Adam Hernandez
Corpus Christi,TX
Summary
Service-oriented and responsible individual with extensive experience in high-paced manufacturing and production industrial settings. Proficient in safety, environmental, quality, and production schedule requirements, ensuring compliance with regulations. Skilled as a lead operations supervisor, overseeing all process operations, product quality, control, equipment integrity, and troubleshooting. Capable of conducting preventive maintenance and performing mechanical assemblies, repairs, rebuilds, and inspections of heavy equipment and process equipment. Cross-trained in various platforms such as process control and prioritizing production schedule. Well-versed in precision instrumentation and adept at learning new methods and techniques. Experienced in leading teams to achieve targets by utilizing strategic planning and effective communication to enhance productivity and operational efficiency. Maintains a track record of upholding high standards of safety and regulatory compliance.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Lead Operator – Operations Materials Handling Supervisor
ArcelorMittal
07.2019 - Current
- Scope: Material Handler Operator Lead in charge of Hot Briquette Iron (HBI) discharge, stockpile, storage and truck scale.
- Leadership: engages employees with weekly safety tool box meetings, brief employee concerns with management, generates coordination meetings with department leads, coaches, counsels and mentors employees to increase development.
- Inspects equipment, troubleshoots, and conducts on-the-spot corrective actions by conducting investigations through gap analysis and root cause analysis. Creates work orders utilizing Systems Application and Products (SAP) database systems program for support, repair and preventive maintenance of non-compliant, faulty equipment or equipment in question.
- Production Schedule: assesses workload and delegates work throughout various cost centers ensuring prioritized product and customers needs.
- Safety: Department and plant-wide permit writer. Coordinates permits with Emergency Rescue Team (ERT) and generates Safe Work, Hot Work, and Confined Space Permits.
- Heavy Equipment: Operates various heavy equipment and specialized equipment for processing, monitoring, segregating and staging quality product per customer specifications.
- Product: ensures standardization of process and product by use of Standardized Operating Procedures, Product preparation and quality assurance prior to sample request and analysis. Generates objective evidence of product quality by producing videos, photos and briefing with MS Teams. Conducts material inventory and reports daily production. Monitors and reviews lab results; diverts off-spec material from high quality material per customers specification.
- Utilizes engineering drawings, blue prints and schematics for process training
- Performs Visual “white light” and infrared camera quality control inspections
- Overhaul - align, adjust, installation, replace expendable parts, gaskets, seals, liners, fittings, pressure testing, ensure calibration of instrumentation
- Assembly preparation – cleaning, removal of dirt, water, chemicals, grease and oil or corrosion prevention compounds - initial inspection – build tool kits for repairs
- HAZWOPER Awareness – Hazardous Waste Handling Training, Hazardous Material Training
- Shift Coordinator and project manager for plant-wide utility shutdown prior to a scheduled Preventive Maintenance or Turn Arounds
- Pressure Washers and Steam Washers (Commercial) – 5000 psi, Acid Wash of equipment
- Lubrication of tools – monitor function of tools and protection
Foreman, Supervisor, Safety Lead, Rescue Technician, Hydro-Blaster, Chemical Response Team Lead
Miller Environmental
06.2015 - 07.2019
- Scope: Environmental response encompassing, containment, neutralizing and removal of chemical spills, clean-ups, and preventive maintenance of industrial process throughout the United States.
- Delegated and conducted hydro-blasting using 10k and 20k pumps to clean out a variety of industrial equipment. Industrial plants include: Oil and Gas industry (Valero, Flint Hills, Magellan, Citco, and NuStar) and Chemical (Celanese, Elementalchrome, OxyChem, Chemouris and Dupont)
- Rescue: Rescue team for under water welding on live pipeline at NuStar.
- Operation of vacuum trucks, guzzlers, hydro-excavator, skid steer, backhoes, and other heavy equipment.
- Specialized equipment: Set up and operator of Robotic Hydroblasters for highly corrosive environments.
- Conducted thorough quality control checks to ensure high standards of workmanship across all projects.
- Adapted workflows in response to changing environmental conditions or unexpected challenges encountered during construction activities.
Operations Manager and Heavy Equipment Operator
Elco Auctions
Odem, Texas
08.2010 - 06.2015
- Organize and set up auctions on site and offsite for a variety of businesses.
- Operate all kinds of heavy equipment to move products throughout the warehouse.
- Inventory, product estimates, customer service, Safety coordinator, and management duties.
- Managed inventory and supply chain operations to achieve timely and accurate delivery of goods and services.
- Led hiring, onboarding and training of new hires to fulfill business requirements.
- Developed and maintained relationships with external vendors and suppliers.
- Oversaw facility maintenance, ensuring optimal functionality of equipment and infrastructure at all times.
- Managed budgets effectively, consistently delivering projects on-time and within financial constraints.
Education
High School Diploma -
Robstown High School
Robstown, TX05.1998
Some College (No Degree) -
Del Mar College
Corpus Christi, TXSkills
- Efficient documentation management
- Heavy Equipment Operation
- Excavator
- Dozer
- Front-End Loader
- Vacuum Trucks
- Back Hoes
- Hydro-excavator
- Dump Truck
- Fork Lift Operator
- Project team coordinator
Certification
- Lock out Tag out (LOTO) Certification
- Respirator Training (Self breathing apparatus)
- Mercury Clean Up certified by Del Mar College
- Hazwoper Training
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Training (RCRA)
- Hydrogen Sulfide(H2S) Monitoring Program
- Hydraulic Pump Certification
Onsite Training
- Hazardous Materials Waste Disposal (Safety)
- Fire Extinguisher Training (Safety Council)
- Hazardous Material Disposal Training (Safety Council)
- 480 volts Electrical Safety Certified (ArcelorMittal)
- Scaffold and Harness Training (Safety Council)
- CPR, Miller Environmental
- Confined Space Training, Corpus Christi Safety Office
- Safety Council Industrial Safety Office
- Respirator Program (Safety)
- Precision Measurement Tools (DelMar)
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Lead Operator – Operations Materials Handling Supervisor
ArcelorMittal
07.2019 - Current
Foreman, Supervisor, Safety Lead, Rescue Technician, Hydro-Blaster, Chemical Response Team Lead
Miller Environmental
06.2015 - 07.2019
Operations Manager and Heavy Equipment Operator
Elco Auctions
08.2010 - 06.2015
High School Diploma -
Robstown High School
Some College (No Degree) -
Del Mar College
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