Lee Salazar
Elko
Summary
Accomplished Underground Miner with extensive experience at Nevada Gold Mines, proficient in operating Sandvic bolters and jumbos. Demonstrated strong troubleshooting skills and effective inventory control practices, ensuring safe and efficient operations. Proven ability to lead teams and achieve production goals while maintaining high safety standards.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Underground Miner
SMD
Elko
10.2023 - Current
- Leeville
- Full cycle miner who performed all cycles efficiently throughout work
- Bolt rounds
- Drill rounds
- Load rounds
- Gob rounds
- Worked utilities as headings were advanced
Underground Miner
Nevada Gold Mines
Elko
07.2022 - 09.2023
- Ran production bolter, Goldrush NV
- Bolting of fresh headings
- Did clean to bolts when mucker hands not available
- Installing of long support
- Carried out all necessary heading inspections and post blast inspections prior to any work being performed
- Ran lever jumbo when no headings were available to bolt.
Underground Miner Helper
SMD
Elko
08.2021 - 07.2022
- Leeville
- Did all utilitiy maintenence including install and tear down as needed.
- Transported supplies to and from laydowns, to headings for work to be performed
- Ran muckers to gob muck to muckbays and load trucks with muck
- Trained on bolt up procedures and bolt standards
- Painted faces for lead miner to drill and trained on jumbos
- Trained on install of long support including grout bolts
- Ran haul truck in spare time when nothing else was
Operator/Surveyor
Highmark Construction
Elko
06.2019 - 08.2021
- Ran heavy equipment for mining development and reclamation
- Tasked trained on CAT dozers including D4,D6,D8,D9,D10s and D11s, Loaders excavators and moto graders.
- Ran all equipment safe and efficiently.
- Ran finish grade using TRIMBLE GPS systems.
- Performed all tasks including grades, slopes. line staking, elevation and grade checks and final as-builts.
Operator/Labor Foreman
Vt Construction Inc.
Las Vegas
02.2016 - 06.2019
- Ran all heavy equipment for labor crew including dozers, loaders, and excavators.
- Read prints and plans for all small projects.
- Responsible for lining out and teaching all laborers on tasks to be perfomed.
- Filled out daily JSA and work safetyu forms and collected all daily safety cards from labor crew for review.
- Carried all tasks out safely and efficiently.
Pipefitter/General Laborer
Dallago Corporation
Gallup
02.2016 - 06.2019
- Ran equipment during dirt work for installation of underground utilities.
- Read plans and schematics for work plan.
- installed new utiliites including new water sewer pipes, fixtures.
- Pressure tested new lines and inspected new work
- carried out all aspects of job safely and
Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator
Ch2M Hill now JACOBS
Grants
02.2012 - 06.2016
- Communicated operational issues and changes to supervisor on a regular basis.
- Employed wide variety of hand and power tools including hoists, drills, precission measuring instruments and electronic testing devices,
- read and reported monthly meters for water and sewer to city on usages including full reports.
- perfomed routine preventetive maintenance to ensure that building systems operated efficiently.
- Perfomed daily tests of water to ensure proper chemical balances and treatment.
- followed standards and procedures to maintain safe work environments
Education
High School Diploma -
Grants High School
Grants, NM05-2009
Skills
- Troubleshooting experience
- Computer profficient
- Inventory control practices
- vast equipment operating knowledge
- data analysis tools
- Sandvick bolters and jumbos
- Caterpiller
Timeline
Underground Miner
SMD
10.2023 - Current
Underground Miner
Nevada Gold Mines
07.2022 - 09.2023
Underground Miner Helper
SMD
08.2021 - 07.2022
Operator/Surveyor
Highmark Construction
06.2019 - 08.2021
Operator/Labor Foreman
Vt Construction Inc.
02.2016 - 06.2019
Pipefitter/General Laborer
Dallago Corporation
02.2016 - 06.2019
Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator
Ch2M Hill now JACOBS
02.2012 - 06.2016
High School Diploma -
Grants High School