Mr. Hiltunen obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of New Hampshire. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Montana.
Chris joined Bison in 1995 and is currently the leader of the Ambient Monitoring Team. His duties involve project management and oversight of ambient monitoring activities. He also works with the Permitting Team on the preparation of Title V permit applications, new source review, and preconstruction permit applications, including completion of a wide variety of emissions inventories for criteria and toxic pollutants, control technology evaluations and dispersion modeling. Chris’s past duties included ambient air and meteorological data collection, quality assurance, processing and reporting on a variety of ambient monitoring systems, including PM10, PM2.5, SO2, CO, NOx, O3, and meteorology installations as well as continuous emissions monitoring systems. He has experience in the siting, installation and maintenance of remote meteorological, ambient air, and noise data collection sites. He also played a key role in development of Bison’s environmental compliance database for one of our major clients.
Some of Chris’s previous experience includes auditing, updating, and maintaining a database of FDA clinical data for a medical products research and development firm. Chris has also provided equipment application support for HVAC equipment, and designed installations for new construction and facility rehabilitation.