Engineer Manager

Experienced, well-organized individual with good communication skills and a strong work ethic. Thirty years experience as a shop foreman and supervisor in equipment and plant repair and most recently a business owner of a welding / fabricating business. I like to design, build, and improve on project designs to exceed customer’s expectations and individual needs. Skills

• Design and engineer equipment and components for specific needs that require the use of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems

• Understand and interpret blueprints and drawings

• Very hands on and makes proficient use of all types of hand and power tools along with specialized tools

such as measuring equipment, machining and

fabricating equipment

• Great decision making skills along with problem

solving techniques

• Collaborate effectively with customers, vendors, colleagues and senior management

• Very safety conscious

• Team player, contributes to team

discussions

• Maintain and repair equipment,

buildings and tools ensuring

proper function, minimizing repair

costs

• Effectively manage multiple

projects and consistently meets

deadlines

• Computer skills include Excel,

Word, Quick Books, Outlook, J.D.

Edwards and some CAD

programs

• Good fabrication and welding

skills

Experience

Owner/Manager

Iowa Fabrication and Machine LLC - Clinton, IA 04/2017 - Current

• Manage day-to-day operations on shop floor, schedule workloads, assist shop personnel in project design requirements and specifications

• Engineer, design, modify and build projects for individual customer’s needs

• Provide customers with estimates and quotations

• Manage all financials and perform all human resource related duties

• Job training - including safety, welding, fabricating techniques, sand-blasting, painting and shop maintenance

Drilling / Blasting Supervisor

Payne & Dolan Inc. - Waukesha, WI 04/2004 - 04/2017

• Supervised company drilling and blasting operations for internal and external customers - up to fifteen drills and operators and over one hundred customers in four states

• Provided customers with best and safest drilling and blasting practices ensuring the best product at the greatest cost savings

• Followed and enforced OSHA, MSHA, ATF and state and local safety and blasting rules and regulations

• Coordinated deliveries of drills and blasting products to blast sites, and maintained neighborhood relations

**********.***@*****.*** / 563-***-****

3108 Lincoln Way, Clinton, IA 52732

Lenn Beck

• Provided infield technical support for blasting and equipment repair and provided the necessary resources for every day operations

• Provided shops with necessary repair lists along with providing senior management with annual estimated repair costs

Shop Foreman

Payne & Dolan Inc. - Waukesha, WI 03/1989 - 04/2004

• Shop foreman in charge of rebuilding and maintaining fleet of aggregate production equipment such as loaders, haul trucks, dozers, engines, drills, cranes, and crushing equipment

• Designed, modified and built equipment and components for crusher operations, belt scales, hydraulic drives, electrical systems, etc.

• Influential part of the group that established written best practices and maintenance for the company’s fleet of over a thousand pieces of equipment

• Provided maintenance reports for annual repair costs and operating costs for specified equipment

• Designed and built new repair facility in 2003

Service Technician

Kunau Implement - Preston, IA 05/1986 - 03/1989

• Technician providing customers with shop and infield repair and maintenance services Education and Training

Northeast Iowa Community College - Calmar, IA1986 Diesel Mechanics Technology

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