Justin Cotton

• Implementing proper use of PPE during tasks.
• Maintained a clean and organized work area ensuring compliance with safety.
• Operated heavy machinery such as forklifts or overhead cranes.
• Specialty welding.
• Fabrication.
• Mechanical Bolt Ups.
• Various maintenance tasks as needed.

I have worked at Georgia Pacific Port Hudson performing these tasks various times since November of 2017, my most recent being since March of 2025.

Overall experience at GP has been for an accumulative of around 4+ years. This included emergency jobs, outages and scheduled maintenance.

• Implementing proper use of PPE during tasks.
• Maintained a clean and organized work area ensuring compliance with safety.
• Specialty welding.
• Fabrication.
• Mechanical Bolt Ups.
• Various maintenance tasks as needed.

I have worked at UPS performing these tasks various times since August 2022. This included pre-down, scheduled turnarounds, emergency jobs and start up.

• Maintained a clean and organized work area ensuring compliance with safety.
• Operated heavy machinery such as forklifts or overhead cranes.
• Specialty welding.
• Fabrication.
• Mechanical Bolt Ups.
• Worked alongside team to accomplish work goals according to schedule.
• Performed job safety analysis on daily basis to mitigate risks for all workers.
• Completed final walkthrough at job sites to close out projects.
• Achieved timely completion of projects with strict adherence to budget constraints and quality standards.
• Various tasks as needed.

At Southern Fabworks I worked not only at the Fab Shop but also other locations such as Louisiana Fish Fry and Riverland Industries.

I started out here as a welder and worked my way up in the company to perform various leadership roles.