Nathan Girten
Morganfield,KY
Summary
Versatile Managing Director with proven abilities across all levels of organizational management. Talented in developing partnerships, overseeing personnel and developing tactical plans to meet strategic goals. Proven leader with significant background in operations management to include multiple division within the organization.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager
Crude Transportation
05.2022 - 07.2023
- Countrymark Refining and logistics
- Managing the daily operations of the crude transportation department, as well as the maintenance garage
- Managing a team of direct reports to include two crude transportation supervisors and the trucking garage foreman, as well as a team of approximately 50 indirect reports made up of truck drivers and vehicle repair technicians, at nine locations/ facilities, in three different states
- Responsible for some daily operations at nine truck unloading stations, as well as monthly inspections of the grounds and facilities
- Developing, auditing, and maintaining daily records of the department, to optimize efficiency and effectiveness of all crude gathering transactions
- Responsible for approving all parts and supplies associated with the crude transportation department
- Continuously auditing, monitoring, and developing truck delivery routes to improve the overall economics of the department
- Developing and submitting monthly, quarterly, and annual spreadsheets for cost statements and the overall operations management strategies
- Developing and maintaining annual operations budgets for the trucking department and repair garage, to a total of approximately $10M annually
- Collaborating with the fleet manager for annual truck and trailer purchases, totaling approximately $2.5M annually
- Promoting operational functions to assist the company with achieving a $206M EBITA in
Personnel Office, Director
MTC, C. CLements
02.2021 - 04.2022
- Managing student personnel officers, and secretary
- SPO office is responsible for overall campus culture, including 1022 students: campus incentive program, administering discipline, up to and including termination of students’ scholarships for our program
- Direct oversight of all student activities, including recreational trips, career and technical training (trade areas), academic department, and dormitories, and ensuring all areas meet center’s expectations
- Develop and monitor departmental budgeting, control expenditures; review and recommend changes to budget authorizations
- Develop and implement new and revised policies and standard operating procedures, which ultimately affect student standards of conduct; coordinate with other departments to ensure compliance with overall center objectives
- Review and audit all assigned areas regularly for contractual compliance and effectiveness of delivery of services to students and prepare related reports
- Determine and administer disciplinary action for students who have violated student standard of conduct; counsel students when their behavior on and off center is inappropriate
- Prepare behavior and significant incident reports, which are submitted to the Regional and National Offices of Job Corps, Department of Labor
- However, on average of eight days per month, this position requires attention on center, typically working anywhere from four to eight additional hours per shift, as needed
- Served as liaison between campus and Department of Labor, special projects team, to include the regional (region-2 Philadelphia, as well as the National Directors Office.
07.2019 - 02.2021
- Career and Technical Training (CTT)-Manager, MTC-Earle C
- CLements
- To provide highest quality education and training for 1,022 students at Earle C
- Clements, as well as overall safety and wellbeing of each student assigned to a trade
- Assist CTT administrator with supervising 41-CTT staff members, and daily operations of over 20- CTT areas
- Ensure the program is utilizing industry leading credentials, preparing students for real world scenarios, and high quality, paying, jobs
- Innovation and implementation of career and technical skills training budget, including development of program specific projects, in which students can perform, based on their chosen industry and skill
- Oversight of annual Career Technical Skill Training (CTST) budget, which was $200,000 allocated by the Department of Labor; including all expenditures used for purchasing items to complete each project
- Controlling expenditures for special projects delineated by DOL, to include budget lines that exceeded one million dollars, used for purchasing new supplies and equipment
- Designing a spreadsheet made for tracking expenditures, due to stringent policy given by DOL, to track each item that was purchased
- Assist CTT administrator with maintaining monthly budget, and additional budgets delineated by the department of labor
- Other duties included individual student interventions, for students that were struggling to meet program requirements/ expectations, or had issues with complying to center standards for successful program completion
- Maintaining weekly tool accountability audits sheets, and ensuring all tools in each CTT training area were accounted for
- Conducting random, on-site audits of trade tools, ensuring that all areas are following tool management policies
- Conducting audits for corporate office, including student’s physical file within each program area, virtual files, i.e., case notes, e-folder audits, and e-tar progress report and completion certificates
- Conducting active and separated audits, of each student within records departmental files, ensuring each folder met Department of Labor/Management Training Corporation requirements.
