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Benched Again
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I've completed all the task creation for the future EMIS implementation for our aviation client. As so much of our work seems to end up, I'm now waiting for the client to review the work and advise on how they'd like to proceed. We had a $15k budget & used about $12k of it on this project. I'm told the client is a little shocked at the reality of how much the work cost, but at least we came in under budget.
Last week I sat in on a client web demonstration for our VEMS product & then was given an opportunity to write three proposals for VEMS implementations. It looks very likely that we'll get the work, as a cement manufacturer has decided that VEMS will be implemented corporate wide. So I may be making travel plans for a software implementation.
I was also pulled into another proposal last week for an educational institution. They put out a Request for Proposal (RFP) for their Title V Air Permit work & also wanted barcodes and barcoding software worked into the bid. One of our T3 consultants on the east coast was asked to help by the local office & he checked with the T3 group to see who had experience with barcodes. I had some familiarity from another project at a previous employer, so I did some research for him to include in the proposal.
Wednesday & Thursday of this week I'll be taking the final training course for one of our EMIS partners, which will then make me a certified implementer of their product. I know a couple of T3 consultants have work I can help with, but again, they're waiting for the client to get back to them, so I'm in a holding pattern for the moment.
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EMIS Task Creation
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This is my first post in quite a while. Since my last post I didn't have much to write about, then I was too busy with projects to write. I had an unusually slow period & my Regional Director introduced me to the term 'benched' in the consulting world. It's a word that means you don't have any billable work to do at the time. This may apply to the T3 division more than the Environmental Consultant (EC) division, since we are always working on a ton of proposals & waiting for the client's to give us the OK. The EC division seems to have more long-term contracts for recurring work.
The "benched" time was short, thankfully, & I was handed a project for a large aviation manufacturer. My task was to dig through their Waste Water Discharge Permit, Spill Prevention Control & Countermeasures (SPCC) Plan, & their Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWP3), & pull tasks out of them for entry into one of our Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS). The work consisted of reading through the permits & pulling out specific recurring permit tasks such as monitoring, reporting, inspection & training. I entered these into a spreadsheet template which will eventually be uploaded into the EMIS of the client's choice. When I completed a permit I notified a senior consultant that a QA was needed. Now I need to merge her changes into my master spreadsheet.
That's it for now, I have to get back to the permit/EMIS work.
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