Gregory F. Morris II
Palm Beach Gardens,FL
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) Engineer
Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Company
West Palm Beach, FL
03.2023 - Current
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) for 3 EH&S committees (Contractor Safety, Ergonomics, Audit & Inspection) to foster a robust safety culture across the Aerojet Rocketdyne West Palm Beach site.
- Provide comprehensive EH&S support for the Daytona Beach site, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and internal policies.
- Conduct internal audits for Orlando, FL, and Camden, AR facilities, identifying compliance gaps and recommending corrective actions to enhance safety protocols.
- Oversee daily safety oversight for the manufacturing and test operations spanning over 5 miles, ensuring compliance for 14 EH&S programs impacting over 500 employees.
- Streamline contractor pre-approvals, delivering EH&S expertise on all contracted work to enhance overall site-safety.
- Prepare detailed reports and organize documentation for four of our regulatory compliance and internal audits, achieving a 100% compliance rate.
- Utilize dynamic problem-solving skills to investigate and resolve over 500 hazard reports, near misses, and incidents, enhancing workplace safety.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide comprehensive solutions tailored to the end users.
- Implemented the required sustainability reporting for the WPB site, and providing data on all of our emissions. Working to through various projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60%, and water use by 20%, solid waste by 10%.
- Streamlined Aerojet Rocketdyne's EH&S training program, reducing in-person training hours from 20 to 4 hours per month while ensuring 100% compliance with regulatory standards.
Safety Specialist
Jet Access
West Palm Beach, FL
10.2021 - 03.2023
- Provide direct support to the operations staff and brokers by ensuring that each country meets all international requirements before entry and exit.
- Managed all worker's compensation claims, assisted in training and maintaining the DOT-related drug and alcohol program throughout the enterprise, and provided support in the event of an injury.
- Conduct quarterly ground safety audits at 9 locations consisting of maintenance repair and fixed-based operations through 4 states.
- Support the Jet Access enterprise in all environmental and safety matters and hold the risk management position in the emergency action plan.
- Built strong relationships with existing customers, ensuring that every trip with Jet Access met the highest safety standards.
Safety Consultant
Corr Safety Professionals
West Chester, PA
06.2021 - 10.2021
- Supported 8 ongoing projects that included the fields Petro Chemicals, Manufacturing, and Construction.
- Assisted in industrial hygiene projects that presented significant chemical and physical hazards to personnel near the operation.
- Provided direct site safety for 8 sites, with multiple contracted companies operating on those sites.
- Conducted daily audits to ensure clients were continuously abiding by the facility and government guidelines, along with weekly safety talks to ensure on-site staff received up-to-date training on lockout/ tagout, fire prevention, respirator training, and many other relevant topics that would arise based on the present hazards.
- Created and executed a safety plan when a mobile material hoist was needed, ensuring the clients handled the equipment safely and efficiently.
- Assisted in building a safety management system, which included revamping the clients' respiratory program to organize an efficient way for them to accommodate the workers' needs.
Aviation Battle Non-Commissioned Officer (15P)
U.S. Army/Pennsylvania National Guard
Fort Indiantown Gap, PA
06.2020 - 05.2021
- Assigned the role of Battle Non-Commissioned Officer before mobilization overseas, stepping into a role that superseded current rank in the military.
- As a task force Battle Non-Commissioned officer, leading a small staff of personnel, we provided daily supervision of all flights assigned to our mission. Our tasking order spanned over 9 countries and 12 areas of operations.
- While deployed, worked with other task forces, headquarters, the State Department, and the command team to resolve daily issues and work through the highest CENTCOM threat postures. Along with tracking personnel changes due to COVID-19 and how to continue forward mobilization.
- During operations, the team was required to track all flights within our scope, which included fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and MEDEVAC missions, along with maintaining the paperwork per Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and U.S. Army guidelines.
- The operation included but was not limited to, managing our military intelligence reporting, current-day weather, ground operations, and aviation operations. Additionally, was assigned to prepare our commands daily, weekly, and monthly products that portrayed all the actions that occurred within our area of operation during that period.
Education
MBA -
University of Florida
Miramar, FL06.2026
Bachelor of Science - Occupational Safety & Environmental Health
Millersville University
Millersville, PA08.2021
Skills
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk assessment
- Incident investigation
- Project management
- Data analysis
- Employee training
- Process improvement
- Problem-solving
Certificates And Organizations
- Secret Security Clearance through the U.S. Government
- Distributed Leader Course I (U.S Army)
- Army Recommendation Medal & Army Achievement Medal Recipient
Timeline
Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) Engineer
Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Company
03.2023 - Current
Safety Specialist
Jet Access
10.2021 - 03.2023
Safety Consultant
Corr Safety Professionals
06.2021 - 10.2021
Aviation Battle Non-Commissioned Officer (15P)
U.S. Army/Pennsylvania National Guard
06.2020 - 05.2021
MBA -
University of Florida
Bachelor of Science - Occupational Safety & Environmental Health
Millersville University
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