Shawn Thomas Hightower

• Reduced downtime for maintenance by conducting regular vehicle inspections and addressing minor issues promptly.
• Ensured customer satisfaction through timely deliveries and professional interactions with clients.
• Properly filling fuel tanks.
• Propane technician
• Running leak checks

• Maintenance yearly annual checks of emergency fire apparatus. Including electrical, hydraulic, water pumps, structural, and fabrication.
• Repair fire apparatus according to manufacture standards and specifications.
• Maintained and repaired hydraulic tools and equipment; PPV fans, saws, and Hurst extrication tools.

• Repair heavy equipment including; dump trucks, side dumps, excavators, and dozers in the shop and in the field.
• Fabrication and welding repairs of buckets, blades, broken tools and implements. Also includes crack repairs, vac truck repairs.
• General maintenance on all heavy equipment and trailers.
• Build and repair trench boxes and ladders.
• Mentor and supervise laborers.

• Re-positioning winch trucks and bed trucks in staging yard. Loader operation for, bucket and stinger, Volvo L120 and 150. Caterpillar 962. Well-head bolt-up. Hard-line install and tear down. Fabrication of mud boxes. Containment fabrication. Rig-Mat placement. Conductor installation. Ice road operations. 
• Welding and Fabrication.  

• Welding and Fabrication of fuel, water, waste disposal tanks. Welded and fabricated needed parts of skids. Maintained welding equipment. Operated forklifts and delivered tanks to work-sites. 

• Framing, Trim work, Roofing, Siding, Concrete work. Worked construction during the lay-off period. 

• Responsible for recon and gathering intelligence. 
• Routinely serviced various military related fire arms and vehicles. 
• Reported to Squadron Commander any and all deficiencies found with equipment. 
• Ensured all equipment was always in "ready state"!

Served the community by responding to fire, medical, and rescue emergencies when home from the slope. IFSAC Firefighter I & II, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Engineer and Rescue Technician. 

• Assembled well houses according to the manufacturer's direction. 
• Perform well house checks for needed repair. 
• Build containments. 
• Work in trenches and excavations. 
• Critical lifts setting well houses and build well house foundations. 
• Piping and well house foundations. 
• Operated L120 loader on work-site. 
• Critical lifts on live flow lines. 
• Worked straightening flow lines in the field. 

• Responsible for maintaining a safe and clean work environment. 
• Aided in training members of the fire team in Firefighter I & II check offs for State of Alaska Certification.
• Responsible for ensuring all emergency response equipment is in a "ready state" at all times. 
• Responsible for fire ground maintenance, building props, cleaning and restocking materials. 
• Routinely inspect various emergency response equipment and appliances and performed repairs and service as necessary. 
• Performed air pack flow checks, inspections, and proper cleaning of Scott and MSA SCBAs  throughout the Kuparuk field. 

Began working during high school as a summer Forestry Intern and after turning 18 worked on the Gannet Glacier Mat-Su Crew.  Fought wildland fires in Alaska, California and Oregon.