Michael Levenite

*st class lead mechanic & supervisor

Norfolk, VA 23518

ac35qw@r.postjobfree.com - 757-***-****

WORK EXPERIENCE

1st class lead mechanic & supervisor

Colonna's Shipyard Inc - September 2005 to May 2017 Summary: Mechanic maintenance, preventive maintenance, structural maintenance/ repair/replace steel structure(shell), inserts in pontoon and wingwall tanks that rusted out and bring back into water tight specs for NavSea compliance of floating dry dock, doing the fitting and welding myself, worked mainly on my own unsupervised, welding, electrical and mechanical knowledge of all working components, building blocking to haul ships, cutting and burning as needed, using chainsaws, various fork lift, directing helpers, reading from blueprints and fabricating on the fly as needed, steel and wood

Directing and inspecting repair/replacement work by other shops(Weld shop and Plate shop) when job was bigger the a 3 man operation

Performed all rigging on replacing/repairing machinery(pumps, valves, electrical motors, capstan motors(hydrolics). Safety Supervisor for the last 9 months of my employment. Helped Dockmaster/Assistant Dock master bring ships into dry dock and alignment for successful vessel landing on keel blocks and bilge blocks to raise out of water, Supervisor of one whole wingwall crew on 2 separate floating dry docks.Worked 5years as crew supervisor during docking, block build, railway repair and maintenance repair.

Owner

Michael's Well and Pump Service - Norfolk, VA - March 1990 to February 1999 March, 1990 - February, 1999 (8 years 11 months)

Summary: Installing water Wells, installing in ground irrigation, simple electrical applications, customer service and customer contact

Hiring and firing position.

Foreman

Production Foreman

Roll Form Inc - Coatesville, PA - April 1984 to December 1989 April, 1984 - December, 1989 (5 years 8 months)

Summary: Oversee production of metal product, which included a working machine shop, fabrication shop (brake presses, multiple gas burning table, drilling presses, rollforming machines, weld shop) as per blueprints, drawings, customer needs, work schedules, equipment operator, laborers, movement of products, inventory and ordering of material necessary to keep production moving, preventive maintenance on machinery and building. Production mechanic, lead

Container Research Corp - Glen Riddle, PA - March 1978 to March 1984 Summary: Set up machinery (by read blue prints) to close tolerances necessary for Government tolerances, get 1st piece production cert

Show machine operator what setup comprised of, run first 5 pieces so I know they were familiar with the necessary sets.

Mechanical Fitter

Keehn Service Corp - June 1971 to March 1978

Building on bobtail trucks, pipefitting, welding, install measuring/dispensing equipment, pump installation, mechanical fastening, electrical installation on vehicals(delivery trucks). Mechanic, fitter/welder

Keehn Service Corp - Coatesville, PA - June 1971 to March 1978 tanker trucks, welding, x-ray rolling container tanker trucks, fabricating all things necessary to repair and get tanker trucks operational including tandem axles, welding, pipefitting

Work through school years '72&'73 1/2 days yet full time over Summers, full time from June

'73(graduated high school) through March '78

Worked from prints and minimal supervision.

EDUCATION

Not completed, program shutdown 2 weeks before completion. in electrician Lukens Steel, Industrial/Commercial/Residential Electricians school - Coatesville, PA September 1975 to May 1977

Diploma/Vo-tech in General/welding, blue print reading, wire diagrams reading, use of measuring tools.

Coatesville Area Senior High School - Coatesville, PA September 1971 to June 1973