Trey Fortenberry
Marshville,NC
Summary
Environmental professional with 30 years of leadership across consulting and industry, including roles of a project manager, client, account manager, department manager, corporate, environmental manager, and subject matter expert. Proven track record in global project oversight, environmental program, delivery, regulatory, strategy, and risk reduction.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Client account manager
Albemarle corporation
- Client account manager for Albemarle corporation. Supported ALBIN, all by identifying appropriate professional expertise to meet ALBIN walls needs, identified errors where Albemarle needed assistance, where value could be added, and successfully negotiated a contractual master services agreement for the completion of professional services globally.
- Managed and provided support on Albemarle projects, dealing and remediation, mining, real estate, transaction support, compliance, due diligence, and health and safety.
Facility environmental management experience
Fort Polk joint readiness training center army base
Fort Polk, Louisiana
- Sadaba employee that supported Fort Polk’s environmental and natural resources management division with general environmental expertise related to environmental multimedia(soil, water, air,) with a focus on waste management.
- Waste management, regulatory compliance:
- Ensure compliance with Ricka, circular, DOT, EPA, and stay specific environmental regulations.
- Let effort to upgrade waste profile, manifest, and reporting documentation system.
- Interface with regulatory agencies during inspections, audits, and reporting.
- Waste management operations
- Overall, proper segregation, labeling, storage, and disposal of waste.
- Managed to waste, dispose of vendors for transportation of waste.
- Conducted regular inspections of waste generation areas, storage areas, and satellite accumulation points.
- Upgraded waste profile, manifest, and reporting documentation system tool that allow implementation of a sitewide waste minimization plan that reduce waste going offsite for disposal by 50%.
Discovery, aluminous Inc., a subsidiary of Alcoa
Port Allen, Louisiana
- Part of an on-site, three person team brought into stabilize and support operations in crisis mode, following the arrest of plant line leadership that violated environmental regulations at the federal and state level.
- Fail position, a plan of environmental manager after their criminal arrest.
- Manage high stress situation, stem from environmental violation, such as plant waste being exposed of all site, causing landfill fires at the disposal facility and management of hazardous waste removal from surface water discharge.
- Supported effort to restore the sites, multimedia regulatory compliance program while coordinating with legal teams and regulatory agencies
- Conducted environmental audit to assess compliance with EPA, OSHA, and state regulations.
- Implemented immediate corrective actions to mitigate safety and environmental risk.
HSE site manager
Dynamite Nobel GMBH, a subsidiary of Albemarle corporation
Stadeln and Troisdorf, Germany
- Led strategic and technical support related to environmental compliance for tenant occupied sites to meet environmental regulations, support tenant operations, and helped mitigate environmental liabilities.
- Managed on site HSC direct reports with strategic guidance and day-to-day employee HR topics.
- Identified and managed environmental risk related to tenant operations, site, conditions, and legacy contamination.
- Review tenant activities for environmental impact and compliance with lease terms
- Lead permit, waste management, response, and environmental reporting for Dynamit Nobel and tenant actions.
Albemarle Corporation Complex
Magnolia, Arkansas
- Dow Chemical
- Completed an overall daily operations related to environmental multimedia, compliance, and reporting.
- Managed multiple concurrent priorities while dealing with regulatory operational ambiguity.
- Daily collaboration with staff, Albemarle, HSE and West Plant operations to complete daily activities related to environmental compliance and preconstruction assessments.
- Completed an overall daily operations for non-hazardous and hazardous waste handling, documenting, and disposal.
- Responsible for the safe completion of construction activities on projects while coordinating with West Plant operations.
- Created work and operating plans for environmental compliance tasks, control room operations, and software/hardware function.
- Provide a strategic guidance on environmental compliance, permitting, and risk management projects.
- Identified and executed required and supportive training for staff.
- Completed safety assessment of all Dow Chemical operations and projects completed with Albemarle.
- Directly interface with state and federal regulators on Dow Chemical’s behalf
- Participated in state and federal regulators on site inspections.
Albemarle corporation
- Albemarle internal subject matter expert (SME) for South Plant and Bryan Field activities related to soil, groundwater and UIC.
- Albemarle internal main point of contact and SME for West Plant site environmental topics and Dow Chemical’s cleanup obligations.
- Supported complex HSE staff for the management of contractors and regulatory guidance.
- Drove effective communication at all levels of the organization and interaction with environmental
Corporate, environmental manager and subject matter expert
Albemarle Corporation
Charlotte, North Carolina
01.2018 - 01.2026
- Total relevant experience: 30 years in chemical operations/20 years with mining, including tail, Brian management parentheses bromine)/10 years with mining, including tailings management (lithium).
- Drive enterprise wide, HSE implementation, stakeholder, alignment, and sustainable solutions rooted in Albemarle’s core values.
- Manage corporate, environmental standards, initiatives, and programs in North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
- IMPLEMENTED GLOBAL CORPORATE, ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS, AND CODES, ESTABLISHED, NATIONAL AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PROCESS.
- Provided technical leadership as needed to respond to an investigate incident’s globally.
- Lead corporate level response to high risk, environmental incidents.
- Direct risk management and collaboration with corporate risk management team.
- Provide subject matter expert support and strategic guidance to active and non-operating sites related to soil and groundwater assessment, investigation, remedial, planning, and implementation, solid and hazardous, waste, regulatory, compliance, and underground injection control (UIC) projects.
