Gregory F. Graham
**** ***** ********** **., ******** City, NC 28016
Cell: 704-***-**** E-mail: acvi67@r.postjobfree.com
Objective
I’m at a point in my career that I would be an experienced asset to any ready mix concrete producing company. My thirty years of experience in the RMC industry as a dispatcher, plant manager, and division production manager could be utilized in various positions.
Experience
Night Batch Plant Superintendent
Traylor Bros., Inc./Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC, Tarrytown, New York
March, 2015 – Present
Salary: $90,000/year + 42.5% cost of living + vehicle + fully paid benefits.
Night Batch Plant Superintendent, I am the only superintendent on the project with ready mix concrete production experience. I lead a crew of twelve: 4 operating engineers, 2 electricians, 3 teamsters, 2 laborers, and one field engineer. We operate one of the 3 plants at night that had the largest pour for the day, taking over for that plant’s day crew. We’re the only crew that has the ability to operate any of the 3 concrete plants on barges for this $3.9 billion bridge project, the New Tappan Zee Bridge.
Plant Supervisor / Operator
Texas Concrete Enterprise Ready Mix, Houston, Texas
June 2013 – March 2015 Salary: $75,000/year
Operated a Vince Hagan dry batch plant for the production of TEXDOT concrete for the County Road 220 project in Angleton, TX. Supplying the general contracting company S.E.R. Construction.
Ordered all aggregates, cements, and admixtures for the daily production of TEXDOT concrete. Did a four mile stretch of road with two bridges constructed.
When the CR 220 project finished I went and operated the pug mill at the company’s main location and filled in as the concrete plant operator when called upon. I developed and gave the company a professional mix design numbering system to fit their products.
Division Production Manager
Southern Concrete Materials, Charlotte, NC
October 2005 –January 2009 Salary: $ 65,000/year plus benefits / vehicle
Charlotte Division production manager for six ready mix concrete plants at five locations.
Best calendar year of production 2006 of 275,000 cubic yards sold. Ordered daily all raw materials and coordinated trucking with internal assets, brokered trucking, and rail. P&L and production forecasting responsibilities for division.
Responsible for hiring, disciplining, and training of mixer truck and material hauling drivers, yard personnel, and batch plant operators.
Plant Manager
Serv-All Concrete, Inc, Erie, PA
March 1998 – October 2005 Salary: $56,000/year plus benefits / vehicle
Managed an enclosed Erie-Strayer central mix plant for Erie Sand & Gravel 12 months of the year with 20 mixer truck fleet and two cement tanker haulers
Primary duty of dispatching every day, with direct supervision over batch plant operator, salesman, quality control man, mixer drivers, cement tanker drivers, and fleet mechanic.
Performed safety meetings and environmental training to all personnel. Hired, trained, and disciplined all personnel. Reported directly to the President of Erie Sand & Gravel.
Batch Plant Operator
R.W. Sidley, Grand River, Ohio
April 1993 – March 1998 Salary: $33,800/year plus benefits
Primary duties to operate Erie-Strayer central mix concrete plant batching OHDOT, federal, commercial, and residential concrete, loading RM trucks with in spec product. Assisted with dispatching and did the daily maintenance of the central mix plant. Ordered cement, admixtures, and concrete fiber when needed.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Business Services
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
June 1983
Associate of Applied Science in Civil / Construction Technology
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
June 1981
Certifications
NRMCA Concrete Plant Manager, 2008-2013; NCDOT Batcher, 2006-2011; NCDOT Concrete Field Technician, 2006-2011; ACI Concrete Field Testing Technician-Grade I, 2006-2011; NY Class B CDL, November 16, 2019
References
References are available on request
Autobiography 2009-2013
When the Great Recession hit in 2008 I was the production manager for Southern Concrete Materials Charlotte Division. In December of 2008 I terminated and gave out indefinite lay-offs to drivers, plant operators, and yard personnel. The company closed 3 locations of the five in the Charlotte Division and combined two of the four remaining locations from the Concord Division to the north of Charlotte. On January 5th, 2009, I received my indefinite lay-off notice. The Concord Division production manager had seniority over me.
