Leadership Team

Alvin Cardenas


Corporate Safety Manager

Alvin Cardenas is the Corporate Safety Manager for Emerald Transformer. Alvin brings twelve years of experience, including workers compensation specialist, process safety management, food defense, 5S & 6S lean systems. Focusing on evaluating practices, procedures, training and risk assessment and adherence to the law. Alvin believes in order to have a safe workplace it starts with strong relationships, which are a result of his expertise in team building.

Prior to his time at Emerald Transformer, Alvin was a Journeyman Lineman for fifteen years, where his passion and experience in safety began. He then worked as a Safety Manager in the aluminum extruding business for five years. He spent another four years in food industry as a Safety Manager and Plant Manager.

"I am very pleased with the Emerald crew that worked with us last week, and was able to hit my March 1 removal goal very easily by using Emerald's services at 3 different substations. I prefer the Emerald staff to work with – due to crew workmanship, our relationship and the ease of doing business."

– Midwest Investor-Owned Utility – Engineering Consultant