Highly skilled forklift driver with 15+ years of experience working as a yardman building loads for lumber companies as well as extensive construction knowledge from previous home building & commercial grounds crew construction experience.
C.C. WAGNER LUMBER Summit, Illinois • 02/1997 to 01/2009
Forklift Driver - Yardman
Recruited in as full-time employee working in outside yard for family owned lumber company
• Responsible for building of loads onto pallets and loading on correct assigned truck
• Double check all loads on trucks against sales order slips ensuring accuracy of orders
• Perform quality and safety checks of loaded orders prior to delivery ensuring safety and lumber quality met
• Coordinate and dispatching of trucks to construction sites
• 2nd in charge to yard foreman ( 4 drivers, and 4 yardman)
• Perform minor yard foreman duties daily such as monitoring work performance and quality of yard workers
• Assume yard foreman duties in his abscense
• Drive local pick-up truck assisting in making minor deliveries and pick-up material returns
• Build various types of lumber crates for clients
• Visit jobsites repairing damaged windows and building window frames (distributer of Hurd Windows)
• Perform any yard maintenance as needed (ie…cleaning, repairing, building)
• Assist attached store (Ace Hardware) with loading of large sales orders as needed
• Unload material from open railcars and boxcars
DW DEVELOPER Steger, Illinois • 07/1994 to 01/1997
Residential Home Carpenter
Recruited in as full-time carpenter building residential homes
• Perform framework on residential houses following blueprint specifications and measurements.
• Utilized all major carpentry tools
• Performed all carpentry building tasks from outside frame work to inside trim work
• Basic knowledge of hanging drywall, laying shingles, hanging windows & doors.
• Performed any cleanup and maintenance at job sites
• Developer went out of business
ALDRIDGE ELECTRIC Libertyville, Illinois • 05/1993 to 1/1994
Apprentice – Groundmen Crew
(Local 9 Union) Recruited in as full-time apprentice pulling fiber optic cables and digging trenches for new services
• Responsible digging of trenches per job specifications
• Installing and pulling fiber optic cables to new business along roads
• Perform back-up to electrical linesman tieing in cables
• Was laid off due to slow down in winter and did not return due to finding new job.
CHICAGO HEIGHTS LUMBER CO. Chicago Heights, Illinois • 07/1990 to 05/1993
Yardman
Recruited in as Full-time employee working outside in yard
• Drove forklift building construction loads and loading pallets onto assigned trucks for delivery
• Perform quality and safety checks of loaded orders ensuring accuracy and safety
• Drove front loader tractors building stone and dirt orders
• Waited on walk-in clients pulling and packing orders, loading onto client vehicles, and properly tagging for safety
• Business closed after 100 years of service
TECHNICAL TOOLKIT
• Forklift, front tractor loader, table saw, radial arm saw, panel saw, circular saw, planer, metal lumber bander, air & nail guns, basic pc skills
EDUCATION
1988 – Hill Crest High School Country Club Hills, IL - Received general diploma
1988-1990 – Chicago State University – Associates in Business Art Education – no degree obtained
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