Preston Mitchell

• Operate drill rigs and drilling equipment with high proficiency
• Maintain daily drilling reports
• Ensure equipment is in safe working condition and conduct routine and preventative maintenance, as needed
• Lead a drilling crew by training and mentoring employees and maintaining a safe environment

• Operate drill rig and oversee drilling operations for auger borings, rock coring, monitoring wells, instrumentation installation and other types of drilling as required
• Know when to use different drilling methods
• Collect and log factual field data to the specifications and/or job instructions provided
• Keep a boring/coring log of data and samples obtained and other required information
• Training and supervision of drilling assistant on the drilling site
• Communication with project managers, clients, schedulers and supervisors
• Responsible for daily production and efficient use of drill crew’s time as required by scope of work for individual projects

• Drive company truck to and from site locations.
• Mobilize and demobilize drilling rig, pipe, augers and miscellaneous equipment.
• Perform various drilling support services such as drilling, sampling, mixing mud and back fill of borings.
• Assist Driller with cleaning and maintenance of tools.
• Complete miscellaneous assigned tasks as assigned by the Driller.
• Maintain and document necessary logs, records and reports.
• Adhere to safety procedures and requirements at all times.

performing drilling, soil sampling, rock coring, and crew supervision duties

Driller with all field activities, including but not limited to, drilling, rock coring and sampling of geotechnical test borings, and installation of wells, plugging and abandoning of wells, and drilling of soil borings

Physically complete labor-intensive projects assigned by the Project Coordinator/Project Manager

Develop and maintain a working knowledge of all TWE equipment and field operations

Monitor the performance of all TWE equipment to identify maintenance and repair needs

Complete all required paperwork, including daily reports, safety paperwork, and vehicle & equipment inspections

Attend all safety meetings and comply with both TWE and client safety standards and programs

Maintain a clean and organized working environment, including equipment and job site areas

Turn in all required paperwork to office on a daily basis

identify samples pocket pen samples using pertrometer write down description of soil in log wrap up samples and label correct footage maintenance of rigs helping driller with any task at hand. Began drilling, operated CME-75. Hollow stem augers, flight augers, wash rotary, rock core

take continuous samples

Driller Assistance borings have a set depth that they need to go

09/2015 - 09/2016 identify samples pocket pen samples using pocket pens write down description of soil in log wrap up samples and label correct footage maintenance of rigs helping driller with any task at hand

Identify samples

Pocket pen samples using spectrometer

Write down description of soil in log

Wrap up samples and label correct footage

Maintenance of rigs

Helping driller with any task at hand

Dfw airport

Cooper soldering

Installing cast iron pipe

Installing toilets/showers

Writing jsa and following them

Making sure everyone is working safely

Operating forklifts

Operating electronic pallet jacks

Making sure inventory is correct

Crane operator

Paving the water roads for Mississippi river

Keeping the water ways lighted