RAUL Jr GONZALEZ
Houston,USA
Summary
Very motivated employee looking for an opportunity that will help me to grow further in my career. My first job in the field was in Lake Charles at SASOL Chemical Complex. I have handled numerous situations in my short career and efficiently delivered desired results to ensure timely completion of projects. I have acquired many professional skills on the job itself and I still crave learning and look forward to enhancing my efficiency. I am an individual with outstanding levels of energy and patience.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Foreman
Performance Contractors
La Porte, TX
05.2023 - Current
- Supervised and coordinated daily operations of construction crews (10-30 workers) across multiple job sites, ensuring safety, efficiency, and quality workmanship.
- Interpreted blueprints, project plans, and specifications to guide crew members and meet client expectations.
- Scheduled materials, equipment, and subcontractors, reducing project delays, and minimizing cost overruns by up to 15%.
- Conducted regular safety meetings and enforced OSHA compliance, leading to a 100% incident-free record during my tenure.
- Maintained accurate project documentation, including work logs, timecards, and progress reports for upper management.
- Trained and mentored new hires and junior team members, improving team productivity and retention.
- Liaised with clients, engineers, and inspectors to address concerns and ensure timely project completion.
- Coordinated and submitted permit applications for refinery construction and maintenance projects, including hot work, confined space entry, excavation, and line break permits.
- Ensured all permits were properly documented, authorized, and communicated to field crews prior to job execution.
Maintenance Technician
Spring Branch Community Health Center
Houston, Texas
08.2022 - 04.2023
- Skilled Maintenance Worker with experience in performing routine, reparative, and preventative maintenance at eight of SBCHC's Clinics. Adept at using hand tools, power tools, and industrial equipment to overhaul, repair, and install physical structures, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC systems. Success in prioritizing work orders to restore and sustain facility operations and simultaneously managing multiple repair projects.
- Complete daily, weekly and monthly checklists on building equipment to maintain records of scheduled maintenance procedures.
- Provided general building maintenance repairs: carpentry, electrical, plumbing, painting and HVAC
- Received and interpreted work orders to determine needed parts, equipment and services for maintenance and repair work.
- Assisted supervisor with records management.
Renovation Crew
Yilaam Kitchen Cabinets
Katy, Texas
02.2022 - 08.2022
- As a Cabinet Installer I would assemble the cabinets either at the shop or at the worksite and would match the cabinet items into a space based on measurements. Essential duties I would complete are consulting with clients, fitting hardware into the cabinetry, cutting wood, fixing components into the wall, using protective equipment, ensuring quality control, and cleaning the jobsite.
- Read and implement blueprints and CAD drawings.
- Effectively used power tools, hand tools, and various carpentry tools for wood work projects such as crown molding.
- Removing existing flooring and discarding of this material. Clearing the work surface from dust, debris, and obstructions. Preparing the work surface by applying adhesive, grouting, or other appropriate materials. Laying tile and other types of flooring. Ensuring that the flooring materials are well positioned, secure, and clean.
- Completed drywall installations at new construction sites as well on large and small remodeling projects. Accurately measured spaces to be drywalled and measured and cut sheets accordingly. Secured drywall to wall studs using a nail gun. Used needed measurement tools to ensure even installation. Sanded nailed drywall and taped and floated sheetrocked seems.
Maintenance Technician
Carriage inn
Katy, Texas
08.2021 - 02.2022
- Skilled Maintenance Worker with experience in performing routine, reparative, and preventative maintenance in diverse industries. Adept at using hand tools, power tools, and industrial equipment to overhaul, repair, and install physical structures, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC systems. Success in prioritizing work orders to restore and sustain facility operations and simultaneously managing multiple repair projects.
- Processed and responded to maintenance requests, and escalated specialized requests to electrical, plumbing, and HVAC technicians.
- Repaired or replaced plumbing fixtures, light figures and switches, ballasts, doors and hardware, windows and screens, and floor covering, including tile, hardwood, laminate, or carpeting.
- Patched, painted, and finished hard surfaces, and changed air conditioning filters as routine maintenance.
- Assess property damage and identified type of repair work needed.
Blaster/Painter
Axios Industrial
Sweeney, Texas
12.2020 - 08.2021
- Identified hazardous materials labels and related safety precautions on the job site.
- Build containment around work area to avoid sand going everywhere
- Blast steel pipe, valves, etc. by removing all the rust and hitting all the mechanical damage while following the pipe.
