Greg Towers

This company fabricates capacitor stations for electric companies. Think of big metal storage sheds with capacitors and different types of electrical equipment. Fabricating steel frames according to blueprints then using galvanized sheet metal panels for walls and roof.

I've mostly been mig welding here and some stick experience prior to this job. Cut, form and assemble metal parts according to blueprints. Assisted in layout and fitting of parts prior to welding. Inspect finished welds and assemblies to ensure they meet company and customer specifications. Interpret blueprints and work orders to ensure accurate fabrication and assembly. Lots of work with 1/8th sheet metal. For the last year and a half I have been the night shift team leader.

I ran various heavy equipement to perform tasks on constructions sites. Types of equipment were excavators, articulated haul trucks, logging skidders, front end loaders, etc. I mainly worked on a pipe laying crew and a little bit on their logging operation.

Most present job, its a control room job. Controlling the whole woodyard. Monitoring different machines and conveyors. Feeding logs to the chipper, then feeding chips to the silo to be stored for use. Monitor logs being moved around on conveyors to prevent plug ups from occuring. We are also responsible for chips being conveyored to our pulp mill to make pulp for paper. Along with feeding bark and biomass to our power plant. I also frequently fill in for our heavy equipment operator roles around the yard

Before january this year, I was a Mobile Equipment Operator in charge of feeding logs into the debarker to be chipped. Along with unloading incoming log trucks for inventory and moving logs around our mill property. Maintain and fixing our roads around the woodyard to keep truck traffic flowing. Loading trucks with a cat 938 with a high tip bucket with either bark or dirt/gravel. I have alot of time in the seat of cat 325 wheeled excavator with grapple, cat 3040 lmh with a grapple, cat 938 payloader and skid steers. Some experience running dozens. Also laboring to keep our property in good order and to prevent fires and such. I moved out into the woodyard in January 2018.

From sept 2014 to January 2018 I worked on the paper machines assisting in the papermaking. Tearing down and repulping bad paper. Setting up cores for paper to be cut to size and wound on to. I was a spare turbine operator at one time which I can not remember the timing. With that job I had to control and monitor steam turbines with drive the paper machines.

• responsibilities as a steam turbine operator was monitoring the steam flow in and out of the turbines
• inspecting belt pullies that drove the paper machines
• Monitoring Mill steam, air pressure and condensate moving from one place to another
• monitoring 4 steam turbines, one per paper machine
• doing rounds to ensure readings are correct on monitoring programs

• Hydroblasting power plant boilers during shutdown to ensure clean start up
• Vacuum truck services to clean up all sorts of waste for various industrial plants
• Labor crews for chemical and power plants

• This was a shadowing apprenticeship, all work preformed was in assistance with a certified aircraft mechanc
• Performed scheduled and unscheduled inspections to check flight readiness of aircraft.
• Performed scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on diverse aircraft engines, avionics and hydraulics.
• Maintained repair logs to document all corrective and preventive aircraft maintenance.
• Evaluated individual aircraft components to identify and troubleshoot issues.
• Assisted in full motor rebuilds, prop replacements, body repairs, etc
• Fabricated motor guards and body panels out of sheet metal. Welding on sheet metal body panels

• Hydroblasting and explosive blasting of power plant boilers during shutdowns to ensure a clean and safe start up
• Mixed explosive shots for the licensed blasters to set off
• Kept records of explosives and blasting caps being used for ATF
• Vacuum truck labor work for chemical and power plants

• worked on the tail end of a printing press
• assisted in the higher up workers in the printing of magazines to be assembled in house by other department
• stacked magazines into/onto pallets for processing
• assisted in troubleshooting problems with printing press and automated stackers
• moved pallets around with walking fork lifts