Valentin Torres Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, California, United States

• Coordinate with clients on-site to assure their remodeling plans are closely followed to their specifications. Help assist with ordering and picking up materials in a timely fashion to continue workflow and production on time. • Communicate daily with the Administration and or Board Members on any changes or setbacks that might cause delays or pauses to workflow. • Hands on with construction and production of remodeling. Installation of electrical: lighting, light switches, running electrical lines to new remodeling projects. Underground: Plumbing installation of new sewer and water lines. Install new sink faucets, water heaters. Poured and finished concrete (stamping on occasion). • Installed sheetrock textured or a level-5 finish. • Painting and color matching clients’ needs and preferences. • In-charge of Finish Carpentry such and countertops, cabinets, doors, flooring, and final installation on lighting and pendant lighting. • Installed ADA passage doors: panic mechanisms and door handles. Installed three-piece metal door framing. • Install flooring: laminate, VCT, tile, hardwood, and carpet tile flooring. Also, trim work around doors and baseboards.

Sacramento County, California, United States

• Manage all aspects of projects and contracts, including hiring and supervising subcontractors, getting building permits, environmental clearance, ordering supplies and scheduling inspections. Oversee all subcontractors to ensure that the job is done to the customer’s satisfaction. • Interact with city and state building officials and make sure that everything was “to code” so that the customer’s home and family is protected by the laws and regulations of the federal, state and local government. • Full supervision of the work and compliance with the building codes. • Business management competency • Bid and analyze projects, submit bids for roofing, concrete, framing, demolition, sheet rock, taping, painting, and exterior work, electrical, mechanical and plumbing in residential/commercial properties. • Review Monthly budgets & monitor operation of payments. • Perform custodial techniques on buildings and residential homes. • Knowledge of cleaning functions and use of appropriate equipment: E.g.:wet/dry mops; standard/hi-speed floor machines; square buffers; dry foam/wet extractor type carpet shampoo equipment; upright, back-pack and wet/dry vacuum cleaners; mop buckets and wringers; automatic (electric/battery) scrubbers. • Manage and supervise other project managers and employees on a daily basis. Administer their designated projects and work hours. • Assist with ADA compliance issues and requirements. • Excavate for sewers, electrical, water and gas utilities. • Poor and finish concrete. • Hands on with: Install roofs: composite and asphalt and vents. Installed/repair sheet rock: textured or smooth finishes (level 5). Framing of new room additions or closets. Installed new electrical lines and home runs to electrical box with new breaker switches. Familiar with most paint gun airless sprayers.

Sacramento, California, United States

• Coordinate and supervise remodel and new construction for Nordstrom Stores and other commercial buildings. • Prepare and negotiate cost estimates, budgets, and work timetables. • Select appropriate construction methods and strategies. • Interpret and explain contracts and technical information to workers and other professionals. • Report on work progress and budget matters to clients. • Collaborate with architects, engineers, and other construction and building specialists • Instruct and supervise construction personnel and activities onsite. • Respond to work delays and other problems and emergencies. • Select, hire, and instruct laborers and subcontractors. • Comply with legal requirements, building and safety codes, and other regulations. • Ensure a productive and safe environment. • Assured right number of tools, equipment, and materials are available for project completion. • Sometimes responsible for multiple projects at a time. • Installation of laminate flooring, VCT and tile flooring. • Install concrete curbs and pads broom or stamp finishing. • Hands on with installation of sheet rock and patching, texturing, or smooth finish. • Install new lighting fixtures including wiring and switches. Install new electrical outlets.

Sacramento, California, United States

• Inspect mobile home installations; mobile homes, commercial modulars and special purpose commercial modulars for issuance of a California Insignia or to approve alterations made to the units. • Conduct mobile home park maintenance inspections and respond to questions from the public and/or mobile home park owners/managers resulting from inspections. • Conduct “under construction” inspections and technical service in accordance with the Mobile home and Special Occupancy Parks Acts. • Conduct complaint investigations in accordance with the Mobile home and Special Occupancy Parks Acts, the Mobile home/Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 and the Employee Housing Act. • Inspect employee housing facilities for maintenance, use and occupancy and survey for illegal employee housing activity. • Access email for new assignments daily. Attend staff meetings; attend training. Prepare time and activity reports and mileage logs. Testify in court or in administrative hearings. • Advise and confer with industry and local officials on the application and interpretation of State laws and regulations. • Conduct monitoring duties of third-party design approval and quality assurance agencies.

Sacramento County, California, United States

• Operated backhoe, excavators, and loaders. • Repair water main lines: 1”, 8” and 12” ductile waterlines. • Connected pipelines and sewer appurtenances to transport waste to sewage treatment centers. • Compliance to standards and specifications of the work being performed to meet State and Federal requirements. • Blueprint Reading, experience to follow schematics and assembly diagrams, and perform general outdoor facility repair and deliver scheduled maintenance. • Assist surveyors, knowledge in use of laser equipment to cut grade, establish drainage, slope and side fall. Ability to follow schematics and assembly diagrams and perform general outdoor facility repair and deliver scheduled maintenance. • High Voltage Electrical Installation • P G & E Gas Line Installation and Repair • Storm drains installation. • Asphalt repair and installation, in paving with hot asphalt mix, setting concrete forms, shooting grade, pouring and finishing concrete, and establish safety zones, set shoring and inspect worksite for hazardous conditions, asphalt paving process and repairs, and concrete finishing tools and design standards used in forming and pouring concrete. • Experience operating and maintaining a variety of tools and equipment including forklift, air compressor, jackhammers, air spades, earth compactors, chipping guns, dump and lift trucks, skip loader and tractors, trenches, augers, etc. • Ability to use a variety of power hand tools commonly used in carpentry, masonry and repairs. • Knowledge of typical carpentry techniques, tool selection and wall and fence construction including masonry, wood, chain-link and welded wire.

