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James P Stafford

Leavenworth,KS

Summary

Dedicated maintenance professional with extensive experience at Command General Staff College, excelling in plumbing and electrical repairs. Proven ability to lead teams and communicate effectively, ensuring high-quality service and safety compliance. Skilled in using a wide range of tools, including Meters, Computer systems and pneumatic equipment, to achieve operational excellence.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Maintenance Worker

Command General Staff College
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
10.2020 - Current

40hrs per week, 77,000 Annually

  • Maintain functionality of all buildings, equipment and campus ground, use correct PPE for every job and clothing needed. complete monthly fire inspections, fire extinguisher, exit lights, sprinkle systems , and utility systems in the facilities.
  • Plumbing repair faucets, sinks, sink handles, toilets, and showers, traps, pipe clamps, fittings, clear clogged drains and garbage disposals, reset disposals and replace toilet flush valves, remove and clean shower heads
  • HVAC maintain heat pumps and filters, blow out clogged drain pans and replace filters (1102 filter per year) replace broken fan/motor belts, blow out condensation lines, replace missing hardware. Use firefox to operate HVAC system to check temps daily along with help diagnose correct output air.
  • Electrical work maintaining lighting system, identify electrical safety issues such as broke outlets, lights switches and circuit breakers. Repair and service lights, wires and power circuits.
  • Enter work orders into computers and track to completion, read blue prints, plans and work orders, follow work procedures, timely matter when it comes to building emergency and after duty call backs, customer service oriented, listen to complaints and problems solve or move work request to higher authority/repair as needed, extremely respectful of both people and equipment i worth with. Work with blue prints representation of electrical and HVAC system to identifying problems.
  • Perform services such as a Utilities Monitoring and Controls System to monitor HVAC, security, safety and fire issues.
  • Tools used, hands tools ( multi meter, amp meter, tape measures, wrenches, hammers, ex..). Power tools ( drills, lights, saws, and nailer ex...). Use ladder's and power lifts for power washing buildings, proper hazard storing and waste disposal of oil, gas and paint
  • All work orders and costumer service is on the computer and capable of running programs along with all other task.

Correctional Officer

United States Penitentiary Leavenworth
Leavenworth , Kansas
08.2019 - 10.2020

40hr-62hrs per week, 55,000 Annually

  • Maintain professional appearance and behavior in hostile environment
  • Punctual and reliable
  • Perform and follow all security procedures for federal correction facility's, enforcement as required
  • Professional radio use and operational during normal and emergency traffic

Field Mechanical

Farr Mechanical
Kansas City, Kansas
08.2018 - 07.2019

50hrs-65hrs per week, 45,000 Annually

  • Perform general maintenance on food equipment and plant machinery including motors, belts, grease and replace worn parts on machines.
  • Used laptop to orders parts along with billing costumers and researching information.
  • Installed wiring 120 thru 480 volts and conduit for new food equipment in accordance with local codes and standard practices.
  • Install and repair roof top units, gas lines using hand tools, repair pipe by using threaded couplings, joints, fittings and soldering techniques, clean out clogged drains and water lines, replace unit drain traps and damaged pipes
  • Repair damaged bathroom plumping as sinks, toilets, showers, and drains. Hydro jet grease and sewage mains
  • Operated fork lifts, all tools and equipment with correct PPE.
  • Used welders, power and hand tools when fabricating brackets and broken parts on machines.
  • Tape measures, cutting wheels, torches, pipe wrench, sawzall, drills, ladders and tools kits

Maintenance Mechanic

Core Civic
Leavenworth , Kansas
06.2016 - 08.2018

40hrs per week, 48,000 Annually

  • Call in repairs and talk with customer service to diagnose and get parts ordered.
  • Repaired and installed plumbing for commercial institution, toilets, showers, sinks, water lines also snaked drains, worked in tight water closets
  • Electrical repair, outlets, light switches, lights and ballasts, including but not limited to diagnose ventilation motors, exhaust motors and kitchen equipment. Use a VOM fluke meter to diagnose equipment with volts and amperage along with a resistance simulator.
  • Maintained, diagnose and repaired light commercial roof top units and ventilation systems, gas and oil lines, replaced contactor connections, analog boards, resistors and damaged fuses. diagnosed and replaced unit circuit boards as needed.
  • Worked on boilers/hot water tanks, circulation pumps and connecting pipes. repaired broken sprinkler heads used variety of hand tools, power tools and air tools .
  • All work was in accordance with standard practices and local codes following OSHA guidelines

Education

Certification - Electrical

Highland Community College Technical Center
Atchison, KS
05-2016

Certification - Mechanical Diagnostics

Motorcycle Mechanic Institute
Phoenix, AZ
05-2012

High School Diploma -

Pleasant Ridge High School
Easton, KS
05-2009

Skills

  • Full knowledge of plumbing field for industrial/commercial and residential, tools and procedures associated with them
  • Good with computer programs and understanding new task along with working on laptops
  • Posses electrical competency using tools and procedures for industrial/commercial and residential applications
  • Ability to use full range of hand power pneumatic tools and welders
  • Run loaders ( bobcat, skid steer ) with blades or buckets, use air brake trucks and large or long trailers to move and deliver equipment, working with welding and fabricating, can sweat copper pipe
  • Team work/skills and communication is high on the list

Timeline

Maintenance Worker

Command General Staff College
10.2020 - Current

Correctional Officer

United States Penitentiary Leavenworth
08.2019 - 10.2020

Field Mechanical

Farr Mechanical
08.2018 - 07.2019

Maintenance Mechanic

Core Civic
06.2016 - 08.2018

Certification - Electrical

Highland Community College Technical Center

Certification - Mechanical Diagnostics

Motorcycle Mechanic Institute

High School Diploma -

Pleasant Ridge High School