Tim Wollam, CSP
Safety Professional
Santa Fe,TX
Summary
Experienced Safety Manager with expertise in managing safety protocols and ensuring compliance with regulations. Proficient in English communication, enabling effective collaboration with diverse teams. Seeking a challenging role as an HSE Manager to utilize my skills and drive continuous improvement in workplace safety. Focused Compliance Manager bringing on 20 years of experience managing activities, programs and resources to meet customer needs. Flexible and adaptable with superior communication, relationship management and influencing skills. Proven history of identifying issues, acquiring data and drawing conclusions to support resolution. Strong aptitude for leading teams to effectively address client needs and implement changes by supporting strategic initiatives.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Site Safety Manager
Cajun Industries, LLC. Houston Civil Division – Dow Chemical Company
Seadrift, TX
11.2022 - Current
- Implemented and enforced strict safety protocols and procedures, resulting in a 30% decrease in workplace accidents and injuries
- Conducted regular safety inspections and audits, promptly identifying, and addressing potential hazards and non-compliance issues
- Developed and delivered comprehensive safety training programs for all employees, promoting a culture of safety awareness and accountability
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and implement emergency response plans, ensuring effective coordination and timely incident response
- Conducted regular safety inspections and audits to identify and address potential hazards, ensuring compliance with OSHA regulations
- Led safety training sessions for employees and subcontractors, emphasizing the importance of proper safety protocols and procedures
- Investigated and documented all safety incidents and near misses, developing corrective action plans to prevent future occurrences.
Site Safety Manager
Excel Modular Scaffold (Bartlett Group) – Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery
Texas City, TX
07.2021 - 11.2022
- Built and led an effective safety team of twelve direct reports who monitored the safety of 600-900 soft craft contractors and 70-140 boilermakers, welders, and fitters
- Restructured and standardized regulatory training and testing to meet client and corporate requirements
- Streamlined new hire orientation, reducing the process by one and a half hours
- Initiated and implemented project-specific safety plans for routine maintenance, turnarounds, and projects
- I opened lines of communication as a liaison to the client, ensuring that Excel's site management team was aligned with the client
- Advised and coached superintendents and general foremen to act on their roles as front-line leaders to ensure the safety of their work crews
- Developed and delivered safety training programs for employees, which increased safety awareness and adherence to safety protocols
- Performed incident investigations and follow-through with tracking of corrective actions
- Updated OSHA 300 logs and participated in workmen's compensation cases.
- Conducted regular safety inspections and audits to identify and address potential hazards, resulting in a decrease in non-compliance
- Collaborated with project managers and subcontractors to establish and maintain a safety culture, resulting in zero lost-time incidents over a 1-and-a-half-year period.
Capital Projects and Turnaround Safety Lead
Marathon Petroleum, Galveston Bay Refinery
Texas City, TX
03.2018 - 03.2021
- Provided oversight to contractor safety representatives, who directly supervised the safety of 400-1,100 contractors, depending on the project size
- Completed accident investigations provided recommendations that have prevented the recurrence of similar accidents
- Created site-specific company safety manual to be utilized by contractors in the field
- Coordinated with site contractor companies to provide technical oversight to employees' job site assessments and contractor safety plans, coaching field supervisors, foremen, and workers in matters related to EHS&S
- Provided written safety plans for in-service tie-ins, emergency response, confined space entries, ventilation plans, and other safety-related communications
- Performed field audits that drove contractor compliance with site and regulatory requirements, reducing incidents
- Facilitated TAR (turnaround) boot camps to provide contractors with safety and job performance expectations
- Delivered safety procedure updates and training to all contractors
- Implemented and enforced safety protocols for all capital projects, resulting in zero OSHA recordable incidents over two years
- Conducted regular safety audits and inspections to identify potential hazards and address them promptly, ensuring a safe work environment for all project team members.
- Participated in Tier II auditing as assigned.
Behavior-Based Safety Site Supervisor
Marathon Petroleum, Galveston Bay Refinery
Texas City, TX
02.2016 - 03.2018
- Coordinated the site's behavior-based safety process and site-wide committee for approximately four thousand personnel
- Trained 2,120 contractors to use the behavior-based safety process in construction and turnaround work
- Assimilated data from 3,000-4,000 monthly behavior-based safety observations
- Additional training included annual contractor revalidation of Marathon procedures held at the local safety council involving all contractors allowed on site
- Implemented and enforced safety protocols to reduce workplace accidents by 11% within the first year of supervising the Behavior Based Safety program.
