
Dynamic Journeyman Laborer with DeSilva Gates Construction, skilled in operating heavy machinery and executing precise asphalt and concrete tasks. Bilingual in Spanish and English, I excel in traffic control and safety compliance, ensuring efficient operations. Proven ability to adapt and learn quickly, enhancing team performance and project outcomes.
Working with backhoes involves excavating subgrade areas around utilities and high-priority lines to ensure safe construction practices. Task also include demolishing concrete and asphalt, forming and pouring concrete sidewalks, as well as placing and finishing asphalt surfaces. Using tools like a 90-pound jackhammer and cut-off saw is essential for braking an cutting concrete and asphalt with precision. Monitoring truck counts, load ties, and turnaround times is crucial for efficient operations. Other responsibilities include applying tack oil before paving, cleaning drain inlet and placing inlet protection.
Flagging on two-lane highways and city streets involves directing traffic control thru construction zones both day and night shifts and temporally stripping roads after paving. Additionally responsibilities include placing and raking base rock onto subgrade surfaces, and using jumping jacks and vibratory plates to compact base rock and asphalt, ensuring a stable foundation for road construction. These require precision,adherence to safety regulations, and effective communication to maintain traffic flow and ensure worker and driver safety. Joined, wrapped,sealed and bedded sections of underground pipe and pipe penetrations. Worked and handled a variety of tasks including sub grading and placing base rock. When needed operate a loader to load dumb trucks .Additionally repairing security fences, demolishing old asphalt, and placing new asphalt manually or using heavy equipment like tractors