Rob Fiorile Participated in the NJ Wind Institute Workforce Summit
June 2023
Eatontown, NJ — Matrix recently attended the NJ Wind Institute Workforce Summit held at The Westin Mount Laurel.
The NJ Wind Institute Workforce Summit works to provide an overview of Wind Institute and offshore wind workforce programming, demystify the forthcoming offshore wind jobs, timing, and skills needed, connect workforce development professionals to offshore wind industry employers and resources, and promote collaboration to address challenges and opportunities in offshore wind workforce development. Matrix discussed concepts relating to their work regarding planning, development, and construction careers.
According to Fiorile, “The summit was an excellent opportunity to engage with a very wide range of parties representing the existing and future offshore wind workforce. From planning and design, manufacturing and supply chain to operations and maintenance all were there!”
The panel covered company roles in the offshore wind supply/value chains; types of roles and skills needed, how workforce development practitioners can support the pipeline, and any other lessons learned from working in the offshore wind industry.
According to Jayne Warne, President, “Matrix is fully invested in the offshore wind arena. Rob Fiorile is an expert in the industry and understands the variety of skill sets that will be required moving forward.”
About Robert R. Fiorile
Director of Environmental Planning and Ecological Services
Robert Fiorile is an environmental scientist with 30 years of experience working in the environmental field including responsibility for managing and preparing state and federal environmental reviews, ecological studies/surveys, natural resource inventories, and State and Federal environmental permit applications. Mr. Fiorile has served various client types with an emphasis on the performance of ecological studies and the preparation of permit applications for complex projects involving activities regulated under various State’s freshwater wetlands protection programs, flood hazard area control programs, coastal zone management programs, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Section 10 and 404 programs. Mr. Fiorile’s recent experience includes providing regulatory guidance for offshore wind port development and oversight for the preparation and submission of a New York State Article VII application for an electric transmission project extending from offshore wind energy lease areas to interconnection points with New York Power Grid. Mr. Fiorile’s is also experienced in preparing the various types of terrestrial and aquatic ecological studies/surveys required as part of approval processes including wetland delineations, seagrass surveys, benthic surveys, and the development and implementation of wetland mitigation plans.
About Matrix New World Engineering
Matrix New World Engineering is a company of engineering and science experts who focus on some of the nation’s most pressing long-term challenges, including climate change, resiliency, ecological restoration, contamination studies, water supply, disaster response, and urban revitalization. Matrix believes solving environmental challenges through careful planning and engineering is an indispensable measure of success.
Matrix has offices in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Arizona, and Louisiana coupled with project experience throughout the United States and the Caribbean. For more information on the firm, please contact: Jayne Warne, President 800.747.MATRIX, [email protected]
