Open To Work
Justin Polchow
Las Vegas,NV
Summary
Hardworking welder fabricator focused on completing work quickly to consistently exceed targets. Reliable team member accustomed to taking on challenging tasks. Dedicated to business success. Motivated to continue to learn and grow!
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
Aspire Contracting
Tempe, Arizona
10.2025 - 03.2026
- Managed multiple tasks simultaneously within tight deadlines, ensuring project milestones were met.
- Built relationships with clients, contractors, and vendors through effective communication, enhancing collaboration.
- Solved complex challenges in the field, contributing to project success and client satisfaction.
- Negotiated terms of contracts with customers while ensuring company profitability.
- Maintained detailed records of customer interactions and updated database regularly.
- Generated leads and maintained lists of prospective customers.
- Used knowledge of company products and services to recommend solutions to customers.
Welding Fabrication Shop Manager
CHALK.build
Tempe, Arizona
02.2023 - 05.2025
- Ensured quality standards met on schedule and within budget constraints.
- Coordinated production schedules to consistently meet output requirements.
- Resolved issues impacting final fit and appearance of each item, enhancing overall product quality.
- Aligned components with care to achieve correct fit.
- Operated welders, hydraulic tools, saws, and benders to complete fabrication tasks.
- Followed production specifications and technical information to create pieces of consistent quality.
- Checked measurements and dimensions to verify conformance with specifications.
- Fabricated custom pieces of furniture, cabinetry, windows, doors and more to client specifications.
Custom Builder
Pierce Designs
Gilbert, AZ
08.2021 - 02.2023
- Interpreted shop designs and drawings to generate cut and to-do lists.
- Read and interpreted work orders, blueprints, or instructions to assemble or perform tasks.
- Leveraged power saws, grinders, and other pneumatic and electrical tools to cut workpieces.
- Set up welding equipment for various tasks.
- Removed rough spots with grinders, scrapers and hand files to achieve smooth finishes.
- Completed accurate and clean welds in flat, vertical, and overhead positions.
Fabrication Welder
Quality Fence
Lake Havasu, AZ
01.2021 - 08.2021
- Followed safe working habits consistently to protect team members, equipment, and materials for unnecessary risks.
- Positioned and aligned parts according to exact blueprint instructions and job specifications.
- Used clamps and jigs to secure workpieces and maintain alignment.
- Weld, fabricated, and installed all types of fencing and gates.
- Maintain shop cleanliness and inventory.
Welder
Valley Design
Fountain, MN
05.2019 - 10.2020
- Operated machinery and equipment to execute precise manual and automatic welds, ensuring structural integrity.
- Completed accurate and clean welds in flat, vertical, and overhead positions.
- Managed layout, fit-up, and tacking processes across multiple product lines to streamline fabrication.
- Clamped, held, tack-welded, heat-bended, and bolted components, completing assembly tasks to meet project specifications.
- Handled layout, fit-up, and tacking on multiple product lines.
- Clamped, held, tack-welded, heat-bended, and bolted components to complete assigned tasks.
- Checked completed workpieces closely for defects and measured distances to verify conformance with tolerances.
- Inspected completed workpieces for defects and measured distances to ensure compliance with specifications.
Skills
- Creative thinking
- Problem solving
- Task prioritization
- Organizational skills
- Read blueprints
- MIG welding
- TIG welding
- Grinding and finishing
- Custom fabrication
- Power tools
Work Preference
Job Search Status
Open to workWork Type
Full TimePart TimeContract WorkGig WorkLocation Preference
On-SiteRemoteHybridSalary Range
$45000/yr - $200000/yrTimeline
Project Manager
Aspire Contracting
10.2025 - 03.2026
Welding Fabrication Shop Manager
CHALK.build
02.2023 - 05.2025
Custom Builder
Pierce Designs
08.2021 - 02.2023
Fabrication Welder
Quality Fence
01.2021 - 08.2021
Welder
Valley Design
05.2019 - 10.2020