Construction High School

RICHARD A. TOWNSEND

***** ****** *** *******, **. 95330

925-***-**** – Cell

Email: *********@***.***

Objective

• Seeking a long-term position as a full-time employee with your company utilizing many years of knowledge and experience in the construction industry plus several years in supervision and management.

Qualifications

• Conscientious, industrious, and self-motivated individual with 20+ years experience as a heavy equipment operator and several other skilled trades in residential and commercial construction.

• Possess strong skills with ability to effectively integrate knowledge and experience into company-wide systems that support high productivity

• Team-oriented individual who relates well to clientele, management and other personnel.

• Organized and decisive able to grasp new concepts and situations quickly and accurately.

• Self-motivated individual who works well when in challenging situations.

• Attentive to detail with excellent planning and time-management skills.

• Committed to producing results above and beyond what is expected.

Experience

• Twenty years diversified experience operating heavy equipment in commercial and residential construction, usually as lead operator for crews of up to 10 men.

• Operated bulldozers up to D-10, excavators to 80-ton, scrapers (push-pull and paddlewheel), graders, backhoes, hoptoes, trackhoes, loaders, and compactors, directional drillers, track dumps and water trucks

• Skilled with earthwork activities such as major/minor landslide repair, open pit mining for material extraction, demolition, earth dam construction, golf course construction, and gas station retrofit.

• Completed government contracts on military bases, prisons, and schools, for state and local agencies. Performing seismic earthwork activities and contaminated soils, materials remediation projects..

• Constructuraly engineered keyways for landslide repair, erosion control and structural support.

• Accurate use of sight level and transit to shoot elevations/check grade, able to comprehend and read plans/blueprints, grade stakes, and survey markers

• Additional skills and knowledge in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, grounds and irrigation maintenance, concrete construction, landscaping, erosion control, and welding.

Employment History

** Engineered Soil Repairs, Inc., Walnut Creek, California 6/2005-11/2009

** Pacific Bay Equipment, Mather, California 6/2004 – 1/2005

** Scharmer General & Mechanical Construction, Concord, California 3/2001 – 6/2004

** R.B.I. Golf Construction, Littleton, Colorado 5/1999¬ – 4/2000

** Ramlor Construction, Inc., Pleasanton, California 5/1998 – 3/1999

** C. E. Electric Co., San Leandro, California 4/1997 – 5/1998 ** Pleasanton Golf Course/Center, Pleasanton, California 5/1995 – 3/1997

Education

• A.A. Degree – 2 years college / High School Graduate

References

• Professional and personal references will be provided upon request.

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