Collin Bates
Houston
Summary
With 15+ years of experience as a professional landscape, heavy equipment operator, supervisor, and project coordinator/superintendent, I am eager to contribute to your team. I am thrilled about the opportunity you have advertised and excited to utilize my track record of success and leadership to make a positive impact and support your customers' operations. Throughout my career, I have established a strong reputation as a dedicated landscape professional capable of leading and cultivating a profitable, efficient, and high-quality workforce to handle multiple operations. My unwavering commitment and extensive expertise make me an ideal fit for your organization. For more detailed information about my skills and qualifications, please refer to my resume.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Construction Superintendent
VM Golf Services
03.2022 - Current
- Lead and articulated several large and small scale projects around the country with crews of 5 to 35 laborers and equipment operators
- Caring for the balance of owners, subcontractors, project managers, and internal office to create a highly positive culture of accomplishing every individuals requirements and obligations to meet standers and end goals
- Overseeing product materials, maintenance/operations of equipment, project meetings, timelines and scheduling, budgeting/pricing, expense and weekly reports, change orders, and quantities of installment during projects
- Eliminating risk for all parties enabling workforce performance to a high degree
- In addition, I am responsible for safety of staff, comprehending architects plans, initiating take-offs, layout of job site, understanding changes of elevations and surveying land, training staff members for all prerequisites of the job, finalizing details on closing projects, negotiating terms for materials, equipment, staff, schedules, field changes and change orders, and pricing
- Pinpointing and maintaining the advancement of projects completion
Heavy Equipment Operator and Supervisor
Highland pines development
04.2021 - 03.2022
- Manage and preformed construction building of a golf course ensuring all heavy equipment is maintained and safety operated, drainage, irrigation, and dirt work projects were performed with precision and timely fashion to meet owners satisfaction and requirements
- High-end pipe, equipment, tools, and components are required to complete tasks
- Surveyed land to identify low and high points to direct water for drainage and irrigation
- Excelled in identifying mistakes in procedures to reprehend and assure high quality completion of all stages of construction
- Implementing long term secure operation of the golf course
- Checking final output of project to ensure longevity of all parts and structure
Assistant Superintendent
Augusta Pines Golf Club
04.2015 - 04.2021
- Successfully Supervised and managed over 200 acres of golf course, clubhouse, and native land property with a crew of 13 laborers
- Advised and implemented new course of action to improve time efficient maintenance of everyday tasks
- Negotiated external products to preform superior maintenance for short/long term performance
- Assisted in all renovation projects requiring heavy equipment, detailed planning, specialty tools, and analysis of chemical/fertilizer
- Provided development of staff to operate with quality, quantity, swiftness, and patients to assemble a profitable corporate structure in all areas
- Achieved impeccable costumer service and satisfaction of golf course performance
Crew Foreman
Longhorn Landscape Services
05.2010 - 04.2015
- Executed operations multiple crews over seeing 100+ residential and commercial landscape, hardscape, pool services
- Ensured that all products and requirements were met to standard and costumers needs before performance of projects
- Thrived in completing final product and customer's satisfaction to every project at hand
- Trained and supervised multiple staff members for high-quality and precision work to assure safety, detail, efficiency, and pride into all aspects of the job
- Evaluate residential landscape to accommodate and meet customers requirements
Education
No Degree - Landscape Architecture
Lone Star College
Houston, TXHigh School Diploma -
Cypress Creek High School
Houston, TX06-2012
Skills
- High level proficiency
- Organized
- Safety
- Strategic planning
- Development of staff
- Efficiency
- Quality control and assistance
- Negotiation
- Project management
- Attentive to detail
- Customer service
- Loyalty
Careeraccomplishments
- Successfully managed and supervised for four different successful and profound companies.
- Executed excellent customer service for multiple commercial and residential landscape properties around the greater Houston area for Longhorn Landscapes.
- Provided outstanding organization, planning, skills, and analysis on various irrigation, drainage, and dirt work projects with my team to promote company goals and objectives at Augusta Pines Country Club.
- Articulated large scale earth work and development with precision and detailed attention for Highland Pines Country Club.
- Managed various multi-million dollar projects with efficiency, teamwork, budgeting, and goal-oriented tasks around the country with VM Golf services.
Certification
- HDPE pipe welding/fusing
- Better Billy bunker
- Bunker solutions
- Sox erosion control
- Irrigation tech
- Heavy equipment
- GPS survey
- Land survey
- Texas Driver's License
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Construction Superintendent
VM Golf Services
03.2022 - Current
Heavy Equipment Operator and Supervisor
Highland pines development
04.2021 - 03.2022
Assistant Superintendent
Augusta Pines Golf Club
04.2015 - 04.2021
Crew Foreman
Longhorn Landscape Services
05.2010 - 04.2015
- HDPE pipe welding/fusing
- Better Billy bunker
- Bunker solutions
- Sox erosion control
- Irrigation tech
- Heavy equipment
- GPS survey
- Land survey
- Texas Driver's License
No Degree - Landscape Architecture
Lone Star College
High School Diploma -
Cypress Creek High School
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