Darrell Avans Email & Phone Number

Decatur, Alabama Area

-My job functions are operating the heavy gauge slitter, signed off with overhead crane, banding coils, building set-ups the use of micrometers and tape measures.-Communication skills between shifts and leadership skill set with crew.-Responsible for achieving and exceeding production requirements.-Possessed leaderships skills to help crew achieve production requirements.- Ensures health and safety of all crew to get the job done correctly but safely.- Responsible for laiding and unloading barges, railcares, and trucks with over head crane.- Use of tape measure, micrometer, hand tools and plasma cutter on daily basis

Decatur, Alabama Area

- In charge of the arbor set up on the heavy gauge slitter, involving building arbors to correct cut and sizes that coil will be cut to, converting fractions to decimals to ensure proper layout of tooling for each size, filler gauging clearance of arbor to prevent burrs on cuts.- Train new employees on heavy gauge arbor setup- Ran entry end of heavy gauge involving measuring the coil for correct width, loading the coil on the machine, measuring the width of the remaining trim from the cut size of the coil, checking gauge of steel and insuring cut widths.-Ran exit end of the heavy gauge slitter involving sticking coil on exit end drum, checking for coil break, cambered steel, pickle stains and rust.- Licensed to operate forklift to move cut coils, move boxes of knives, empty scrap hopper and empty garbage hoppers- Maintain necessary level of communication between shifts.- Responsible for achieving production requirements. - Endured that all health and safety guidelines were followed.- Removed burrs, sharp edges, rust and scale from work pieces to prevent malfunctions.-Read job specifications to determine machines adjustments and material requirements.-Detected work piece defects and machine malfunctions.- Operated hand and power tools and heavy machinery safely.- Used a torched to hot bend material.

Fort Drum, New York

- Graduated basic training with honors certificate and physical training award.- Operated heavy equipment machines.- Did graming for concert slaps for Army helicopters to land.- Have been deployed to Iraq for 2 years.- Have been deployed to Afghanistan for 1.5 years.- Worked with Special Forces and Army Rangers buidling fire bases for soldiers to live. Set up hesco fences and constantine wire. - Performed assistance to Special Forces on missions to assist with any engineering such as quick shift bridges, IED detection and explosive uses.- Squad leader in my platoon from 2007 - 2009.- Completed NonCommissioned Officer course.-Leadership and Communication Skills.- Worked efficientyly and effectivley under high pressure and high stress situations and envioronments.