Kenneth Havinga

Email: abp5ay@r.postjobfree.com

Address:

City: hamilton

State: MI

Zip: 49419

Country: USA

Phone: 616-***-****

Skill Level: Any

Salary Range:

Primary Skills/Experience:

Knowledgeable self starter seeking full time employment within a growing company that can benefit from my experience and expertise. Willingness to prove my ability to learn any additional skills needed to become a key team member with room for advancement.

Educational Background:

High School Dipolma from West Ottawa high/ Grand Haven Community Ed. G.E.D., Grand Haven MI 1/2001 to 3/1994 (general)

Job History / Details:

Summary

Knowledgeable self starter seeking full time employment within a growing company that can benefit from my experience and expertise. Willingness to prove my ability to learn any additional skills needed to become a key team member with room for advancement.

Highlights

safety training

iso9001 trained

j.i.t. in production

problem solving

blue print reading

flux core welder

arc welder

mig welding

automated contact welder

torch operator oxy./acel.,oxy./prop., plasma cutter

fabrication

power tools

hand tools

fork lifts

shipping receiving

shuttle truck operator

data entry

material handler

self starter

supervisor

quality control

machine operator

punch presses

metal shears

C.N.C.router

commercial painter

presser pot painting

airless painting

Accomplishments

Reduced shipping operation on 2nd shift by one person, taking responsibility of moving all trailers that needed to be staged.

Successfully ran mobile welding business and supervised 25 workers on 3 shifts while maintaining quality control and safety conscious workers with no incidents or time lost on the job.

Hart & Cooley awarded me for perfect attendance two different years.

Experience

March 2007 to November 2012

DBA. Kenneth Havinga Little Rock, AR

General Contractor welding and refurbishing

Contacted mobile welding and fabrication service working in several states Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Jobs lasting from 2weeks to 8months. Containers services we offer: refurbishing front load, rear load, self contained compactors, open top roll off containers and stationary compactors that are to big to move also repairing truck compactor boxes, roll off beds. Examples would be replacing bottoms on front and rear load containers, replacement of floors and repairing doors and slide rails on roll off containers, trucks most commonly need floors replaced or repaired,replacement of tracks and or ware strips and blades repaired by replacing shoes or whole foot assemble that rides on track we also add sweeper to blade in some cases.to keep trash from behind blades,we also do special fabrication in some cases to equipment at customers request and painting of containers and trucks.

June 2001 to September 2006

Hart & Cooley Inc. Holland, MI

Shipping/Receiving, Shuttle Truck Operator, Material Handler

Material Handler Responsibility: Servicing all production lines that produce finished packaged products using clamp truck or fork lift, scanning finished product label and entering into on board computer when delivering to location, very busy job, responsible for finished product on 3 to 5 lines on one end of the building and 5 to 7 lines on other side of building, most finished product needed to be shrink wrapped on automated shrink wrapping machines before being put in to locations, odd quantity had to be delivered to hand pick area's. there were shipping/receiving responsibility, we didn't run shipping/receiving on 2nd shift but there were over laps from first shift, trucks coming in late and other misc. tasks they could ask me to do just about anything on a regular basis which i enjoyed knowing they could count on me.There was no direct supervision on 2nd shift i knew what to do and if there were any problems i couldn't handle i could call my supervisor at home,this rarely happened . I was bumped off this job after about 2yrs a previous employee got bumped back to there previous job,shipping/receiving wanted to keep me and they created a shipping job to keep me on 2nd shift as i already knew the job and had already been handling the job with with minimum supervision. I've worked many jobs with in Hart & Cooley these experience may over described to get my experiences explained to whom ever may read this.

February 2001 to September 2006

Black River Towing &Recovery Holland, MI

Towing and Recovery / Repossession specialist

Tow truck operator/roll back operator, recovery expert, repossession specialist, mechanic, responsible for servicing trucks as well as getting repossessed vehicles auction ready.

July 1996 to June 2001

Hart & Cooley Holland, MI

production machine operator

Operated various:punch presses, bump presses, forming plate's and different fitting, setting up dies and safety guards before running sample parts to make sure parts are being formed correctly and safety equipment is working correctly before starting production and re checking parts at regular intervals

inspecting using a go no go gage and sample part that it would be fitted to be completed, when parts are finished they get labeled with finished part number and quantity on tag that is attached to basket,material handler is called to pick up and area is to be cleaned up and supervisor moves you to the next hot job. This is press room. Also worked in Metal Vent this is different department where vent pipe and other fittings are made on a production line with 8 to 9 workers: forming, embossing, assembling different size pipe and then packaging, labeling and calling material handler to receive product and put in to inventory, each line has a setup person that handles all tooling and makes sure everything is running properly and with in tolerance.

August 2001 to March 2004

Grand Rapids Press Holland, MI

Grand Rapids Delivery driver (Contracted Delivery driver) lake shore edition

Responsible for picking up papers and delivering them. Delivering 150-200 papers to a radius of about 85 miles per day Mondays through Fridays, 100 miles per day Saturdays & Sundays as well as stocking paper racks 7 days a week and putting up paper boxes at new customers homes as needed.

Education

1994 West Ottawa high/ Grand Haven Community Ed. G.E.D. Grand Haven, MI

GED general

Dropped out of school to go to work and went back later to get my GED. had to work early in life to support myself.

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