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AYO FALADE

Houston

Summary

A sustainability minded environmental engineer with multi-media environmental experience in the oil & gas industry and regulatory agencies. A result driven transformational leader with strong focus on improving environmental standards through performance data, technical knowledge and regulatory expertise. Key Achievements: Cost Savings Leader: Led team to secure $1M cost savings through Affirmative Defense granted by TCEQ Training Excellence Provider: Provided over 150 hours of regulatory training, enhancing team competency and awareness

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Chemical Plant Single Point of Contact, HON & Tanks Advisor

ExxonMobil
11.2024 - Current
  • As the HON regulation owner for applicable Baytown area assets, maintains working knowledge of overall plant operations, manages and prepares regulatory reports to government agencies
  • As the Storage Tanks regulation owner, responsible for maintaining compliance specific to NSPS Ka, Kb, and Kc
  • As the Chemical Plant Single Point of Contact, responsible for advising the Process and Technical Leadership Teams on how changes in air, water, and waste regulations impact operations and compliance metric including but not limited to Process and Technical Managers, Business Team Leads, Process Unit Leads, Process Technicians, and Console Board Operators
  • Currently maintains ownership and responsibility of developing compliance plans for HON P&R, and NSPS Kc
  • Evaluates and interprets operating and inspection reports to ensure compliance obligations are met, utilizing established procedures to facilitate and demonstrate compliance
  • Top Accomplishment: Within a month of being in the role, facilitated compliance evaluation of environmental data successfully identifying and fixing gaps which led to avoidance of a potential Title V deviation

Baytown Area Enforcement and Release Reporting Team Lead

ExxonMobil
08.2023 - 11.2024
  • Provided environmental & regulatory compliance support to operating assets (Refinery, Chemical plant, Olefins plant and Plastics plant)
  • Drove key environmental incident investigation and developed response to external agency information requests as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) to regulatory agencies
  • Worked closely with other key environmental personnel to conduct compliance data reviews and advised business teams on diverse points of views from a regulatory standpoint (NSPS & NESHAP applicability) to make informed decisions
  • Developed tools, workflows and systems to implement, maintain, and improve monitoring, record keeping, and reporting for environmental compliance such as El, air monitoring, and quantities estimation
  • Drove stewardship of environmental performance metric through site leadership team and corporate management for accountability and benchmarking global performance standards
  • Led the release reporting team in 24-hr on-call rotation to determine both recordable and reportable release events (30 TAC 101.201), evaluating incidents and making notification to the appropriate agencies (local, state, and federal)
  • Top Accomplishments: Improved value via key enforcement and release reporting initiatives which yielded 17 Affirmative Defense (AD) granted by TCEQ from 21 emissions events reported (surpassing Texas industry average of 51%) with cost savings to the tune of over $1M
  • Received Outstanding performance evaluation from ExxonMobil leadership for showing adaptability, setting new standards, and providing strategic guidance to impacted business units during Winter Storm Heather in January 2024 and Hurricane Beryl in July 2024

Release Reporting Advisor

ExxonMobil
05.2022 - 08.2023
  • Provided environmental & regulatory compliance support to operating assets (Olefins and Plastics plants) as the 30 TAC 101 and 30 TAC 118 state regulation owner
  • Functioned as SME providing training to operations & technical personnel, and new environmental advisors to build competency regulatory awareness (providing over 150+ hours of training within this period)
  • Developed harmonized standard environmental procedure adopted by multiple sites
  • Top Accomplishments: Developed console guidance document to better assist unit personnel with environmental awareness and aptitude
  • Received recognition from SSHE leadership team for leading efforts to support the Baytown Refinery and Olefins Plants during Winter Storm Elliott in December 2022
  • Developed response to TCEQ additional information requests and received Affirmative Defense for both events
  • Developed procedure for responding to TCEQ additional information requests