- Participated in HSE audits and support site audit corrective action planning and resolutions.
- Provided globally consistent platform to all sites and businesses for negotiating with relevant governmental authorities for permits and compliance activities while maintaining good agency relations in all regions.
- Manage environmental service vendors globally to ensure quality service delivery.
- Quantified/identified all contaminated sites from Rockwood acquisition for board review and implemented global remediation strategy to reduce remedial risk and make site suitable for diveter. Reduced liabilities by approximately $30 million over a seven year period.
- Led the establishment and ongoing operation of business process enhancing transparency, and visibility to ongoing remediation liabilities (IBOSKU project).
- Lead global environmental reserves process for corporate financial reporting, including a reduction of corporate, environmental reserve reserves.
- Manage murderers and acquisition, environmental due diligence, including environmental conditions, profiling of potential acquisitions and divestitures.
- Lead all environmental aspects of corporate real estate activity. Assisted in negotiating the sale of 20 properties for approximately $58 million while removing or mitigating future company environmental risks.
- Provided executive leadership with HSC update presentations.
- Provide provided support to the corporate sustainability team (LCA, EcoVadis).
- Provided technical leadership and management of liability associated with a divested site.
- Spearheaded arbitration victories that reduced potential liabilities by tens of millions and led to buyout of liability, providing a final Liability exposure.
- Provide a technical leadership from consulting side to Albemarle in establishing a risk-based cleanup consent order for the Magnolia Arkansas complex, reducing forecast liabilities over the entire cleanup by approximately $20 million dollars.
- Provided day-to-day facility management support to sites without HSE leads or during HSE lead transition (Chile, Arkansas, Nevada, Tennessee, multiple sites in Germany and China).
- Served as technical lead for global compliance auditing of internal hotline, allegations of fraudulent, environmental paperwork, and reporting in Chile.
- Lead preliminary environmental analysis and permitting efforts in North Carolina that included an executive leadership presentation.
- Overall and approved former mind detailing damn upgrade in Tennessee. Developed a global environmental risk assessment tool for enterprise use. Collaborated with research and development in the discovery process, creation, and execution of a marketable product.
Environmental consultant and manager
Radiant international LLC/URS corporation/AECOM
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
01.1996 - 01.2018
- Project manager
- Long-term partner to multiple industrial clients: managed environmental projects across chemicals, mining, energy, popping paper, government sectors, including overall project expenditures, schedule, direction, and business expectations.
- Executed sighting and due diligence reports, environmental impact assessments, groundwater, and geotechnical, investigations, remediation, and operational permitting for industrial and mineral aggregate mining companies.
- Conducted a man is numerous geopolitical investigations along with QA/QC of surface facilities, geosynthetics, and materials of construction.
- Manage multimedia, environmental audit projects ( domestic and globally ) for industrial clients.
- Lead UIC regulatory permitting, design, installation, monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting for hazardous and non-hazardous waste deep injection wells.
- Handled compliance with resource conservation and recovery act (RCRA), US Department of transportation (DOT) and HUD, environmental regulations, and other associated federal and state regulations.
- Supervise drilling and installation of monitoring, recovery, wells, soil, sediment, service, water, and groundwater sampling, measurement and evaluation of aquifer properties utilizing pump test, slug, test, comb, pentameter test, construction oversight, solid has his waist, phase, one side assessment, environmental, audits, and hood, environmental site reviews.
- Managed multiple project teams, accountable to the business for project success.
- Established effective communication communications within the project team to ensure alignment among business objectives, project objectives, and the design basis. Lead the development of roles and responsibilities definitions for the project and insured each functional team. Member understood their role and deliverables.
- Managed overall project expenditures, schedule, direction, and expectations to meet business expectations.
- Managed the “management of change” procedure and insured operations and maintenance procedures were prepared.
- Department manager
- Department leader of 65 environmental professionals, delivering approximately $16 million of program management annually. Lead and manage large and very large size programs which had high levels of execution, complexity and significant strategic value.
- Provided the organization with technical leadership and strategic direction for program delivery, regionally, and globally.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biology
Northeast Louisiana University
Monroe, Louisiana12.1994
Certification
- Six Sigma yellow belt
- Certified project manager
- OSHA has whopper(40 hour plus supervisor)
- OSHA construction safety(30hour)
- RCRA hazardous waste management
- DOT hazardous materials shipper
- Proficient in MS office suite, blue beam, AutoCAD, arc GIS, enable on, SAP, Spira, Arriba, and groundwater, contaminate, transport and response modeling.
Other notable activities
- Seasoned international traveler
- Co-author: “ these strategic management of hexavalent chromium sites“ case study, Batelle conference, 2024
- Participated in multiple employee connect groups
Timeline
Corporate, environmental manager and subject matter expert
Albemarle Corporation
01.2018 - 01.2026
Environmental consultant and manager
Radiant international LLC/URS corporation/AECOM
01.1996 - 01.2018
Client account manager
Albemarle corporation
Facility environmental management experience
Fort Polk joint readiness training center army base
Discovery, aluminous Inc., a subsidiary of Alcoa
HSE site manager
Dynamite Nobel GMBH, a subsidiary of Albemarle corporation
Albemarle Corporation Complex
Albemarle corporation
Bachelor of Science - Biology
Northeast Louisiana University