Samantha Brown, GSP
Summary
Graduate Safety Professional (GSP) with experience in construction safety, wastewater, and unmanned avionics.
Pursuing a full-time role in Safety that presents professional challenges, leverages interpersonal skills, effective time management, and problem-solving expertise.
Overview
1
1
Certification
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Safety Engineer
Mortenson
06.2025 - Current
- Serve as the sole safety resource for a team of 70+ craft team members.
- Led safety audits to identify hazards and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Analyzed safety data to identify trends and inform preventive measures across operations.
- Collaborate with project managers to ensure compliance with safety regulations and standards.
- Ensure a safe work environment for team members, subcontractors, and visitors to the work site.
- Assist in developing site-specific safety activities, conduct safety orientation/training.
- Document and track safety violations, conduct safety audits, analyze safety data, assist with major incident analysis, and manage OSHA reporting.
- Review safety submittals, monitor trade partner work plans, assist with onsite injury management, and participate in project planning/hazard analysis.
- Provide safety-related information, evaluate industrial hygiene concerns, and maintain knowledge of safety standards/regulations.
- Collaborate with client safety personnel, union representatives, insurance risk engineers, accompany safety/health/OSHA personnel on tours, ensure maintenance of safety equipment, manage PPE and safety budget.
- Build effective relationships with diverse backgrounds and organizational levels.
Safety Intern
US Erectors Inc.
01.2024 - 03.2025
- Interned for a union based steel erection company doing various safety tasks and ensured all jobsites comply with safety regulations.
- Designed and developed a safety alert system to inform all employees of incidents within the company
- Built an on-site safety checklist designed for our jobsites specifically to comply with our company policies
- Conducted on-site safety inspections to ensure OSHA, state, and federal compliance
- Created an onboarding system for new hires consisting of a safety presentation, I-9 paperwork, instructions for foremen, and other clerical tasks.
- Created and distributed accident kits and audited company vehicles for insurance purposes
- Launched a webpage and QR code to store safety alerts, near-miss reports, accident reports, newsletters, internal information, and other information for workers on site to view
- Produced a new employee handbook covering all company expectations and standards
- Developed weekly safety toolbox talks for our foremen to present to our crews on-site
- Created daily logs for crews to identify hazards and risks in the tasks they are doing
- Participated in ASIST Workshop (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
- Established and implemented the MATES Project - Industry Based Suicide Prevention
Wastewater Treatment Operator
City of Ames
05.2022 - 03.2025
- Sole shift Operator for an 8.6 MGPD full wastewater treatment facility inclusive of Equilization Basins, Screening, Clarifiers, Methane Biodigester, UV Filters, Direct River Discharge.
- Trained for over 200 hours as an Operator ro qualify as the sole Plant Operator on the overnight shift.
- Conduct routine sampling and testing of entire facility from incoming volumes through outgoing wastewater.
- Calibrate Dissolved Oxygen Meter and pH probes, Maintain UV System
- Troubleshoot alarms as they come in, maintain boilers, control methane generator, control wet well levels
- Complete equipment functionality, facility condition inspections, activate pumps, test steam traps, empty drip traps, test river levels, and monitor sludge production.
- Control discharge from the plant into the river including recording river levels, control discharge rates, sample and test discharge water quality
- Check rain gauges and record rain amounts as well as river levels for the National Weather Service Station.
UAS Operations Intern
Sentera
03.2023 - 08.2023
- UAS Drone Pilot for an agricultural analytics company.
- Flight test and collect aerial imagery using unmanned aircrafts
- Created and followed test plans and project schedules
- Traveled to various farm locations within Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and Nebraska for flight operations
- Process flight tests and imaging sensor data
- Operated, maintained, and repaired various drone platforms and related equipment totaling $60,000
- Troubleshoot and modified GPS and RTK connections, camera triggers, and drone avionics
- Piloted UAS drones for data collection, optimizing operational efficiency and ensuring high-quality imagery for agricultural analysis.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Technology – Occupational Safety
Iowa State University
Ames, IASkills
- Detail Oriented
- Workplace inspections
- Construction safety
- Hazard identification
- Risk assessments
- Incident reporting
- Ergonomics evaluation
Certification
- GSP - Graduate Safety Professional
- OSHA 30
- HAZWOPER
- CPR/AED/First Aid
- Part 107
Timeline
Safety Engineer
Mortenson
06.2025 - Current
Safety Intern
US Erectors Inc.
01.2024 - 03.2025
UAS Operations Intern
Sentera
03.2023 - 08.2023
Wastewater Treatment Operator
City of Ames
05.2022 - 03.2025
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Technology – Occupational Safety
Iowa State University