Kevin Tucker
Edgewood,MD
Summary
Proactive problem solver. Improve inventory accuracy and overall warehouse operations by implementing new or adhering to previously established SOPs and guidelines. Team builder and motivator. Ability to prioritize and complete goals and tasks. Able to implement new processes and procedures. Take ideas from conception to completion.
Overview
2022
2022
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Shipping/ Receiving Clerk
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
- Load / unload 15-20 trucks of incoming and outgoing freight
- Average weight 40,000 pounds on 22- 44 pallets
- Inspect for damage, perform complete and accurate accounting, scan results into the WMS and check updated information for accuracy
- Strict adherence to GMP’s and safety guidelines
Storekeeper
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
- Generate a pick list, supply production with materials needed for multi-batch manufacturing process
- Return materials to warehouse upon completion
- Accuracy and attention to detail were a must
Blending Machine Operator
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
- Set-up, operate, and tend 5- 5000# blenders in the manufacturing of food products and spices
- Select, weigh, measure ingredients and products to ensure conformance to requirements
- Collect samples for laboratory testing
- Record operational and production data on specified forms
- Examine products visually or with hands, to ensure specifications are met
- Monitor equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation
- Perform equipment break-down for changeovers and cleaning
- Lift 50-100lbs
- Repetitively and up to 180lbs with help
Warehouseman
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
- Put away materials received into the warehouse
- Consolidate materials and insure all RF transactions had been made
- Maintain warehouse housekeeping
Laid Off Due to Covid-19
Self Employed Multiple Jobs
03.2019 - 06.2021
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
Warehouse Coworker
Ikea Inc.
09.2014 - 11.2018
- Assume major responsibility for shipping, receiving, picking and storage
- Unload and properly handle all inbound/outbound merchandise
- Secure merchandise properly to allow for safe movement through the distribution center
- Verify articles received against corresponding paperwork
- Note any discrepancies to ensure 100% inventory accuracy
- Remove and properly document all damages found or caused on inbound/outbound merchandise
- Properly store/stage all pallets in assigned locations
- Rotate to all location functions as assigned
- Maintain a clean and safe work area in all locations within the distribution center
- Attend work and contribute to an environment where IKEA culture is a strong and living reality that embraces the diversity of co-workers and customers
- Assume responsibility for other tasks and projects as assigned
Dump Truck Operator
K.M.T. Contractors
02.2008 - 01.2014
- Haul loads of gravel, sand, asphalt, and dirt to a pre-determined dumpsite
- 500,000 accident free safe driving miles
- Performed pre/post trip vehicle inspections and minor maintenance
- Operated 10 speed transmissions
- (Peterbilt, Kenworth)
- Worked scheduled and unscheduled overtime
Delivery Driver
E-Men Express
01.2007 - 10.2011
- Delivered parcel post to 23 post offices over a 200-mile route daily
- Provided punctual, professional, and courteous customer service while maintaining a clean driving record
- Drove a class B rated 26ft straight truck
- Performed pre/post trip vehicle inspections and minor maintenance
- Made interstate deliveries of various items (tools, equipment, supplies, machines, dialysis products etc.) 15-18 stops
- Proficient map reader and GPS user
- Averaged a 6 day 50+ hour work week
Shipping and Receiving Clerk
Exel Logistics, Incorporated
06.2004 - 08.2008
- Safely loaded, unloaded 8-10 trucks, 52 pallets each in a 12 hour period
- Proficient RF WMS user
- Red Dog and Red Prairie WMS systems
- Inspect freight for damage, remove damage if necessary, and perform appropriate WMS transaction
- Palletized incoming floor loaded freight using a slip sheet attachment
- Label and scan product into WMS
- Double check system updates
- Prepare and load UPS and FEDX freight according to their guidelines and procedures
- Certified stand-up and sit-down forklift, riding pallet jack, cherry picker, and reach-truck, slip-sheet and drum attachment operator
- Perform put away
- Worked a 12 hour shift
- Maintain warehouse sanitation levels
Chemical Operator
F.M.C., Incorporated
03.2001 - 11.2003
- Spent 9 months training in chemical processes and associated equipment
- As an outside technician, I performed hourly safety checks on equipment associated with the process and documented the results
- Collected samples and tested on a gas chronometer and reported results to the inside technician.
