Elde Scott Sellers

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Grantsville, UT 84029

Mobile: 801-***-****

Email: ad4g3q@r.postjobfree.com Availability:

Job Type: Permanent

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Shift Work

Desired locations:

United States – ID, WA, MT, UT, WY and overseas

Work Experience:

Crane Nuclear

Oct 2021

Salary: 46.00 USD Per Hour

Hours per week: 72 Pay

Plan:

Nuclear Machinist

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

At Crane Nuclear I worked as a nuclear machinist during outages, where nuclear power plants shut down for maintenance and refueling. The Machine shop repairs valves and builds special parts for the nuclear power plant. At crane I worked in nuclear power plants in Texas and Michigan. Each nuclear plant has different machines in the different shops depending on their needs. This kept me well rounded on the use of many different machines. Energy Northwest

76 North Power Plant Loop

Richland, WA 99354

United States

14 April 2021 – June 2021

Salary: 46.00 USD Per Hour

Hours per week: 72 Pay

Plan:

Nuclear Machinist

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

In House Machinist, building and repairing parts for an 11 MW nuclear power plant in Washington State. The electricity from this power plant could power around 3 million homes. I worked in the hot machine shop and the regular machine shop building and /or repairing specialized parts for a nuclear power plant. Because of the special materials and extreme quality of these parts in a nuclear power plant many parts are custom built. This insures that they meet the material and quality criteria for a nuclear application. I also removed stuck and broken bolts from equipment in various locations in the nuclear power plant.

(Nuclear outage for refueling and maintenance)

Supervisor: Scott Johnson 651-***-****

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

Bureau of Reclamation

Yakima Field Office

1917 Marsh Road

Yakima, WA 98908 United States

10/2016 – 05/2019

Salary: 37.72 USD Per Hour

Hours per week: 40

Craftsman

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

As a craftsman at the Bureau of Reclamation in Yakima I did annual Maintenance and repairs on the generators at the screen sites. I also did annual maintenance, lubes, repairs and inspections on gantry cranes and fish screens. When doing maintenance, I was required to safely rig and operate gantry cranes, bridge cranes and jib cranes daily. We were upgrading a large percentage of the screens to all take the same sprockets, chains and gearboxes. This requires new mounting plates, sprockets and chains to be adapted to the old screen. I did Machinist work, Mechanical work, Welding and Drive Trucks. I also worked in the machine shop making bearings to repair pumps used to pump down water for annual inspections. Because of my CDL driver's license I have been used as a delivery person to transport equipment from one location to another. Onetime when making one of these deliveries, our semi had the AC unit lock up burning completely through the drive belt. The service trucks in the area wouldn't work on an AC unit in the field and we were quite a distance from the shop. I knew the truck would overheat if we tried to drive it because the belt also turned the water pump on the engine. To get a wrecker to tow the semi in to the shop would have been very expansive. I used my knowledge and skills as a mechanic to eliminate the AC unit and the alternator by using a shorter belt to drive only the water pump. This enabled us to transport the truck back to the shop, saving the Bureau thousands of dollars in towing and repairs. Because of my mechanical training and experience I am currently listed as up code-able to the position of Power Plant Mechanic, B-5324-00 as well as the Foreman l, Craftsman, BB-4742-00 acting Forman position.

Joint Base Charleston

BLDG 536 RM 132

201 N Bates ST

Charleston, SC 29404 United States

01/2008 - 10/2016

Salary: 26.49 USD Per Hour

Hours per week: 40

Series: 3414 Pay Plan: WG Grade: 11-5

Machinist / Welder (This is a federal job)

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

At Joint Base Charleston I worked line support for the C-17. I used most types of conventional and computer numerical control or (CNC) milling machines and lathes, along with their various attachments and tooling, to build and repair C-17 parts. We were also required to do our own shop and machine maintenance. In 2010 this shop ordered several new Haas machines to replace the old Fadal milling machines and some lathes. We then had all Haas machines in the shop except for one lathe and two Bridgeport milling machines. With these new machines came a new training package, training on the new machines and a new version of Master-Cam. Master-Cam is a computer aided drawing program used to assist in the programming CNC machines. One of the classes I took in college was a computer aided mechanical drawing class called Cad-Cam. CadCam is an extremely powerful program used by Boeing to design full airplanes and wind tunnel test them without building a scale model. This class came easy to me because I had taken two years of Mechanical drawing in high school. With Master-Cam, parts are drawn on the computer, using shop drawings or blueprints for dimensions, then tool pathed and machined out of a block of material. We started with Master-Cam X2 with the associated classes. This program has since been upgrade to X9. Master-Cam lathe programming, specialized, solids and 3D drawings were included in our new training package. Working in 3D with solids is one of my favorite things to do. This makes it, so I can use surfacing with a ball end mill to machine the desired shapes of complex parts. This also allows you to see exactly what the part will look like when the machining is done. These drawings are then stored on the computer incase the same part is needed again later. If anyone else is going to use the same drawing to build another part, they can see what the part will look like and know they have the correct drawing.

