Laurie Brien

Supervised routine business functions, focusing on optimizing processes and enhancing productivity.

Developed and executed strategies for a lawn and garden sales and service business, focusing on customer satisfaction and quality service.

Managed budget allocations,reducing expenses to increase profitability.

Negotiated contracts with multiple suppliers and vendors to secure favorable terms and pricing.

Oversaw daily operations to ensure efficiency and productivity.

Ordered all lawn mowers in February predicting which mowers would sell in season for the year.

Facilitated acquisition of local, state, and federal permits to maintain regulatory standards.

Conducted weekly profit and loss assessments through QuickBooks, ensuring accurate financial reporting and insights.

Negotiated commercial insurance and workers compensation to get best pricing.

Purchased all tools and material needed to run service department.

Checked all employee's service work to ensure high quality repairs and maintenance work for each customer.

Give out daily work orders to each employee every morning.

Held a safety meeting each Monday morning to go over any near miss and avoid having any injuries.

• Established a positive workplace culture that fostered employee engagement, collaboration, and loyalty.
• Oversaw vehicle acquisition and maintenance, ensuring reliability and compliance with safety standards.
• Maintained high volume of inventory to keep wait times down to satisfy customer expectations.
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• Supervised installation and maintenance of electrical distribution systems.
• Coordinated crew activities to ensure compliance with safety regulations.
• Trained and mentored junior linemen on safe operation of tools and equipment.
• Developed work schedules to optimize project timelines and resource allocation.
• Increased project completion rates through effective delegation of tasks and close monitoring of progress.
• Troubleshot complex electrical systems, identifying root causes of issues and implementing appropriate solutions.
• Worked call out on storm repairs at any time.
• Changed out poles and hung Stryker switches

• Conducted routine inspections to identify potential hazards or equipment issues.
• Expedited outage restoration times by quickly diagnosing issues and coordinating repair efforts among crew members.
• Held a safety Tailgate before start of every job and held another if job plans changed during work.
• Was voted to sit on the safety committee for 5 consecutive years.
• Worked a structured standby call out every six weeks.
• Built new taps to houses or businesses both overhead and underground.
• Took necessary time to teach apprentices and explain all dangers involved with that job.
• Called in at any time to work storm damage and take great pride in restoring power as fast and safe as possible.
• Learned to be very proficient in locating underground lines and fault finding for repairs,not using a thumper.
• Terminated all sizes of underground elbows,splices and pot heads.
• installed # phase banks and platform banks as well as trouble shoot any problems.
• Regular maintenance and repairs on all 32 substations.
• Changed out station transformers and WE's.
• Zeroed out regulators and switch bypassed for repairs.
• Attended one week update schools every year.
• Used computers for work orders and keep up crew members time per jobsite.
• installed automated switches overhead and underground to provide reliable power to critical members such as hospitals.
• Installed repeaters and wiring for change over to automated meter reading system.

• Supervised team of linemen to ensure safety compliance and efficient project execution.
• Coordinated daily operations and schedules to optimize workflow and meet project deadlines.
• Mentored junior linemen, providing training on safety protocols and technical skills.
• Implemented process improvements that enhanced operational efficiency and reduced downtime.
• Returned to each jobsite to ensure quality workmanship had been done and met RUS specs.
• Changed out and reconduct lines.
• Coordinated with COOP supervisors to receive job work orders and turn in completed jobs.
• Led the analysis of individual pole change-out pricing, developing comprehensive price lists for anchors, ground rods, transformer modifications, cutouts, and lightning arrestors to enhance bid accuracy for cooperatives. Oversaw the breakdown of pricing for electrical equipment, including anchors and transformers, to provide competitive bids to cooperative clients.
• Recorded profit and loss on each job work order to make adjustments on pricing to ensure profits.
• Frequently met up with other crews to help on larger job orders.

• Operated machinery in compliance with safety protocols and operational guidelines.
• Assisted in troubleshooting equipment issues to minimize downtime during production processes.
• Maintained accurate records of daily operations to ensure quality control standards were met.
• Collaborated with team members to optimize workflow and enhance productivity on the shop floor.
• Part of constructing a new substation.
• Set new poles to string eight miles seven 3 phase circuits of Hendrix cable and spacers.
• Replaced unknown miles of copper weld with ACSR wire.
• Hung and replaced single phase OCB's and 3 phase reclosures.
• Built about 30 new 3phase platform banks 120/240 240/480 277/480 and straight 480 voltages at an enormous rock quarry.
• Working five 14 hour days and one 8 hour day per week , I topped out in two and half years.
• Year five I was foreman of a 21 man construction crew , 88 pole change out and reconduct copper weld B phase to 1/0 ACSR as first job being pushed over five more experienced men, had to learn how lead under pressure.
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