Jake Atkinson
Greenwood
Summary
Driven employee with aspirations to improve oneself and move up within the company by seeking other internal job opportunities to learn and become a better team member. Poised with total commitment to ensure employee and employer satisfaction. Well-versed in delivering training and instructions to team members. Adaptable to high-pressure situations. Eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and organizational skills. . Experienced Finishing employee with over 17 years in the steel industry.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Qualified Straightener Operator
Gerdau
Fort Smith, AR
08.2019 - 02.2021
- Continually monitor and report safety issues, offer ideas and solutions to maintain a safer work environment
- Operate bar straightener machines and beds.
- Setup and perform changeovers for specified machinery and for change in product.
- Communicate with Production Control, Shipping, and other employees to meet production goals and shipments.
- Operate overhead crane and fork lift.
- Load and unload material.
- Monitor machines and production to ensure bar surface quality and production goals are met.
- Data entry.
- Maintain customer paperwork to ensure proper specifications and traceability are followed.
Certified Assistant Operator
Gerdau
Fort Smith, AR
08.2018 - 02.2021
- Continually monitor and report safety issues, offer ideas and solutions to maintain a safer work environment
- Operate production line equipment such as bar polisher, chamfer, buffers, hex bundler, wax, saw, vision system, and circogragh machines.
- Monitor and maintain machines to ensure customer size and surface specifications are met.
- Assist other production line employees to ensure safety, production, and quality goals are met and maintained.
- Bundle and tagging customer material.
- Inspection and scanning customer material to be loaded and shipped.
- Data entry and documentation.
- Produce and maintain customer documents to ensure product specifications and traceability guidelines are met.
- Perform changeovers for specified machinery and specifications for change in product.
- Class certified Eddy Current level 1.
Lead Finishing Utility
Gerdau
Fort Smith, AR
10.2010 - 02.2021
- Continually monitor and report safety issues, offer ideas and solutions to maintain a safer work environment
- Help develop corrective action plans and prevention strategies to improve employee safety through potential serious injury/fatality and safety reporting programs
- Help implement and optimize safety standards protecting personnel
- Oversee rework operation for automatic production line and offline tables.
- Ordering in material and processing to meet production and shipment goals.
- Monitor staff and production to maintain safety, quality assurance and customer satisfaction objectives.
- Hold trials on material for future customer opportunities and to aide in helping determine certain process flaws within steel bar deficiencies for metallurgical review.
- Assist in receiving call offs and providing staff to cover vacancies on turn.
- Utilize control mechanisms, hands-on, and hands-off procedures to operate machines.
- Load and unload production material.
- Rework condition and package material according to customer specifications.
- Produce required paperwork for each customer product to instruct rework guidelines and document traceability are met.
- Data entry.
- Perform general housekeeping and cleaning tasks, including, sweeping, painting and power washing.
- Operate fork lift.
- Use magnetic particle equipment to locate surface imperfections and defects.
- Conducted liquid penetrant tests to locate surface cracks by coating objects with fluorescent dyes and cleaning excess penetrants.
- Used ultraviolet lamps with fluorescent dyes on steel bars to locate surface imperfections and flaws.
- Conducted regular inspections of machines to identify and remedy mechanical concerns.
- Communicated with employees and upper management to convey concerns, status updates and other pertinent information.
Finishing Utility
Gerdau
09.2009 - 02.2021
- Continually monitor and report safety issues, offer ideas and solutions to maintain a safer work environment
- Operate equipment on production lines and package customer material according to specifications.
- Operate heat treat furnaces, monitor displays and temperatures to ensure surface specifications are met.
- Operate overhead crane to load and unload material.
- Load material for shipments.
- Inspect and tag material for shipments.
- Assist other production line staff to ensure quality and production goals are met.
- Perform general housekeeping and cleaning tasks, including, sweeping, painting, and power washing.
- Operate fork lift.
- Operate roll line band saws to cut customer material to specified lengths.
NDT Technician
Gerdau
02.2021 - Current
- Continually monitor and report safety issues, offer ideas and solutions to maintain a safer work environment.
- Use magnaflux equipment to map presence of surface imperfections on steel bars.
- Conducted liquid penetrant tests to locate surface cracks by coating objects with fluorescent dyes and cleaning excess penetrants.
- Visually examined steel bars for signs of surface flaws.
- Performed liquid dye penetrant tests on steel bars to inspect for discontinuities and cracks.
- Used ultraviolet lamps with fluorescent dyes on steel bars to locate surface imperfections and flaws.
- Conducted regular inspections of machines to identify and remedy mechanical concerns.
- Communicated with employees and upper management to convey concerns, status updates and other pertinent information.
- Prepared reports on non-destructive testing results.
- Use ultrasonic measurements to map presence of imperfections within steel bars.
- Assist in filling staff vacancy call offs to ensure production lines keep running.
- Class certified Eddy Current level 1 & 2.
- Class certified Ultrasonic level 1.
- Class certified Mag Particle level 1.
Education
High School Diploma -
Greenwood High School
Greenwood, AR05.2002
Skills
- Safety observations, suggestions, and implementation
- Routine Procedures
- Team leader
- Problem-solving
- Communication and documentation
- Organized
- Minor electrical and mechanical
- Machine setup
Timeline
NDT Technician
Gerdau
02.2021 - Current
Qualified Straightener Operator
Gerdau
08.2019 - 02.2021
Certified Assistant Operator
Gerdau
08.2018 - 02.2021
Lead Finishing Utility
Gerdau
10.2010 - 02.2021
Finishing Utility
Gerdau
09.2009 - 02.2021
High School Diploma -
Greenwood High School
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