Snow and Ice Truck Manager
Youngblood Excavating and Contracting LLC
10.2013 - 03.2020
- General oversight of snow and ice removal trucks and employees, in multiple counties in western Kentucky
- Responsibilities included recruiting, hiring, terminating employees for each snow and ice season in Ky
- Mediator and liaison between Department of Transportation, Garage Foreman’s within each county, Youngblood snow and ice employees, as well as scheduling and time keeping for each employee
- Scheduling was rigorous in that drivers were called out at moment’s notice when storm fronts change direction or became sudden, and often required call outs to multiple drivers to ensure state contracts were fulfilled, and trucks were engaged safely in snow and ice removal
- Responsible for testing and training each driver prior to snow and ice removal, ultimately ensuring driver possessed the talent and knowledge of safe driving practices with snow removal equipment attached to the vehicle
- Overall responsible for the entire western KY fleet of trucks, including any repair and maintenance that had to be conducted
- Responsible for ensuring drivers meet all DOT qualifications, and that all trucks meet FMCSA and DOT regulations prior to each snow and ice season, to include drug testing, DOT physicals, as part of contract with the state of KY.
Advanced heavy Truck Instructor
MTC
03.2017 - 07.2019
- Earle Clements Job Corps
- Direct oversight of twelve tractors, nine trailers, and twenty-five truck driving students
- Revamping safety regulations that were suited better for new drivers
- Redevelopment of program management, curriculum, and implementing several programmatic changes to redirect course direction and overall performance
- Implementing updated curriculum, ensuring all DOT, FMCSR, and DOL policies were met and followed
- Implementing new safety courses, and disciplinary actions plans for students who did not comply with class standards, or failed to meet newly established policies; this may have included termination from program, suspension of driving privileges, writing report about safe handling of CMV, or remedial safety course for a certain amount of time
- Assisting students with obtaining their class A CDL, tank, double/ triple, and hazmat endorsements, ultimately ensuring highest quality student, and making them most employable in the industry
- Develop working relationships with multiple trucking companies, and assisting students with job placement, in multiple states across the US.
Equipment Operator/Tank Truck Operator
EWM SERVCES LLC
01.2013 - 03.2017
- Safe operation and transportation of all heavy equipment, used for variety of projects within oil/gas industry, including but not limited to excavator, dozer, backhoe, tanker truck, and skid steer
- Using equipment for a variety of oilfield projects, including plugging operations, leveling and building drilling rig locations, safely assisting with rigging up process, and other various oilfield projects when heavy equipment was necessary
- Meeting with company representatives and landowners, ultimately ensuring that reclamation process was completed, and properties were restored to their original, or as close to original, state
- Retrieving and utilizing permits for wide loads, overweight/height loads, and ensuring all local, state, and federal laws were followed, ultimately providing company with safe driving score
- Communicating with various company management staff, ultimately ensuring all projects were completed within outlined scope of completion the company had reserved
- Transporting hazardous material, and ensuring all fleet trucks were following DOT, CSA, FMCSR regulations
- Transporting salt water, crude oil, and other various tank sentiments, to a variety of locations across tri-state area (IL, IN, KY), and adhering to all federal, state, and local laws
- Inspecting truck, including tank and hoses, to ensure that all environmental and health standards were met
- Other various roustabout jobs, to include injection pumps, installing new flow lines on multiple leases, operating a trencher, backhoe, and other various equipment needed for job.
Education
High school Diploma -
Henderson County High School
Henderson, KY05.2008
Bachelor of Science - Healthcare Administration
Purdue Global University
Skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Staff Management
- Maintenance and Repair Management
- Managing Fleet Vehicles
- Managing Operations and Efficiency
- Managing Files and Records
- Account and Territory Management
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Platforms
- Team Management- modeling, instilling and developing overall employee morale
- Capital budgeting and planning for $3M or more
- Operational budget expenditures of $10M or more
- Capital Budgeting ($25M annually)
- Account Management and Updating
- Business Analysis
- Issue and Conflict Resolution
- Verbal and Written Communication
Timeline
Manager
Crude Transportation
05.2022 - 07.2023
Personnel Office, Director
MTC, C. CLements
02.2021 - 04.2022
07.2019 - 02.2021
Advanced heavy Truck Instructor
MTC
03.2017 - 07.2019
Snow and Ice Truck Manager
Youngblood Excavating and Contracting LLC
10.2013 - 03.2020
Equipment Operator/Tank Truck Operator
EWM SERVCES LLC
01.2013 - 03.2017
High school Diploma -
Henderson County High School
Bachelor of Science - Healthcare Administration
Purdue Global University
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