Raymond Schafer
El Paso,TX
Summary
Highly disciplined Army veteran with extensive experience in railroad operations and logistics. Proven ability to manage complex train movements, coordinate with dispatch, and ensure compliance with safety protocols. Strong team collaboration skills demonstrated through diverse roles, including detention officer and warehouse worker, highlighting a commitment to operational excellence.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
2009
2009
years of post-secondary education
Work History
conductor profesional
BNSF Railway
El Paso, TX
02.2023 - Current
- The ability to build and break down trains up to over 2 miles long.
- Deliver customer goods to businesses through the railroad maneuvering in between traffic.
- Work as a team with the heaviest moving equipment in the world.
- Contact dispatch and plan movements while traveling at 70 mph, by ETA to certain mileposts.
- Understand train makeup and compliance and follow that my train I'm responsible for follows all the safety guidelines as it does not become a possible hazard or derail.
- Contacting offices at different terminal and discussing yard movement plans, setouts, breakdowns or engine removals attached to the train (locomotives)
Detention Officer
Bering Straits Native Corporation
El Paso, TX
01.2019 - 02.2023
- Learned to work with other officers on detainee movement.
- Understand the rules of PBNDS and what they imply as well as post orders assigned to designated posts. As each one can be different.
- Perform searches in living quarters for any type of contraband or missing hardware.
- Understanding the totality of the circumstances when making any sort of decision.
- Responding on an immediate manner when an officer or a detainee goes down.
- Key control, for all the locations where they have to go and that they return to where they are supposed to be.
Soldier
U.S. Army
El Paso, TX
03.2014 - 12.2019
- Learned to work as a team with fellow soldiers.
- Learn combat tactics and movements.
- Train for survival in realistic elemental situations. (Such as arctic survival in Alaska).
- Operate any equipment I am assigned to.
- Keep physically fit and pass physical fitness requirements.
- Repair drones, radios, night vision goggles, radars, and to make sure these are operational for required field exercise missions.
Warehouse Worker
Hannford Bros.
Portland, ME
04.2010 - 03.2014
- Select orders from warehouse to send to store, especially during harsh conditions such as heavier orders for hurricane affected areas.
- Follow OSHA regulations of sanitation, and forklift and heavy machinery operation.
- Follow OSHA standard on products broken to be placed in certain colored bins if any spills or leaks.
- Follow the building of freight required for an order with a time limit.
- Wrapping product to make sure it survives over the road travels and reduces shrink.
- Loading and unloading with forklifts from loading dock to storage in warehouse rafters.
- Loading and unloading incoming and outgoing freight by small ride on pallet jack to and from a tractor trailer. And marking the cargo and assigning it with the store it's going to.
- Understanding warehouse operations on a business level as required by peers.
Education
Delaware Valley High School
El Paso, TXSkills
- Communication skills
- Time management
- Leadership
- Physical examinations
- Documentation review
- Customer service
- Microsoft word
- Detainee movement protocols
- Incident response
- Team collaboration
- Combat readiness
- Problem solving
- Attention to detail
- Train makeup
- Equipment operation
- Dispatch communication
- Risk management
- Mechanical aptitude
- Railroad signaling understanding
- Emergency response management
- Route planning
- Military discipline
- Radio communication
- Land navigation
- Physical fitness
- Explosives handling
- Weapons handling
- Survival skills
- Small arms training
- Security operations
- Contraband detection
- Warehouse logistics
- Forklift operation
- Freight management
- Inventory control
- Quality assurance
- Supply chain management
Timeline
conductor profesional
BNSF Railway
02.2023 - Current
Detention Officer
Bering Straits Native Corporation
01.2019 - 02.2023
Soldier
U.S. Army
03.2014 - 12.2019
Warehouse Worker
Hannford Bros.
04.2010 - 03.2014
Delaware Valley High School