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Corey Machado

Lakeland

Summary

Pipefitter been in the industry for 14 years. Worked in shop and on 15+ sites doing site specifics and other training on each site, the industry is second nature to me. Safe worker and intend to keep the people working around me safe

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
2011
2011
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Journeyman Pipefitter

Thompson Construction
Sumter
12.2024 - 01.2026

- Worked at Winyah generating station Georgetown, SC, Fabricated and installed various piping systems

- worked on sch 40 stainless steel pipe including 3/4", 1" and 2" socket welds, also 3" and 6" butt weld pipe. Installing in pipe racks and various tie ins to pumps and tanks

- worked on sch 40 Carbon steel pipe 8" water lines and 12" weld neck flanges coming off tanks for overflow drain

- worked on various sizes of HDPE piping 2", 8", 10" and 16" installed in pipe racks going through out the plant

- installed alot of knife gate valves before all tank tie ins, bolt up and torque

- worked with crane to fly valves and pipe into racks

- worked at eVac Magnetics plant in Sumter, Sc Fabricated, installed, pressure tested and commissioning on various piping systems

- installed 2" sch 40 stainless steel from main header to various units for Aragon line, pressure tested and commission

- installed sch 40 carbon 6" and 4" victolic pipe from main header to various units for chill water lines. Drilled pipe and fit thread-o-lets for gages and prv, fit slip on flanges for tie ins, pressure test and commission

- installed 1", 2" transair pipe from header to various units, pressure test and commission

- installed 3" Copper progress line from header to various units for no potable water lines, pressure test and commission

Journeyman Pipefitter

Sancus Construction
Lakeland
02.2024 - 11.2024

- Worked at Coward Mulch Products in Chattanooga, TN complete demo of roof and structure then rebuild

- had to carefully demo roof and decking without damaging the bar joist for reuse the decking was spot welded too through whole building

- cut welds from bar joist to I beams to remove bar joice without damaging for reuse throught whole building

- removed I beams from columns and staged for reuse, demo columns

- rebuilt taller columns out of 4" with 1/2" plate at top and bottom throught whole building to put roof at pitch. anchored columns level and plumb

- reinstalled I beams and weld to them bar joist level and plumb

- installed decking and spot weld to bar joist

Journeyman Pipefitter

Lexicon Inc
Little Rock
01.2024 - 02.2024

- worked in Calvert, AL at large steel processing facility

- Fabricated and installed large carbon steel duct piping 36", 48", 60" and 72" for exhaust venting on various different units

- cut and prepped duct pipe at various different degrees and angles for field fit

Journeyman Pipefitter

Sancus Construction
Lakeland
06.2023 - 12.2023

- worked in Miami Florida doing piping systems for new construction building

- Fabricated and installed various units sch10 stainless steel mostly 8" and 10" some 12" and 16"

- Fabricated 6" heavy wall Carbon steel, used track torch to cut and bevel pipe prepped, fit and installed

- buit supports for heavy wall out of small I beams, hung hanger supports for stainless and carbon pipe

- Fabricated and installed 1" and 2" carbon steel screw pipe

Journeyman Pipefitter

Liquid Metal
Chattanooga
07.2022 - 05.2023

- worked in Morgantown, WV ran various carbon steel pipping systems 2" sockets, 4" and 8" butt welds , cutting old valves and old pipe out

- added about 70 1" weld-o-lets into 4 " gas lines for by pass line. Had to break lines at flanges sniff test till all gas is out of pipe then dill holes, prep and fit weld-o-lets, run 1 inch by pass with pressure gauge

- worked Petersburg, VA worked in boiler cutting out water walls and installing new

- worked in Brunswick, GA at paper mill. Worked on black liquor tank cutting out rusted thin panels with torch, clean prep bevel existing, fly new panel with crane fit, after welded back gouge with air arc and grinder, PT test and weld other side

Journeyman Pipefitter

Thompson Construction
Tampa
01.2021 - 06.2022

- worked at several Duke Energy plants in central Florida doing maintenance and shut down outages

- ran screw pipe and instrumentation pipe for CO2 fire system at 4 duke energy sites. Srew pipe ran from CO2 tanks into trenches to hursings. 1/2 instrumentation tubing ran from control box to air sound alarms

- did heavy wall chrome pipe on outage at Duke plant at 1 site.

- ran over 1000' of 8" sch 40 cs pipe for water lines, bolted into racks 40' at time then field welds

- Fabricated and installed a bunch of different piping systems for duke energy and other plants in central Florida

Journeyman Pipefitter

Titan Contracting
Owensboro
05.2018 - 11.2020

- worked at Exon Mobile near green river, Wyoming did flush out on multiple types of gas lines. Site has 1 of the highest consecrated h2s gas, had to wear full face respirator for line breaks

- pulled measurements and fabbed temporary piping for flush out. Ran tempory hdpe 10" pipe to flush out pond

- removed all temporary pipe and tied lines back in

- worked at Suncoke Energy Middletown, Ohio. New construction for add on 2", 3" stainless had to be on 1/4" by foot slope

Journeyman Pipefitter

United Services Group
Charlotte
02.2018 - 03.2018

- worked at lowman energy in Jackson AL. Emergency shut down turbine was egg shaped out of tolerance had cut braces in pie slices in certain sections, weld pad eyes on inside pull out egg shape with come-alongs and chain fails then rewelding braces

Journeyman Pipefitter

Fluor
Irving
11.2017 - 12.2017

- worked a shutdown in Crystal River, Florida adding new more efficient piping systems work with stainless steel

Journeyman Pipefitter

Turner
Charlotte
10.2017 - 11.2017

- worked at paper mill in pine bluff, Arkansas removed old valves installed new, drilled holes in existing lines adding thread-o-lets for thermal coupling and gauges, worked with carbon steel butt welds and screw pipe

Journeyman Pipefitter

McCormick
Mulberry
06.2017 - 10.2017

- Fabricated and installed piping systems in Florida and West Virginia

- worked at McIntosh power plant in Lakeland, FL installed carbon steel pipe from existing lines to tie in to new tanks that was just installed at plant

- worked in Wheeling, WV new construction on natural gas compressor station fabbed carbon steel pipe installed

-installed pancake blinds and blind flanges to pressure test pipe, reinstated pipe final torque

Journeyman Pipefitter

Genertek Power
Mulberry
03.2016 - 02.2017

- pre fab pipe in shop for multiple units

- installed piping systems on v20 EMD industrial generators for Kensington gold mining in Juneau, Alaska

- field fit 6", 8", 24" pipe, expansion pipe,screw pipe, final bolt and torque

- hung iron for structure that covered generators

Journeyman Pipefitter

SMCI
Lakeland
10.2011 - 01.2016

- started as a helper in fab shop worked on burn table, saw, stud welded for embed plates, sand blasted, rolled large plate and fit for fab of turbine exhaust

- build pipe racks for Siemens and Westinghouse preped pipe, fit spools to iso, hydro test spools, installed in racks

- worked with stainless and carbon

- spool had to be with in 1/8" plus or minus tolerance

Education

Kathleen
Lakeland, FL

Skills

  • Reading and understanding blueprints
  • Accurate measurements and cutting
  • Safety trained obtained OSHA 10
  • Numeracy skills
  • Knowledge with rigging
  • Knowledge with tools
  • Obtained pipefitter NCCER

Timeline

Journeyman Pipefitter

Thompson Construction
12.2024 - 01.2026

Journeyman Pipefitter

Sancus Construction
02.2024 - 11.2024

Journeyman Pipefitter

Lexicon Inc
01.2024 - 02.2024

Journeyman Pipefitter

Sancus Construction
06.2023 - 12.2023

Journeyman Pipefitter

Liquid Metal
07.2022 - 05.2023

Journeyman Pipefitter

Thompson Construction
01.2021 - 06.2022

Journeyman Pipefitter

Titan Contracting
05.2018 - 11.2020

Journeyman Pipefitter

United Services Group
02.2018 - 03.2018

Journeyman Pipefitter

Fluor
11.2017 - 12.2017

Journeyman Pipefitter

Turner
10.2017 - 11.2017

Journeyman Pipefitter

McCormick
06.2017 - 10.2017

Journeyman Pipefitter

Genertek Power
03.2016 - 02.2017

Journeyman Pipefitter

SMCI
10.2011 - 01.2016

Kathleen
Corey Machado