Curtis Coppes
*** **** ****** ** *** Buren, OH 45889
*********@*****.*** 419-***-****
To obtain a permanent job in welding with opportunities to advance.
Work Experience
welder/builder
werk brau Findlay, OH
December 2013 to Present
Responsibilities
Fabricate build and weld excavator buckets for John deere, Cat, and Linksys
Welder
D.S. Browns North Baltimore, OH
March 2011 to December 2013
Certified MIG and Flux Core welder. I was a builder/ welder/ assembler. I drove forklifts and
side lifts all the time. Had rig training classes. Sent to School through company to Owens
Tech where I learned a more depths on blueprint reading, weld symbols, mig, stick, carbon
arcing, and some tig welding.
• Press operator/millwright/kitter: loaded and unloaded the presses with just rubber bearings
or rubber bearings with over an 1" steel bonded together. Used big mills to mill the rubber that
was used in the presses and built the loads. Kitter preps the plates or shims that are used in
the bearings also had to learn how to straighten metal plates and used a rotoblaster to blast
rust or rejected bearing plates.
Press operator/deflasher/finisher
CSP North Baltimore, OH
September 2010 to December 2010
Operated presses, and measured out the material that had to be cut. Deflashed the excess
material off the product as it came out of the presses, and put them onto their racks. Put the
finishing harware onto the product, and checked the part before putting it on the rack and
sending it into the paint line.
pallet strip/mod strip
Manpower Findlay, OH
July 2010 to August 2010
Lowes DC
Findlay, OH
• Used an RF gun in the mod strips, scanned the product, labeled it, and put it on the
conveyer to be shipped. Pallet strips get the product brought to them, labeled and sent by
conveyer to shipping or receiving.
Machine operator
Bloomdale Plastics Bloomdale, OH
May 2010 to June 2010
Bloomdale, OH
• Operated CNC routers, deflashed the product, printed out labels and boxed it up to be
shipped out.
Machine Operator
FMT Findlay, OH
March 2010 to May 2010
Findlay, OH
• Ran a machine that cut rubber parts for the anti vibration on Toyota trucks. Did a complete
change over setting up the machine from scratch and then running a couple parts through to
further any adjustments if needed. Got certified by the company to drive their forklift because
the parts were up on shelves that reached the ceiling and then had to load the truck.
Stocker
Manpower Findlay, OH
February 2010 to February 2010
Bridgestone
Findlay, OH
• Stocked all the presses up with the metal parts that needed to be bonded by the rubber.
press operator
Pinnacle Plastics Bowling Green, OH
January 2010 to February 2010
Bowling Green, OH
• Ran presses, pulled out plastic parts that had to be deflashed and then shipped out. Also,
purged the press at the end of the day.
Press Operator
AMRI Findlay, OH
October 2009 to October 2009
Operated machines, and loaded them as the filter was melted together to be checked and
boxed.
Assembler
Kellys Findlay, OH
June 2009 to July 2009
Assembled dishwashers, and moved from position to position around the labor pool.
Mixer/packing
CBC (IES) McComb, OH
April 2008 to May 2009
Mixed cookie and cracker dough and took the batched over the lines and put them in the dye
cutters to be baked.
Packed the product as it come out of the ovens and down the conveyers
Education
Owens Community College Findlay, OH
2009
High School Diploma
Van Buren High School Van Buren, OH
2003 to 2007
Skills
welding, blue print reading, machine operator and press operator skills.