Joshua Solga
Email: ad0kib@r.postjobfree.com
Kendallville, IN, 46755
Education
● Technology, Impact Institute, 2014
● GED 1999
Blackford High School, High School
Skills
• Assembly
• Blueprint Reading
• Crane
• Fabrication
• Forklift
• Mechanic Experience
• Welding
• Plasma Cutting
• Press Brake Machine
• Quality Assurance
• Electrical Experience
• Machining
• Heavy Equipment Operation
Experience
Hendrickson, Kendallville, IN Jan 2022-Aug 2022
Material Handler
● Forklift Operations including Turret Operations
● Material Handling, Inventory Checks, consolidation, along with working & receiving. DOW INDUSTRIES Nov 2020-Dec2021
Worked on Temp position as a Painter and Welder (Freelancer) Progress Rail Services Corporation
Operational Welder Feb 2019-May 2020
● Hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt
● Start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.br.
● Set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and
● Gas metal arc welding equipment.br
● Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges.
● Assemble and install short noses, engine pads, e-lockers, compressor units, repair and fix any and all Defects that mayor.
● Manage heavy mechanical/electrical machine and equipment, excavation, welding, and related projects,
● Including conducting quality assurance inspections
● Understanding different locomotive blueprints, install and assemble precast parts, fitting and welding.
● (.52 mig) locomotive parts, pipe welding prefabrication parts
● Welding the body together and frame
● Check for any mistakes on weld.
● Operated forklifts
● Helped setup for necessary crane operations/locomotive movements.
● Operated Floats to move Locomotive from station to station. Spreuer & Son Aug 2018-Jan 2019
● Operational Welder/ Operational forklift driver
● Bend/cut steel tubing of different sizes.
● Layout structure of boat trailer in a jig.
● Weld boat trailer frame together.
● Finish by scraping/fixing any errors and splatter.
● Forklift Operator.
Tenneco Inc Jan 2018-Jul 2018
● Operational forklift driver
● Moved material as and where needed.
● Operate in a timely manner.
● Stock machine ops.
● Stock and replenish product.
Quick Tanks Jan 2014-Dec 2017
● Welder/operational Forklift Cert.
● Load seam welder.
● Operated forklift.
● Operate and adjust seam welder.
● Tack weld steel tanks together.
● Roll steel into spherical on roller machine.
● Operate hydraulic crane.