SCS Tracer, A Business Unit of
Environmental Consulting & Contracting
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2020 SCS Tracer Training Classes
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Operator I:
This intensive four-day training is designed for beginning ammonia refrigeration operator, manager, and/or safety personnel with limited refrigeration experience. This course will provide the student with a solid foundation of refrigeration principles, ammonia awareness and safety, and system components. Earn up to 36 PDH towards your RETA credentials.
In Person Classes - $1,145/person
Online Classes - $995/person
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DATE
July 13 - 16, 2020
July 13-17, 2020**
August 3-6, 2020
August 17-20, 2020
September 28 - Oct 1, 2020
September 28 - Oct 1, 2020
October 5-8, 2020
October 5-8 2020**
October 12-15, 2020
October 12-15, 2020
October 19-22, 2020
October 19-22, 2020
October 26-29, 2020**
November 2-5, 2020
November 9-12, 2020
November 16-19, 2020
November 30 - Dec 3, 2020
December 7-10, 2020
December 7-10, 2020
December 14-17, 2020
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LOCATION
TBD
(Spanish)
- (Register here)
TBD (Spanish)
- (Register here)
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** These classes will be taught in Spanish
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Our Instructors:
Our instructors have years of experience and strive to make learning enjoyable and engaging. Our training programs are overseen by a RETA Authorized Instructor (RAI) with over 40 years of electrical, refrigeration, and maintenance experience as a technician/manager. All of our instructors have completed Train-the-Trainer courses and have several years of teaching experience. We bring to the table a combined total of over 100 years of refrigeration experience including Maintenance Manager, Startup Technician, Service Technician, Plant Engineering, Instructor, etc.
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Gene Dumas
CARO/CIRO/CRST/RAI
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Mr. Dumas is SCS Tracer’s lead refrigeration operator instructor. As a Refrigerating Engineers and Technicians Association (RETA) Authorized Instructor (RAI), Mr. Dumas is responsible for content quality and presentation for our refrigeration-related training courses. Mr. Dumas was a prior Maintenance Engineer for 18 years. He joined SCS in 2015. His primary responsibility is to assist facilities that use anhydrous ammonia in addressing EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) and OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements. Those duties include: Facilitating Process Hazard Analysis studies; Conducting Process Safety Management audits; and Completing Risk Management studies. Mr. Dumas’ previous experience also brings first-hand experience to his Mechanical Integrity Inspections and Audits.
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Eric Girven
CIRO/CRST/RAI
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Mr. Girven has been in the industrial refrigeration field for 26 years having spent most of his career at a large food processing facility in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania. Eric’s experience includes the following; Operator/Service technician; PSM Coordinator; Supervisor; Superintendent; Project Manager and most recently serving as a Senior Project Manager/Instructor. Eric has an extensive background in OSHA’s Process Safety Management and the EPA’s Risk Management having developed and implemented these programs for multiple customers nationwide specifically geared towards the ammonia refrigeration industry. Eric has been a long standing member of both the IIAR and RETA organizations. Eric previously served as the Vice-Chair of the Education Committee for the IIAR.
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Mr. Ramos has 26 years of refrigeration experience including 18 years of ammonia experience and has been involved with PSM/RMP from implementation to law. He has been an Instructor for Operators, Technicians, PSM Coordinators and Managers for 8 years.
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Mr. Carlyle has 40-years of heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, & refrigeration experience, including 25 some years of ammonia experience, as an installer, service mechanic, instructor, project manager, and sales engineer. Within the last 14-years, he has been very involved with the RETA & IIAR conventions, RETA & ASTI safety days across the country, and only the first 5-years or so with IARW.
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Mr. Parra has 12 years of refrigeration experience, and started his career in Venezuela. In the United States his responsibilities included managing the facility’s ammonia refrigeration system, PSM/RMP programs and California Accidental Release Prevention (CalARP) programs. He additionally managed environmental and safety programs, budgeted and executed capital projects, prepared and managed budgets, achieved significant energy savings, among others. His primary responsibility is to assist facilities that use anhydrous ammonia in addressing EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) and OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM). Those duties include: Facilitating onsite Process Hazard Analysis studies, Process Safety Management auditing, and Risk Management studies.
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