- Mixed various types of primers and paint according to the customers mill specifications.
- Applied coats of paint to structural pipe with brush and roll while painting mechanical damage on the way.
- Cleaned the work area by carefully following all guidelines for the safe handling and disposal of hazardous chemicals and waste.
Planner/Scheduler/Quantity Surveyor
Keppel Amfels
Brownsville, Texas
04.2019 - 09.2020
- Work with Senior Planners and Construction Coordinators to identify and resolve problems or issues related to the schedule, material deliveries, change management, safety, and quality.
- Assist Project Lead Planner and schedulers to develop work packages.
- Assist/review and monitor craft Look-Ahead Schedules for assigned work scope.
- Assist to maintain a daily log for site records.
- Assist and maintain the schedule progress on a weekly basis.
- Assisting to develop coatings and Insulation Schedule packages to be integrated with Piping mechanical completion.
- Monitor job progress in relation to schedules.
- Assist to translate the field progress into the Project Progress Schedule.
- Assisting construction team to plan the equipment allocation to support the Coating/Insulation schedule (Scaffolds, Cranes, Man-Lifts, Etc).
- Coatings/Insulations quantities per day, charts and S-curves.
- Assisting to maintain equipment tracking and equipment layouts
- Assisting construction coordinators team to report special requests in regards to specific Planning and Scheduling issues.
- Assisting construction coordinators team to prepare reports in regards of procurement of bulk material.
- Assisting to prepare Project Progress Reports
- Assisting to update the S-Curves, Manpower Histograms and Milestone Completion.
- Actively promote the safety culture.
Journeyman Painter
Insulations Inc.
Westlake, Louisiana
02.2018 - 03.2019
- Identified hazardous materials labels and related safety precautions on the job site.
- Prep steel pipe with power tools by removing all the rust around the weld and hitting all the mechanical damage while following the pipe.
- Mixed various types of primers and paint according to the customers mill specifications.
- Applied coats of paint to structural pipe with brush and roll while painting mechanical damage on the way.
- Cleaned the work area by carefully following all guidelines for the safe handling and disposal of hazardous chemicals and waste.
Sales Associate
Northern Tool + Equipment
Houston, Texas
05.2016 - 12.2017
- Assisted all customers or potential customers in a professional, courteous, reliable, attentive, honest, and responsive manner.
- Identified customer needs and provided knowledgeable assistance to help customers understand equipment specifications in order to select the correct products to serve their needs.
- Demonstrated, explained, and advised customers to select products based on their requests or by our recommendations.
- Closed the sale with a customer, offered Service Protection Plus (SPP) warranties for every qualified product, suggested an add-on product for each sale, and forwarded the customer to a cashier for payment.
- Helped maintain a neat and orderly sales environment, including all demonstration fixtures, product displays, and work areas, by down stocking, facing, and fronting all merchandise in their assigned areas according to company merchandising standards.
- Procure and monitor special orders, assist in the equipment specifications to locate the ordered parts, inform customers regarding the scheduled delivery at the site, recommend stocking times due to a frequently consumed product in relation to the season, and maintain merchandising standards in assigned areas.
- Supported telemarketing sales activities as required, such as local phone calls from customers or potential customers.
Education
Lone Star College, CyFair Campus
Houston, Texas01.2018
Tompkins High School
Katy, Texas06.2017
Skills
- Oracle Primavera Fundamentals P6 Professional R17
- Microsoft Office
- Excel
- Cost Control/Forecasting
- Change Management
- Progress Measurement (Coatings/Insulations)
- Quantity Tracking
- Construction Practices and Execution
- Metric reporting CPI, SPI, EV, Craft Saturation, etc
- OSHA 20hr
- Business Ethics
- Construction Equipment
- HSE Leadership
Languages
English Native, Spanish
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Foreman
Performance Contractors
05.2023 - Current
Maintenance Technician
Spring Branch Community Health Center
08.2022 - 04.2023
Renovation Crew
Yilaam Kitchen Cabinets
02.2022 - 08.2022
Maintenance Technician
Carriage inn
08.2021 - 02.2022
Blaster/Painter
Axios Industrial
12.2020 - 08.2021
Planner/Scheduler/Quantity Surveyor
Keppel Amfels
04.2019 - 09.2020
Journeyman Painter
Insulations Inc.
02.2018 - 03.2019
Sales Associate
Northern Tool + Equipment
05.2016 - 12.2017
Lone Star College, CyFair Campus
Tompkins High School
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