§Project Engineer, Stewart Environmental Engineering, Inc, 1998
§Field Engineer, Allen Engineering, Inc., 95 - 96
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY Mr. Robert “Bobby” Leger, PE, GC, PSCC is the co-founder and Chief Excutive Officer for Fortis Environmental Group, LLC.Mr. Leger is a Florida-registered Professional Engineer and General Contractor.He has over seventeen years of environmental experience, both as a regulator and as a consultant.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE President, Fortis Environmental Group, LLC and Tricon, Inc.Mr. Leger founded Fortis Environmental Group, LLC (Fortis), an environmental consulting firm specializing in the assessment and remediation of petroleum contaminated sites with his wife in 2003.Two years later he started a sister company, Tri-Con Inc. (Tri-Con), to provide environmental construction services.Mr. Leger acts as President and Chief Executive Officer for both companies.He is responsible for the professional licensing and day-to-day management of both companies. Senior Engineer, Various Sites, Georgia and Florida.Mr. Leger was responsible for developing site specific remedial action plans and providing technical oversight for corrective action in the cleanup of subsurface contamination to levels below state regulatory criteria. His duties included developing and providing technical oversight of Phase II environmental site assessments to determine extent of petroleum hydrocarbon contamination, developing and providing technical guidance of full scale pilot tests for site specific feasibility of various types of subsurface remediation systems, performing and evaluating subsurface contaminant modeling (petroleum fate and transport), designing and providing oversight during installation and operation of contaminated groundwater and soil treatment systems, developing SWP3 and SPCC plans for industrial manufacturing process plants and bulk fuel storage facilities, negotiating design strategies for contaminant corrective action with state regulatory officials, performing storm water management design, developing and performing storm water sedimentation studies to evaluate environmentalimpacts on receiving surface waters, and liaison for corporate entertainment functions. Project Manager, Former Radiator Shop, Albany, Georgia.Mr. Leger acted as project manager of the lead-impacted soil removal project in Albany, Georgia.The site was a listed by the State of Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division as hazardous waste site.As project manager, Mr. Leger had overall responsibility for implementation of the work plan and project coordination with the client and project team personnel.He was responsible for the training and qualification of the project staff, for setting technical guidelines for quality, for assuring the readiness to perform work, and for ensuring the appropriate documentation was completed. Project Engineer, Various Sites, Alabama.Mr. Leger’s required Duties included performing, developing, and evaluating environmental site assessments (Phase I and Phase II) to determine extent of surface and subsurface contamination, conducting pilot test to evaluate feasibility of various types of remediation system in the cleaning up petroleum subsurface contamination, and developing site specific remedial action plans for corrective action.During his time in Alabama, Mr. Leger also assisted the pulp and paper industry with conformance to stringent environmental regulations.His duties related to the pulp and paper industry included developing integrated SPCC and SWP3 plans for unbleached kraft linerboard mills, developing BMP plans for specialty paper products mills, assisting in the completion of the reporting requirements under SARA, Section 313 for Toxic Chemical Release Reporting for specialty paper products and kraft linerboard mills, and assisted in BOD and Methanol reduction projects for kraft linerboard mill. Environmental Engineer, Water Quality Section, Water Division, Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), Alabama.Mr. Leger was responsible for managing industrial and municipal effluent discharges to the surface waters in the state of Alabama. His responsibilities included developing water quality models of surface water bodies, developing Waste Load Allocations (WLA) for the prediction of environmental impacts to surface waters due to industrial and municipal effluent discharges, determining industrial effluent discharge concentration criteria based on WLAs and NPDES permitting standards, developing a Steady State Dissolved Oxygen Model for the prediction of surface water quality impacts due to industrial and municipal discharges, developing Total Maximum Daily Loading (TMDL) reports for impacted segments of surface waters listed on the 303d list, conducting site visits and stream sampling surveys to collect pertinent data for accurate water quality modeling, and corresponding with industrial and municipal wastewater dischargers. Field Engineer, Surveying Department, Various Sites, Alabama.Mr. Leger was responsible for developing residential, commercial and industrial subdivisions.His duties included providing technical oversight of land surveying crew, design and layout of residential streets and roads, residential and commercial building foundation layout, and conducting percolation tests for septic system design.
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