• Managed all aspects of projects and contracts, including hiring and supervising subcontractors, getting building permits, environmental clearance, ordering supplies and scheduling inspections. Oversaw all the subcontractors to ensure that the job was done to customer’s satisfaction. • Interacted with city and state building officials and made sure that everything was “to code” so that the customer’s home and family were protected by the laws and regulations of the federal, state and local government. • Full supervision of the work and compliance with the building codes. • Business management competency • Bided and analyzed projects, submitted bids for roofing, concrete, framing, demolition, sheet rock, taping, painting. Exterior work, electrical, mechanical and plumbing in residential/commercial properties. • Framed new room additions and garages. New plumbing and electrical including sheet rock were installed. • Reviewed Monthly budgets & monitored operation of payments. • Performed custodial techniques on buildings and residential homes. • Knowledge of cleaning functions and use of appropriate equipment: E.g.: wet/dry mops; standard/hi-speed floor machines; square buffers; dry foam/wet extractor type carpet shampoo equipment; upright, back-pack and wet/dry vacuum cleaners; mop buckets and wringers; automatic (electric/battery) scrubbers.

Sacramento County, California, United States

• Developed and executed recruiting plans. • Networked through industry contacts, association memberships, trade groups and employees. • Administrative duties and recordkeeping. • Worked with hiring managers on recruiting planning meetings. • Created job descriptions. • Lead the creation of a recruiting and interviewing plan for each open position. • Efficiently and effectively filled open positions. • Conducted regular follow-up with managers to determine the effectiveness of recruiting plans and implementation. • Developed a pool of qualified candidates in advance of need. • Researched and recommended new sources for active candidate recruiting. • Built networks to find qualified candidates. • Posted openings in newspaper advertisements, with professional organizations, and in other position appropriate venues. • Utilize the Internet for recruitment. Posted positions to appropriate Internet sources. • Monitor and worked on site for some employers to fill their employee needs. • Conducted oral presentations to new hirers regarding work requirements and benefits. • Wrote corrective action (s), up to including termination for non-performing employees.

Sacramento, California, United States

• Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines. • Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety. • Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements. • Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained. • Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions. • Install or maintain landscaped areas, performing tasks such as hardscape cement curbs; stamp or broom finish and decorative finishes. Repairing sidewalks. • Conference with managers or landscape architects to develop plans or schedules for landscaping maintenance or improvement. • Negotiate with customers regarding fees for high end landscaping, lawn service, or ground keeping work. • Installed new electrical lines for submersible pumps and lighting. • Install and build large pond basins.

Sacramento, California, United States

• Coordinate employee direction to transport, store, load materials and products. Analyze receiving or shipping notices; determine movement of packaged products. • First point contact with local shipping companies such as UPS, Fed-Ex for emergency “Will Calls”. Responsible for negotiating “LTL” and small package shipping rates. • Coordinate flow of Materials or Products and verify or prepare records such as routing slips and shipping logs. Supervision of the transportation fleet. Accountable for the local deliveries and Preventive Maintenance on all vehicles. • Develop an effective strategy for minimizing worker turnover, identify challenges, and provide solutions. Train new and veteran employees for possible leadership roles. • Experience with new start-up warehouses. Coordination contacts with local property management companies to assist with finding a “build-to-suit” distribution warehouse facility(s). Coordinate employees from different facilities for “fly-in” move of inventory. • Contact local government agencies for building permits and compliance issues. • Contract contractors and workers or hiring agencies for employees. • Oversee constant pre-con meetings of new buildings and layouts of foundations and roads. • Maintain budgets and P/L on excel spread sheets. • Experience in utilizing a variety of hand/power tools in addition to material handling equipment, including, relocating equipment & offices, building/reconfiguring furniture. • Forklift operation, Shipping and Receiving, Loading/Unloading, LTL Freight Companies and Logistics, Invoice Fulfillment, Conveyer Set-Up Knowledge.

• Managed an apartment complex that consisted of 19 units. • Screened applicants for eligibility to rent a unit. • Set goals for property maintenance. • Administer vacancies by assuring units were ready for move ins/outs and annual inspections as well as work orders from tenants. • Scheduled tenant conferences when issues arise. • Investigated tenant information and if suspicion of fraud, propose termination of lease. • Work with eviction process if the need arises to do eviction. • Evaluate unlawful detainer reports and credit and criminal background checks. • Send out all background checks, National Credit Reports. • Review and apply pertinent provisions Of HUD rules and regulations. • Work with property owners in resolving and addressing issues, suggestions for Administrative Plan and vacancy numbers and financial goals.