Nicholas Fort
Berrien Springs
Summary
USMC Iraq War Veteran with four years honable discharge, experience in team management, administrative accountability and supply management. Effectively managed $1.2 million in equipment. Supervised troops to complete daily task in the warehouse.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Operations Director
Twin Cities Area Transportation Authority
Benton Harbor
09.2022 - Current
- Oversees all operations.
- Collaborates with Executive Director to develop priorities, goals, and timelines for all Operational Service Needs.
- Maintains attendance records for vehicle operators and back-up drivers; ensures the attendance policy is enforced and monitored daily.
- Develops driver and dispatch schedules fairly, in consideration of seniority and hours.
- Conducts performance reviews for all operations staff at least annually.
- Monitors vehicle operator performance.
- Assist in pre- and post-trip vehicle inspections and use information in maintenance program.
- Maintain Driver Vehicle Reports.
- Collaborate with other Coordinators to maximize efficiency.
- Attend monthly board meetings.
- Meet with stakeholders regularly to maintain partnerships and contracts.
- Monitor time and attendance
- Assist with Running payroll
- Under the general direction of the Transit Manager, performs responsible supervision of skilled and semi-skilled employees engaged in the maintenance of a public transit system's vehicles, equipment and facilities; determines resource needs and maintains adequate supplies and parts, and monitors budget expenditures for maintenance operations; collects data, analyzes, and makes recommendations to improve maintenance operations; and performs related work as required.
- Supervises and coordinates the activities of employees engaged in the maintenance of a public transit system's vehicles, equipment and facilities.
- Assists in the supervision of all Transit employees.
Warehouse Assistant
KSS ENTERPRISES
Benton Harbor
10.2021 - 09.2023
- The primary role of the Warehouse Assistant includes the receiving and processing of incoming stock and materials, picking and filling orders from stock, packing and shipping orders and managing, organising and retrieving stock in the warehouse.
- Drove the forklift
- Picked, packed, and shipped items
- Made sure all items were clean
- Supervised shipping and receiving
Stamping Press Operator / set up
Colson Group USA
02.2018 - 03.2020
- Level 3 Operator. Experience in setting single hit and progressive dies of various sizes in machine.
- I also check the parts to make sure there in print
CNC Machinist
Gaishin Manufacturing
Benton Harbor
05.2015 - 06.2017
- I worked on the Tsugami swiss lathe and the Muratec.
- I study work orders and perform proper set-up and calibration procedures for all equipment and accessories to be used on projects.
- Ensure that every machine procedure is done in accordance with the strict guidelines of the company.
- Follow all company safety protocol.
- Inspect the work area and machines that were used during the day prior to leaving at the end of each shift.
- Programs mills and lathes by entering instructions, including zero and reference points; setting tool registers, offsets, compensation, and conditional switches; calculating requirements, including basic math, geometry, and trigonometry; proving part programs.
- Sets-up mills and lathes by installing and adjusting three- and four-jaw chucks, tools, attachments, collets, bushings, cams, gears, stops, and stock pushers; indicating vices; tramming heads.
Machine Operator, Foundry Operator, Forklift Driver, Heat Treat OPERATOR
Chassix
Benton Harbor
06.2012 - 08.2016
- Machine Operator: I made sure that the machine was working at full capacity are stocked with needed materials, well maintained and perform periodic checks on output.
- Foundry Operator: Performs any combination of following tasks in foundry concerned with melting metal, pouring metal into molds, removing castings from molds, dressing castings, moving foundry materials, and cleaning equipment and work areas.
- Weighs out specified amounts of materials for furnace charge, and loads charge into melting furnace.
- Forklift Driver: Unloading materials and merchandise from incoming vehicles and stacking them to assigned places, locating and moving stock of products to pallets or crates for storage or shipment.
- Heat Treat Operator: Determine types and temperatures of baths and quenching media needed to attain specified part hardness, toughness, and ductility, using heat-treating charts and knowledge of methods, equipment and metals.
- Adjust controls to maintain temperatures and heating times, using thermal instruments and charts, dials and gauges.
- Test parts for hardness, using hardness testing equipment.
- Examine parts to ensure metal shade and color conform to specifications.
- Remove parts from baths after specified times and air dry or cool parts in water or other baths.
- Identify proper racking systems; rack and unrack a variety of parts.
Education
Business Management -
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High school diploma or GED -
Skills
- CNC
- Calibration
- Carrying
- Inventory control
- Order picking
- Cnc Machine
- Stand-up counterbalanced forklift operation
- Team management
- Customer service
- Data entry
- Math
- Order entry
- Warehouse safety management
- Warehouse experience
- Contractor management
- Machine operation
- CNC machine operator experience
- Microsoft Excel
- Forklift
- Dispatching
- Stamping Press
- Order shipping
- Inventory replenishment
- Bending
- Materials handling
- Order picker
- Forklifts with various attachments
- Reach truck
- Received goods storage
- Shipping and receiving inspections
- Sit-down counterbalanced forklift operation
- Order confirmation
- Shipping & receiving
- Basic Math
- Manufacturing company experience
- Inventory allocation
- Shipping and receiving inventory management
- Supplier Management
- Hoists
- Decision making
- Crane
- Customer complaint resolution
- Operations management
- Sales management
- Precision measurement in machining
- Lean manufacturing
- Labeling
- Load & unload
- Hand trucks
- Lifting
- Attention to detail
- Press operation
- Typing
- Algebra
- Leadership
- Senior leadership
- Warehouse distribution
- Unloading
- Pallet jack
- Order fulfillment receiving
Certification
- Passenger Assistance Safety and Sensitivity (PASS), CTAA, 10/25, 10/28
- Certified Forklift Operator, 01/19, 04/21
- Driver's License
- Electric Pallet Jack Certification
Military Service
USMC, United States, Cpl, 10/01, 10/05
Timeline
Operations Director
Twin Cities Area Transportation Authority
09.2022 - Current
Warehouse Assistant
KSS ENTERPRISES
10.2021 - 09.2023
Stamping Press Operator / set up
Colson Group USA
02.2018 - 03.2020
CNC Machinist
Gaishin Manufacturing
05.2015 - 06.2017
Machine Operator, Foundry Operator, Forklift Driver, Heat Treat OPERATOR
Chassix
06.2012 - 08.2016
Business Management -
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