James L Mills

**** ****** ***.

Tipton,Iowa *****

E-mail: aboa17@r.postjobfree.com

Home: (563) - 452-4270

Work: (563) - 340-0601

Work Experience

Norfolk Iron & Metal Co (2012 - Present) - Maintenance Mechanic

Durant, Iowa

Supervisor: Joe Icenogle - 563-***-****

Duties:

Repair over-head cranes.

Troubleshooting drive issues

Replace interface cards/complete DC drives

Electrical repairs

Fabrication and welding

Monthly PM's of shears, saws, cranes, track mobile, and combi lifts

Special projects as directed by supervisors.

A&J Custom Farming (2010 - Present) - Owner/Operator

Tipton, Iowa

Supervisor: Jim - 563-***-****

Duties:

Plow, plant, spray, harvest corn/beans.

Mow, spray, bale hay

Maintain tractors, balers, planters, plows, mowers, rakes.

Associated Materials, Inc. (2011 - 2012) - Maintenance Worker

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Supervisor: Mick Taylor - 319-***-****

Duties:

Responding to maintenance issues in a fast paced industry.

Clearing computer faults

Making adjustments to X and Y for tooling changes.

Changing out blades, routers, and auger bits.

Preventative Maintenance work.

Special projects as directed by supervisors.

Mid-States Technical (2010 - 2011) - Consultant/Maintenance Supervisor

Davenport, Iowa

Supervisor: John McCaw - 800-***-****

Duties:

MLS work orders

Parts requisitions

Responsible for obtaining quotes for spare parts

Supervise 10 members

Ipsco Steel/SSAB (2000 - 2010) - Maintenance Supervisor

Muscatine, Iowa

Supervisor: Paul Ruffner - 563-***-****

Duties:

Slitter/Finishing

Supervised sixteen maintenance employees

Assigned daily work projects

Maintain/ordered spare parts inventories utilizing Maximo

Increase Slitters capacity from 45 tons to 160 tons per hour achieved by

equipment modifications and improvements

Modified Static Shear PLC program to reduce knife change time from 1 hour

to 15 minutes with no chance of knife damage

Modified Static Shear flywheel bearing assembly achieving twice the bearing

life

Cooling Bed modifications that achieved an increase in up-time from 86% to

96%

Over saw Leveler rebuilds to eliminate plate quality defects and Leveler

damage

Rigging of multiple equipment picks by crane to 50 tons

Universal Contracting (1998 - 2000) - Account Manager

Burlington, Iowa

Supervisor: Bob Hiller - 319-***-****

Duties:

Total profit and loss responsibilities for Muscatine operations

Estimating of projects to 1.1 million

Directing of field personal

Responsible for overseeing budget and billings on projects

Supervise maintenance projects for IPSCO on down turns

Welding (Stick, Innershield, Mig)

Plant Maintenance (John Deere)

Replace overhead cranes

Repair crane rail, chain rail systems, monorail systems

Read blueprints

Fabrication of steel

MillTech ISI L.L.C. (1996 - 1998) - Maintenance Supervisor

Muscatine, Iowa

Supervisor: Dana McCracken 866-***-****

Duties:

Supervised numerous down-turns in the Melt Shop, L.M.F, Roll Mill,

Finishing, and Slitter

In charge of day-to-day maintenance and repairs to Melt Shop, L.M.F.

Furnaces, charge conveyors on lime and carbon silos

Bag House maintenance, and Bag replacement

Hydraulic cylinder, seals, hoses, fittings repair

Maintenance of overhead cranes, cables, brakes, load blocks,

Sheaves nest replacements and equalizing sheaves nest

Screw conveyor, air locks, drive motors, barring, Dodge pillow locks,

couplings, drive shafts, gear boxes

D. I. water systems, cooling water systems, including cooling towers, main

drive motors and pumps, filters and holding reservoirs

Engineered pick on 360 ton furnace bottom for the first time and is

currently in use.

Rock Island Arsenal (1991 - 1994) - Welder/Millwright

Rock Island, Illinois United States

Supervisor: Gene McCallister - 563-***-****

Pay Grade: WG - 02 - 8

Duties:

Precision leveling of layout tables

Set up/ tear down:

Mills

Presses

Bullard UTL

Autoclaves

Heat Treat ovens

Rail Quench tanks

Forge hammers

CNC Seven Axis

Iron Workers Local 111 - Journeyman

Rock Island, Illinois United States

Radiology Certified Welder

SMAW (Stainless Steel - Steel)

GMAW (Stainless Steel - Aluminum - Mild Steel)

GTAW (Stainless Steel - Aluminum - Steel - Brass)

Sub Arch Welding

Read layout blueprints

Welding specifications

Certificates

Electrical Workplace Safety (2010)

Education

Technical School

Scott Community College (01/01/1979 - 01/01/1980)

Bettendorf, Iowa

Degree: N/A - Major: Computer Science

GPA: 2.65 Semester Hours: 16

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