Austen Blakley
Cooper,TX
Summary
Reliable Maintenance Technician with extensive experience, efficient in task completion, and excelling in mechanical and electrical troubleshooting. Proven ability to enhance equipment reliability through effective preventive maintenance and process improvement. Strong leadership and time management skills, coupled with intermediate PLC knowledge, high motivation, successful team collaboration, and a strong focus on safety in high-risk environments.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Maintenance Technician
Hydro Aluminum
Commerce, TX
08.2020 - Current
- Routinely inspect equipment for preventive and emergency maintenance needs.
- Troubleshoot complex electrical and mechanical issues with minimal downtime.
- Calibration of different instruments throughout the plant.
- Use of PLCs to diagnose problems and adjusting of instruments
- Implement diagnostics to identify failures, determine parts, and material requirements, and facilitate repairs.
- Ensure clean work areas to maintain a safe environment.
- Responding promptly to emergency breakdowns during shifts or while on call.
- Inspect, operate, or test machinery or equipment to diagnose machine malfunctions.
- Replacement of defective parts, such as bearings, seals, gears, and valves.
- Assemble, install, or repair electrical or electronic components.
Maintenance Technician
Saputo Dairy Foods
Sulphur Springs, TX
09.2019 - 08.2020
- 1 year break to gain experience as a maintenance technician
Production Operator
Hydro Aluminum
Commerce, TX
05.2017 - 08.2019
- Casting Operator - involved cleaning tables, changing molds, ensuring the proper startup of casts, cleaning the CFF bowl, maintaining and replacing parts on the SIR, taking aluminum samples, using the overhead crane to pull logs, and verifying that the logs were free of cracks.
- Charging Operator - involved loading scrap aluminum, ingots, and T-Bar prime with a payloader and forklift. Ensured that proper alloys were loaded, the melter was loaded in a timely manner, took aluminum samples, rotated prime in and out of the preheater, emptied dross tubs, and skimmed and stirred the melter.
Education
Bachelor of Applied Arts And Sciences - Organizational Leadership
East Texas State University (Texas A&M-Commerce)
Commerce, TX06-2025
Electromechanical Certification - Industrial Maintenance
Paris Junior College
Paris, Texas, TX05-2015
Skills
- Safety awareness
- Equipment maintenance
- LOTO procedures
- Intermediate knowledge of PLCs
- In-depth knowledge of SAP, Excel spreadsheets, & work permit systems
- Mechanical/electrical troubleshooting
- Leadership abilities
- Time management
- Highly motivated/driven/goal-oriented mindset
- Process improvement
- Team collaboration
Accomplishments
- President's Scholars List Fall 2024 (4.0 GPA)
- Dean's Scholars List Spring 2024 (3.5 GPA)
- Full-time employee & full-time college student
Timeline
Maintenance Technician
Hydro Aluminum
08.2020 - Current
Maintenance Technician
Saputo Dairy Foods
09.2019 - 08.2020
Production Operator
Hydro Aluminum
05.2017 - 08.2019
Bachelor of Applied Arts And Sciences - Organizational Leadership
East Texas State University (Texas A&M-Commerce)
Electromechanical Certification - Industrial Maintenance
Paris Junior College
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