Steven Simmons has over 30 years of experience in HR and safety management. He currently serves as HR and Safety Manager for Steel City Recycling, where he helped build hiring and employee screening processes and reduced accident rates by half each year. Previously, he held various safety roles at CMC America and CMC Recycling, where he lowered incident rates and improved safety cultures and manuals. Simmons has extensive training in OSHA, DOT, environmental and radiation safety. He aims to recruit and retain high quality employees while reducing costs through effective HR and safety policies and programs.

1. STEVEN W. SIMMONS
I 205-613-9667 I SNOWWIS62@YAHOO.COM
HR/SAFETY MANAGER
Director of HR and Safety for multiple facilities • Streamlined Hiring Process to Improve Quality of
Employees and Speed of Onboarding • Reduced Accident Rates by Half for 3 Consecutive Years
Creation of Safety Manual & Policy Oversight of DOTProgram forDrivers
Creation of HR Policies Conduct OSHA, DOT, Environmental Training
Vendor Relations & Negotiations Manage Workers Compensation Program
Enforcementof HR & Safety Policy Employee Training, Development & Leadership
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Steel City Recycling LLC 2013–Present
HR Manager,SafetyManager (60+ Emp) Birmingham, Al/West Point, MS 2013–Present
Steel City Recyclingpurchased facility in 2013, I joined the company in it’s 2nd month.
I helped build the Hiring and employee screening process, as well as retraining of retained employees.
Responsibility of creating and implementing Safety Manual and Policy.WorkwithTransportation
Manager to hire, maintain quality drivers as well as oversee DOTprogram.
 Reduced turnover with strategies to recruit, train, and retain high quality employees.
 ReducedAccidentnumberseachyearby half
 Travel to 2nd locationto maintain HR/Safety
 ReducedWorkersCompCost
CMC 1985-2013
CMC America’sCorporateSafety
SafetyManager 2010–2013
 Oversight for Safety for rebar and recycling facilities in Alabama and Georgia.
 Lowered incident rate by large percentage
 Improved working conditions foremployees through culture changes
CMC Recycling
SafetyManager 2008–2010
 Oversight for Safety for 9 recyclingfacilities in 6 states
 Worked withteam of other safety managers to write new safety manual for50 plus locations
 Worked as a team to redefine the safety culture within the recyclingdivision
 Radiation Safety Officer,(trained and certified)
CMC STEELALABAMA 1985-2008
SafetySupervisor 2005-2008
 Plant finishedwith2006withlowestaccident frequencyrate ofany mini steel mill in
NorthAmerica
 Managed 4 safety coordinators and 30 safety panel members
 Oversight of security for plant, made 150,000 dollars of improvements to security
equipment

2.  Implemented contractorsafety program during 22 million dollar expansion to plant
CMC STEELALABAMA 2004-2005
SafetyCoordinator(Shipping Department)
 Attended OSHA training courses
 Rewrote approximately 100 JSA’s
 Worked withSafety director to improve hazards in department
ProjectManager (specialproject) 2003-2003
 Assisted engineers in remodel of shipping warehouse
 Convinced engineers to upgrade cranes to double shipping production by adding magnet capability
to overhead cranes
 Changed layout of material in warehouse to increase material capabilities and speed up loading
ShippingSupervisor 2000-2003
 Responsible for13 man loading crew and equipment on a rotating workschedule for24 hour
operations
 Receiving 1000 + tons of material from the mill while shipping 1000 + tons of finished goods
 Maintaining 80,000 tons of inventory
 Trained (in house) on HR and management laws
 Trained and implemented 5S programs
 Trained on ISO compliance
ShippingDepartmentHeadLoader 1985-2000
 Started as labor in 1985 and progressed through several differentjobs in shipping department until
reaching Head Loader position
 Overhead crane operator (30 ton duel hoist)
 Truckdriver
 Scale operator
 Saw operator
 Forkliftoperator
 Lead man for 8 years
 Ran off site warehouse with 3 man crew 2 years
PigglyWigglyGrocery Warehouse 1981-1984
Order Puller
 Pulled orders to fillloads for trucks
 Advanced to docklead man
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ALABAMANATIONALGUARD 1980-1985
 Air conditioner repairman
 Nuclear biological chemical warfare instructor
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EDUCATION
Georgia Tech OSHA 3O trainer update June 2016
Georgia Tech OSHA 3O trainer May 2012
FloridaState OSHA 3O trainer 2007
Radiation Safety Officer Training 2009
TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
Proficientin Excel, Word.Have experience with SAP among other data programs. All office equipment.