry.
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Windows XP, Word, Excel, Power Point, Access and Publisher
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REFERENCES
JANX Incorporated Oklahoma Natural Gas Co
Robert F. Noller Steven E. Powell
Product Development Specialist Oklahoma Natural Gas Co Senior Consultant
123 Burlington Path Shawnee, Oklahoma
Cream Ridge, N. J. 08514 (405) 551-6903
(609) 758 -2901
Art W. Thompson Michael Beekman
Corporate Equipment Manager Senior Department Manager - HSE
Perini Building Company Level 3 Communications
3960 Howard Hughes Highway 1025 Eldorado Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89168 Broomfield CO 80021
(702) 491 -1794 (720) 888 -2605
Charles Price
Chief Construction Manager
Hess Oil St. Lucia Ltd.
Castries, St. Lucia – West Indies
(809) 452-1109
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