James McClellan

As a floor hand I have gained experience in rigging up and down the rig, how to run the tongs, stab pipe, wrench rods, level blocks, and all together make round trips in and out of the wells. I’ve learned safety for the oil field with safety harnesses, climbing steep ladders, releasing heads from the pump jacks and building popper communications with my crew members.

At p&k I was placed as the day shift production maintenance leader. I am over the plant cleanup throughout the primary secondary and DG plant. I handle all of the plants lubrications, fueling for the generators, checking the oils in the crushers and shakers. I’m also the one to prep the cone liners for our HP300, and I handle all jaw dye changes from start to finish. As our production shift runs scheduled, any down time that comes such as ripped belts, bad screens, bearings, gear boxes, motors, pulleys, shivs, vbelts are for me to correct safely and in a timely manner for production to kick back on and run smoothly for the rest of shift. I also measure out the jaw, hp300, and Gcone width every morning before shift to make sure the granite is crushed to the right size and measure out our grizzly bars so there will be no big rock leaking into our base send belt. As my time has passed I’ve also became the backup operator in both the primary and secondary towers, pit loader, stock pile operator, haul truck driver, and minor training with the QC part of the quarry.

With my time at Hanson/Heidelberg Materials I began to learn the side of production maintenance where my time was more spent on preventative maintenance. I did so by keeping all of the plant tail pullies cleaned out, bearings greased, and doing complete plant pre and post ops every day. When big projects came in I would be put on day shift with the maintenance crew and we would do jaw dye changes, cone liner changes, replacing shutes and rock boxes, and doing production changes.

At dolese I spent the first six months learning basic clean up traits and greasing the plants individually. After my basic training of the plant I began to learn the processes of how motors, gear boxes, bearings, screens, etc. worked through the next few months. Once I was fully trained I began splicing belts, welding patches, and doing every day maintenance to get the plants running for the production shift. If all the maintenance was completed in a timely manner we would work as a crew and run equipment such as haul trucks, and loaders to help move stock piles for production until the end of shift.