Joel Black
Hawkinsville,US
Summary
Thorough professional with experience in welding and metal fabrication. Adept at reading schematics to determine the specific welding requirements of each project. Committed to delivering high-quality work according to customer specifications and safety standards. Hardworking individual with experience in metal fabrication and production welding. Skilled in welding, brazing, soldering, and cutting a variety of metals and alloys. Possesses strong knowledge of safety protocols, blueprints, and industry standards.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Welding Fabricator
The Sign Store of Macon
04.2024 - 07.2025
- Achieved consistent weld quality through careful preparation of materials and attention to detail during execution.
- Reduced material waste by accurately measuring and cutting materials for each project.
- Ensured optimal performance from all tools and equipment through routine inspection, cleaning, and maintenance.
- Build and Fabricated signs for company's with there company logos for marking brand.
welding Fabricator
Dinex Emission Inc
06.2023 - 03.2024
- OEM- Built tips and baffles in jig. Then welded them solid on rotator fixture. Weld tabs on pipe assembly and rotate pipe assembly weld ends solid.
- AEM- Build and fabricate different types of exhaust systems by blueprints specs using various types of measuring instruments, using MIG welding and TIG welding stainless steel.
US
National Trailers Manufacturing
12.2022 - 04.2023
- Assembly, sand blast, install axles, bolt on leaf springs, put on tires, bolt on landing gear, cutting holes in chassey, drive forklift, unload parts that was delivered, count inventory
- Lead welder, weld landing gear, axles, kept inventory, train new employees to cut parts for weld department, weld and fabricate fixtures for shop
Forklift
Bass Pro Shop Distribution Center
03.2021 - 12.2021
- Ran 904 lines: stack boxes and totes on pallets, build pallets up for store, shrink wrap and put in staging area for store, stack boxes and totes on trailer for store from conveyor line, scan with rf gun non-conveyable items in bay for store and load on truck
- Use stand up and sit down forklift and double jack and hand trucks to move products all over warehouse and put inside trailer to go to store
- Mezz operator: log into system and run conveyor lines all over warehouse, move products from one side to the other, fix jams, unclog trash line and make sure it goes to crusher, unclog crusher, reject line scan and reprint labels on boxes to go through scanner
- Use walkie talkie to communicate with all other departments with problems and jams and fixes
- Scan lower reject line products to see what department it needed to go back to fix problems
- Helped in Maintenance: Ran sweeper all over warehouse, worked on sweeper when clogged or brush was off or jammed, help Maintenace worker change conveyer belt on line and chains on conveyor line
Maintenance Worker
Rental Repairs, Stanley Black Rental Properties
04.2016 - 03.2021
Forklift
Fred’s Distribution Center
09.2014 - 03.2016
- PE Series, Walkie Rider Pallet Truck, Crown Sp Series, order picker, Crown RR/Rd Series, Reach
US
Cravey Enterprise
04.2012 - 05.2014
- Repairs to rental property, eviction move people out of home
Welder/Fabricator
Riley Forestry Equipment
11.2010 - 04.2012
- Mig Welding, used various welding tools and built various types of logging equipment, built pre-builds for logging equipment, full assembly on logging equipment, ran and installed hydraulic lines
- Rental repairs
Education
Diploma - Welding Technology
Middle Georgia Technical College
Warner Robins, GA01.2010
Skills
- MIG Welding
- Band Saws
- Shielded Metal Arc Welding
- Custom Fabrication
- Plasma Cutters
- Basic Tools
- Precision Measuring Instruments
- Crane and Hoist Equipment Operation
- Hand Torches
- Jig Fabrication
- Hand and Power Tool Operation
- Brakes and Shears Operation
- Power Tools Operations
- Stainless Steel Metal Welding
- Fabrication
- Grinders
- Blueprints
- Torch cutting
- Grinding and finishing
- Stainless steel welding
- Safety procedures
- Shielded metal arc welding
- Gas metal arc welding
- Plasma arc cutting
- Gas tungsten arc welding
- Aluminum welding
- Welding equipment maintenance
- Overhead crane operation
- Flux-cored arc welding
- Welding positioning
- MIG welding
- Flux core arc welding
- Jig fabrication
- Custom fabrication
- Stick welding
- Power tool safety
- Electrical safety
- Precision measurement
- Shop drawings
- Hand tool safety
- Post-welding treatment
- Personal protective equipment
- Equipment management
- Job orders
- Defect repair
- Weld testing
- Jig building
- TIG welding
- Stainless steel metal welding
- Hand and power tool operation
- Shaping and cutting
- Aluminum metal welding
- Measurements and calculations
- Power tools operation
Timeline
Welding Fabricator
The Sign Store of Macon
04.2024 - 07.2025
welding Fabricator
Dinex Emission Inc
06.2023 - 03.2024
US
National Trailers Manufacturing
12.2022 - 04.2023
Forklift
Bass Pro Shop Distribution Center
03.2021 - 12.2021
Maintenance Worker
Rental Repairs, Stanley Black Rental Properties
04.2016 - 03.2021
Forklift
Fred’s Distribution Center
09.2014 - 03.2016
US
Cravey Enterprise
04.2012 - 05.2014
Welder/Fabricator
Riley Forestry Equipment
11.2010 - 04.2012
Diploma - Welding Technology
Middle Georgia Technical College
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