Nicholas Sims
Chatom, AL *****
************@*****.***
EXPERIENCE
G.A. West & Company, Creola, AL — Heavy Equipment
Operator
Operate excavator digging trenches for gravity flow drains and conduit, operate excavator to load truck, operating excavator to site grade, operate bulldozer site grading with and without GPS, operate skid-steer grading in between buildings with bucket and blade
Adam Williams Logging, Fruitdale, AL — Heavy Equipment Operator
6/2020 - 7/2020
Operated skidder pulling logs to the landing
Action Environmental, Hansville, AL — Heavy Equipment Operator
1/2020 - 4/2020
Operated excavator cleaning contaminated dirt from inside structures, operated bulldozer site grading for a highway project EcoSouth Services, Axis, AL — Heavy Equipment Operator 4/2019 - PRESENT
Operate various excavators loading off-road trucks with various materials, operated various bulldozers pushing industrial trash, operated off-road trucks
PSC, Geismer, LA — Heavy Equipment Operator
9/2018 - 4/2019
Operated GPS bulldozer filling in job site for interstate expansion, operated excavator loading dump trucks with spoiled dirt 5S, Prairieville, LA — Heavy Equipment Operator/Foreman 7/2018 - 9/2018
Operated various bulldozers clearing and grading job sites, working foreman supervising a 5 man crew for 3 different job sites SKILLS
Supervised minimum of 5
employees
Read blueprints
Have operated various heavy
equipment
CERTIFICATIONS
CPR and First Responder
TWIC Card
Brown Industries, Baton Rouge, LA — Heavy Equipment Operator
4/2017 - 7/2018
Operated various bulldozers with and without GPS with various types of finish grading at job sites, operated various excavators inside industrial plants (close quarters), operated GPS guided excavators inside industrial plants for drainage and pipes
Wolmack, Port Allen, LA — Heavy Equipment Operator 4/2015 - 4/2017
Operated Caterpillar 320 excavator digging trenches and lifting pipes into trenches, operated all terrain forklift unloading materials from trucks
Spinx Construction, St. Francisville, LA — Supervisor/Heavy Equipment Operator
2/2014 - 12/2014
Supervised up to 10 man crew, operated excavator, bulldozer, and backhoe, installing underground utilities, operated Vermeer directional boring rig
Kelley Construction Inc, Louisville, KY — Heavy Equipment Operator
4/2012 - 9/2013
Operate 320 excavator, site grade work, laying pipe for fire lines and drainage, operated D5 Caterpillar bulldozer, grading, blue topping, building of dike walls
Reed Minerals Inc, Jasper, AL — Heavy Equipment Operator 8/2008 - 4/2010
Operated Caterpillar D10 bulldozer to push rocks and dirt to make slab or to make coal and to make drill ground and also build roads, operated 100 ton rock truck to haul rocks and dirt to dump, operated 980G front end loader on coal yard feeding hippers of coal crusher and shake screen and cleaning up dirt and rock on coal seam under the excavator, operated Komatsu 2000 excavator to load 100 ton rock trucks and clean off coal seam, operated Komatsu 1250 to 100 ton rock trucks cleaning off coal and throwing out for D10 dozers against high wall and cleaning high wall High Track Dozer Service, Thomasville, AL — Heavy
Equipment Operator
1/2008 - 4/2008
Operated Caterpillar D7 dozer pushing off land and built ponds Racon, Calver, AL — Heavy Equipment Operator
1/2008 - 4/2008
Operated Caterpillar D10 pushing scrapers to load them Triangle Aggregates, Jackson, AL — Heavy Equipment Operator
7/2007 - 10/2007
Operated 40 ton articulating off-road truck hauling gravel up to wet wash plant, operated a Komatsu 65 dozer pushing off over-burden to get down to gravel seam and build haul roads for the off-road trucks, operated Komatsu 400 excavator loading articulating off-road trucks with gravel, operated Caterpillar 980G front-end loader feeding the hopper of wet washer and loading dump trailers and dump trucks with gravel Chipco Inc, Mobile, AL — Heavy Equipment Operator
10/2006 - 7/2007
Operated John Deere 185 excavator in a ship’s holds throwing out junk iron from the walls of the hold for the barge crane to pick up, operated John Deere 750 bulldozer in a ship’s hold pushing wood chips against the sides of the hold walls in order to pack as many chips in each hold, started training for friction crane operator
Cardinal Contractor, Creola, AL — Heavy Equipment
Operator and Foreman
11/2005 - 6/2006
Over seen crew of workers and assign work detail, operated Caterpillar backhoe digging trenches for water or sewer pipes, operated Caterpillar 185 excavator digging trenches and laying 24” pipe in trenches, operated John Deere 650 Bulldozer covering up pipes in trenches Eutaw Construction, Aberdeen, MS — Heavy Equipment Operator
2/2004 - 6/2004
Operated scraper moving and backfilling dirt for road bed Tanner Construction, Ellisville, MS — Heavy Equipment Operator
4/2003 - 2.2004
Operated 40 ton articulating off-road truck hauling fill dirt, operated scraper cutting to grade and back filling, operated Caterpillar D^ bulldozer to bring road bed up to grade
Desert Cities Development, Indigo, CA — Heavy Equipment Operator and Foreman
10/2002- 4/2003
Coordinated work assignments to 12 crew members and also Komatsu 135 excavator digging trenches for gas, water and sewer pipes and then filling said trenches
Youngblood & Barret Construction & Engineer, Mobile, AL
— Carpenter/Operator
2/2002 - 8/2002
Demolition and remodeling a hospital, church and various office buildings
Sunbelt Resources, Mt. Vernon, AL — Heavy Equipment Operator
5/2001 - 8/2001
Operated Komatsu front-end loader to load hoppers and removing burned dirt from under dump chain
Newell & Bush, Wagarville, AL — Carpenter Helper
4/2001 - 4/2001
Worked as a carpenter helper on the building of a two lane highway bridge
Odom Industries, Waynesboro, MS — Line Foreman
5/2000 - 4/2001
Worked as a line foreman in a chemical plant overseeing 8 workers in the production of pesticides
REFERENCES
Joseph Kobos — 402-***-****
Rob Murphy — 502-***-****
Sammy Hays — 225-***-****, 601-***-****
Mark Addicks — 205-***-****
Jeremy Cartwright — 601-***-****