Melvin S Gant Jr.
Stroudsburg, PA 18360
********@*****.***
Objective:
Highly motivated, dedicated individual with strong mechanical skills seeking a position within
an aggressively growing company
Professional Experience
Star Ledger 10/1989-12/2013
Maintenance Machinist
Responsibilities:
• Initial contact to direct foreman on work slips for machinery that needed to be repaired
after a night run
• Operated forked lift and walk-behind lift trucks
• Preventive maintenance on 4 floors of printing presses
• Worked on automatic reel loading table
• Replaced Bearings, shafts and chains on varies machines in Press room, Mail room and
Plate shop
• Produced rebuilt parts for presses and stock
• Worked night production while presses where running to attend to repairs as needed
• Responsible for taking on all shifts.
• Ability to work as a team with electricians and pressman in a highly pressured
environment
• Operate machine tools such as lathes, milling machines, and grinders to produce metal
parts.
• Review written blueprints or specifications for a job.
• Calculate where to cut or bore
• Determine how much material to remove
• Select tools and materials for the job
• Position work piece on the drill press, lathe, or milling machine
• Detect problems by listening for specific sounds
• Replaced dull cutting tools
Cosmos Recycled Auto Parts 1979-08/1989
Yardman
Responsibilities:
• Dismantled Auto Parts
• Operated rubber-mounted automotive loading equipment to load and unload
• Salvages reusable scrap materials
• Performed minor repairs
• Organized yard for auto part inventory.
• Disassembled auto parts for customers from work orders
Education
Toms River High School South
1974-1976
Trade School for Star Ledger
(Monmouth County Vocational School)
1989-1993
Professional References:
Larry Mombolardi
Richard Kopsick
Joe Florio
Bill Jaruas
(Personal References upon request)