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Meet the newest member of our Sales & Marketing team: Phil Swint . Phil comes to Hull’s after spending the previous 15+ years in and around the petroleum industry.
Phil’s experience in the petroleum industry is a great asset to environmental services with overlap into a variety of other industries. Phil is well-versed in above and underground storage tanks; hazardous materials transportation; industrial tank cleaning; waste disposal and knowledge of state rules and regulations.
Phil we be responsible for sales prospecting, business development and customer relationship building in the northeast region of Florida including the greater Jacksonville area, Gainesville, St. Augustine, Palm Coast, Daytona Beach, Lake City, Palatka, as well as portions of Georgia including Valdosta, Waycross and Brunswick.
Phil will be based out of our Jacksonville service center and can by reached by phone @ 904-228-5525 or via email: pswint@hullsenv.com.
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The path of destruction left by Hurricane Michael is hard to grasp without seeing it for yourself. I’ve never seen anything like it before.
The power of mother nature is evident in the decades old trees that were snapped like toothpicks; innumerable missing or damaged roofs highlighted by blue tarps; store signs bent over and stripped down to their metal structure; debris covering roads, parking lots and yards for miles upon miles; mangled utility wires, poles and transformers strewn across sidewalks and easements; boats piled up on one another like toys.
Regardless of the circumstances, residents and businesses alike have to draw on their community and resilience to recover. As a local business in the Panama City, Hull’s was proud to directly help our customers get back up and running. The work will continue for weeks and months ahead. Here are a few examples of working being conducted following Hurricane Michael:
For this post-storm cleanup and recovery work illustrated above, Hull’s used HAZWOPER trained, four-person crews to navigate through both commercial and residential areas impacted by the storm to recover assets for a local utility. The scope of work consisted of debris clearing and removal in order to safely work the surrounding area; transformer recovery, transportation and staging utilizing a pneumatic telehandler, truck and trailer; environmental remediation of any oil impacted soil or surfaces through means of excavation or sorbent product; and utility pole recovery by gathering, loading and transporting to a staging area.
When falling power poles, transformers and electrical lines are present, there are inherent dangers to the public. Those dangers are visible and obvious. What’s not always evident, however, are oils that can leak from damaged transformers and eventually permeate the soil. Depending on the age of the transformer, the oils can potentially contaminate the soil with polychlorinated biphenyls, otherwise known as PCBs.
Fortunately, Hull’s Environmental Services maintains a fleet of vacuum trucks used to remove liquids, semi-solids and solids from a variety of environments and their versatility enables them to be used in numerous ways. In this scenario shown above, mechanical excavation of the soil was not an ideal option. Instead, an industrial loader vacuum unit was dispatched to perform “soft dig” excavation in various locations around the city. Soft dig, or vacuum excavation, uses air to break up and remove soil or other solids. With the help of hand shovels to assist in loosening the soil, these machines vacuum remove the impacted soil while greatly reducing the risk of severing or damaging underground utilities due to this minimally invasive approach – a much safer methodology than mechanical excavation utilizing a backhoe or mini excavator.
The fury of Hurricane Michael’s 150+ mph winds left virtually no building or structure without some sort of damage. Some structures fared better than others, illustrated by a local industrial facility that sustained severe damage resulting in the shutdown of the entire operation for nearly a month.
Because the building, piping, equipment and infrastructure endured so much damage, a long list of repairs was needed to bring the facility back online. To enable ingress and egress to the facility. Hull’s conducted a wide range of tasks with debris clearing and removal taking center stage.
In terms of more extensive environmental services, a variety of other cleanup tasks were conducted which enabled the facility to slowly get back to being fully operational. Following the debris clearing and removal, confined space entry was performed on water filtration tanks littered with mangled sheet metal, vegetation and general debris resulting from covers ripped off during the intense winds.
The facility also had storage tanks containing different caustics that were found to have leaked or spilled into secondary containment. Utilizing a vacuum truck, the spilled product was neutralized with anhydrous citric acid before the roughly 3,000 gallons was hauled off for onsite disposal.
A critical component of the cleanup was the containment and removal of asbestos. Insulation used to cover thousands of feet of piping and boiler units was stripped away and scattered throughout the facility. The insulation was removed by a special asbestos remediation team who carefully and methodically bagged the asbestos containing debris into bags for disposal.
Additional work, including building demolition, hazardous waste removal, brush clearing and management of various waste streams continues.
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Earlier this month, Hull’s announced the addition of Harry Marsh as Senior Vice President. Harry has been in the environmental services arena for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Hull’s, Harry held a variety of operations and executive roles at SWS Environmental Services.
Like many of us in the environmental services business, Harry began his environmental career in the field, cleaning up diesel spills, pressure washing tanks, hauling waste drums, working long hours and extended periods of time – it comes with the territory. Eventually, that knowledge and experience he gained in the field was leveraged through leadership roles in operations and executive management.
From Puerto Rico to Bolivia, Maine to California, Harry has traveled great distances in response to major incidents, including massive oil spills, natural disasters and biological threats. Those events include some of the worst incidents in history – the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and Hurricane Katrina.
Since environmental emergencies aren’t occurring 24 hours a day, everyday, over the course of thirty years, Harry gained invaluable knowledge and experience in environmental remediation, field services, waste management and industrial services as well. In fact, Harry has participated in, managed or directed nearly every type of emergency environmental scenario possible.
Executive Vice President of Hull’s, Tony Payne, commented on Harry joining the organization. “Harry’s been in and around this business for decades and served in a wide variety of roles. His knowledge of emergency response and environmental services is second to none. With that decades long experience, he’s also developed long standing relationships inside and outside of the environmental services industry that add tremendous value to Hull’s and Hulls’ clients. Harry will be a tremendous asset for us.”
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Hull’s Environmental Services, Inc. (Hull’s) recently announced that Jamie Michael has joined the company as Director of Marketing & Business Development. He will be responsible for all aspects of marketing, sales and business development, leading new customer acquisition, retention and growth while furthering the company’s commitment to service excellence for its customer base.
Jamie Michael
Mr. Michael brings a wide range of experience to Hull’s. He’s held a variety of leadership roles over the course of his 18-year career in the environmental services industry including his previous role as Vice President of Marketing for a national environmental services company.
Through creative thinking, setting objectives, formulating strategies and implementing new tactics, he focused on and leveraged digital technologies to drive and lead an effective B2B marketing program.
“Jamie knows the dynamics of the environmental services industry inside and out, but more importantly, he knows what drives customer engagement, growth and retention. Among other important talents he brings to the table, we believe his expertise in sales enablement, digital marketing and corporate communications will make sales and marketing an indispensable asset to the company,” said Tony Payne, the company’s Executive Vice President.
Mr. Michael commented on his new role and the environmental services industry stating, “with a sharp rise in environmental awareness, risk management, sustainability, and corporate responsibility, organizations are rethinking their environmental programs; and that means they need an environmental partner who not only understands their goals and objectives, but also their vision. I firmly believe Hull’s is that partner and we’ll continue to work diligently to differentiate ourselves from our competitors and truly focus on our customers’ needs.”
