Gabriel Kahoonei

• Followed safety protocols to minimize workplace accidents.
• Used problem-solving skills to alleviate issues efficiently with minimal supervision.
• Troubleshoot equipment breakdowns and performed preventive maintenance on motors, hydraulic cylinders, VFD's PLC control panels, conveyor shafts, rollers, and pneumatic supply lines, fabricating and modifying safety railings, forklift attachments, man baskets, semi-trailer ramps, adding ladders and platforms to tie in conveyor belts, motors and photo eyes.
• Retrofitting and adding 480 LED lights with photocells, fabricating sliding security gates, and installing ground tracks and gate operators.
• Successfully completed complex repair tasks within tight deadlines, minimizing disruptions to daily operations.
• Versatile, Team player

• Oversee all skilled trades to keep department manufacturing lines running efficiently and ensure
  there is no downtime in production throughout various departments.
• Implement testing and function performance of firearms, suppression devices and optics from
  multiple classifications.
• Responsible for maintaining Class 10,000 Clean Room involving electrical, pneumatics, changing of
  exhaust fans and pre filters.
• Building custom firearms for government contracts and overseeing Class 10 weaponry.
• Maintain facility permits to ensure compliance in operations.

• Ability to read blueprints pertaining to AWS and ISO specifications while handling welding
  projects.
• electrical wiring of ballasts, photocells and light poles to include different voltages.
• Engaged in routine plumbing repair and familiar with DI and R/O systems, chilled water and
  domestic water supply.
• Performed carpentry by cutting and setting wooden forms to lay concrete slabs, hanging drywall
  and sheetrock.

• Vulcanizing conveyor belts in mines and quarries above and below ground.
• Welding catwalks to ensure safety measurements are met.

As a welder I worked in all 5 divisions of the biggest contractor and construction company in the state of Hawaii 2 heavies, waterfront, commercial, and PNI piping.

• Performed various maintenance tasks like repairing drill rigs, water pontoons, and clam shells for sea and river dredging.
• Changed buckets on front loaders, back holes, and excavators.
• Repairing quick couplers, hard-facing core barrels, and augers to changing the bullet teeth on the buckets.
• Fabricating tanks with baffles for off-road water trucks, pile driving, and welding rebar to build piers for the nuclear Subs in Pearl Harbor.
• Replaced crane boom lacings and changed tracks on track dozers.
• Sand and paint cranes and boom sections, hook blocks, and jib sections on cranes.
• Reinforce Hwy bridges to make earthquake-proof, cut and weld caissons for foundations of buildings.
• Repair heavy equipment front loaders, backhoes, graders, and Bobcats. Changed Rippers for D10 cat dozers.
• Performed tasks in masonry and road construction.