PHILLIP METCALF, P.E.
AGRICULTURAL ENGINEER
QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS
• 10 years engineering experience with over 25 years in agriculture.
• Proven team leader – Managed 6 person team which oversaw multiple projects from conception to completion.
• Innovative designs to restore environmental challenges.
• Coordinates multiple agencies and permitting to achieve client success.
• Effective communicator – assisted individuals through both government regulatory and cost share programs.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Experienced at project management including component design, permitting, and construction coordination.
• Proven planner including natural resource conservation plans, Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans and Best Management Plans. 30+ plans used by multiple agencies as basis for operating permits and environmental restoration projects.
• Developed 50+ nutrient and waste management plans meeting federal guidelines to evaluate, reduce, and handle nutrient activities for commercial, residential, and municipal projects.
• Experienced in state and federal permitting programs including the EPA’s National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permits.
• Overseen wide range of projects including: drainage systems, stormwater collection and treatment systems, waste management systems, composting operations, and biosolids application systems.
• Experienced hydrology and nutrient computer modeler including: HydroCad, Hydraflow Hydrograph, TR-55, TR-20, ICPR, ModFlow and several Haestad products.
• Computer skills included: AutoCad Land Development Desktop, AutoCad Inventor and Acrview GIS.
• Experienced in civil site development design and permitting of residential roads, stormwater management facilities, underground utilities, pumping station, and site grading for both private and public clients.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science Agricultural Engineering, University of Idaho
REGISTRATIONS
Professional Engineer – State of Florida #61771
Certified Crop Advisor – State of Florida #32195
AFFILIATIONS
ASABE - American Society of Agricultural Biological Engineer
American Society of Agronomy
WORK HISTORY
Independent Contractor, Okeechobee, Florida, 2010- Present
Channel Industries, Inc., Canal Point, Florida, Director of Engineering 2009-2010
Engineering & Water Resources, Stuart, Florida, Senior Engineer 2005-2009
Florida Department of Agriculture – Department of Ag. Water Policy, Okeechobee, Florida, Agricultural Engineer 2002-2005
Terracon Inc., Syracuse, Kansas, Agricultural Engineer 2001-2002
Bauer Farms Inc., Colton, Washington, Assistant Farmer, 1997-2000
USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service, Ritzville, Washington, Soil Conservation Technician, 1993-1996
Anderson and Sons, Genesee, Idaho, Custom Harvest and Farm Hand, 1986-1993
PROJECT EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
• Lake Okeechobee Dairy AgNMP Development and Hurricane Restoration:
Staff engineer responsible for providing technical review of 19 Dairy Ag Nutrient Management Plans developed by third parties. Provided technical assistances and coordination for the five million dollar hurricane restoration program for hurricane damaged dairies. Presented at technical and administrative public workshops.
• US Sugar, Corporation:
Six month engineering contract to review sugar cane pump operations. Review included locating and evaluating over five hundred pump stations in 185,000 acres. Developed evaluation criteria for pump and power units. Used information to create a master pump and power unit incorporated in SAP. Provided pump and power unit design services as well as operation recommendations.
• Payson Park Thoroughbred Training Center:
Senior Engineer responsible for the design and construction of the nutrient management plan stormwater collection and treatment system for a 662 acre training facility. Design includes hydrology and nutrient modeling, analysis, and a multiple pump drainage system. Design minimized the potential nutrient transport offsite while providing the highest degree of protection for the thoroughbred animals
• Burnham Dairy:
Senior Engineer responsible for comprehensive nutrient management plan development, permitting, design, and construction services for the 570-acre dairy. Increased the permitted herd by 40% using an innovative field level nutrient tracking and management system. Project included an innovative stormwater treatment system which protected and enhanced several environmental and endangered species areas. Developed field level nutrient analysis spreadsheets to improve the waste management system and simple record keeping. Required multiple local, state and federal government agencies coordination and consensus.
• PW Bishop Dairy:
Engineer responsible for development of a comprehensive nutrient management plan and permitting including engineering design and construction inspection for the 1,200-acre Dairy operation west of Okeechobee, Florida. The project includes hydrologic and nutrient data collection, modeling and analysis; Best Management Plan development for minimizing the potential for nutrient transport offsite in surface water runoff; CAFO permitting, consumptive water use permitting, engineering design of the system components; and construction inspection.
• Bishop Brothers Dairy:
Engineer responsible for development of a comprehensive nutrient management plan and permitting including engineering design for the1,500-acre Bishop Brothers Dairy operations north of Lorida, Florida. The project includes hydrologic and nutrient data collection, modeling and analysis; Best Management Plan development for minimizing the potential for nutrient transport offsite in surface water runoff; CAFO permitting, consumptive water use permitting, engineering design of the system components.
• Murphy Farms Alternative Carcass Disposal Plan:
Developed the report, plan, and designs detailing mortality composting unit. Plan developed as part of a pilot project to explore the feasibility of mortality composting at large swing operations. First swine mortality composting project to be approved by Oklahoma State Department of Agriculture.
• University of Florida – IFAS/IRREC Shrimp Demonstration Project:
Staff engineer responsible for designed and drafting services for the shrimp demonstration project. Design included four raising ponds, an innovative system to collect, transfer, and treat the wastewater along with a public safety system.
• Kai Kai Farm and Grove:
Senior Engineer responsible for the design, permitting and construction oversight of a 40-acre organic nursery and grove. Design included integrating multiple irrigation, stormwater and irrigation tail water collection systems. Met owner’s requirement...
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