BENJAMIN LEE NEILL

Athens, AL

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Cell: 256-***-****

act6vp@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

Certified Welding Inspector looking to further advance my career by utilizing my experience/skills to achieve the highest standard of quality.

WORK HISTORY

Sep 2004 to Present

Journeyman Ironworker

Ironworker's Local 477

Sheffield, AL

Extensive experience and training in the power generation and heavy industrial environments. I worked 4 years in TVA's Power Service Fabrication Shop 2 as an apprentice and journeyman Ironworker. Primary projects included fabrication or repair on any fabricated structures throughout the TVA organization of nuclear, hydro, and fossil facilities. Built stop log gates for the Army Corps of Engineers hydro dams. Duties in these projects included welding to AWS and ASME code in TVA's welding procedures. Also operated various fabrication tools and equipment such as drills, saws, brakes, shears, presses, grinders, cutting torches, and reading blue prints. Worked 2 years at Wilson Dam repairing spillway gates by replacing rivets with bolts, repair any damage, inspecting and insuring overall integrity of the gates and their operation. Also worked various outages throughout the TVA system with an emphasis in Nuclear plants as an advanced heavy rigger on turbine assembly and disassembly as well as pulling generator fields. I have also worked many other maintenance and/or repair projects in the TVA system as well as being hired to consult other utilities in special projects as part of the River Operations department in TVA. Sites worked include Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, H.B. Robinson Nuclear Plant, TVA Power Service Shops, Wilson Dam, Wheeler Dam, Pickwick Dam, and Colbert Steam Plant.

May 2015 to Jun 2015

Engineering Technician

Advance Testing

Campbell Hall, NY

Structural steel inspector performing inspections and tests to AWS D1.1 code. Inspections and tests conducted were visual weld inspection, TC bolt inspection and tests using skidmore, anchor bolt pull test, nelson stud inspection and test, and precast panel inspection. Generate inspection reports for the contractor on inspections performed as well as nonconformance's found during inspection. Trained as a level 1 UT inspector with level 2 UT inspectors. Projects worked on include The Watchtower World Headquarters, Marist College New Science Building, Orange County Ironworks fabrication shop, U-Haul new addition, and White Plains regional airport.

EDUCATION

May 2015 to May 2015

Hellier NDT

New London, CT

UT Level 1 Training

Test given at the end of the course from a UT Level 3 was used for Advance Testing's level 1 certification.

Mar 2015 to Mar 2015

AWS Certified Welding Inspector Seminar

New Orleans, LA

Certified Welding Inspector

40 hour Certified Welding Inspector Seminar

- CWI certification # 15030511

Sep 2004 to Sep 2007

Ironworker's Local 477 Apprentice Program

Muscle Shoals, AL

Apprenticeship

Training program with emphasis on welding, reading blue prints, fabrication methods, and rigging.

- AWS SMAW Certified Welder

- 2007 Southeast Outstanding Apprentice of the Year award Aug 1997 to May 2001

Hardin County High School

Savannah, TN

Diploma

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