CONTACT

814-***-****

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EDUCATION

High school graduate or equivalency certificate (GED)

General McLane

SKILLS

•Heavy Equipment Operator

•Welder

•Foreman/Supervisor

•Quality Inspection

•Material Handling

•Blueprint Reading

•Construction Management

•Load & Unload

•Communication Skills

•Problem Solving

•Excellent Managerial / Supervisor skills

•Excellent Customer Service relationships

•Proficient in Bid development and project completion.

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a position, in construction, that allows me to utilize my acquired skills— while challenging me to learn new skills.

EXPERIENCE

Kiel's Construction Erie, PA

OWNER/SUBCONTRACTOR/GENERAL CONTRACTOR

07/2009 - Present

All aspects of residential and industrial construction. Roofing, Framing, stick and metal studs, drywall, plumbing and electrical. complete tear off/ repairs/ chimney repointing and striking/ installation of many types of under layments, asphalt shingles, metal roofing, rubber roofing, installation of windows doors, decks additions, siding, basement remodels, kitchen and bath remodels, new construction houses, garages, sheds

Concrete/ driveways, sidewalks, garage floors, basements, / foundations and footers. / Concrete walls poured and block.

Bidding jobs working with customers with details of the job explaining warranties, writing and signing contracts

Working with other contractors and or subcontractors

Training of employees to complete work to code and in a respectful and safely manner and working efficiently.

Hoffman Industrial Erie, PA

RIGGER

06/2007 - 05/2009

Removal and installation of heavy industrial machinery, disassembly and reassembly of mechanical, hydraulic, electrical and electronic systems in a heavy industrial setting. Welding Mig and, stick arc, remodification/ repair of industrial machinery, mechanical repair on heavy trucks and equipment, operated 40-ton forklift, boom truck crane, overhead cranes, reach cranes, JLGs, scissor lifts, frontend loaders, warehouse forklifts, reach forklifts. Knowledge of hand signs for crane operators. Ability to work with truck drivers to load and unload/ chain down heavy machinery for transportation, knowledge and ability to work in a safe and efficiently manner in a team setting and alone.

Absolute Roofing Erie, PA

CARPENTER/FORMAN/OWNER

09/2002 - 06/2004

All aspects of residential and industrial construction. Roofing, Framing, stick and metal studs, drywall, plumbing and electrical. complete tear off/ repairs/ chimney repointing and striking/ installation of many types of under layments, asphalt shingles, metal roofing, rubber roofing, installation of windows doors, decks additions, siding, basement remodels, kitchen and bath remodels, new construction houses, garages, sheds

Concrete/ drive ways, sidewalks, garage floors, basements, / foundations and footers./ concrete walls, poured and block.

Presque Isle Power Clean Erie, PA

SUPERVISOR

07/1999 - 09/2002

Industrial and residential air duct cleaning, restaurant hood and duct work and exhaust fan cleaning, operating vac truck, mobile heated high-pressure washer, clean up and preparing for next job, working efficiently and safely

Johnathan Corp Erie, PA

SHIPFITTER/ WELDER

10/1994 - 07/1996

refitting and remodifications of Lake freighters when they would come to port during the winter months, worked in the inner bottoms of the ships removing damaged steal and replacing with good steal, tack welding in place, assisting the welders that welded up those repairs, use of cutting torches/ plasma cutters / mig / and arc welding, use of heavy equipment, boom cranes, use of overhead cranes, use of heavy forklifts and frontend loaders, operation of hand tools, reading of blueprints, worked for Johnathan Corp for winter months in Erie and transferred to Norfolk VA during the summer months worked for Johnathan at Newport news navy ship building doing remodifications of fast attack destroyers, also worked on nucellar submarines, and aircraft carriers, knowledge of welding and fitting aluminium up to 2'' thick beams and sheets, also ability to work safely and efficiently with a team of welders and fitters

National Seal Corp. Warrendale, PA

LABOR / TECHNICIAN / FOREMAN / SUPERVISOR

04/1992 - 08/1994

Traveled around the country installing containment systems, basically landfills and gold mines Duties consisted of laying liner into cells and welding liner together and preforming quality control on welds and patching the liner where test were preformed overseeing all aspects of the job making sure materials arrive on time, hiring of labors, making sure equipment was operating correctly (hot wedge welders and extruders), assigning each technician with the proper safety equipment that they needed to perform their duties safely and efficiently, keeping paperwork on progress and expense reports and informing home office of progress

Florida Rock Orlando, FL

LABOR / MATERIAL HANDLER/ BLOCK PLANT FOREMAN /QUALITY CONTROL

02/1989 - 03/1992

Started as a labor, went to material handler making sure Batch plant stayed full of materials and the unloading of materials coming in by truck and railcars moved into block plant duties included running the cuber which stacked the cured concrete blocks, maintained the block plant duties consisted of forklift operator removing racks of concrete blocks from the line and placing in the kiln to cure removing cured and placing on the lined to the cuber then removing cubed blocks and moving them to the yard, did maintenance and repair of all the machinery from there i started doing quality control of all the Redi mix truck pours, duties consisted of making sure concrete was at the right slump and that drivers knew where their pour was some jobs could have multiple pours going at one time. some jobs consisted of Disney, Universal Studios, Epcot center and the Swan Hotel

Bay Shore Concrete Cape Charles, VA

LABOR / MATERIAL HANDLER / BATCH PLANT OPERATOR

10/1986 - 01/1989

Started with bay shore as a general labor, moved on to septic tanks making precast tanks, moved on to material handler, unloading and loading barges, material trucks, and unloading of cement into silos, from there started learning to batch concrete, soon was certified to run the batch plant, which consisted of batching concrete for redi mix trucks and for side winders which poured the prestressed precast girders and cylinders

Canoie Railroad Cape Charles, VA

LABOR

07/1985 - 10/1986

Installing and maintenance of rail tracks from cape Charles VA to Maryland

Duties included removing and installing railroad ties, replacing anchor plates and anchors, spiking plates to ties by hand, moving rail to close gaps

Spread ballast to the track.

Track lifting. Lifting each rail up to right place and padded with ballast. ...

Track lining. Switch road to the centreline, make straight line and curve smooth.

Tamping. Once the top ballast is ready, the tamping machine starts to work. ...

Filling ballast.

QUALIFICATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Additional Skills and Achievements 06/01/1985

Experience in mechanical, hydraulic electrical and electronic systems in a heavy industrial setting Experience with heavy equipment, Forklifts, front end loaders, Overhead cranes, dozers, excavators (Sheers, Bucket, Grappler) Experience in equipment maintenance Experience in arc, mig and tig welding Experience with reading of blueprints

References are available upon request

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