Richard Wright

PO Box ***

New Philadelphia, OH *4663

ac41tg@r.postjobfree.com

330-***-****

Dedicated Journeyman Millwright/ Mechanical Repairman with over 36 years of experience in all areas of mechanical maintenance is: Seeking employment in any mechanical area, troubleshooting, installation, repair, setup, operation or supervisor. Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Work Experience:

Maintenance Technician (MTM) - Republic Steel - Canton, OH - June 2012 to Present

Currently employed as an MTM in the melt shop where we perform daily repairs on 2 - 250 ton Electric Arc Furnaces. Major repairs include but not limited to changing water deltas and delta inserts, changing or welding sidewall water panels, changing, repairing, welding water roof panels, changing or repair of gas burners, carbon high jets and steel water hoses on all the equipment. Change spray rings for EAF electrodes, change and repair mast cylinders Change and repair hydraulic cylinders for the furnace tilt, mast cylinders, locking pins, furnace slag door and all related valving for the operation of the furnace. Maintain hydraulic pumps, tanks and coolers as well as welding, cutting with a torch, cutting with an oxygen lance and air arcing. Operate mobile equipment such as tow motors, loaders, man lifts, skid steer loaders and cherry pickers. Repair all water cooled bag house duct work and dampers for emission control.

Maintenance Technician - Gerdau Ameristeel - Canton, OH - August 2016 to January 2017

Worked here as a Maintenance Technician, both mechanical and electrical on Atmospheric annealing furnaces. Repairing, rebuilding, modifying furnaces to anneal parts for the automotive industry, especially parts for transmissions and rearends.

Did fabrication to building and furnaces, welding withstick and mig. Cutting with a torch and plasma arc cutter. Weekly PMs on furnace, conveyors and associated equipment.Operated all plant mobile equipment and maintained waste water treatment plant and boilers.

Maintenance Technician - Mechanical & Electrical - Quaker Mfg. - Salem, OH - October 2014 to March 2015

I worked here during a period of time that I was layed off from Republic Steel, which was my primary occupation since June 2012.

Employed as a Maintenance Technician in a metal stamping plant where we work on several different kinds of mechanical presses such as Danley, Clearing, Bliss, Niagara and others used to stamps parts for the automotive and motorcycle industry. we also repair CNC lathes and CNC laser cutting machines.

We perform all in house work on equipment, both electrically and mechanically as well as welding, cutting, burning and fabrication work. Performed PMs and repair on all overhead cranes, fire alarms, lifting chains and all above stamping and cutting equipment. I then returned to work at Republic Steel from layoff.

Maintenance Supervisor - Alliance Castings - Alliance, OH - August 2011 to June 2012

Maintenance Mechanic A / Millwright - Alliance Castings, Alliance, OH

Hired as a Millwright and performed all duties associated with the making of steel bolsters and side rails and smaller parts such as couplers for the railroad industry and other in house parts made in a steel foundry. Work consisted of mechanical repair, rebuilds and preventative maintenance on all plant equipment such as, replacing, lacing, repairing rollers on over 80 overhead conveyor belts. Repair of electric furnace components, transfer cars & rails, ladels and associated pouring equipment. Repair on Slingers, molds, fixtures and sand ramming equipment used to produce side rails and bolsters and other rail car parts. Repair of all furnaces and curing ovens as well as cooling beds, floor winches, overhead hoists, sand mills, mixing mills, gearboxes, overhead cranes and building maintenance. Repair of blasting equipment and rappers used to clean the parts. Repair of CNC cutting machines used to machine surfaces on the bolsters.

I worked as a Maintenance Supervisor working on the 2nd or repair shift with a crew of 7 Millwrights, 4 Electricians and 2 Pipe fitters repairing, installing, maintaining and PM's on all the above equipment.

I also schedule and assign the manpower needed to complete our assignments and coordinate repairs and needed downtime with the maintenance and production Superintendents. I use Excel to log employee hours, overtime, sick time, vacation time, incident reports and safety meetings as well as looking up and preparing requisitions for needed repair parts.

Tree & Shrub Specialist/ Lawncare Technician/ Application Specialist - TruGreen - Brilliant, OH - June 2010 to August 2011

Performs all types of care to trees, shrubs such as fertilization, insect and disease control. Also performs fertilization, weed control and insect control to lawns. Pa. DOT Certified truck driver responsible for driving and daily maintenance on truck and associated equipment, such as PTO's spray equipment, tanks, spray guns as well as spray solutions in compliance with local and EPA standards.

