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Utility worker/Welder

Objective


Get a perm job along with more skills and learning and knowledge given too me in the class room or on the job


Experience


Objective: A responsible and challenging position in a progressive organization with opportunities for professional growth and advancement.



Experience:

City of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, CA

Utility Worker – Water Department

September 2012 to present (temp 1000 hour program)

Pulling out old copper and installing new line of copper from main line to the house meter. Replace underground sewer and water lines; installs, repairs or cleans manholes; locates, clears and repairs sewer stoppages or leaks. Remove and install new fire hydrants. Assist on aerial boom truck. Flushing, rodding and clearing debris from sewer lines. Compressors, pneumatic tools including jackhammering and tampering.



Williams Welding, Concord, CA

Welder

January 1999 to present

Torching, Arc welding structure 6010 5P plus, 7018 stainless steel and mild steel, aluminum, mig, grinding and plasma cutting, twic.



PG&E, Modesto, CA (Hiring Hall)

Utility Worker

April 2012 to June 2012

Digging up old steel pipe to be replaced with new fused plastic pipe insertions, jackhammering, tampering, shoring, plastic tee melting, coupling plastic pipe together, O2 sensor, steel pipe locating device.



PG&E, Hayward, CA (Hiring Hall)

Utility Worker - Transformer and Switch Inspector/Assistant

July 25, 2011 to August 26, 2011

Made safety inspections on pad mounts and underground switches open and cleaned vaults casing. After opening, cleaned debris around pad mount 3 feet to 8 feet around. Assist with adding new relay switches when needed, re-painted and when needed new t-numbers pumped water out of switch boxed and manhole, text oxygen level with meter inspector by passing hot sticks and re-set fault indicators.



US Spiral, Pittsburg, CA

Q.C. Inspector

June 2010 to November 2010

Inspected pipe 40-80 feet from tack weld machine inside and outside inspection of pipe for gauge, pits, off seams, mistack welds, bad welds, labeled pipe with auto computer and laser shot lengths of pipe.



Contra Costa Water District, Concord, CA

Utility Worker

August 2008 to March 2009 (temp 1000 hour program)

Canal cleaning – pulling screens, fencing, sand bagging, weed eating, tree trimming, concrete mixing, traffic controlling, loading backhoe, utility digger for backhoe loader, concrete cutting, welding mig/stick, value replacing and shut downs of water and dams.



PG&E (Hiring Hall)

Utilities Worker/Material Handler – Roll Outs

October 2007 to July 2008 (temp)

Moving from yard to yard to determine what is good and what needs to be shipped back due to over-stocked items in each yard.



Timec – DOW – Shell, Vallejo, CA

Maintenance Assistant

June 2006 to December 2006

Vikane cylinder loader – latex railcar vessel cleaner hot and cold nolt flanges, pumps and piping coker unit shutdowns, SRD unit shutdowns fresh air pin, exchangers pulled while assisting crane operator.



Sequoia Surgical Pavilion, Walnut Creek, CA

Purchasing Clerk/Plant Manger

January 2003 to December 2005

Responsible for assuring all disposable supplies are available for daily operation ordering, receiving and processing of payments for all requisitions and purchase orders.



Sequoia Surgical Pavilion, Walnut Creek, CA

Patient Care Assistant

June 2001 to December 2002

Supports the Operating Room of the surgical patients, transports patients to the operating room, assist in the preparation of patients, obtain supplies and equipment for the per operative team knowledge of principles and practices of aseptic technique maintaining log of maintenance and repair of minor equipment, electrical repairs, painting, wall repair and install of furniture and equipment. Contact and oversee vendors performing facility maintenance, disposal of bio hazardous material and exchange of medical gases and generator fuel.



John Muir Hospital, Walnut Creek, CA

Surgical Service Assistant

February 1999 to June 2001

Transport patients to surgery, maintain cleanliness of surgery department in Operating Room suites and maintain sub sterile areas. Maintain and order supplies and restock as needed and transport tissues, blood, specimens, culture and relocating to appropriate area.



Dow Chemical - TAD Technical, Pittsburg, CA

Plant Operations

March 1995 to January 1998

Operating drying plant A with MOD-5 which consists of using isoctane, alcohol and isopropanol to flush threw module with nitrogen to dry module. Operating MOD 5 to plant plant B to make fiber using plastersizer alto to make different sizes of fiber while spinning fiber threw leach godet.



Dow Chemical - TAD Technical, Pittsburg, CA

Plant Operations

January 1990 to November 1993

Included capability to handle MOD-5 start up, setting and maintaining temperatures for chemicals, loaded reactors, shipped waste chemicals from plant via railcars. Maintained the quality control, sampling and any adjustments made during batch runs.



Education: Franklinton High School – Franklinton, LA

High School Diploma


Education

Certification


Hazmat,Twic,Forklift,Fullface


Skils


Water and gas meter installing,front end loader,man lift and forklift,Bob cat,Mig & Stick welding,Band saws,Tourching,plasma cutters,pipe inspecting,Vac truck sewer dept,Tampering,jack hammers.


 

Brentwood, CA,
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