Justin Harris, CSP

Experience

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  Kleberg County Fire Rescue

  Mar 2000 - Dec 2015

  Fire Chief

  • Responsible for fire protection and rescue services for an area of 1100 square miles.• Serve as the Safety Officer for 32 paid per call firefighters.• Track and ensure that the department is within the guidelines of the state and federal regulations. (State Fireman and Fire Marshalls Association (SFFMA)• Schedule and serve as training coordinator for all fire and rescue certifications, training seminars and ensure that the curriculum for the training being attended meets our qualification standards.• Respond to an average of 200 Emergency Calls per year, ranging from vehicle extrication, structure fires, wild land fires, hazardous materials Response.• Responsible for Day to Day operations within the station to include maintaining truck and station equipment valued at over 1 million dollars.• Conduct HALO launch and recovery efforts for major injuries• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations for firefighters that are injured in the line of duty. Providing detail summaries of the incident and how to ensure the incident will not occur again.•Serve as Incident Commander for local and multi-agency response to emergency calls (Most recent large scale response was Exxon Mobile fire) • Responsible for proposing and operating within budget details and expectations to County Commissioners and County Judge• Created and Monitored Station standard operating procedures Show less

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  US Navy

  Jun 2003 - Feb 2009

  Hospital Corpsman

  • Battalion Senior Corpsman for over 300 Marines• Brought Deployment and medical readiness up to 97% from 65% • Attended Navy leadership courses to obtain the ability to manage personnel • Implemented Safety related training courses for new Marines and Corpsman, including hygiene, personal safety, field health standards, and conducted annual training requirements per military regulations.• Provided Security and Medical standby for State Officials • Preformed day to day operations consisting of medical, dental, emergency operations.• Managed 12 Junior Corpsman within 6 platoons• Taught emergency management to over 30 Republic of Korea Marines • Treated over 100 Marines, Sailors, and Iraqi nationals in first aid and in mass casualty situations while deployed• Served as on scene safety during training and competency drills• Reported to leadership with evaluations that related to out compliance needs and also our deploy ability rating• Conducted safety inspections on personnel’s fit testing, hygiene management, and on site safety inspections • Implemented life saving skills to young Marines And Sailors• Conducted over 500 mounted dismounted Patrols while deployed Show less

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  U.S. Navy Reserve

  Mar 2009 - May 2013

  Hospital Corpsman
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  Celanese

  Mar 2012 - May 2014

  Operator/Emergency Response Team

  • Responsible for the safe and effective operation of the unit while monitoring process variables and sample results• Ensure compliance with all Standard Work Practices (SWPs), and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are followed• Conduct equipment maintenance and conduct routine rounds/inspections along with trouble shooting of equipment during unit upsets.• Process Safety Management MOC, Prestart up safety reviews• Write notifications, and prepare equipment for maintenance while ensuring that the proper permits (Safe Work, Hot Work, Confined Space, High Pressure Water Blast) and paperwork are intact.• Serve as Emergency Team FF, Driver, Rescue Tech while on shift• Unit safety representative during maintenance operations Show less

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  Flint Hills Resources

  May 2014 - Dec 2015

  Safety Specialist

  • Provide in the field safety support during normal operations, and turn around operations• Managed all safety related turnaround work, ensuring the proper support groups were available, ensuring proper knowledge level staffing was available, and ensured compliance driver goals are in place to support multiple million dollar projects• Conduct safety meetings with turn around group and core contractors.• Provide Knowledge based support on company polices, along with interpretations of OSHA guidelines. • Conduct audits on safe work permits ranging from hot work-confined space, along with MOC audits, and energy control audits (LOTO)• Managed and updated company programs, and on call safety database. • Provide support as Safety Officer during incidents within the plant• Administer permitting qualifications for operations personnel, qualifying for their permit writer qualification.• Administer general safety training to new employees I.E. fall protection, general ppe, first report systems, and field auditing• Provide weekly training for on shift operators on the safety topic of my choice, ranging from Process Safety Management to permitting issues, along with any on going safety concerns. Show less

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  Ascend Performance Materials

  Apr 2019 - Apr 2023

  • ESSH Manager

    Jul 2020 - Apr 2023

  • Sr. Occupational Safety Engineer

    Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
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  Entegris

  Jan 2023 - now

  Sr. EHS Manager, West Region
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  Interior Logic Group, Inc.

  Oct 2023 - now

  Environmental Health Safety Security Manager