Experienced environmental professional seeking a leadership position to apply expertise in environmental and process engineering. Proven ability to develop and manage environmental programs in manufacturing facilities and new project settings, contributing to company growth and profitability.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
2
2
Arabic & English
Work History
Envir Superintendent
Saudi Chevron Phillips Petrochemical& Plastics Plants
02.2002 - Current
Working as Envir Superintendent and focal point for all the environmental issues for 3 plants (SCP, JCP, and SPCO) including:
Oversees development, propose and ensures implementation of environmental policies and practices.
Oversees development of compliance systems and processes to implement environmental strategy and continuously drive environmental performance.
Devises the best tools and systems to monitor performance and to implement strategies.
Ensures compliance with environmental legislation.
Assess, analyze and collate environmental performance data and reporting information to internal staff, clients and regulatory bodies
Oversee incident root causes and actions to prevent recurrence. Assess implementation of environmental activities/programs and report progress.
Oversees and ensures that materials, ingredients used in production process are ethically or environmentally sourced.
Oversees and ensures environmental support during turnaround event.
Oversees execution of environmental training to staff at all levels.
Keeps up to date with relevant changes in environmental legislation and initiatives including international legislation where applicable.
Oversees development of educational or info resources for internal staff, clients or the general public.
Liaises with regulatory bodies such to ensure compliance.
Acquires funds for the end-to-end unit's activities and manages assigned budget.
Accountable for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the managed unit.
Carries out leadership responsibilities following the organization's policies and applicable laws.
Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems; managing organizational structure.
Strictly follows established environmental, health, safety and quality policies and procedures in order to guarantee employee safety, legislative compliance, delivery of high-quality products/services and a responsible environmental attitude.
Advocates environmental culture across the organization.
Provides EHS leadership in maintaining a goal of zero incidents, process safety and environmental events within area of responsibility.
Develops and implements operational excellence (OE) requirements within the assigned area, coaching staff in expectations to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.
Undertakes accountabilities in the OE process as set out in the schedule of responsibilities.
Contributes to the processes of continuous improvement for the area managed and the organization more widely.
Provides the needed supervision to execute the overall environmental monitoring programs.
Manages Permit Application preparation and ensure compliance.
Manages the development and implementation of the environmental awareness, and the utilization of generated data to plan for the future.
Provides guidance for the environmental staff and assign the work/tasks accordingly.
Ensure all environmental reports whether routine or non-routine are released whether internally/externally (RC, CPChem, MOE, MEWA, MWAN, NCEC, GPCA)
Implementation of department policies, goals, objectives, and procedures and support in their development as needed.
Monitors costs and resources in day-to-day activities related to waste management contracts, stack testing, LDAR, GW testing, noise monitoring.
Provides technical advice and recommendations for the plants with respect to the operation of various pollution control systems; monitors and resolves issues relating to environmental monitoring management.
Evaluates the impact of pollution on air, water, soil and other environmental sensitive areas.
Oversees development, propose and ensures implementation of environmental policies, procedures and practices.
Oversees development of compliance systems and processes to implement envir strategy and continuously drive environmental performance.
Devises the best tools and systems to monitor performance and to implement strategies.
Ensures compliance with environmental legislation.
Assess, analyze and collate environmental performance data and reporting info to internal staff, clients and regulatory bodies.
Oversee incident root causes and actions to prevent recurrence.
Assess implementation of environmental activities/programs and report progress.
Oversees and ensures that materials, ingredients used in production process are ethically or envir sourced.
Environmental Engineer
07.1996 - Current
Process-Envir Engineer
Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery Co.
07.1996 - 02.2002
Responsibilities and duties included the followings:
Worked as a focal point for all envir aspects of an integrated refinery that is used for processing 42,000MT/day of Arab light crude and has 7 finished products.
Managing the various wastes generated such as the oily sludge, spent catalysts and chemicals...etc, in respect of handling, storage and final disposal in accordance with local envir regulations.
Focal point of the gap analyses assessment of the new RC regulations on the refinery.
Participated in development of better non-traditional disposal methods.
Focal point for the oily sludge 3-phase centrifuge waste minimization project.
Monitor groundwater quality and conducting remedial actions.
Extensive participation in the refinery Water Study as well as in the implementation.
Contributed to day-to-day technological support including monthly reporting for the following units: crude distillation, hydrotreating and thermal cracking.
Performed typical process engineering calculations related to heat transfers and fluid flow calculations.
Quality Assurance Chemist
Coalgate Palmolive- Dammam Industrial City
04.1996 - 06.1996
Worked as product-line operator and as products quality assurance chemist.
