Richard Laughely
Chatom,USA
Summary
Accomplished, energetic, and service-oriented with years of experience in multiple fields. Excellent communication and time management skills. Handles tasks with accuracy and efficiency. Passionate and motivated, with a drive for excellence. Dedicated to high levels of customer satisfaction and meeting aggressive business goals.
Overview
2018
2018
years of professional experience
Work History
Automotive Dismantler
Councilman's Automotive Recycling
Eight Mile, Alabama
04.2023 - 2026
- Disassembled vehicles efficiently, removing and cataloging parts for resale or recycling.
- Conducted thorough inspections of dismantled components to ensure quality and usability.
- Collaborated with team members to streamline dismantling processes for increased productivity.
- Trained new employees on standard operating procedures and safety protocols in the dismantling area.
- Performed routine maintenance on tools and equipment to ensure safe and effective operations.
- Monitored work areas for safety hazards, reporting issues promptly to management.
- Maintained a clean and organized work area at all times.
- Recycled scrap metal generated during dismantling process according to company procedures.
- Operated material handling equipment such as forklifts to move dismantled parts around the facility.
Automotive Technician
R&R Truck and Trailer
Citronelle, AL
2017 - 2023
- Diagnosed and repaired mechanical and electrical issues in heavy-duty trucks and trailers.
- Conducted routine maintenance inspections to ensure optimal vehicle performance and safety compliance.
- Utilized diagnostic tools to identify malfunctions, improving repair accuracy and efficiency.
- Reduced repeat repair visits by implementing thorough quality control checks.
- Conducted routine maintenance checks for improved vehicle safety and longevity.
- Repaired and replaced worn and damaged components.
- Repaired brake, exhaust, electrical and other systems for domestic automotive brands.
- Utilized special alignment equipment and wheel-balancing machines to align wheels, axles, frames and steering mechanisms of automobiles.
- Tore down, repaired and rebuilt faulty assemblies such as power systems, steering systems and linkages.
Porter/Maintenance
The Zoo Health Club
Kenner, LA
09.2016 - 11.2017
- Clean lobbie, restrooms, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas.
- Disinfect equipment and supplies, using germicides.
- Wash windows, walls, ceilings.
- Fix minor plumbing problems such as unclogging toilets, repairing leaky spigots and faucets.
- Perform miscellaneous minor repairs such as tightening loose toilet seats, changing lights, light ballasts, and painting.
- Maintains and makes minor repairs to equipment.
Parts Specialist
O'Reilly Auto Parts
Laplace, LA
12.2015 - 03.2016
- Receive and fill telephone orders for parts.
- Determine replacement parts required, according to inspections of old parts, customer requests, or customers' deprogramions of malfunctions.
- Fill customer orders from stock.
- Prepare sales slips or sales contracts.
- Receive payment or obtain credit authorization.
- Take inventory of stock.
- Advise customers on substitution or modification of parts when identical replacements are not available.
- Mark and store parts in stockrooms according to prearranged systems.
- Examine returned parts for defects, and exchange defective parts or refund money.
- Discuss use and features of various parts, based on knowledge of machines or equipment.
Team Member
McDonald's
Foley, AL
09.2013 - 06.2014
- Serve customers in eating places that specialize in fast service and inexpensive carry-out food.
- Accept payment from customers, and make change as necessary.
- Request and record customer orders, and compute bills using cash registers, multicounting machines, or pencil and paper.
- Clean and organize eating, service, and kitchen areas.
- Notify kitchen personnel of shortages or special orders.
- Communicate with customers regarding orders, comments, and complaints.
- Prepare daily food items, and cook simple foods and beverages, such as sandwiches, salads, soups, pizza, or coffee using proper safety precautions and sanitary measures.
Key Holder
Wilcox Video
Robertsdale, AL
08.2012 - 07.2013
- Provide customer service by greeting and assisting customers, and responding to customer inquiries and complaints.
- Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers.
- Monitor sales activities to ensure that customers receive satisfactory service and quality goods.
- Inventory stock and reorder when inventory drops to a specified level.
- Instruct staff on how to handle difficult and complicated sales.
- Establish credit policies and operating procedures.
- Keep records of purchases, sales, and requisitions.
Key Holder
Travelers Energy Station
Elberta, AL
04.2011 - 08.2012
- Provide customer service by greeting and assisting customers, and responding to customer inquiries and complaints.
- Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers.
- Monitor sales activities to ensure that customers receive satisfactory service and quality goods.
- Inventory stock and reorder when inventory drops to a specified level.
- Train, and evaluate personnel in sales or marketing establishments.
- Perform work activities of subordinates, such as cleaning and organizing shelves and displays and selling merchandise.
Climber/Trimmer
Climbers Tree Services
Summerdale, AL
04.2010 - 08.2011
- Operate boom trucks, loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, tractors, power saws, trucks, sprayers, and other equipment and tools.
- Supervise others engaged in tree trimming work and train lower-level employees.
- Climb trees, using climbing hooks and belts, or climb ladders to gain access to work areas.
- Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and equipment.
- Cut away dead and excess branches from trees, or clear branches around power lines, using climbing equipment or buckets of extended truck booms, and/or chainsaws, hooks, handsaws, shears, and clippers.
- Trim, top, and reshape trees to achieve attractive shapes or to remove low-hanging branches.
- Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
- Load debris and refuse onto trucks and haul it away for disposal.
- Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs.
Mechanic
Foley Auto Care
Foley, AL
01.2009 - 08.2010
- Test drive vehicles, and test components and systems, using equipment such as infrared engine analyzers, compression gauges, and computerized diagnostic devices.
- Examine vehicles to determine extent of damage or malfunctions.
- Repair, reline, replace, and adjust brakes.
- Follow checklists to ensure all important parts are examined, including belts, hoses, steering systems, spark plugs, brake and fuel systems, wheel bearings, and other potentially troublesome areas.
- Confer with customers to obtain deprogramions of vehicle problems, and to discuss work to be performed and future repair requirements.
- Perform routine and scheduled maintenance services such as oil changes, lubrications, and tune-ups.
- Test and adjust repaired systems to meet manufacturers' performance specifications.
- Repair and service air conditioning, heating, engine-cooling, and electrical systems.
- Review work orders and discuss work with supervisors.
- Tear down, repair, and rebuild faulty assemblies such as power systems, steering systems, and linkages.
Head Mechanic
The Gulf Bowl
Foley, AL
02.2006 - 07.2010
- Rent, sell, or issue sporting equipment and supplies such as bowling shoes.
- Maintain records of machine maintenance and repair.
- Test machines to determine proper functioning.
- Clean and oil machine parts.
- Assist customers in arcade, restaurant, bar, snack bar, and bowling counter.
Installer
J&J Aluminium Construction
Magnolia Springs, AL
06.2005 - 07.2006
- Clean or prepare construction sites to eliminate possible hazards.
- Signal equipment operators to facilitate alignment, movement, or adjustment of machinery, equipment, or materials.
- Read plans, instructions, or specifications to determine work activities.
- Load, unload, or identify building materials, machinery, or tools, distributing them to the appropriate locations, according to project plans or specifications.
- Measure, mark, or record openings or distances to layout areas where construction work will be performed.
- Dig ditches or trenches, backfill excavations, or compact and level earth to grade specifications, using picks, shovels, pneumatic tampers, or rakes.
- Mix, pour, or spread concrete, using portable cement mixers.
- Provide assistance to craft workers, such as carpenters, plasterers, or masons.
- Position, join, align, or seal structural components, such as concrete wall sections or pipes.
- Apply caulking compounds by hand or caulking guns to protect against entry of water or air.
