Jason McPherson
Ready to help your business grow
New London, IA 52645
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Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Work Experience
Building/Property Maintenance
Cure Solutions, LLC - Burlington, IA
March 2021 to Present
Building/property maintenance for multiple rental units with a rotating on-call schedule. There were always unexpected, last minute deadlines to meet, which were always achieved on time and successfully. Duties include (but aren't limited to):
• Excelling in a fast paced work environment without sacrificing safety.
• Minor plumbing.
• Minor electrical.
• LVP installation.
• Painting.
• Carpet installation.
• Existing carpet removal.
• Gutting bathrooms
• Built bedrooms from the ground up.
• On-call (rotating schedule).
• Landscaping.
• Graded and spread gravel for tenant parking spaces.
• Painted parking lines for commercial parking spaces.
• Built a 2 story deck from the ground up following building codes and safety regulations.
• Shower surround installations.
• Light fixtures
• Maintaining/upkeep of appliances per property (washers, dryers, window air units, water heaters, furnaces, stoves, etc.)
Some units were almost completely gutted but within a month or two (depending on unexpected/last minute schedule changes) and many hours of hard work and attention to detail, leases were signed and families were moving into freshly painted, newly remodeled apartment units. I have pictures (before and after) of all the achievements and accomplishments I had a hand in from one unit to the next.
Production Supervisor
Legacy Mail Management - Mount Pleasant, IA
October 2020 to April 2021
Job duties included but weren't limited to:
• Encouraging employees to maintain machine speeds to meet or exceed expected hourly rates on the production floor.
• Locating and delivering materials as needed per machine. In order to do this, I had to know the warehouse and its layout, how things were or weren't inventoried in the racks, check product codes per customer specifications and the work orders.
• Prepare for upcoming jobs by gathering and staging the materials needed in order to keep things flowing and avoid any unneeded downtime.
• Changing over machines quickly per customer specifications found each jobs work order.
• Preventative maintenance for inserting, folding and printing machines.
• Communicating with the other shift leaders as to how machines were running, what change overs may be coming, material issues, etc.
• Meeting and exceeding customer mail dates.
• Loading/unloading semis. Sometimes backing trucks into the dock.
• Forklift use was basically mandatory.
• Electric and standard hand jacks were used for everything on the floor.
• Sky lifts (warehouse use)
• Computer software used to properly record machine counts.
• Hand tools for change overs, and typical upkeep of the inserting, folding and printing machines. Production Maintenance Mechanic
JBS Plumrose Usa - Ottumwa, IA
March 2020 to September 2020
Maintenance duties included but weren't limited to:
• Fixing and maintaining packaging and slicing equipment quickly and efficiently.
• Preventative maintenance on all packaging and slicing equipment.
• Maintaining the conveyors.
• Ensuring the lines were able to meet hourly production rates as well as keeping up with the daily projected shift counts.
Maintenance Technician
West Liberty Foods - Mount Pleasant, IA
August 2011 to January 2020
My duties included weekly preventative maintenance and daily upkeep for all:
• Packaging machines.
• Slicing machines.
• Printers.
• Conveyors.
• Tape machines.
• Metal detectors.
Other achievements include but aren't limited to:
• HAZMAT Certified.
• 4 years experience as a Line Technician. Overseeing 20+ people per line while encouraging and achieving daily production counts as a team.
Material Handler/Forklift Operator
ALANIZ, LLC. - Mount Pleasant, IA
January 2005 to August 2011
Job duties included but weren't limited to:
• Stocking the machines with materials needed.
• Checking product codes per each jobs specified work order.
• Returning inventory to warehouse racks per product code.
• Loading and unloading semi trailers.
• Sometimes backing semi trailers into the loading dock myself.
• Weighing pallets on digital scales.
• Wrapping pallets with plastic before shipping.
• Sky lifts.
• Forklifts
• Electric and standard hand jacks.
• Trained 10+ new employees.
• Loaded and moved pallets containing outgoing inserted mail.
• Accurately inspected incoming and outgoing pallets weight.
• Excelled in a fast paced working environment without sacrificing safety.
• Maintained a clean and orderly work area.
Education
High school diploma in general
Mount Pleasant Community School District - Mount Pleasant, IA Skills
• Automotive (10+ years)
• Carpentry (10+ years)
• Electrical (10+ years)
• Painting (1 year) (10+ years)
• Manufacturing Experience (10+ years)
• Forklift (6 years) (10+ years)
• Plumbing (10+ years)
• Automotive Repair (10+ years)
• Facilities Maintenance (10+ years)
• Landscape Maintenance (3 years)
• Vehicle Maintenance (10+ years)
• Industrial Maintenance (10+ years)
• Shipping & Receiving (7 years)
• Equipment Repair (10+ years)
• Programmable Logic Controllers (5 years)
• Handyman (10+ years)
• Heavy Equipment Operation (10+ years)
• Troubleshooting (10+ years)
• Lawn Care (10+ years)
• Mowing (10+ years)
• Remodeling (10+ years)
• Electrical systems (10+ years)
• Conveyor installation (5 years)
• Mechanic experience (10+ years)
• Mechanical knowledge (10+ years)
• Manufacturing (10+ years)
• Management (5 years)
• Maintenance (10+ years)
• Order Picking (10+ years)
• Blueprint Reading (5 years)
• Hydraulics (5 years)
Assessments
Automotive maintenance — Highly Proficient
May 2022
Knowledge of vehicles, vehicle maintenance, and repairs Full results: Highly Proficient
Mechanical knowledge — Familiar
July 2020
Understanding and applying mechanical concepts and processes. Full results: Familiar
Following directions — Highly Proficient
August 2020
Following multi-step instructions.
Full results: Highly Proficient
Mechanical skills: Monitoring — Familiar
July 2020
Understanding of machine dials, gauges, displays, and data charts. Full results: Familiar
Basic maintenance and repair — Highly Proficient
October 2020
Performing basic repairs and maintenance for apartment complexes, office buildings, and other facilities
Full results: Highly Proficient
Basic maintenance and repair — Expert
June 2022
Performing basic repairs and maintenance for apartment complexes, office buildings, and other facilities
Full results: Expert
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