Joseph Sawyer
Riverview
Summary
Dedicated equipment operator with some mechanical repair and customer service experience. Proven ability to maintain safety compliance while effectively managing inventory and training others.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Yard Guy
MacAllister Machinery Company
Brownstown
01.2018 - Current
- Coordinated with customers during equipment drop-off, gathering service details, communicating with service department, and unloading equipment.
- Collaborated with customers and sales reps on in-yard demos, addressing customer inquiries and demonstrating equipment functions and features.
- Worked with vendors on loading and unloading the equipment
- Assisted service technicians with major repairs, including boom tear downs and excavator component replacements.
- Maintained organization and cleanliness of the yard area.
- Graded the yard every summer and added millings to low spots as well as covered the yard in millings
- Helped new technicians learn the functions of all the equipment
- Got trained on new features for new equipment coming in
- Went to job fairs and other events to show kids how to operate equipment.
Heavy Equipment Operator
Stante B&V EXcavating
Wixom
06.2014 - 12.2017
- Traveled to various jobsites and operated various pieces of equipment
- Worked as a laborer when needed to help set grade stakes, shovel stone and lay fabric down
- Loaded and unloaded equipment. Worked with lowboy drivers to provide them an escort to different jobsites. Loaded and unloaded the lowboys
- Went to the 324-training center to be trained and certified on multiple pieces of equipment. Loaders, bulldozers, skid steers, excavators and graders
- Worked with inspectors on jobsites to help pass density inspections
- Worked with semi drivers unloading stone as well as dirt, creating a pathway for them to drive on and collecting their tickets
- Kept time logs for other operators and load counts on certain jobsites to help the foreman
- Loaded small dump trucks as well as off road trucks with stone, concrete or dirt
- Worked foreman and customers on layouts of jobs when the foreman was away
- During winter months plowed snow at the metro airport for delta airlines.
- Worked in the shop during winter months to help mechanics fix machines during the off season
- Went on parts runs as needed
Summer Help / Mechanics Assistant
Michigan Cat
Brownstown
06.2013 - 05.2014
- Worked in the yard helping keep facility clean and machines organized
- Worked with technicians and assisted with repairs on heavy equipment
- Did parts runs as needed
- Traveled to different jobsites to drop off parts to field technician
- Helped yard guy load and unload equipment
Mechanics Assistant
Stante B&V Excavating
Wixom
06.2012 - 12.2012
- Supported mechanics in repairing heavy equipment to maintain uptime and reliability
- Disassembled and reconstructed small pumps and motors for trash pumps to ensure operational efficiency
- Operated a forklift and skidsteer for loading and unloading tasks
- Escorted larger machines between jobsites to facilitate safe and efficient transport
- Traveled to jobsites to fuel machines
- Assisted with labor tasks at various underground jobsites, including material handling and site preparation.
- Worked with our landscaping department at jobsites to put down fabric
Education
Certified Technician in Kawasaki And Yamaha Motorsports - Kawasaki And Yamaha Motorsports
Motorcycle Mechanics Institute
Orlando, FL06-2013
Skills
- Heavy machinery operation
- Equipment operation
- Mechanical repairs
- Equipment maintenance
- Forklift industrial and all terrain certified
- Bulldozer certified
- Grader certified
- Grade stake and gps certified
- Osha 10 and 30 certified
- Former mine safety certified
- Former hazmat certified
- Safety compliance
- PPE use
- PPE compliance
- Troubleshooting
- Problem solving
- Time tracking
- Inventory management
- Parts ordering
- Organizational skills
- Recordkeeping
- Planning
- Multitasking
- Team collaboration
- Training others
- Effective communication
- Written communication
- Attention to detail
- Customer service
- Relationship building
- Networking
- Conflict resolution
- Flexible and adaptable
- Friendly, positive attitude
- Task prioritization
- PPE compliance
- First Aid/CPR
- PPE compliance
Timeline
Yard Guy
MacAllister Machinery Company
01.2018 - Current
Heavy Equipment Operator
Stante B&V EXcavating
06.2014 - 12.2017
Summer Help / Mechanics Assistant
Michigan Cat
06.2013 - 05.2014
Mechanics Assistant
Stante B&V Excavating
06.2012 - 12.2012
Certified Technician in Kawasaki And Yamaha Motorsports - Kawasaki And Yamaha Motorsports
Motorcycle Mechanics Institute