Heavy Equipment Operator
Resume:
Robert Cox
Heavy Equipment Operator/Help Maintenance if production goes down. Fill in where I'm
needed & jobs I'm crosstrained on.
Wabash, IN 46992
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Looking for a.n interesting position with a growing company where I can utilize my diverse manufacturing skills.
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Heavy Equipment Operator/Laborer
West Plains Mining - Wabash, IN
May 2019 to Present
Run numerous pieces of heavy equipment. Help run the rock crushers to make product to stock pile or sell. Help fix the machinery whenever one of the many pieces breaks. Clean tail pullies, grease the machinery, run the water truck to wet the roads down so, the dust is kept to a minimum. They also send me to the South Bend distribution yard to offload train cars of rock to stock the yard to sell. I pretty much jump in & do what's needed to get the job done whenever needed. Shipping and Receiving/Loadout/Cupola Operator
Thermafiber Owens Corning - Wabash, IN
October 2017 to May 2019
Certified forklift & clamp truck operator. Pull material from the warehouse to fill orders. Take material from the production line, shrink wrap it & label it. Put the finished material in the warehouse or on a semi trailer to be shipped. Worked in production operating the cupola for a short time. Responsible for doing the weekly clean-up. That involves blowing & cleaning out forklift & clamp trucks. Operate high pressure sprayers to clean machinery. Clean dry filters. We usually go in on the weekends to clean the machinery so, it's ready to be started up at the beginning of the week. Certified skid steer operator. You have to be certified to operate high pressure washer, H-Vac system, skid steer or any of the other heavy machinery. Lock out certified & trained. We have very little heat in the factory & in the warehouse there's only limited heat so, you wear carhartts in the winter. In the summer it's hot. Cell Assembly/Cell Burner
BULLDOG BATTERY - Wabash, IN
May 2014 to November 2016
I'm responsible for putting the cells together, that involves inspecting the plates to make sure they are no damage to the plates as they are assembled. After I build / put the cell together. I inspect to make sure it's a good quality cell. You use a torch to melt the plates to the post of the positive & negative. Invesment Casting/Foundry
Kelly Services/Zimmer-Biomet - Warsaw, IN
April 2012 to August 2013
Worked in building#5. Worked in the foundry before they opened there new foundry. Was certified to operate everything in my department. Running rollover furnaces, operated the robots, water jet blasters, belt grinders, shot blast, cutoff wheel, & I was also certified to operate solution anneal tanks. You have to be certified in your dept before you could rotate to other jobs in the dept. I was also certified to drive a forklift in my dept.
Knockout/Machine Operator
Harvey Indusries - Wabash, IN
March 2010 to April 2012
Worked in the knockout dept. Put the parts into a machine that rattled the core sand out of the parts. These parts could weigh 25-85lbs & some of the parts weighed more than 100lbs & were 400 degrees or more. It was also very hot in our dept. Worked in the finishing dept when, we got slow due to the orders not coming in. You had to be able to do various jobs in that involved running air grinders, chisels, belt sanders, punch presses & automatic saws. You would also pack parts into baskets where you inspected the parts for any defects before, they got sent to heat treat or machining. Die Cast Operator
Contech-Pierceton - Pierceton, IN
May 2007 to July 2008
Certified Die Cast Operator. Did everything from charging my furnace to grinding & inspecting my parts. Then packed them in a basket to be taken to heat treat or the machine dept. Did receive some ABB Level 1 Robot Training/Understanding while employed. Certified forklift operator. Worked in machining for a short time whenever we were slow in our dept. Was laid off 4th July weekend 2008. Production Worker/Supervisor
Miami Wabash Paper - Wabash, IN
August 1995 to September 2005
Worked for this company for a little over 10yrs. Worked at every position at this company. Could run any piece of machinery at the company. Could make the coating that we colored the paper with. Ran the coating machine. I was responsable for making sure the color/shade was correct. Could also run the rewiders. The rewiders slit/cut the paper to size & ran the paper to the dimensions the customers would order. You were also responsible for the setup of the machinery to run these orders on a daily basis. Worked in shipping & receiving. Forklift & clamp truck operator. In my 10yrs of service. I worked at every position on the production floor. The only place I didn't work was in the office, taking orders, billing trucks, ect. I left the company due to not making enough money. I had all that experience & they seem to not appreciate it. Didn't want to give pay increase. I was making less than 13.00hr. Education
GED in General Education Development Diploma
Online
1996
High school or equivalent
Skills
• Associate (Less than 1 year)
• Bobcat (2 years)
• Forklift (10+ years)
• Pallet Jack (10+ years)
• Shipping (5 years)
• Shipping Receiving (5 years)
• Warehouse Associate (Less than 1 year)
• Forklift Driver (10+ years)
• Reach Truck (5 years)
• Reach (1 year)
• ABB Level1 Robot Training/Understanding (Less than 1 year)
• Overhead Crane Operator (1 year)
• Warehouse (5 years)
• Shipping And Receiving (10+ years)
• Forklift Operator
• Cherry Picker
• Manufacturing
• Clamp Truck Experience (8 years)
• Mechanic Experience
• Loader Operation
• Heavy Equipment Operation
• Mechanical Knowledge (10+ years)
• Backhoe Operation
• Lawn Care
• Assembly
• Hand tools
• Construction
• Basic math
• Load & unload (10+ years)
• Commercial driving
• Excavator
• Snow plowing
• Landscaping
• Packaging
• Warehouse experience
• Customer service
• Farming
• Hydraulics
• Fanuc (1 year)
• English
• Water truck (4 years)
• Maintenance
• Welding
• Communication skills
• Manual transmission (10+ years)
• Farm machinery
• Power tools (10+ years)
• Facilities Maintenance (10+ years)
• Automotive Repair
• Stamping Press
• Order Picking
• Brake Repair (10+ years)
• Driving
• Snow plowing
• Automotive repair
• Forklift
• Supervising experience
• Plumbing
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Assembly
• Climbing
• Heavy lifting
• Customer service
• Carpentry
• Maintenance
• Heavy equipment operation
• Facilities maintenance
• Mechanical knowledge
• Mechanic experience
• Shipping & receiving
• Warehouse experience
• Brake repair
• Backhoe operation
• Packaging
• Excavator
• Quality control
• Warehouse management system
• Industrial equipment
• Welding
• Hydraulics
• Materials handling
Certifications and Licenses
Powered Industrial Truck License
October 2017 to October 2020
Forklift Certification
Skid Steer Loader License
June 2018 to June 2021
OSHA standard certified.
Vacuum Truck Operator
November 2018 to November 2019
High Pressure Vacuum System
High Pressure Water Blaster License
May 2018 to October 2019
10K & 20K high pressure blast system.
MSHA Certification
May 2019 to Present
Have to have it updated every year.
Driver's License
1989 to 2028
Additional Information
Skills
Skid steer/Bobcat (1 year), Forklift Operator/Clamptruck (5 years), Forklift (10+ years), Forklift Driver
(10+ years), Pallet Jack (10+ years), Shipping Receiving (1 year), Reach Truck, Reach (Less than 1 year), Warehouse Associate (Less than 1 year) Have copies of Work Keys Test. Shows my Score in Mathematics, Locating Information,Reading Information & Observation. I do also have some ABB Level 1 Robot Training/Understanding.
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