Benjamin Broyles
Gurley,United States
Summary
Productive professional demonstrating skills. Known for performing tasks and job duties quickly and with minimal supervision. Safety-oriented individual with superior knowledge of OSHA regulatory safety protocols and practices.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lock Operator
Army Corp of Engineers
Rogersville, United States
10.2017 - 11.2023
- Operate electrically, electronic, or hydraulically controlled valves controlling flow of water for emptying and filling operation, and during double lockages
- Operate electrical tow haulage unit to move barges into and out of lock chamber
- Obtain and record lockage data from pilots of vessels
- Report any incident that occurs and if necessary, contact emergency services
- Perform continuing and special operational or functional checks on machinery to avoid equipment breakdown
- Identify development of unsafe situations, and report to supervisor
- Provide technical direction in accomplishing difficult, new, or substantially changed work steps, processes, methods, procedures and operational sequences, as needed
- Exercise full regulatory authority in controlling river traffic through the facility
- Supervise the training new operators
- Inspect completed work for quality and assignment requirements
- Enforce all laws, rules, regulations for safety of both lock personal and patrons in accordance with OSHA
- Wrote out safety clearances for lockout tagout to allow maintenance to be perform per all OSHA regulations
- Routinely troubleshoot hydraulic and electric machinery on valves and gates
- Performed major repairs such as replacement of seals on valves and gates
- Installed new equipment on the grounds
- Performed preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance of all plant equipment
- Supervisor: Brian Brewer (256-810-6744)
Winchmen
US Army Engineer
Memphis, United States
10.2016 - 10.2017
- Make minor adjustments and repairs to equipment
- Use common mechanical tools to adjust and repairs equipment
- Extensive experience doing preventive and corrective mechanic maintenance on heavy mobile engineer equipment by dismantling, repairing and replacing parts or components
- Use heavy bars, pipe wrenches, drills, saws rules, splice and change winch cables on associated engineer equipment
- Performed daily tasks to inspect and adjust engineer equipment to include grease, change oil and/or tires, and replace batteries, bearings and spark plugs, clean motors
- Work with electricians installing shore power connects on barges and running wiring for other projects on barges
- Install new generators and preventive and corrective maintenance on generator
- Worked in confined spaces following all safety protocols
- Assisted in creating a safe work environment by following all OSHA protocols
- Supervisor: Carl Hammitt (901-573-3928)
Laborer (Motor Vehicle Operating)
Acadia National Park
Bar Harbor, United States
05.2016 - 10.2016
- Performed all tasks associated with working as a member of the parks forestry road crew
- Handled asphalt by shovel and rake, cleaned ditch lines and culverts
- Flagged traffic during tree/brush hazard removal operations
- Performed upkeep of camp ground
- Operated chainsaw and other cutting tools to fell, buck, and limb trees
- Operated 4-wheel drive trucks with dump body, loading and unloading trucks
- Assisted in creating a safe work environment by following department protocols and OSHA standards
- Supervisor: Alan Farnsworth (207-288-8754)
Laborer
Army Corp Of Engineers
Brookport, United States
09.2015 - 03.2016
- Fixed cracks in the parking lot and resurfaced the asphalt with tar
- Performed dam maintenance with high rise and low-rise dams
- Raised a Wicket in a low-rise dam
- Rigging Wicket, dive boxes, other equipment for crane operator
- Painted on metal and concrete surfaces
- Performed preventive and corrective maintenance of lock machinery
- Operated jack hammer, power tools, and hand tools
- Operated a forklift
- Basic carpentry repair
- Assisted senior journeymen in replacing damaged grease lines
- Created a safe work environment by following OSHA standards
- Supervisor: Jeff Kelly (1-618-564-2315)
Head Researcher
, Alabama, United States
08.2013 - 04.2015
- Responsible for the preparation of historical monographs and historical special studies
- Visualize and anticipate requirements for historical information for program planning and policy formulation
- Organize and coordinate a team of assistant researchers and documentarians
- Identify and select interviewees for eyewitness accounts of historical events
- Documented and supervised historical reenactments
- Supervisor: Tyler Yasaka
Manager
Jani King Cleaning Services
Madison, United States
05.2006 - 09.2010
- Supervise team, equipment, facilities, and materials on a week-to-week, project-by-project, month-by-month; and, through involvement with supervisor, longer-term basis, as appropriate
- Assign work to individual employees involved site maintenance activities, relying upon working supervisors to provide taskings relative to daily work activities
- Recommend changes to schedules, priorities, and work sequences
- Maintained standards of excellences and professionalism
- Support, implement, and explain management programs such as incentive awards, cost reduction, affirmative action, time and leave, overtime, personnel and others to all subordinate site staff
- Adhere to established deadlines, priorities, and work sequences, and plans work assignments based on general work schedules, methods, and policies set by supervisor or higher-level management
- Trained crew members in safety protocol with handling chemicals and operating equipment
- Provide technical direction in accomplishing difficult, new, or substantially changed work steps, processes, methods, procedures and operational sequences, as needed
- Enforce and train workers on OSHA guidelines
- Completed daily tasks such as vacuuming carpet and tile, mopping hard floors, cleaning toilets and sinks, wiping down mirrors and windows, dusting office spaces, taking out trash bags and replacing them, striped and waxing floors.
Laborer
Tennessee Valley Authority
Guntersville, United States
11.2023
- Keep building and grounds clean and orderly
- Loading and unloading of deliveries
- Use a variety of worksite equipment including, but not limited to, worksite vehicles, forklifts, ariel lifts, and computers to complete tasks
- Serve as gate operations crew for flood control
- Use hand tools, electric and gas-powered tools, and plant equipment for incidental construction and minor maintenance
- General carpentry for site
- Lubricate equipment and replace parts and materials as needed
- Assist technicians with preventive and corrective maintenance on power generation turbines and all plant equipment
- Assist technicians with preventive and corrective maintenance in the switchyard
- Performed preventive and corrective maintenance on sump pump system for the plant
- Lead chainsaw operator for the plant with all safety equipment and training
- Supervise all supplies needed for laborer’s duty and ensure that all supplies are ordered as needed
- Follow all rules, laws, and regulations involving safety or company policy
- Supervisor: Gabriel Jones (256-599-9998)
Education
BS - History
University of North Alabama
01.2015
Skills
- Task Prioritization
- Data Entry
- Quality Assessment and Assurance
- OSHA Compliance
- Tool and Supply Organization
- Problem-Solving
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Adaptability and Flexibility
- Rigging
- Microsoft Office knowledge
Certification
Incident Stage Fire Fighting
Fire Attendant/ Fire Watch
Arc Flash Hazard
Aerial Lift
Forklift Operations
Boom Supported Aerial Work Platform
Safe Rigging Principles and Requirement
Chainsaw Safety
Fall protection
Inland Marine Transportation System Lock Operator
Lean Six Sigma- TVA Yellow Belt
Timeline
Laborer
Tennessee Valley Authority
11.2023
Lock Operator
Army Corp of Engineers
10.2017 - 11.2023
Winchmen
US Army Engineer
10.2016 - 10.2017
Laborer (Motor Vehicle Operating)
Acadia National Park
05.2016 - 10.2016
Laborer
Army Corp Of Engineers
09.2015 - 03.2016
Head Researcher
08.2013 - 04.2015
Manager
Jani King Cleaning Services
05.2006 - 09.2010
BS - History
University of North Alabama
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