Safety Specialist/Control of Work
BP/Marathon Petroleum, Galveston Bay Refinery
Texas City, TX
06.2009 - 02.2016
- Provided safety risk assessments for all maintenance, project, and turnaround jobs performed on crude oil process units as a Safety Specialist
- Utilized electronic safe work permitting and job safety analysis to provide maintenance planners with required risk mitigations
- Responsibilities in this role included being the sole liaison between contractor companies and proprietary personnel for daily direction on safe work permitting and safety oversight of projects, which resulted in meeting safety and quality goals and on-time completion of the projects
- Presented turnaround, shutdown, and project kick-off schools, providing safety plan expectations for the outage
- Oversight of contractor project safety plans for all projects on the process unit
- Provided Process Safety Management insight and leadership in the design phase of projects
- Supervised contractor safety technicians during small and mid-cap special projects and turnaround jobs
- Initiated safe work permits for maintenance and contractor activities in a crude oil process unit
- Coached and trained new operators in the unit process parameters, safe work permitting, joint job site visits, and proper use of atmospheric gas testers.
Operations Production Specialist
Union Carbide/DOW Chemical Company
03.1997 - 06.2009
- Led Operations shift teams for three chemical process units, providing technical advising and oversight of daily unit operations
- Performed annual updates on process unit operating procedures, providing training to operations
- Responsible for Tier 1 auditing of process units, daily KPI metrics to meet necessary production rates, and maintained unit equipment to meet production demands
- Provided PSM/MOC/PSSR training to operations
- Maintained zero recordable injuries for ten years
- Project lead for a mid-cap project to upgrade the reaction system in a chemical process unit
- Provided oversight of contractors during the project process, from design through preloading work plans to include integrated safety plans to unit isolation, cleanup, execution, and completion of the project
- Coordinated maintenance and contractor workforce, providing job safety analysis and assessment for assigned maintenance activities
- Supervised the scheduling, clean out, LOTO, maintenance, and process unit restart for bi-annual maintenance shutdowns and turnarounds
- Provided oversight of contractor project safety plans, recommending updates as necessary
- Provided DOT training for operations for truck loading and unloading.
Education
Associates of Applied Science Degree - Occupational Safety, Health, and Environmental
College of The Mainland
Texas City, TX05-2018
Skills
- Team Builder
- Site Leadership
- Injury Management
- Job Safety Analysis
- Hazard Recognition
- Project Safety Planning
- Construction Safety
- Behavior Based Safety
- Procedure Development
- Management of Change
- Tap Root Investigation
- Project Safety
- Safety Supervision
- Industrial Hygiene
- Lockout/Tagout
- Safety audits
- Operations Supervision
- Root Cause Analysis
- People Coach
- Accident investigation
- Hazard Identification
- Vehicle Safety
- Fire Prevention
- Environmental Compliance
- Subcontractor Management
- Safety Training
- PSM
- Contractor training
- Contractor Oversight
- Contractor Supervision
- ERT
- Turnaround Safety
- Turnaround Planning
- Maintenance Supervision
- Safety Action Planning
- Emergency Action Planning
- Maintenance Coordination
- ISO Standards
- Environmental Monitoring
- Incident Reporting
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Chemical Handling
Certification
- OSHA 510, UT Arlington, 2021
- CSP, BCSP, 2018
- ASP, BCSP, 2018
- OSHA 30 General Industry, 2016
- OSHA 30 Construction, 2015
- Emergency Response
- NFPA 1041 Fire Service Instructor Pro Board Certification
- FEMA NIMS ICS 100
- FEMA NIMS ICS 200
- FEMA NIMS ICS 300
- FEMA NIMS ICS 700
- NFPA 1081 Advanced Exterior Pro Board Certification
Affiliations
- Elected member of Santa Fe ISD School Board
- Marathon Petroleum Company sponsored community volunteer
- Little League Baseball Coach
Accomplishments
- Associate Degree with honors
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Site Safety Manager
Cajun Industries, LLC. Houston Civil Division – Dow Chemical Company
11.2022 - Current
Site Safety Manager
Excel Modular Scaffold (Bartlett Group) – Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery
07.2021 - 11.2022
Capital Projects and Turnaround Safety Lead
Marathon Petroleum, Galveston Bay Refinery
03.2018 - 03.2021
Behavior-Based Safety Site Supervisor
Marathon Petroleum, Galveston Bay Refinery
02.2016 - 03.2018
Safety Specialist/Control of Work
BP/Marathon Petroleum, Galveston Bay Refinery
06.2009 - 02.2016
Operations Production Specialist
Union Carbide/DOW Chemical Company
03.1997 - 06.2009
Associates of Applied Science Degree - Occupational Safety, Health, and Environmental
College of The Mainland
- OSHA 510, UT Arlington, 2021
- CSP, BCSP, 2018
- ASP, BCSP, 2018
- OSHA 30 General Industry, 2016
- OSHA 30 Construction, 2015
- Emergency Response
- NFPA 1041 Fire Service Instructor Pro Board Certification
- FEMA NIMS ICS 100
- FEMA NIMS ICS 200
- FEMA NIMS ICS 300
- FEMA NIMS ICS 700
- NFPA 1081 Advanced Exterior Pro Board Certification
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