Nathan Chevalier Email & Phone Number

Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada

Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada

CNC machining and fabrication prototyping and high end fabrication.

Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada

Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada

Langley, BC

• Tapp Label Company (formerly Tapp Label Technologies, formerly Tapp Technologies) delivers best-in-class label printing services for the wine, spirits, beer, and beverage industries. Over the 16+ years of my.
• Leading a maintenance team of up to 4 members across 6 locations, all responsible for the testing and corrective and preventative maintenance of over 30 printing presses and offline equipment, ensuring minimum downtime.
• Annually auditing equipment, creating and recommending improvement plans based on equipment lifecycles and recorded failures and downtime; maintaining comprehensive and accurate records of all equipment, parts, and.
• Managing and implementing capital projects; inspecting, purchasing, and installing new and used printing presses and offline presses; decommissioning old equipment and maintaining a library of spare parts.
• Modifying equipment, fabricating custom parts and developing equipment for the effective and efficient operation of printing equipment. This included an add-on to the flexographic press that allowed the press to remove.
• Reviewing and analyzing reports (equipment utilization, downtime, waste) to assist in the determination of root cause based on material or equipment operations.

Langley, BC

• A full-service design and fabrication company for over 40 years, Civic Tool & Die Works created custom metal projects for its custom home-building or mining clientele across North America. Services included.
• Planning and directing workflow; dealing directly with clients; reviewing project specifications; providing project estimates; preparing job orders; updating clients on their work orders.
• Performing production duties in fabrication, welding, or machining as required by operational needs; ensuring that quality standards were consistently met; troubleshooting manufacturing issues to ensure clients’.
• Setting work schedules and supervising a team of machinists, welders, and fabricators; ensuring hours of work were logged to each project for accurate costing; resolving performance and employee-relation issues.
• Performing preventative maintenance and regular maintenance on machines, equipment, and other tools used in the fabrication and quality processes.

• Canam Tool & Die specialized in prototypes and tool repair for airplane manufacturers and the energy sector. Having completed my Tool & Die Maker apprenticeship with the company, I learned to read engineering drawings.
• Setting up and operating manual and CNC machines (lathes, milling centers, boring, and surface grinders) and other machine shop equipment.
• Verifying conformance of finished work to specifications using precision measuring instruments and documenting the results.
• Performing own quality inspections and using a wide variety of equipment including micrometers, calipers, and dial indicators as well as performing surface plate inspections.
• Producing functional prototypes
• Welding (Stick, MIG, and TIG) with both stainless steel and aluminum materials