Some of the materials I used at Joint Base Charleston include aluminums and aluminum alloys like 7075, 7050, 7475, 6061, 2024 and aluminum bronze. I have built parts from brass, bronze, copper, stainless steel and titanium. At Charleston I also used a wide array of steels and steel alloys ranging from mild steels to high carbon steels and heat sensitive alloys like 300-M. Stainless steels such as 17-4, 15-5 and 347 are also frequently used. Several of these alloys contain nickel, molybdenum and chrome. I have worked with nylon, rubber, plastics, Teflon and phenolic to manufacture other parts. With all these materials and super alloys, it has become very important to understand feeds and speeds and the amount of heat generated when machining, to produce the desired cut and finish without ruining the part or the cutting tool. I also program an OMAX water jet cutter used to manufacture some parts.

I am a certified in welding mild steel, stainless steel, Inconel, titanium, cobalt and aluminum with the tungsten inert gas (TIG) welder. I am trained in the use of the wire feed MIG as well as Arc-stick welder with a wide array of rods such as 7018, 6011, 6013 and 7014 just to name a few. I was also required to use the acetylene torch to cut, braze and silver solder on some repairs. Between the milling machines, lathes, welding and the water jet cutter, we could rebuild or repair almost anything that can be damaged or broken. My last 4 appraisals at Joint Base Charleston listed me as completely acceptable overall. The latest appraisal with me meeting 100% of the evaluating criteria and awarding me 40 hours of time off.

Supervisor: Anna Hill 843-***-****)

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

Hill Air Force Base

Hill Field Drive

Hill AFB, UT 84056 United States

07/2006 - 01/2008

Salary: 22.25 USD Per Hour

Hours per week: 60

Series: 3414 Pay Plan: WG Grade: 10-3

Machinist / Grinder (This is a federal job)

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

I started working at Hill Air Force Base in 2001 as a 3414 Machinist WG-10. I worked in the grinding section of the landing gear machine shop. There I ran almost every grinder in the shop, internals, outside diameter or OD grinders and hones. These Grinders are used to grind corrosion and wear marks from the base metal of airplane landing gear parts. These parts are then chromed and reground to the original specifications found in the Tech Orders or TOs. TOs combined with engineers’ drawings are the blue prints of military aircraft landing gear parts. I was required to find the correct information pertaining to these parts and know the original tolerances they were built with. As a grinder operator I was required to hold tolerances of 0.0003 of an inch or less. This required the knowledge, understanding and use of precision measuring tools to measure the part. At Hill AFB I was also required to set up all landing gear parts in the machine before grinding. Because of the size and weight of these parts I was required to know how to rig and use an overhead bridge crane system to safely lift and move these parts to and from the grinding machines. I was required to meet or exceed the finishes described in the TO s for the finish grinding of these landing gear parts. I worked on the landing gears of most military aircraft. A few of these air planes are T-38, F-4, F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18, KC-135, C-130, C-5, B52, and A-10. These landing gear parts are made of several materials including 4340 steel, Aluminum and 300M. I was required to understand the different materials used in these landing gears and how they react to grinding. I was also required to use advanced shop mathematics to figure the feeds and speeds of the grinding wheel relative to the part being ground. At Hill Airforce Base we were required to perform the maintenance of all machines in this industrial area, coolant and oil changes etc. I worked At Hill for almost three years, then took a job in Egypt and was gone for almost two years. When I returned to the States I was hired back at Hill in the same shop I left from with a different supervisor. After Returning to Hill AFB I made a name for myself by operating an old manually controlled, planetary grinder that no one else seemed to be able to get to work properly. This scored me a rating of 81 out of 81 on my last appraisal. I worked there for over a year before taking a job in South Carolina, bringing my time at Hill AFB up to over 4 years with an adjusted service comp date of 10/22/2003 Supervisor: Mark Smith 801-***-****) No longer at Hill AFB

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

AAI Services Egypt Division

124 Industry Lane

Cockeysville, MD 21030 United States

04/2004 - 12/2005

Salary: 55.00 USD Per Hour

Hours per week: 40

Grinding Shop Supervisor

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

In 2004 accepted a job offer with a company called AAI Services working in Egypt. While in Egypt I helped put together a shop for the Egyptian Air Force to rebuild their own F-16 landing gears. This required me to train the Egyptians in the skills of machining and grinding airplane parts. I became the supervisor over the grinding shop.

