Welder
Honda
02 2023 - 05 2024
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JOHNNY LEE DOWDY JR
Hartsville,SC
Summary
Proactive welder with background protecting components from distortion and producing high-quality work. Dependable, safety-oriented and diligent about accomplishing deadlines by applying excellent welding and fitting abilities. Highly experienced in structural welding.
Work History
Honda
Welder
02 2023 - 05 2024
Job overview
- Worked in final weld department for atv's
- Learned all processes main 1/main 2 and booth 1-4
- Each process had a time limit of 70 secs, mandatory to stay inside your process time
- My quota was 300 atv's per day
- Each process and at least 10 to 15 different that had to be memorized
- Speed and quality was required
- Temperature and wire speed are already seat for honda's requirements
- MiG welding
- Flux core
Kabota industrial equipment
Welder
03 2022 - 12 2022
Job overview
- Inspected welds and checked critical measurements to meet specifications
- Operated hoists, cranes, and power tools to dismantle equipment to find and remove defective parts
- Inspected parts and components for defects in soldering process
- Selected and operated shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
- Welded various connections with high-quality final results.
- Cut, grinded and bent edges of materials to be joined for snug fit using hand tools
- Flux core
- Mig welding
- Tig welding
Sam Carbis Solutions Group
Aluminum Welder
08 2020 - 03 2022
Job overview
- Analyzed blueprints to fabricate required assignments
- Assembled and welded aluminum ladders according to company guidelines
- Pulse welded every corner on the aluminum ladders for Fire Trucks, to ensuring Firefighter Safety
- Used buffing pads and grinders to keep materials, clean and harmless
- Work with a partner reading blueprints, rigging the aluminum ladders together
- Consistently Using tape measures, tri squares, clamps, and a black sharpie to mark my measurements accurately
- Use the clamps to make all materials stationary until I was ready to weld it permanently
- Mig welding
- Tig welding
Frazier
Welder
05 2019 - 08 2020
Job overview
- Worked with a partner as a two-man team
- Every movement and motion had to be together as one
- Grabbed the beam and the bracket at the same time as your partner and lock it in the clamps together
- Lead had to be arked at the same time and shield had to be up at the same time
- When bracket and beam was complete, We had to stack it on a rack
- Together we stacked them nine across and six rows high
- our quota was 40 racks a day
- Read different blueprints according to the product that had to be welded at the time
- Used different tables to rig different product
- Mig welding
- Flux core
Notter construction Phillips 66 oil refinery
Structural welder
01 2018 - 06 2019
Job overview
- Prepared welding equipment to perform advanced welding work
- Maintain full set of personal tools to use on job site
- Tested welding and safety equipment to check performance
- Clapped and tacked welding components to achieve desired configuration
- Welded, cut and bent steel as necessary With torches, metal shears, and welding equipment
- Followed blueprints and instructions from supervisors erect Column, beams, grinders
- Hoisted metal components into place, safely operating cranes doing process
- Uploaded and positioned pre-fabricated steel and heavy equipment Using hoisting equipment such as cables, pulleys, or hooks
- Used appropriate safety measures and encourage other team members To do the same in effort to avoid job site injuries
- Stick welding
- Pulse arc welding
- Arc gouging
Invista
Machine Technician
04 2017 - 12 2017
Job overview
- Operated four machines under my employee ID
- Each machine had 52 different parts that had to be memorized
- used a vacuum gun to suck the yarn in as I cut it with scissors
- Used the gun to thread the yarn through the machine, touching every part that is necessary as required to companies policy
- kept all parts clean to maintain less downtime
- When the yarn pop I had to move swiftly to catch the yarn back in my gun before it stopped up the shoot from the basement up to the third floor
- Each machine produced four rows of yarn
- When all rolls were complete, I stacked them on a rack for lab testing
- 16 rows of yarn per rack, 50 racks per a day
- Used a pouch with a couple of tools to thread the machine and troubleshoot when the yarn poped
AO Smith Quality Water Heaters
MIG Welder
01 2015 - 03 2017
Job overview
- Welded in flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions.
- Inspected welds and checked critical measurements to meet specifications.
- Fabricated shop parts directly from blueprints.
- Removed and repaired unacceptable welds with air arc and grinder to meet quality guidelines.
- Prepared welding equipment to perform advanced welding work.
- Clamped, held, tack-welded, heat-bent and bolted component parts to achieve required configurations and positions.
- Operated hoists, cranes, and power tools to dismantle equipment to find and remove defective parts.
- Chipped off excess weld, slag, and spatter using hand tools.
- Completed welding projects using gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, and shielded metal arc equipment.
- Flux Core
- MiG welding
- TiG welding
Harbor Freight
Receiver
02 2014 - 11 2014
Job overview
- Supervised an eight man crew
- Managed a receiving doc of 5 trailers
- maintained all numbers of how many pallets and cases came on and off the doc
- use a certain math solution to be sure that all cases were accounted for
- Also use the same math problem to determine how many cases did not arrive
- arrived work by 6:00, so the trailers can be open by 6:30
- Did not leave until all trailers were fully loaded
PD Tank
Welder
05 2013 - 01 2014
Job overview
- Fabricated and welded skids properly for all different types of tanks
- Welded brackets and horse collers on to tanks as required
- maintained a clean organized work area to prevent accidents
- Measured and cut pipes to correct length
- Cut pipes properly to attain perfect alignment and proper fit for pieces
- welded all tanks and all skids, 500 gallons up to 30,000 gallons
- Drove a forklift to maneuver tanks and put them in their correct location to get Prepared for the paint department
- Mig welding
- Flux core
Education
Lamar High School
HS Diploma
2011
Darlington county Institute-tech
Certification from Welding 1,2,3
05.2011
University Overview
- Mig welding - Steel
- Mig welding - aluminum
- Flux core welding
- Pulse arc welding
- stick welding
- Arc gouging
Benidict College
2yrs Completed - 2yrs Left from Business
Skills
- Heavy Equipment Operator
- Power Chippers
- Sheet Metal
- Welding Stairs and Railings
- Pulse Welding
- Aluminum Mig Welding
- Steel Mig Welding
- Metal Shaping Machines
- Stick Welding
- Mig Fabrication
- Plasma cutting
- Fabrication
- Forklift
- Interpret Blueprints
- Structural Steel Beam Welding
- Aluminum Beam Welding
- Flux Core (FCAW) Welding
- Portable Grinders
Timeline
Welder
Kabota industrial equipment
03 2022 - 12 2022
Aluminum Welder
Sam Carbis Solutions Group
08 2020 - 03 2022
Welder
Frazier
05 2019 - 08 2020
Structural welder
Notter construction Phillips 66 oil refinery
01 2018 - 06 2019
Machine Technician
Invista
04 2017 - 12 2017
MIG Welder
AO Smith Quality Water Heaters
01 2015 - 03 2017
Receiver
Harbor Freight
02 2014 - 11 2014
Welder
PD Tank
05 2013 - 01 2014
Lamar High School
HS Diploma
2011
Darlington county Institute-tech
Certification from Welding 1,2,3
05/2011
Benidict College
2yrs Completed - 2yrs Left from Business