Jacob Schlappi
Rock Springs,WY
Summary
Experienced with operating heavy machinery in construction and industrial settings. Utilizes thorough knowledge of equipment maintenance and safety procedures to ensure smooth operations. Track record of successfully completing projects on time and adhering to safety standards.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Labor/Skid Steer
Lewis & Lewis, Rock Springs Wyoming
02.2025 - Current
- Use skid Steer to clean up messes and clean out under belts and screens
- Ensure all components of crusher plant runs and operates as intended
- Check belts, bearings, screens, cone crusher and VSI crusher are running safely and without issues
- Change V-Belts when needed
- Replace Motors, Gear Boxes and splice and replace belts
- Replace bearings, tail and head pulleys for belts
Lumberjack
Willoughby Wood, Pinedale Wyoming
04.2024 - 01.2025
- Family Business
- Cut and fall timber in a safe manor
- Cut up timber for firewood, measure and cut timber to correct length for house building projects
- Know how drive manual work truck
- Observe and figure best and safest way to extract timber
- Be able to lift and carry 50lbs wood logs to wood trailer
Surface
Black Butte Coal Company
05.2023 - 12.2023
- Drive 777 haul trucks into pit to the dig face to get loaded by 992 loader
- Safely stage and back to loader efficiently and safely to keep production consist
- Safely haul rock up to dump locations and haul coal to hopper and safely back to hopper and dump
- Went through training to load 777 haul trucks with 992 loader in a safe and efficient manner
Surface
Peabody Coal Mine, Craig Colorado
07.2021 - 05.2023
- Work in washplant to make production of separation of coal from rock, make sure all equipment in wash plant runs effectively and safely
- Operated in control room to monitor everything in screening building, wash plant and tipple to ensure all levels, densities were at the correct spot
- Safely operate D9 and D10 dozers on stockpiles to keep feeders full
- Loaded power plant trains with coal
- Had to inspect all belts, crushers, sizers, pumps, and sumps had proper level of fluids and greased pillow block and motors
- Worked rotating shift between days and graves
Laborer/Operator
Spriggs Excavation, Pueblo Colorado
01.2021 - 07.2021
- Operate haul truck safely and efficiently to haul material to stockpile
- Operate skid to keep the staging area clean and clear of snow/trip areas
- Operate Dozer on stockpile to keep it flat and ready for haul trucks to move up another section to dump, leave windrows at edges to make it easier for haul truck to square up and back up safely to dump over edges
- Learned how to use a Rover to map out where road will be located and for operators to know if they need fill or cut on project
- Drive 815 compactor to process the road for compaction and to fill road with material to correct grade
- Set up laser eye and grade road and do math to figure out depth for concrete culverts and safely rig and hoist pipe to lay
- Backfill and compact material around and over pipe so vehicles and equipment can safely drive over
Laborer/Operator
Herc Construction, Frisco Colorado
08.2020 - 11.2020
- Pothole to locate exact depth Fiber optic lines, and gas lines
- Operate equipment (skid, Loader, excavator, Flat drum and sheeps foot compactors)
- Work with survey to get story stakes to do math equations so I could find my dirt, road base and pavement grade to work with operators
- Install corrugated culverts and compact material with jumping jack compactor and a walk behind compactor
- All my foremans asked our project manager to have a crew full of people that would take pride in their work like I do, no matter what the job was
Detailer/Mechanic
Harley-Davidson, Green River Wyoming
01.2020 - 08.2020
- Prepare and set up New Harleys for showroom
- Detail customer bikes after being serviced or worked on
- Work with mechanics as an apprentice and do basic task to help take work off their hands
- Tire change, Complete full service under 45 minutes
Laborer
St Mary Cement Plant, Charlevoix Michigan
06.2019 - 01.2020
- Msha training required
- Shovel and Vac up Conveyor belt spills, prepare work zone and clean up all material for repair and premo crews
- Communicate with Control room if we have to shovel under belts
- Help repair weld plates in secondary crusher, in roller mill on turntable, Finish mill, and finish silos, also help repair safely choke and splice damaged/ripped conveyor belts
- Fill in for repair, premo, quarry, silo crews to keep production going
- Have the ability to safely vac cement dust that could be very hot under the kiln and in a preheat tower
- Work long shifts and came into every call out I was called on, Worked 7 days a week and 12 hour shift for shut down
Lumberjack
Willoughby Wood, Pinedale Wyoming
06.2013 - 08.2019
- Family Business
- Cut and fall timber in a safe manor
- Cut up timber for firewood, measure and cut timber to correct length for house building projects
- Know how drive manual work truck
- Observe and figure best and safest way to extract timber
Education
Diploma -
High school
Green River, Wyoming06.2019
Skills
- Heavy Equipment
- Loader-500 Hours of seat time
- Skid-700 Hours
- Compactors- 200 Hours
- Haul truck- 1500 Hours
- Dozer- 950 Hours
- Excavator- 10 Hours
- MSHA training
- Safely observe work conditions
- Get along and work with anyone im paired with
- Not shy to speak up if unsafe work is portrayed
- Completely open to new tasks and learning different opportunities
LANGUAGES
English
Timeline
Labor/Skid Steer
Lewis & Lewis, Rock Springs Wyoming
02.2025 - Current
Lumberjack
Willoughby Wood, Pinedale Wyoming
04.2024 - 01.2025
Surface
Black Butte Coal Company
05.2023 - 12.2023
Surface
Peabody Coal Mine, Craig Colorado
07.2021 - 05.2023
Laborer/Operator
Spriggs Excavation, Pueblo Colorado
01.2021 - 07.2021
Laborer/Operator
Herc Construction, Frisco Colorado
08.2020 - 11.2020
Detailer/Mechanic
Harley-Davidson, Green River Wyoming
01.2020 - 08.2020
Laborer
St Mary Cement Plant, Charlevoix Michigan
06.2019 - 01.2020
Lumberjack
Willoughby Wood, Pinedale Wyoming
06.2013 - 08.2019
Diploma -
High school
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