As a downsizing casualty in an industry hit hard by the Great Recession, I had to scramble quickly to find another opportunity. It came outside of the United States. Fortunately it wasn’t too far from the U.S. I was hired by City Services, Ltd., in Freeport, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas as their concrete plant supervisor and operator. (February 2009 – September 2010) The general contracting firm had purchased a brand new Vince Hagan dry batch plant to provide the concrete for the infrastructure project at the Ginn Sur Mer Resort on the West End, of Grand Bahama. I produced paving concrete for 10 miles of road, curbing, tilt-up sales structures, bridge abutments, sidewalks, duct bank cover (red dye), and sea walls. I batched, conducted air and slump tests, and made test cylinders for the customer’s outside testing lab. I supervised the five Bahamian mixer drivers, yard man, and mechanic. After 19 months the project was completed, unfortunately, City Services had not acquired another project for the concrete plant, so I came back home.
After coming home, the Great Recession still had a strong grip on the construction and ready mix concrete industries. I found a forklift and overhead crane material handler position close to home through a temp service in December of 2010. (December 2010 – October 2012) I was hired on as a full time employee by Solaris Industries after my ninety day temp probation period running the forklifts and overhead crane to load and unload trucks with the steel tube produced by the steel tube mill. I stayed there till one evening I was relaxing in my easy chair at home when my cell phone rang.
I received a call from the Vice President of Head, Inc. out of Columbus, Ohio. He was searching for an experienced concrete plant operator to take over the central mix paving batch plant operating duties at a project in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He said the project was 8 months from completion and needed someone immediately. We agreed on my salary over the phone and I packed my pickup truck that night and was off early the next morning. I was back in the ready mix concrete production industry. (October 2012 – May 2013) Unfortunately, Head, Inc. does only government contracts for military runway strips. In the Spring of 2013, the government held up Head, Inc.’s next contract with a government Sequester of funds. I was laid off once again and found a position in Houston, Texas, where I operated multiple dry batch plants and a pug mill for twenty months at Texas Concrete Enterprise.
I am currently working for Traylor Bros., Inc., as the Night Batch Plant Superintendent for the 3 concrete plants on barges operating on the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, in conjunction with Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC. The new 3.1 billion dollar Tappan Zee Bridge should be completed late 2017.
GREGORY GRAHAM
READY MIX CONCRETE COMPANIES WORKED FOR:
Rinker Materials Corporation 1984-1988 Completed three year Dispatcher/Management
Jupiter/Tequesta Plant Florida Training Program
Mack Industries (CSR) 1988 Plant Manager/Dispatcher/Operator
West Palm Beach Plant Florida
Rinker Materials / Mack Industries (CSR) CSR purchased Mack Industries in 1987.
Rinker Lake Park Plant CSR then purchased Rinker Materials in 1988.
Mack Industries Riviera Beach Block Plant Coordinator of Mack/Rinker block dispatching
Rinker and Mack Industries Delray Beach Concrete Plants 1988-1990
Florida Concrete Dispatcher for both plants
Standard Concrete Corporation 1990-1991 Plant Manager for both plants in Palm Beach
Delray Beach and Riviera Beach Plants County, Florida. Company bought out by
Tarmac U.S.
R.W. Sidley, Inc 1993-1998 Central mix concrete plant operator
Grand River Plant Ohio
Serv-All Concrete, Inc 1998-2005 Plant Manager / Dispatcher
Erie Plant Pennsylvania Wholly owned subsidiary of Erie Sand & Gravel
ES&G bought out by Oglebay Norton in 2004.
Oglebay Norton divested Serv-All Concrete to
Austin Concrete of E.E. Austin & Son in 2005.
Southern Concrete Materials 2005-2009 Production Manager Charlotte Division
Main Plants North Plant
South Plant East Plant …. North Carolina
Van Wyck Plant South Carolina
City Services, Ltd. 2009-2010 Concrete Plant Operator / Supervisor
General Contractor The Bahamas
Head, Inc. 2012-2013 Concrete Plant Operator,Mobile Central Mix General Contractor/Engineers Oklahoma Plant for Oklahoma Air National Guard Project
At Tulsa International Airport
Texas Concrete Enterprise Ready Mix 2013-2015 Plant(s) Operator / Supervisor
Angleton Concrete Mobile Plant Texas
Victoria Plant
Houston Main Plant
Pug Mill
Traylor Bros., Inc. 2015-Present Night Shift Plant Superintendent
Heavy Civil Construction Contractors New York Tappan Zee Bridge Project, Tarrytown
Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC