David Whitney

I am a journeyman Millwright. This job includes everything for basic maintenance work to setting and removing equipment from plants we work in. Including welding , fabrication of parts , driving fork lifts , man lifts , boom lifts.

I was a service tech. This job was 100% traveling to laundry plants all across the United States. I was responsible for the repair and upkeep of the equipment that they requested service on. This included simple preventive maintenance to complete rebuilds. I also done complete equipment installs and removals. I work on everything from electrical , pneumatics , hydraulics , mechanical drives , plumbing.

The chief engineer is the Maintenance manager. I was responsible for the entire maintenance department. We took care of all aspects of maintenance in the plant including the building maintenance and upkeep. I was also responsible for our janitors.

I was a line mechanic for 10 years and then moved to the fab. shop and was in charge of the welding and fabrication of parts and equipment for the plant.