Travis Corprue
Hardworking, motivated, tough ambitious individual with great skills, Great with
hands and the ability to adapt to any job function at hand, im very observant and
absolutely safe oriented, Im a fast learner with tremendous skills and knowledge
im ready to use my skills put in the environment to futher educate myself with your
company, making better productivity and elevate my skills for a successful career.
Alexandria, LA - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/Travis-Corprue/ead93fc0acc8086d
Im a hard dedicated, dependable honest working individual with 10 years of heavy equiptment machinery and
powertools in the construction industry im determined and have great skills for any job at hand, im also a skilled
craftsman an exceled from a physical hard motivated laborer, im ready for any challenge and always willing to
try a new experience,, Most importantly I always work safe, making sure any task or job duty I do is absolutely
safe for me and my fellow co-workers If something not safe r feel unsafe ill immediately report it to the higher
authority lives are very important to me in on any job I do.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Skilled Laborer/carpenter
gichrist construction - Alexandria, LA - March 2012 to January 2013
Assisting crane operator on bridge and piledriving structures, operating heavy machinery an using powertools
reading blueprints on work projects, lifting and carrying 50 to 100 pounds throughout the day cleaning and
pressure washing all equiptment after job is completed, digging and spreading dirt in order level earth to fine
grade specifications, measuring distances from grade stakes and driving them into the ground using tight lines
to measure distances and heights of dirt, signaling operator of construction equiptment to facilitate alignment
movement and adjustment of machinery to conform to grade specifications, accurately read and interpet prints,
maps, sketches pipeline and instrumentation diagrams (p&ID's), and built surveys.
skilled journyman
JD's Rebar and Construction - Alexandria, LA - April 2011 to March 2012
Cutting steel rebar, putting together caps for insertion on bridge projects, steel rebar tieng on bridge decks,
lifting and carrying quantities of rebar at a time, building approach slabs to bridge projects operating heavy
equiptment and powertools, operating front end loaders and bulldozers, unloading and loading materials
on job projects assisting and flagging crane operator for rigging up bundles off supplies an unloading on
bridge deck.operated pallet jacks to unload and load equiptment to semi trucks, handled and loaded supplies,
operated forklift, landscape and maintenance hardscapes, operated backhoe for digging up and installing fiber
optics, operated skyjack, minor and residential electrical installations, cleaning and removing debris off job site
projects, keeping all machines and equiptment greased properly and fueled, maintained mechanical logs and
fixed problems that arised, spread dirt and rocks with excavators and backhoes, used hopper compactor to
smooth and level dirt and rockwork, used comealongs and shovels for spreading concrete pours, operated
cement pump truck wen pouring slabs.
Operator 2
City of Ruston - Ruston, LA - December 2010 to March 2011
Working on maintenance projects throughout the city, resurfacing highway projects with new layers of asphalt,,
tearing out old surfaces and repairing with new, concrete mixing and ffinishing, building form foundations for
concrete pours, installation of pipe work along ditches and trenches throughout the city, using powertools and
jackhammers operating front end loader to load dumptrucks with rocks or other materials for job projects,
cleaning all machines and supplies, inserting sewer lines, repair and removal of gas systems, new construction,
residential repair, slab plumbing repairs, accurately read prints and job orders for projects, read and interpet
complex construction drawings, cutting, positioning, joining, aligning and pipe sealing, vibrating concrete on
pours wen layed ready to be spread and bullfloated signaling the operator for positioning and movement when
doing projects using tape measures and measureing instruments on specific job projects, installation of waste
water vents, manholes and catch basins, storm drains, fire hydrants, fire vaults, top outs fixture settings and
punch list correcting, gas line installation, commercial boilers, and water heater installations.
skilled craftsman
Gordon Blacktopping inc. - Alexandria, LA - March 2009 to December 2010
Blacktopping parking lot surfaces, and maintenance to damaged highways, asphalt racking and shoveling,
spraying tar on unpaved surfaces for new overlay, assisting operator on loads of asphalt poured in paver,
cleaning all equiptment and supplies, spreading and grading asphalt overlays, using measuring instruments,
prepared materials to be ready and used on job site, cleaning debris from job site before and after job,
residential asphalt overlaying in suburbs and rural areas, keeping track of mechanical problems with machines
and tools, flagging the operator for movement, alignment an positioning of asphalt overlays.
Skilled Laborer
M.L. Smith Tanks And Refractories - Ruston, LA - September 2007 to June 2008
Operations in heavy machinery using robotic tearout machine repairing rotary kilns replacing and refining them
with new brick,single and dual component linings, construction on dams,polygonal linings,tumblers and lifters
trefols, firing hoods, maintenance and new repair constructed chain section, nose and tail rings, new retrofit
repairing, grizzly/alligator lump breakers, inserting chain system lining plates, inputing kiln seals, feed and
spirals, planetary coolers,miscellaneous, external repairs and maintenance, also in momolithics and specialties
we constructed gunite and ramming shortcrete wet gaming,casting, pump casting, pre cast shaping, inserted
wear resistant tiles in rotary kilns, ceramic fiber modules, maintenance shop and field installation we also
specialized in fabrication including, design supply fabric and install, sandblast and paint, fabricated carbon
steel and stainless steel alloy and duplex, ducts, silos, stacks, hoods, coolers, hoppers, and other platework,
the jobs and and projects consited of tough physical labor, carrying 60 lbs or more to areas as needed we also
used cranes and other heavy machinery an all types of various powertools for each job projects, all projects
Included being away from home weeks at a time in different states in mill plants and papermills.
EDUCATION
concrete masonry, cement finishing, asphalt paving and heavy machinery in
construction
Shreveport job corps - Shreveport, LA
2005 to 2006
high school diploma
Alexandria Sr.High - Alexandria, LA
2000 to 2004
SKILLS
heavy machinery and equiptment operator/skilled craftsman, high effecient in all areas of construction, sewer
and water line repair, detail oriented, strong communication skills, experience in shipping and loading using
scrapper compactor, read manifests, loading and unloading semi trucks, excellent ability to adapt to diffucult
situations, reading maps blueprints and construction layouts, using tape measures and instruments, read and
intrepet complex construction drawings, flagging heavy equiptment operator good knowledge off bulldozers,
trackhoes, excavaters and graders, using levelers for concrete pours and earth work, sewer and water line
repairing, interior and exterior zone planning, hanging drywall and tile, constructed steel stairs, unloading and
loading materials, operating tree skidders, graple loaders for loading and unloading logs of 18 wheelers, power
saws, operated bucket truck to elevate in high reach places for cutting limbs over houses, powerlines or any
confined areas, operated and guided concrete cutter for cutting specific angles, widths, and lengths on concrete
slabs, operated concrete paver for projects such as road dividers in the middle of freeways, using glue and tac
guns, hooking up commercial trailers for heavy equiptment loads securely, loading heavy machinery on flatbed
heavy duty trailer, on construction site crane operations consisting of flagging, guiding, and maneuvering the
operator in correct positions, booming up an down using hand signals, hooking shackles, cables and any other
supplies lifted by crane operator, unhooking chains cables from bundles of loads sent up by crane operator,
assisting crane operator on heavy comstruction projects such as pile driving concrete pillars, inserting collums,
laying concrete beams on bridge structures, holding piledriver in place with heavy chains to keep piles in line
an functioning properly, signaling crane operator when flying steel rebar an other materials on work site as
needed, assisting in breaking down crane when job project complete.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Acquired TWIC Card, Osha safety, Cpr training, Hazmat
Graduated from carville military school
P.E.C SAFE GULF