Builder
Riviera Custom Cabinets
Bon Secour, AL
05.2004 - 06.2005
- Produce or assemble components of articles, such as store fixtures, office equipment, cabinets, or high-grade furniture.
- Verify dimensions or check the quality or fit of pieces to ensure adherence to specifications.
- Set up or operate machines, including power saws, jointers, mortisers, tenoners, molders, or shapers, to cut, mold, or shape woodstock or wood substitutes.
- Measure and mark dimensions of parts on paper or lumber stock prior to cutting, following blueprints, to ensure a tight fit and quality product.
- Reinforce joints with nails or other fasteners to prepare articles for finishing.
- Attach parts or subassemblies together to form completed units, using glue, dowels, nails, screws, or clamps.
- Trim, sand, or scrape surfaces or joints to prepare articles for finishing.
- Install hardware, such as hinges, handles, catches, or drawer pulls, using hand tools.
- Discuss projects with customers, and draw up detailed specifications.
- Dip, brush, or spray assembled articles with protective or decorative finishes, such as stain, varnish, paint, or lacquer.
Housekeeping
Brett Robertson
Gulf Shores, AL
05.2003 - 06.2004
- Carry linens, towels, toilet items, and cleaning supplies, using wheeled carts.
- Clean rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards are met.
- Disinfect equipment and supplies, using germicides or steam-operated sterilizers.
- Wash dishes and clean kitchens, cooking utensils, and silverware.
- Empty wastebaskets, empty and clean ashtrays, and transport other trash and waste to disposal areas.
- Observe precautions required to protect hotel and guest property and report damage, theft, and found articles to supervisors.
- Replenish supplies, such as drinking glasses, linens, writing supplies, and bathroom items.
- Clean rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies, using vacuum cleaners and shampooers.
- Request repair services and wait for repair workers to arrive.
- Wash windows, walls, ceilings, and woodwork, waxing and polishing as necessary.
Sales Associate
Surf Style
Gulf Shores, AL
08.2001 - 05.2003
- Greet customers and ascertain what each customer wants or needs.
- Describe merchandise and explain use, operation, and care of merchandise to customers.
- Recommend, select, and help locate or obtain merchandise based on customer needs and desires.
- Answer questions regarding the store and its merchandise.
- Compute sales prices, total purchases and receive and process cash or credit payment.
- Prepare sales slips or sales contracts.
- Help customers try on or fit merchandise.
- Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.
- Maintain records related to sales.
- Open and close cash registers, performing tasks such as counting money, separating charge slips, coupons, and vouchers, balancing cash drawers, and making deposits.
- Inventory stock and requisition new stock.
Education
High School Diploma -
Delgado Community College
New Orleans, LAHigh School -
Robertsdale High School
Robertsdale, ALSkills
- Active Listening
- Service Orientation
- Active Learning
- Customer and Personal Service
- Coordination
Timeline
Automotive Dismantler
Councilman's Automotive Recycling
04.2023 - 2026
Porter/Maintenance
The Zoo Health Club
09.2016 - 11.2017
Parts Specialist
O'Reilly Auto Parts
12.2015 - 03.2016
Team Member
McDonald's
09.2013 - 06.2014
Key Holder
Wilcox Video
08.2012 - 07.2013
Key Holder
Travelers Energy Station
04.2011 - 08.2012
Climber/Trimmer
Climbers Tree Services
04.2010 - 08.2011
Mechanic
Foley Auto Care
01.2009 - 08.2010
Head Mechanic
The Gulf Bowl
02.2006 - 07.2010
Installer
J&J Aluminium Construction
06.2005 - 07.2006
Builder
Riviera Custom Cabinets
05.2004 - 06.2005
Housekeeping
Brett Robertson
05.2003 - 06.2004
Sales Associate
Surf Style
08.2001 - 05.2003
High School Diploma -
Delgado Community College
Automotive Technician
R&R Truck and Trailer
2017 - 2023
High School -
Robertsdale High School