Maintenance Mechanic A - Vortex Recycling - New Castle Pa. - March 2010 to May 2010

Recycling all types of Automotive Oil Filters and sell to both Oil Industry and Steel Industry

Duties include, but not limited to all maintenance on complex Stamping Press, conveyor systems, oil collecting and transfer, steel recycling system, bulk tank maintenance, vibrators, seperator systems and straining system. Maintenance to railroad cars, repair of car, door repair and sealing as well as water testing doors on railroad cars. Overhead crane maintenance as well as operation of the overhead crane on a daily basis. Daily fork truck operation and fork truck maintenance as well as Bobcat operation. Welding, Mig welding, Burning, Cutting, Air arcing, both structural and fabrication. Repair of pneumatic, pumps and air tools as well as building maintenance and support services. Also serve as production personnel when needed during times of slow maintenance or fill in for call offs of production personnel.

Certified Satellite Installer SBCA - Akron, OH - March 2009 to July 2009

Installed DirecTV Satellite Systems in residential and commercial applications. Setup programming, tuned in dishes, troubleshoot all reception and programming and used a handheld computer to view and close out job appointments. Also did service calls.

Maintenance Mechanic A / Millwright - American Standard - Salem, OH - September 1991 to March 2009

I was employed in the Acrylics Dept, where we install, maintain and troubleshoot the fiberglass/resin spray systems used to manufacture Acrylic bathtubs and whirlpools. I Maintain and troubleshoot automatic thermoforming equipment as well as repair computer operated 5 axis CNC Saws. Maintain and fabricate manual and automatic conveyor systems for work cells, production lines and cure ovens. Repair of hydraulic and pneumatic systems on a daily basis. Also experienced with reactive injection molding equipment and processes, which include computer operated high pressure hydraulic injection presses as well as single hit mechanical and hydraulic stamping presses. Haz-mat trained and certified as well as confined space entry. Have worked on mechanical and hydraulic presses used to form steel bathtubs and components for the bathtub industry. Experienced welder - both stick and mig as well as experience with a cutting torch. Licensed fork truck operator, trained on man lift trucks and basket lifts and trained in fall protection equipment. Overhead crane operarator and all maintenance on cranes. General plant maintenance such as carpentry, plumbing, fire protection and overhead cranes as well as equipment

installation and rigging. Trained in use of permits including hot works, confined space, chemical disposing and handling and lock out tag out procedures.

Maintenance Mechanic A - Homer Laughlin China - Newell, WV - March 1991 to September 1991

I worked on the spray belt where I was responsible for maintaining a steel transport conveyor belt used to move china to different stations to spray glaze on the product. I also maintained the ovens used to dry and bake the glaze on the product as well as maintaining the spray system and extractors used to remove lead form the spray process. I had to rebuild all parts and equipment used on this spray line and order replacement parts, repair pneumatic pumps and maintain air compressors. I had to weld broken equipment and other structural components as well as do maintenance work on any building repairs.

Maintenance Mechanic A - Penn Power Co. - Shippingport, PA. - September 1981 to February 1991

I worked on the boiler crew where we maintained the boiler, high pressure steam valves, ball mill crushers, coal feeders, soot blowers, high and low pressure heaters, coal transport systems, ash transport systems, boiler ash crushers, air registers, and fly ash removal equipment. We also did extensive P.M.s on all equipment as well as rebuilding most of the above. Did structural welding and fabricating. Also had experience on working with steam turbines and pollution controls such as scrubbers, absorbers, and electrostatic precipitators.

Experience working as an upgrade or temporary Maintenance Foreman on all the above equipment, scheduling manpower & assigning work. Experience as a Maintenance Planner who assesses the work, estimates crew size and hours as well as listing the needed parts and tools to complete the work assignment.

Oiler Lubricator - Crucible Steel Co. - Midland, PA. - May 1979 to July 1981

Job duties included oiling and lubing all coke plant equipment which consisted of larry car wheels and bearings, pusher wheels and bearings, conveyor belt rollers and idlers running from the coke plant to the blast furnace. I also had to assist maintenance with coke plant tear downs and rebuilds on equipment. I also have experience working as a Sub Foreman to assist the Maintenance Supervisor, special projects and fill in in his absence.

Cup Handler - Homer Laughlin China - Newell, WV - September 1971 to May 1979

Put handles on cups from a circular conveyor belt.

Put completed ware on boards and loaded them onto a flatware 6 rung truck at a piecework, fast paced rate.

EDUCATION:

R G Drage Technical School 2016 - Certified Welder

Big Rig Truck Driving School 2015 - Class A Driver, School Bus, Passenger Bus, Doubles & triples trailers andTanker Endorsements

Plant Training Haz-Mat Tech - Standard, IN 1991 to 2007

Certification Cleveland State University - Cleveland, OH 1999

Computer Applications Specialist College Lane - Monaca, PA March 1993

Computer Technology Jefferson Community College - Steubenville, OH September 1991

Age Computer School August 1991

General Course Studies East Liverpool High School - East Liverpool, OH

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