I was also required to operate, maintain, and give instruction on the use of all grinders in the shop. This required me to have special training classes from the factory representatives of two of the Computer Numerical Controlled or CNC grinding machines. Operation of these machines required the use of advanced shop mathematics to figure angles of the machine head, the angle cut on the grinding wheel and the relationship between them. Geometry, Algebra and Trigonometry are some of the shop mathematics used on a regular basis. I also worked with engineers to design and manufacture fixtures used to hold F-16 parts during the chroming and grinding processes. Building these fixtures required me to use the engine lathes and milling machine. Being in Egypt, I found a shortage of some tooling. On more than one occasion I ended up cutting tapered pipe threads on stainless steel pipe using a manual lathe and a tapering attachment because the pipe threading tool we needed was not available in Egypt.

In Egypt, I not only used all the machinist hand tools, like micrometers, calipers and bore gages, but also taught others how to use this equipment. I was required to know the shop inventory and reorder needed supplies from the United States. I had to know and teach which stones to use when grinding and honing various materials. Softer materials take harder stones and hard materials take softer stones. I had to choose the best stones for the job. If these stones were not in the inventory I would order them in. I ordered honing stones, jig grinder wheels, other grinding wheels and tools. Supervisor: Bob Fetch 202-***-****) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

COMAX

7848 Willowcrest Cir.

Brighton, UT 84121 United States

12/2000 - 07/2001

Hours per week: 63

Mechanic / Machinist / Welder

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Before I worked at Hill AFB I worked for Comax. This company developed and patented a special cutter used to strip paint from concrete walls and floors. It is also used to strip paint and corrosion from steel surfaces such as ship decks, train cars, storage tanks and pipelines. I worked at Comax in the year 2000. Although my time there was relatively short, it was a meaningful experience that honed and sharpened my skills as a machinist, a welder and a mechanic. At Comax I was chosen to be part of a special design and research team to build and test one of a kind, prototype robots using the Comax cutter. These robots did various jobs to test experimental applications for these cutters. This job tested every mechanical, welding and machinist skill I had ever acquired. During this time I worked in the shop as a lead man supervising other workers, welding, machining and doing mechanical work to build and assemble these test robots. At Comax I used the lathe, milling machine and the wire feed welder or MIG welder daily. I also used various hand, power and air tools. I used machinist measuring tools such as micrometers and veneer calipers etc. Supervisor: Spencer Cottom 801-***-****)

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

Education:

Pacific Coast Tech Anaheim, CA United States

Technical or Occupational Certificate 08/1985

Major: Machinist trade school

Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:

Graduated as a Certified Machinist

Job Related Training:

• I graduated as a certified machinist from Pacific Coast Tech, Anaheim, CA in 1985.

• I received training from Haas, Philips for the programming and operation of Haas machines.

• I attended special training classes from the factory representatives for two Computer Numerical Controlled or CNC grinding machines while in Egypt.

• I currently hold a commercial driver’s license with air brakes, tank and multi trailer endorsements.

• I hold forklift and man lift endorsements with Joint Base Charleston. I have run Backhoes, Front End Loaders, Rollers and other construction equipment.

• I have supervised and trained other employees on many occasions. I have also worked my way up to the position of shop manager or shop supervisor in several shops.

• I attended a Master-Cam training including surfacing and solids. References:

Name Employer Title Phone Email

Richard

Gwynn

Friend

307-884-

8866

Mike

Bruce Bureau of

Reclamation

Co-Worker

360-620-

1775

Dan Griffin

Friend

307-273-

9649

Anna Hill Joint Base Charleston

Metals Tech

Supervisor

843-963-

4674

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Additional Information:

• I have many years of welding and mechanical experience as well as being a machinist.

• I have been awarded money for several of my innovative ideas just before I left for Egypt.

• I have received 81 out of 81 on my last appraisal at Hill AFB.

• My last 4 appraisals at Joint Base Charleston were completely acceptable overall. The latest appraisal indicated that I had met 100% of the evaluation criteria, and awarded me 40 hours of time off for my achievements.

• I have turned in several Ideas and was awarded money for two of them just before I left for Egypt.

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