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Work History
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Certification
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Charles Crago

Keota,IA

Summary

I pride myself on being dependable, motivated and willing to teach and to learn, to mentor unexperienced crew members as well as sharing my experience with the company, crew members and customers. I believe in creating and maintaining a safe working environment. I have the ability to think on my feet and adapt to ever changing situations in a calm collected manner. I firmly believe that I have the personality, experience, motivation and dependability to be a great employee.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Block Molder

Atlas Roofing Corporation
Washington, IA
09.2023 - Current
  • Work as a foam block expander operator. Monitor machines and setting them to specific specifications as needed and performing experience level maintenance. Use HMI touch screen computers, monitoring steam and vacuum pressures to insure proper manufacturing outcome.

3rd Shift Supervisor

Traffixdevices
Fairfield, IA
07.2015 - 03.2023
  • Worked as an 2nd shift trimmer in the blow molding department for two years. Worked a year and a half as a backup lead on 2nd shift in the roto molding department before being promoted to 3rd shift supervisor. As a supervisor I maintained a safe, clean and professional working atmosphere, as well as maintaining high moral of my shift members and addressing any issues, concerns and ideas that they had. As a supervisor I was also in charge of performing maintenance such as, blow mold tooling, hydraulic, airline and water connection assembly and basic electrical maintenance and slight fabrication. Also as a supervisor I created a trouble shooting guide which is still in official use with the company. I would also assist in cold start ups of machines as well as coordinating with plant higher ups, leads and other shift personnel, as well as performing computer batch inventory for my shift and others.

Electrician

Van Hemert Electric
Oskaloosa, IA
10.2013 - 04.2015
  • Worked as an electrician performing residential wiring.

Commercial Cleaner

QSI Sanitation
Ottumwa, IA
10.2011 - 05.2012
  • Worked as a commercial cleaner, cleaned animal rendering machines for Cargill.

Rail Car Loader

Millard Refrigerated Services
Ottumwa, IA
06.2011 - 07.2011
  • Loaded refer rail cars with frozen meat boxes from JBS.

Education

High School Diploma -

Sigourney Jr-Sr High School
Sigourney, IA
06-2007

Some College (No Degree) - Electrical Engineering

Indian Hills Community College
Ottumwa, IA

Some College (No Degree) - Renewable Energy

Indian Hills Community College
Ottumwa, IA

Skills

Quality assurance
Lean manufacturing
5S
Shift management
Manufacturing
Plastics injection molding
Production management
Materials mandling
Packaging
Knife edging
Quality control
Plastics blow molding
Assembly
Foam molding
Fork lift operation
Electrical wiring
Microsoft Office - intermediate
Team building exercises
Trouble shooting
Critical thinking

Certification

  • 100+ Hour OSHA. Fork lift cert.

Languages

English
Native/ Bilingual

Timeline

Block Molder

Atlas Roofing Corporation
09.2023 - Current

3rd Shift Supervisor

Traffixdevices
07.2015 - 03.2023

Electrician

Van Hemert Electric
10.2013 - 04.2015

Commercial Cleaner

QSI Sanitation
10.2011 - 05.2012

Rail Car Loader

Millard Refrigerated Services
06.2011 - 07.2011

High School Diploma -

Sigourney Jr-Sr High School

Some College (No Degree) - Electrical Engineering

Indian Hills Community College

Some College (No Degree) - Renewable Energy

Indian Hills Community College
Charles Crago