- Troubleshot down to equipment level and performed minor maintenance and/or made adjustments as needed
- Report major maintenance issues to proper maintenance personnel
- Inspected, read, adjusted, and calibrated, gauges and meters
- Record all data and archive all maintenance activity and pass information to the next shift via the shift diary
- Safely unloaded railcars of raw materials, some were hazardous materials including but not limited to chlorine
- Wore SCBA when required
- Lift 50-175lb bags as necessary to use as raw materials or adding a catalyst
- Strict adherence to safety procedures were a must and use of specialized equipment such as self-contained breathing apparatus was required
- Accurately blend and weigh materials used for blending and catalyst
- Use various forklifts, cranes, lifts, pallet jacks
- Enter all system required data into the computer as well as daily logs and other shift activity
- Operate, monitor, and control continuous batch processes
- Ability to read flow diagrams, some blueprints, and all process technical orders
- Perform start up and shut-down procedures
- Adhered to all EHS guidelines and procedures
- CPR and first aid proficient
- Emergency and fire training at the Maryland Fire and Rescue Academy
Warehouse Operations Supervisor
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
06.1987 - 11.1999
- Supervised 15 warehouse personnel in a receiving, warehousing, order selection, shipping, and production supplying in a 42million dollar a year food production operation
- Responsible for employee appraisals and monetary raise disbursement, as well as disciplinary procedures
- Directed all aspects of RF materials management from implementation through training and enhancements to second generation upgrades
- Regulated the adherence of safety and GMP policies and procedures
- Directed the safe performance of all aspects of warehouse operations
- Effective motivator, team player, and leader
- Innovative and proactive problem solver
- Constantly invented new ways to improve safety, product delivery, and scheduling, maximized time management and improved the budget
- Maintained a 'tour ready' facility with effective use of sanitation personnel
- Performed inventory reconciliation and cycle counting
- Used statistical methods to improve processes
- Employee response to numbers and graphs that they could interpret and understand proved to be overwhelmingly successful
- Proactively wrote policies and procedures to ensure and maintain a 98% inventory accuracy rating and the execution of safety and sanitation guidelines
- Proficient Micro-Soft Office Suite user
- Prepared documents, presentations, and correspondence daily
- Modified warehouse layout as needed to support increases in raw material storage
- Effective 'Space Planner'
- Increased employee knowledge of warehouse operations, goals, budgets, and other company issues and concerns; creating a team of individuals who realized their roles in the success or failure of our company
- Thus, productivity, enthusiasm, improvement ideas, and sanitation levels increased
Avionics Maintenance Technician
United States Air Force
02.1982 - 06.1984
- Avionics maintenance technician aboard B-52 aircraft
- Performed electronic maintenance, calibrations, and adjustments to navigational systems, radar and electro-optical viewing systems
- Troubleshot down to equipment and component level
- Advanced digital and analog electronics training
- Proficient user of oscilloscopes, multi-meters, radar generators, hand and power tools, test panels, system computers and other associated equipment
Education
General Studies -
Essex Community College
Essex, MD01.1992
Honorable Discharge - Avionics Maintenance
United States Air force
02.1984
High School Diploma -
The Gilman School
Baltimore, MD01.1982
Skills
- Warehouse management
- Inventory control
- Shipping logistics
- Forklift operation
- Quality inspection
- Team collaboration
- Data entry
- Problem resolution
- Safety compliance
- Attention to detail
- Time management
- Effective communication
- Self-motivated and independent
- Shipping and receiving
- Teamwork and cooperation
- Warehousing operations
- Warehouse safety
- Inventory management
Certification
- Certified forklift operator, including reach trucks, sit-downs, stand-ups, slip-sheet machines, clamp trucks, industrial lifts, motorized cranes and various battery changing machines.
- Class B Commercial Driver’s License (P/N endorsements).
- CPR certified.
- Fire and rescue training at Maryland Fire and Rescue Academy.
- Experienced user of AS/400 based WMS systems (SAP, Prism, Red Dog, and Red Prairie).
- Completed Dunn and Bradstreet 'Effective Management Suit' training courses. Six seminars each lasting a week. Awarded a certificate after satisfactory completion of each course.
Timeline
Laid Off Due to Covid-19
Self Employed Multiple Jobs
03.2019 - 06.2021
Warehouse Coworker
Ikea Inc.
09.2014 - 11.2018
Dump Truck Operator
K.M.T. Contractors
02.2008 - 01.2014
Delivery Driver
E-Men Express
01.2007 - 10.2011
Shipping and Receiving Clerk
Exel Logistics, Incorporated
06.2004 - 08.2008
Chemical Operator
F.M.C., Incorporated
03.2001 - 11.2003
Warehouse Operations Supervisor
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
06.1987 - 11.1999
Avionics Maintenance Technician
United States Air Force
02.1982 - 06.1984
General Studies -
Essex Community College
High School Diploma -
The Gilman School
Shipping/ Receiving Clerk
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
Storekeeper
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
Blending Machine Operator
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
Warehouseman
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
Honorable Discharge - Avionics Maintenance
United States Air force
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