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Brandon Bistodeau

Brandon Bistodeau

North Branch,USA

Summary

My 23 years of experience have been with Highway Heavy earthwork. From managing small grading parking lots or street projects, to large road reconstructs, mill overlays, or reclaim to utilize the existing asphalt for a base. Communicating with the project managers to ensure we are staying within our scope, and discussing what may be incidental to some line items for billing or tracking. Scheduling subs, traffic control, crew, equipment, and trucks. For tracking or keeping track of crew time, forecasting trucks, looking up work orders and specs. I've used B2W ( Build2Win), HCSS Heavy Job, Autodesk which used to be plan grid. I would use Excel for my own use for scheduling out upcoming jobs, subs, equipment, trucks and more. I do love my job, I take pride in giving the customer a good product. I have experience in shooting grade, grading with cat skid steer, dozer, excavator efficiently.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Grading Forman

Bituminous Roadways
Mendota Heights, MN
04.2022 - Current
  • Scheduled job or multiple jobs for crew, equipment and trucks.
  • Calculate quantities for trucking.
  • Call in locates, shoot grade and pound hubs for tight tolerance parking lots or roads anywhere we needed to field fit drainage.
  • Line up our in-house gps crew when needed.
  • Line up subs and set up a schedule.
  • Ensure project alignment with scope by meticulously reviewing estimator bids and communicating with project manager.
  • Prioritize safety through daily job site walkthroughs with crew.
  • I Value open communication and feedback from the crew for optimal task efficiency.
  • Calculate TPH, (tons per hour) for trucking.
  • Forecast two weeks out or more for how many trucks I need by looking over the work order and how the PM bid the job.
  • Then enter into B2W, (build2Win) software, Also enter crew time, quantities and detailed notes.
  • Communicate with general contractors or Line up subs on a separate excel schedule.
  • Communicate with in-house GPS survey crew on upcoming jobs on what files need to be built.
  • Look over upcoming jobs and which equipment needs to be used to optimize efficiency.
  • Supervised grading operations for road construction projects and ensured compliance with safety standards.

Project manager

Winberg Companies
Shafer, MN
11.2020 - 05.2022
  • Helped a friend start a company by putting bids together, calling suppliers for pricing, 2D and 3D takeoffs also takeoffs with Insite software for cut to fill jobs.
  • Then performed the work with running equipment or shooting grade.
  • Put bids together, call suppliers for quotes.
  • 2D, 3D takeoffs.
  • Run equipment, Dozer, skid steer, excavator.
  • Shoot grade, scale off plan for layout.

Grading Forman

Bituminous Roadways
Mendota Heights, MN
04.2019 - 11.2020
  • The Grading Foreman at BR is set up with a CDL driver to run multiple jobs a day, while sometimes running larger street jobs at the same time.
  • Scheduling subs, trucking, equipment, shooting grade for tight drainage, call in locates to ensure underground utilities are marked, pot holed or call in a vac truck to locate utilities before excavation.
  • We used B2W (build2Win) software laptops in our trucks to record crew time, look at work orders, forecast trucking, trucking material and quantities.
  • Also we were set up with IPads with plangrid/auto desk with work orders and plans with the ability to do 2D takeoffs.
  • Run equipment efficiently with and without GPS.
  • Reviewed construction plans to understand project specifications.
  • Shoot grade, calculate tight drainage, rise over run percentages.
  • Good communication, walk through job with crew.
  • Safety is important, with a clean job.
  • Identified and addressed issues to ensure project efficiency.

Education

North Branch -

North Branch High School
North Branch

Skills

  • Communication
  • Shooting grade
  • Problem solving
  • Calculating quantities
  • Operate equipment efficiently
  • Crew task organization
  • Run Multiple Jobs
  • equipment utilization
  • scheduling

Timeline

Grading Forman

Bituminous Roadways
04.2022 - Current

Project manager

Winberg Companies
11.2020 - 05.2022

Grading Forman

Bituminous Roadways
04.2019 - 11.2020

North Branch -

North Branch High School
Brandon Bistodeau