Duane Kelch
Taneytown,MD
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Standup Forklift Driver
Penguin Random House
Westminster, MD
07.2024 - 05.2025
- Assisted with inventory control, ensuring accurate stock levels through proper use of stand-up forklifts.
- Contributed to a reduction in workplace accidents by always following proper safety protocols with stand-up forklifts.
- Reduced loading and unloading times for trucks by skillfully maneuvering stand-up forklifts in tight spaces.
- Operated various types of forklifts including stand-up and reach to move loads across the warehouse floor efficiently.
- Pulling of product to fulfill orders
Window Technician
Pella Manufacturing Plant
Gettysburg, PA
04.2023 - 01.2024
- Updated professional skills regularly by attending workshops and training sessions focused on new industry innovations.
- Ensuring all work orders were completed in a timely manner.
- Contributed to cost savings by accurately measuring, cutting.
- Final assembly of product and inspection to make sure everything is functioning correctly
- Operating and Maintaining Sash Welder and Punch for precise placement of hardware.
Crew Team Member
Wendy's
Moab, UT
06.2019 - 07.2023
- Worked well with teammates and accepted coaching from management team.
- Provided excellent customer service by greeting customers .
- Kept food preparation area, equipment, and utensils clean and sanitary.
- Assisted fellow crew members during peak hours, ensuring smooth operations without compromising quality standards.
- Assisting Manager with opening and closing.
- Reduced food waste by closely monitoring inventory levels, rotating stock, and adhering to food safety guidelines.
- Expedited food preparation processes by efficiently assembling orders according to established guidelines.
- Unloading and restocking of products to freezer, refrigerators and shelves.
- Complete clean and sanitize of cooking area.
Saw Operator
Access Metals Inc.
Essex ,Md.
07.2017 - 06.2018
- Maintained a safe working environment by adherence to safety guidelines and protocols.
- Precision cutting of product to ensure minimum amount of waste.
- Operating of Manual/Automatic saw, Sheer, Forklift
- Shipping/Receiving and Customer pickup.
- Precision loading of Saws to ensure no damage to product or saw.
Bad Health Problems
Bad Health Problems
01.2014 - 01.2016
Molding Machine Operator
Chesapeake Woodworking Inc
Baltimore, MD
03.2009 - 05.2014
Molder Machine Operator
Chesapeake Woodworking Inc.
Baltimore, MD
09.2001 - 10.2009
- Ensured timely delivery of products by prioritizing tasks and efficiently managing workload.
- Operating and maintaining of Molder machine and other saws to detect and correct jams or malfunctions.
- Grinding out profiles and sharpening of blades.
- Assistance of deliveries and customers .
- Receiving and unloading of products with forklift.
Education
Wood , Metals And Drafting
Dundalk High School
Baltimore, MD06.1992
Skills
- Warehouse safety
- Loading and unloading
- Workplace cleanliness
- Order picking
- Shipping and receiving
- Stock rotation
- Pallet stacking
- Forklift operation
- Palletizing
- RFID readers
- Barcode scanning
Timeline
Standup Forklift Driver
Penguin Random House
07.2024 - 05.2025
Window Technician
Pella Manufacturing Plant
04.2023 - 01.2024
Crew Team Member
Wendy's
06.2019 - 07.2023
Saw Operator
Access Metals Inc.
07.2017 - 06.2018
Bad Health Problems
Bad Health Problems
01.2014 - 01.2016
Molding Machine Operator
Chesapeake Woodworking Inc
03.2009 - 05.2014
Molder Machine Operator
Chesapeake Woodworking Inc.
09.2001 - 10.2009
Wood , Metals And Drafting
Dundalk High School