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Lee Hiers

Aiken,SC

Summary

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level Mechanical position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Retail Parts Professional

Advance Auto Parts
10.2023 - Current
  • Identified specific replacement parts to meet customers' needs, making accurate suggestions with confidence.
  • Organized parts storage and stocked inventory according to established guidelines.
  • Stocked and managed stock of parts.
  • Assisted customers in finding appropriate parts promptly.

Mobile Tractor Trailer Mechanic

Blue Falcon Technologies
06.2023 - 09.2023

Upon receiving a call of a job making sure any necessary parts and tools would be easily available inside one of my trucks toolboxes before moving out to find the job location, arriving to the site within the 90minutes assuming it was within 30 miles .


  • Troubleshot problems and implemented solutions to fix issues with brakes and electrical lights as well as air ride .(where applicable)
  • Documented all actions.( Through a detailed text message upon job completion with pictures and prices on parts and job time )
  • Handled repairs, replacing broken components and inspecting engines for wear and tear.(anything noticable that could cause obvious problems later on to let the driver know)
  • Road side work staying safe and sound while figuring out the issue and making the fix appropriately.

Tractor Trailer Mechanic

Darling Ingredients Inc
08.2022 - 08.2022

Responsible for walking of the yard daily and checking for trailers and tractors that are parked on the yard (up to 60 at times ) that are due for Federal annual D.O.T. inspections, as well as just checking each for obvious visible repairs needed including but not limited to, bent tarp bars, holes in the back of or on the sides of the trailers, lights missing, tires being bad.


Repairs made to leaky wheel seals when found, ( tear down of leaking hub, cleaning or replacement of bearings , cleaning of hub, reinstallation of hub components to be torqued to spec , installation of new drums and brake shoes, and adjusting them once done , replacing slack adjusters and s-cam components when necessary.


Rewiring of rear light boxes if and when tore off due to plant or driver damage.


Servicing and inspecting two fork lifts, two bobcats ,a back hoe as well as an excavator and JLG man lifts, and repairs made to hydraulics when needed.


Upon finding a trailer due for annual D.O.T. inspection; finding a yard tractor to hook up to it walking around to make sure it's fine to be moved and pulling it into one of the truck shop bays , making a work order on it, when finishing an inspection each inspection gets a full service if a tractor, it's a Wet PM . Trailers and tractors both get repaired where any and all repairs are needed including welding, tires, electrical and any mechanical fixes

Drywall Specialist Apprentice

Jeremy Steele (8036364500)
06.2017 - 06.2022
  • Prepared work area, tools and equipment for job site.
  • Received consistent excellent feedback on work quality and customer service.
  • Prepared materials and set up equipment and supplies to support seamless drywall installation.
  • Keeping a clean and safe work area within a customers home keeping dust at a minimum.
  • Finding areas in need of repair and cutting out the right amount of area of ceiling or wall and tightening up the area with nails or screws before cutting back and installing new boards, and packing the patches with durabond before meshing the areas to be prepped for finishing
  • On a new construction job,going in taking measurements to get an exact count of boards to take to the job before ordering them and physically stocking them throughout the house to be hung and fastened
  • Clean up periodically throughout the day no matter if in a home owners house on a repair or on a new construction build.

Education

GED - English

Midland Valley High School
Graniteville, SC
07.2014

Skills

  • Mechanically inclined
  • Self motivated , peoples person
  • Hard worker and team player
  • Improving Customer Satisfaction
  • Full Inspection of tractor and trailers as well as most heavy equipment
  • Vehicle Operations Knowledge
  • Air brake systems
  • Inventory Management
  • Verbal and Written Communication
  • Problem-Solving Skills
  • Heavy equipment operation

Timeline

Retail Parts Professional

Advance Auto Parts
10.2023 - Current

Mobile Tractor Trailer Mechanic

Blue Falcon Technologies
06.2023 - 09.2023

Tractor Trailer Mechanic

Darling Ingredients Inc
08.2022 - 08.2022

Drywall Specialist Apprentice

Jeremy Steele (8036364500)
06.2017 - 06.2022

GED - English

Midland Valley High School
Lee Hiers