Environmental Specialist

Linde/Praxair
05.2021 - 05.2022
  • Performed environmental review and assessment of company's major and minor sources to determine compliance status with operating permit requirement, local, state and federal rules and regulations
  • Provided support and/or complete permit applications (TV Operating Permit, PSD/NSR, PBR, TPDES) including alterations and modifications for emerging projects or facility process improvement opportunities
  • Completed and submitted environmental compliance reports including AEI, GHG (Subpart C and Subpart P), CEMS, MACT 5D, Tier II, AWS and Title V deviation reports as at when due
  • Coordinated efforts to conduct required tests for compliance including stack testing, cylinder gas audit (CGA), and relative accuracy test audit (RATA) and ensured communication with external agency and third-party vendors effectively
  • Developed and maintained essential compliance plans including waste minimization (P2 Plan), SPCC, and SWPPP
  • Helped facilities for waste and storm water compliance monitoring including benchmark sampling and discharge monitoring reports (DMRs)
  • Identified training required for environmental (air, water, waste) permitting compliance and implemented training for operations, maintenance, and engineering personnel
  • Provided environmental support for plant modifications and developed environmental compliance management systems for project modifications or changes through management of change (MOC) process

Air Environmental Investigator

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
06.2019 - 05.2021
  • Performed on-site investigations of major and minor sources to determine their compliance status with operating permits and state and federal rules and regulations
  • Conducted In-house Title V investigations of facilities including deviation reports and permit compliance certification reviews
  • Conducted review of reportable opacity/emissions incident reports to determine affirmative defense
  • Facilitated meetings between the agency and industry to address alleged violations, compliance status, stack testing, and waiver/variance requests
  • Performed review of periodic reports submitted by regulated entities to ensure compliance with applicable rules including NSPS, NESHAP & BWON federal regulations

Water Environmental Investigator

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
06.2017 - 06.2019
  • Performed technical work in the field of drinking water, wastewater and storm water pollution for the Beaumont/Houston Regional Offices of the agency
  • Part of Emergency Response (ER) and Disaster Response Strike Team (DRST) on incident response and coordinating with facilities and other state agencies including GLO, TxDOT, Parks and Wildlife, and Texas Railroad Commission
  • Provided Mentoring in the office and field for newer investigators

EHS Engineer

Cameron & Freeport LNG
06.2015 - 04.2017
  • Led team in ensuring compliance with Texas Pollution Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) water quality and storm water monitoring permit and supervising the analysis of wastewater effluent samples for oil and grease, total organic carbon (TOC) and other parameters required by the permits
  • Coordinated providing notifications of environmental incidents involving wildlife, light outages, and spill events to the appropriate regulatory bodies while on-call
  • Participated in several root-cause analyses of incidents and recommended corrective actions as needed

Graduate Engineer

City of Houston
01.2013 - 01.2014
  • Reviewed water facilities design plans to comply with appropriate criteria, city code of ordinance and Infrastructural Design Manual
  • Prepared permit applications, scheduling and coordinating proposed project meetings with utility owners, clients, project team, and regulatory agencies

Education

Master of Science - Environmental Engineering

Texas A&M University-Kingsville

BSc - Civil Engineering

OAU Nigeria

Skills

  • Regulatory compliance
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Data analysis
  • Incident investigation
  • Technical training
  • Compliance reporting
  • Process improvement
  • Project management
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Effective communication
  • Problem solving
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Data interpretation

Affiliations

National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP)

Accomplishments

  • Cost Savings Leader, Led team to secure $1M cost savings through Affirmative Defense granted by TCEQ
  • Training Excellence Provider, Provided over 150 hours of regulatory training, enhancing team competency and awareness

Awards

2017/2018 Productivity Award, TCEQ Beaumont Regional Office

Timeline

Chemical Plant Single Point of Contact, HON & Tanks Advisor

ExxonMobil
11.2024 - Current

Baytown Area Enforcement and Release Reporting Team Lead

ExxonMobil
08.2023 - 11.2024

Release Reporting Advisor

ExxonMobil
05.2022 - 08.2023

Environmental Specialist

Linde/Praxair
05.2021 - 05.2022

Air Environmental Investigator

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
06.2019 - 05.2021

Water Environmental Investigator

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
06.2017 - 06.2019

EHS Engineer

Cameron & Freeport LNG
06.2015 - 04.2017

Graduate Engineer

City of Houston
01.2013 - 01.2014

Master of Science - Environmental Engineering

Texas A&M University-Kingsville

BSc - Civil Engineering

OAU Nigeria

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