Overview
Work History
Timeline
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Rick Larson

Mt. Angel,OR

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience

Work History

Inside Sales Rep.

Salem Equipment
Sherwood, OR
01.2019 - Current
  • Communicating to customers through emails and phone conversation of item they want to purchase for their equipment
  • Reading blue prints of the equipment customers have to ensure they get the correct parts
  • Maintaining daily entries of items that have shipped and tracking progress of orders being manufactured
  • Preparing quotes for customer from blues prints by figuring costs from time and materials
  • Preparing equipment manuals for customers

Purchasing Supervisor/Maintenance Warehouse Clerk

Interfor Pacific, Inc.
Molalla, OR
01.2014 - 01.2019
  • Organizing parts and supplies for VMI and consignment inventory
  • Maintaining proper documentation for purchasing orders, goods received and outgoing parts to maintain inventory forecasting system
  • Maintaining database to ensure accuracy in inventory and managing budget
  • Purchasing parts and supplies for Sawmill, Planer warehouse and entire plant site
  • Checking inventory discrepancies and correcting the issues for incoming and outgoing parts and supplies to optimize inventory levels and reduce costs
  • Follow up and report when critical parts are to be received
  • Organize and kit parts for work orders and reassure all parts have been received
  • Communicate and manage vendors to research better products, compare pricing and document trends in usage
  • Maintaining a computerized maintenance management system to order parts for work orders, tracking spare parts and history of parts used on plant equipment
  • Negotiating on local and regional contract
  • Manage and set up purchase orders for capital projects

Planer Feeder

Interfor Pacific, Inc.
Molalla, OR
01.2012 - 01.2014
  • Communicate with team members to keep production running safely, and efficiently
  • Keep constant flow of the planer, fix any break ups, make size adjustments of the planer for the lumber
  • Break other team members to keep production running during break times
  • Operate fork lift to help offload lumber and help with planer infeed

Bander Operator/Sawmill Outfeed Driver/Planer Supervisor

Weyerhaeuser Co
Dallas, OR
06.2002 - 03.2009
  • Operate equipment to keep production running efficiently
  • Cut and tag material for lengths and grades of lumber for shipping orders
  • Communicate with other team members to keep equipment running safe and efficiently
  • Operate forklift to store lumber from the sawmill by lengths and dimensions
  • Supervise Planer production, manning and efficiency
  • Manage and direct month end inventory process and budget
  • Train and communicate company policies, procedures and safety standards

Infeed Operator/Plant Supervisor

Willamette Industries
Woodburn, OR
05.1996 - 06.2002
  • Operate equipment
  • Load material into machinery
  • Communicate with team members and quality control
  • Back-up quality control, test material for strength and defects
  • Oversee production, scheduling, training and product quality
  • Conduct safety training meetings

Lead Spreaderman

North Santiam Plywood
Mill City, OR
06.1989 - 04.1996
  • Prepare and schedule daily layup
  • Check bond for blows and rejects
  • Check quality of glue and spread to reassure best quality product

Timeline

Inside Sales Rep.

Salem Equipment
01.2019 - Current

Purchasing Supervisor/Maintenance Warehouse Clerk

Interfor Pacific, Inc.
01.2014 - 01.2019

Planer Feeder

Interfor Pacific, Inc.
01.2012 - 01.2014

Bander Operator/Sawmill Outfeed Driver/Planer Supervisor

Weyerhaeuser Co
06.2002 - 03.2009

Infeed Operator/Plant Supervisor

Willamette Industries
05.1996 - 06.2002

Lead Spreaderman

North Santiam Plywood
06.1989 - 04.1996
Rick Larson