Duane B. Higginbotham
** ***** **** ******, ******, OH 43055
567-***-**** *****.************@********.***
. Employment
Facilities Maintenance
Menards Retail Store, Columbus, East Broad Street
Responsibilities included maintaining and troubleshooting equipment, fixtures, lights, and buldings.
Maintenance Technician
Menards Distribution Center, Holiday City, OH 2014-2016
Assisted contractors installing conveyors, sorters, cranes and robots
Responsibilities included maintaining and troubleshooting all equipment.
Truck Driver,
Riverside Trucking, Waldron, MI 2009-2014
Delivered Ethanol corn by-products to farms. Responsibilities included scheduling product delivery, route planning, vehicle maintenance and connecting to customer systems.
Plant Manager,
Pioneer Industrial Systems, Pioneer, Ohio 2006-2009
Initial position was a Detail Engineer working primarily with AutoCad.
After four months I was assigned the role of Shop Foreman.
Job responsibilities included:
Coordinating work assignments for employees.
Yearly job performance evaluations.
Overseeing the fabrication, assembly, and integration of turnkey
custom machinery being built for various industries.
After two years, my job duties shifted to including purchasing, working with
suppliers as needed, and building / vehicle maintenance.
Senior Process Detail Engineer,
Sauder Woodworking, Archbold, Ohio 1994-2006
Worked at Sauder’s in various production departments for the first 9 months.
Material R&D department for 11 years with the following responsibilities: Lab HVAC monitoring, Provide CAD process detail drawings (AutoCad based) and Piping & Instrument Flow Diagrams (P&ID’s) for the Sauder Companies. Also provided technical support to production where lean manufacturing was being implemented. Provided justifications of R&D projects as needed. Facilitated purchasing of equipment for the R&D labs.
Plant Superintendent,
Countrymark, Bryan, Ohio 1980-1994
Worked as plant superintendent.
Assisted in all phases of plant operation including retail customers.
Responsibilities included feed mixing and delivering, seed and fertilizer handling, and all phases of the grain operation.
Also responsible for plant and vehicle maintenance.
Worked in store, assisting in all phases of customer service and store inventory.
Education:
Northwest State Community College, Archbold, Ohio
Associates in Applied Science, Drafting and Design Technology
Associates in Science, Agri-Business Management,
References:
Steve Raymond – Owner, Raymond Tool & Gauge, 419-***-****
Troy Martin – Engineering Manager, Pioneer Industrial Systems, 419-***-****
John Beck – Director of R & D, Sauder Woodworking. 419-***-****