Experience

Manager, EHS Compliance and Systems
Textron Inc.
October 2021 - Present

• Leading Textron’s EHS database replacement project by coordinating with consultants, tracking costs, and managing business unit needs
• Overseeing the global EHS internal audit program and tracking corrective actions to completion while ensuring quality root cause analysis and mitigation is performed
• Participating in the enterprise COVID-19 response team and maintaining guidance documents for employee return to work and workplace readiness
• Authoring and delivering enterprise trainings for both monthly webinars as well as specialized multi-day events; topics include: regulatory/policy requirements, auditing, and hazardous waste management
• Delivering timely and accurate workers’ compensation liability, cashflow, and projection reports
• Administering the site remediation internal controls program to maintain compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley
• Assisting the development of the annual operating plan, department forecasting and budgeting, and direct business unit cost allocations

EHS Program Manager
Textron Inc.
June 2018 - September 2020

• Managed the global EHS internal audit program, including: preparation, on-site auditing, and post-work
• Tracked corrective action completion for audit findings, regulatory inspections, and severe injuries, while ensuring quality root cause analysis and mitigation was performed by the business segments
• Authored and delivered enterprise trainings for both monthly webinars as well as specialized multi-day events; topics include: regulatory/policy requirements, auditing, and hazardous waste management
• Collaborated on the continual improvement of the electronic EHS databases and reporting systems
• Expanded internal communications through newsletters and the intranet footprint

Environmental Health and Safety Engineer / Manager
Textron Aviation
January 2015 - May 2018

• Guided operational areas through safety requirements per OSHA, ANSI, and other bodies; areas include: fabrication, composites, experimental and production aircraft build, paint/flight, and facilities/maintenance
• Participated in prompt team injury investigations to determine root cause and drive corrective action completion to prevent injury reoccurrence
• Coordinated with the Legal department to respond to OSHA severe injury reporting investigations and employee complaints as they arise
• Created and distributed ad-hoc and recurring reports based on injury reporting data by utilizing SAP Business Objects, macros, and formulas
• Partnered with Health Services to better understand OSHA recordkeeping and annual injury log accuracy
• Provided support on KDHE/EPA environmental regulations, primarily including hazardous waste handling and disposal for a Large Quantity Generator site and overseeing chemical spill cleanup to prevent environmental releases

Leadership Development Program, Integrated Supply Chain
Textron Inc.
January 2013 - December 2014

First Rotation - Demand Management at Greenlee Textron - January to July 2013

• Identified low turning excess inventory and ways to divest them through third-party resellers, liquidators, or sales initiatives
• Analyzed demand, forecast, sales, and MRP requirements for reporting purposes
• Supported Demand Management in developing a fully integrated Executive SIOP process
• Tested a new analytical SAP reporting tool for inventory accuracy to help with implementation verification
• Documented ISC processes and procedures for training and improvement purposes

Second Rotation - Environmental Health and Safety at Cessna Aircraft Company - August 2013 to January 2014

• Positively evolved perceptions of the EHS team by spreading its new goals and initiatives
• Led a team organizing a safety event bringing in guest speaker Charlie Morecraft to share his message with over 2,300 employees
• Implemented OSHA's Globally Harmonized Systems training and ensured company-wide compliance for over 7,000 employees (1,000+ trained in-person)
• Prepared a system of change management to ensure EHS is proactively included in new projects
• Verified injury data reporting and simplified the data gathering and tracking techniques
• Participated in an energy kaizen at Cessna's Textron Aerospace Mexico plant and learned opportunities to carry back to the main plant; opportunities uncovered would result in $263k savings annually
• Completed Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training

Third Rotation - Commercial Programs Cost Out at Bell Helicopter - February to July 2014

• Coordinated with multiple commercial helicopter programs to identify, track, and help execute cost out initiatives to increase net operating profit (NOP) 
• Lead part of a driveshaft outsourcing project team to free capacity at the Drive Center System (DSC) facility 

Fourth Rotation - Value Stream Leader: Flight Control Surfaces at Textron Aviation - August 2014 to February 2014

• Led crew of 25 employees and facilitating cross functional teams to meet production requirements 
• Reviewed operations job schedule and setting daily work assignment goals 
• Conducted root cause analysis with subject matter experts on quality discrepancies 
• Removed barriers for team to accomplish delivery targets 
• Strived to maintain key production readiness requirements: safety, quality, cost, and delivery 

Production Control and Logistics Intern
Bell Helicopter Textron
June 2012 - August 2012

• Helped transition SAP cost objects from Finance to the Enterprise Master Data Team 
• Reviewed SAP Master Data create/change requests and cleansed current data
• Documented processes and other caveats in activity profiles and task instructions