Manage the environmental matters for Saudi Chevron 3 plants.
Manage environmental permits preparation for existing and new plants.
Ensure the new plant is built in compliance with the environmental design spec’s.
Resolve the environmental problems during commissioning/ startup of the new Plant.
Guide project staff and EPC contractors on resolving envir issues and inquiries.
Review/amend enviro management plans for construction phase& operating phase.
Prepare the emission inventory data for existing plants and the new plant.
Set spec’s for the environmental control equipment and participates in design reviews.
Ensure the new plant is meeting the envir requirements for both Ex-IM Bank in US and RC in KSA.
Establish and manage Leak Detection and Repair Program.
Uses Screen 3 program for air modeling for routine and non-routine emissions.
Prepare emission inventory data to perform toxic release inventory (TRI) reporting and GHG reporting
Arrange and manage the annual field stack testing which uses USEPA methods.
Familiar with calculating flare heat of radiation for safe and unsafe limits.
Review/ amend BAT analysis assessment for compliance.
Ensure operating the envir control equipment/ devices in compliance.
Manage different plant modifications for environmental compliance.
Groundwater monitoring assessment and remediation.
Prepare and implement waste management plan for major turnaround.
Conduct envir GAP Analyses to assess compliance.
Perform envir and safety audits.
Performed a lot of envir presentations.
Manage environmental campaigns.
Establish and manage e-waste notification system for better tracking and to enable site to print manifests and labels electronically instead of previously were filled manually.
Manage assessment of air emissions inventory and greenhouse gases.
Guide Operation in setting the CEM’s limits for all the emission point sources.
Conduct environmental assessments, audits, and inspections.
Participate in the environmental public awareness activities in Jubail.
Assist the plant to complete the responsible care and ISO14001 certification
Education
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
King Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
04.2001 - 01.1996
Skills
Manage the environmental matters for Saudi Chevron 3 plants
Interests
Nationality: Saudi, Date of birth: 02/08/1971, Marital status: Married with 5 kids and 2 of them are independents, Current Occupation: Environmental Superintendent, Language: Arabic & English, Interests: Sport and traveling
Affiliations
Member of RC environmental committee.
Member of MWAN committee
Member of NCEC committee
Member of Chevron Phillips Best Practice Environmental Meeting [BPEM]
Member of OCS plastic committee
Training
Management Training:
Supervisory skills basic in Feb-2000.
Technical report writing in Dhahran in 2001.
Leader development program #1 by CPC in Jubail in Jan-2003
Teamwork and winning team by Meirc Training in Jubail in Mar-2004.
Franklin Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” in Apr-2004/ Nov-2011.
Creative problem solving and decision making by Progress in Dec- 2005.
Conduct of operation and operational discipline
Ballmert training- “Plant safety” Alive and well at the end of the day
I care- speed of trust.
Technical Training:
Materials and corrosion course in SASREF in Jun-1997.
Distillation& process control course by Shell Global Solution in Holland in Nov-1997.
Instrument protective functions course by Shell Global Solution in SASREF in May-98.
BRO-II modeling workshop by Shell Global Solution in SASREF in Oct-1998.
Water Treatment Course in Shell Global Solution in Netherlands in Sep-1998.
Quantitative Risk Assessment by Shell Global Solution in Holland in Oct-2001.
HAZOP course by Worley in Jubail in Apr-2002.
Intro to Meteorological& Air Quality Modeling by Earth Tech in Bahrain in Feb-2004.
Waste& Envir Management in Oil& Gas Industry by EuroMaTech in Dubai in Apr-2005.
Studying MS in Occupational health, safety with more concentration on Environment and completed only the following two courses:(1)-Industrial& Hazardous Waste.(2)-Solid Waste Engineering
RCRA Waste Seminars in Houston, Texas in Mar-2007.
Process Flares by John Zink in Tulsa, Oklahoma in Oct-2008.
Environmental Benchmarking in Dubai on Dec-2014.
Air management workshop in Dec-2022
Safety Related Training:
Managing Safety Performance by BALMERT Consultancy in Mar-2012
Annual EHS compliance training which includes different topics.
Why tree and 5 why’s incident investigation techniques in Jubail, 2014
Seminars and Workshops:
Middle East Refining and Petrochemical Exhibition and Conference in Bahrain in: Sep-1998, Oct-2001 and Sep-2003.
Waste Management and Recycling Seminars in Jubail in Oct- 2002.
Environmental Conference by A&WM in Bahrain in Feb-2004.
GPCA sustainability conference in Dubai in Oct-2014.
Timeline
Envir Superintendent
Saudi Chevron Phillips Petrochemical& Plastics Plants
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