Lonnie Speagle
Bowling Green
Summary
Skilled and reliable Supervisor/Foreman who bringing positive attitude and strong safety and quality commitment to each project. Provides exceptional experience leading teams, delivering results and exceeding expectations. Creative and motivated leader adept at utilizing exceptional design and planning strengths to accomplish complex projects. Skilled in teaching new concepts and best practice strategies.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
Work History
Heavy Equipment Operator
Magruder Companies
06.2025 - Current
- Operated heavy machinery including excavators and bulldozers to complete construction projects efficiently.
- Conducted routine maintenance checks on equipment to ensure optimal performance and safety compliance.
- Collaborated with site supervisors to assess project requirements and allocate resources effectively.
- Trained and mentored junior operators on safety protocols and equipment operation techniques.
Manager of Branch Store
La Crosse Lumber Co.
03.2024 - 11.2024
- Overseeing store management for day-to-day operations, supervising employees, approving timesheets, drafting proposals/bids for customer jobs. In contact with vendors for supply orders and discussing new materials. Working with customers on what they needed, ordering materials for customers, store and yard. Ran weekly and monthly reports. Posted invoices to customer accounts. Reconciliation daily of money draw and deposits to the bank. Worked with contracts ordering materials needed for job sites as well as delivery to them. Hiring, firing, and evaluation of employees. Working with other La Crosse locations on material needed for jobs.
Electrician & Instrumentation Foreman
Brown & Root
06.2022 - 09.2023
- Leading EI technicians in a safe environment, ensuring work orders are done in a timely manner, ordering parts, entering daily time sheets, and entering work into daily log. Speaking with the customer as to what needs done and ensuring steps were taken by technician to complete work orders. Assisting technician with any problems that might come up about a job they are working on. Ordering parts and inventorying as needed. Acting supervisory duties when he is off-site, on vacation, night, and weekends, etc.
Maintenance Mechanic
Watlow Electrical
11.2021 - 06.2022
- Performing PMs on equipment, repairing equipment breakdowns, troubleshooting equipment from parts to the PLC in a timely manner to minimize downtime, HVAC, installation of new equipment, fabricating, machinist work making new parts, installation of new electrical components such as running conduit and pulling wires, working closely with production team, building maintenance, automation, hydraulics, updating job plans, updating parts, working with plant technicians with programming issues and communicating, and email on problems/issues during the shift. Ordering parts and inventorying as needed.
Electrician and Instrumentation
Brown & Root
10.2021 - 11.2021
- Weekly PMs on critical instrumentation, quarterly/yearly SIS checks on instrumentation, work/replace valves, probes, samplers, rebuild valves, run conduit and wiring, rebuild electrical buckets. Ordering parts and inventorying as needed.
Journeyman Electrician
Tri-County Electric Contractors
11.2018 - 10.2019
- Wiring of new construction, remodels, commercial and residential, breaker boxes, conduit, switch boxes for backup generator power. Installation of service panels and service wiring. Troubleshooting electrical problems.
Maintenance Mechanic
General Mills
05.2004 - 11.2018
- Performing PMs on equipment, repairing equipment breakdowns, troubleshooting equipment from parts to the PLC in a timely manner to minimize downtime, HVAC, installation of new equipment, fabricating, machinist work making new parts, installation of new electrical components such as running conduit and pulling wires, working closely with production team, building maintenance as in building new office buildings, automation, hydraulics, interview process of new mechanics, updating job plans, updating parts, working with plant technicians with programming issues and communicating in Maximo and email on problems/issues during the shift. Overseeing new projects of up to $8,000,000. Ordering parts and inventorying as needed.
Industrial Maintenance Mechanic
Most, Inc.
04.2001 - 01.2004
- Upkeep on machinery and breakdowns to minimize downtime of production. PM of equipment. Monitoring of hazardous chemicals IE. chlorine. Know and understand the process of melting aluminum where they take it back to original aluminum and then add different minerals back to make the grade of aluminum for the customers product.
Carpenter
Self-employed Carpenter
04.1999 - 04.2001
- Remodeling of homes, building new homes, blueprint reading, put together material lists for bidding of new jobs, general carpentry work along with plumbing and electrical experience.
- Diagnosed and repaired mechanical issues in production equipment, minimizing downtime.
Heavy Equipment Operator
Chester Bross Construction
08.1995 - 04.1999
- Operation of heavy equipment on road projects, blueprint reading, technical drawings of plans used for building of roadways, operation or scraper, bulldozer, terrain cranes, track excavator, backhoe, wheel loader, track loader and forklift.
Education
Certificate of High School Equivalence -
12-2000
Skills
- Heavy equipment operation
- Valid Driver's license
- Safe equipment operation
- Loader operation
- Electrical repairs
- Electrical installation
- Electrical troubleshooting
- Wiring installation
- Mechanical troubleshooting
- Preventive Maintenance
- Equipment installation
- Equipment troubleshooting
- Goal oriented
- Staff management
- Customer service
- Training and mentoring
Timeline
Heavy Equipment Operator
Magruder Companies
06.2025 - Current
Manager of Branch Store
La Crosse Lumber Co.
03.2024 - 11.2024
Electrician & Instrumentation Foreman
Brown & Root
06.2022 - 09.2023
Maintenance Mechanic
Watlow Electrical
11.2021 - 06.2022
Electrician and Instrumentation
Brown & Root
10.2021 - 11.2021
Journeyman Electrician
Tri-County Electric Contractors
11.2018 - 10.2019
Maintenance Mechanic
General Mills
05.2004 - 11.2018
Industrial Maintenance Mechanic
Most, Inc.
04.2001 - 01.2004
Carpenter
Self-employed Carpenter
04.1999 - 04.2001
Heavy Equipment Operator
Chester Bross Construction
08.1995 - 04.1999