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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
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Perlita Barraza

Pampa

Summary

Dynamic Ironworker and Maintenance Technician with extensive experience at Conner Industries, excelling in structural bolting and OSHA compliance. Proven ability to enhance safety culture and streamline operations, achieving significant improvements in project efficiency. Skilled in rigging techniques, fostering teamwork and communication on-site.

Experienced with reading and interpreting blueprints and schematics to ensure accurate assembly. Connecting, fabricating, and cutting tools to fit and secure metal structures. Strong understanding of safety protocols and teamwork to deliver quality results.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Ironworker/Maintenance Technician

Conner Industries
06.2023 - 06.2025
  • Complied with OSHA and company safety guidelines for height safety, lock out tag out, confined space, and hazardous material handling.
  • Handle and store materials safely to prevent accidents, and review safe work plan with team and supervisors.
  • Erected structural steel and iron frameworks and sheeting/decking buildings determine locations of reinforcement steel from blueprints or instructions types and sizes of materials.
  • Cut metal using different type of methods such as acetylene torch, metabo, and other cutting equipments,
  • Ensured structural integrity by installing and aligning steel components according to specification connecting and bolt up using tools such as line up pins, sleever bar, spud wrenches, and other connecting tools
  • Able to perform rigging and ironwork operation in supports of task using cranes. hand signals, hoists. come-alongs, pulleys, trolleys, sheet shears, and other rigging methods.
  • Utilize various tools and electrical equipments such as magdrills, hand drill, grinder, metabo, sawzall , impacts, torque wrenches, jlg, scissor lifts, forklift, air compressor, and harness.
  • Fabricate steel/piping columns. beams, girders, and spools
  • Demo/installed gear boxes, pulleys, rollers, bearings, Id fans, soot blower, preheater, flanges, valves, duct, spools, expansion joints, steamline,

Equipment Operator

RK Hall
03.2022 - 05.2023
  • Upheld strict adherence to OSHA regulations, ensuring a safe working environment for all team members.
  • Operated range of heavy equipment on regular basis with advanced skill.
  • Maintained and cleaned equipment after each job and inspected contribute to a cleaner worksite.
  • Increased work quality by consistently leveling gravel, or concrete materials across job sites and increased productivity with exceptional attention to detain during excavation trenching, and grading processes.
  • Operated machining equipment safely with team of operators by communicating with co-worker on projects progress and adjustments.
  • Ensured safe working environment through adherence to safety guidelines and protocols for equipment operation.
  • Manage traffic control around work zones as needed, ensuring public safety while minimizing disruptions to ongoing projects.
  • Reduced rework rates by monitoring ground conditions during rolling operating, excavating, and moving dirt.
  • Remove topsoil, vegetation, and rocks to grade earth specifications.
  • Improving job site productivity by training new employees on proper equipments operations techniques and safety protocols.

Pipefitter/Foreman

Brown & Root Industrial Services
03.2015 - 12.2016
  • Performed quality assurance checks regularly identifying potential issues early allowing for swift corrective action minimizing negative impacts on overall timelines.
  • Enhanced safety measures by conducting regular inspections of tools, equipment, and work areas.
  • Increased efficiency by streamlining pipe installation processes and ensuring proper alignment.
  • Installed and maintained industrial piping fittings, valves, flanges and clamps to complete systems setup. Threaded pipes using manual pipe threads and pipe machines. measured and cut materials to correct angles.
  • Used clamps and brackets to attach pipes to walls, structures, and fixtures.
  • Operated drill motors, grinders, chop saws, hack saws, and burning torches to perform tasks.
  • Followed safe work practices, which included fall protection and PPE.
  • Read and interpreted blueprints, and other technical drawings to determine best installation methods.
  • Fabricated pipe sections and components such as beveling, alignment, preparation, and assembly preventing leaks and maintaining structural integrity
  • Replaced faulty parts and repaired structural damages to pipes and related components.
  • Connected piping systems to water heaters, boilers, pumps and auxillary equipment to complete installations.

Ironworker/Boilermaker/Pipefitter/Maintenance Technician

Zachry Industrial
02.2010 - 06.2015
  • Erected structural steel and iron framework.
  • Installing/demoing grading, toeplate, and handrails.
  • Cutting/fabricating metal using metabo, shears, cutting torch, and grinder,
  • Tightened or replaced bolts and gaskets to repair leaks.
  • Interpreted blueprints, sketches, and specifications for each job.
  • Used hand signals to notify crane operator to lift materials to work area. Using rigging such hoist, come-along, slings, rope, shackles,
  • Removed boiler casings, grading, handrails, manhole, and hole covers to facilitate access to boilers or other vessels for repair.
  • Ensured structural integrity by properly installing and aligning steel components according to specifications.
  • Contributed to successful project completion through precise cutting, bending, and fitting of metal materials.
  • Skillfully operated hand tools such as spud wrenches or drift pins for aligning bolt holes in steel members during assembly processes.
  • Improved workplace safety culture through participation in safety meetings, hazard assessments, and incident reporting procedures.

Education

Welding, Mechanic Shop, And Drafting

Richfield High School
Richfield
05-1999

Skills

  • Construction safety
  • Rigging techniques
  • Structural bolting
  • OSHA compliance
  • Blueprint reading
  • Aerial work platform
  • Crane signaling
  • Column erection

Certification

  • Certified pipefitter
  • Forklift
  • Sissorlift
  • Jlg

Timeline

Ironworker/Maintenance Technician

Conner Industries
06.2023 - 06.2025

Equipment Operator

RK Hall
03.2022 - 05.2023

Pipefitter/Foreman

Brown & Root Industrial Services
03.2015 - 12.2016

Ironworker/Boilermaker/Pipefitter/Maintenance Technician

Zachry Industrial
02.2010 - 06.2015

Welding, Mechanic Shop, And Drafting

Richfield High School

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