Kevin Wilson
Widnes,Cheshire
Summary
Experienced Maintenance pipe fitter/welder with over 30 years in the engineering industry : food, chemical, distilling & pharmaceutical.
Excellent reputation for resolving problems . Offers flexible schedule to deliver on team goals.
Highly-motivated individual with excellent initiative and work ethic. Proactive and self-motivated for productive independent working. Physically fit to meet manual job demands.
Takes on challenging new role harnessing interpersonal skills, collaboration and problem-solving. Driven to deliver high-quality service and consistent results.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Contractor Maintenance pipe fitter/welder
Teva Pharmaceutical
Runcorn, Halton
10.2008 - Current
- Make site visitations to provide engineering expertise for laying out new construction projects.
- Maintenance, breakdown and repair on site
- Conducted welding tasks, focusing on precision and quality
- Regular on call duties
- Prioritising urgent jobs
- Consistently meet project goals
- Documentation of pipework & orbital welds
- Using own initiative and attention to detail whilst working under pressure
- Worked well within a team
Maintenance engineer
Rockton, Fiddlers Ferry Power Station
Warrington, Cheshire
11.2007 - 10.2008
- Responded to plant breakdowns and repairs
- SCADA trained
- MEWP trained
- Scissor lift trained
- Completed all assigned work on time and to high quality standards.
- Conducted welding tasks, focusing on precision and quality.
Pipe fitter/maintenance engineer/welder
Colgate Palmolive
Salford, Greater Manchester
02.2004 - 11.2007
- Maintained and repaired a complex range of high speed machinery in order to minimise downtime and production stoppage
- Installed and maintained high speed toothpaste manufacturing lines with set timescales
- Resolved stoppages and breakdowns of tooth paste filling systems to ensure continued flow to production
- Performed planned maintenance procedures (PPM) and reactive breakdown tasks
- Worked unsupervised when solving all problems and issues whilst also contributing to a busy team
- Suggested improvements to working practices resulting in receiving two awards ' You can make a difference' as a result of the ideas being implemented
- Contributed to monthly safety committee meetings, providing status reports on factory maintenance to management
- Tested sprinkler System to meet legal requirement, drained and modified as necessary
Fabricator welder
DPP contractors
Salford, Greater Manchester
04.1991 - 02.2004
- Fabricated, installed and commissioned pipe work on high profile manufacturing sites following successful completion of apprenticeship
- Subsequently offered a permanent position with Colgate Palmolive as a result of high quality workmanship
YTS Scheme
Ford Motor Company
Halewood, Knowsley
09.1990 - 09.1991
- Completed City & Guilds 201 training covering modules : Tools and equipment, Marketing & Measuring, Safe working practices, MIG Welding, Numeracy, Oxy-acetylene burning.
Education
GCSEs - GCSE
St John fisher & St Thomas More High School
Cheshire 09.1987 - 05.1991
Skills
- City & Guilds level 1,2,3,4 advanced level
- Cutting by Shear
- Bending & Folding
- Manual metal-arc welding
- Template and pattern development
- Fabrication of thick plate - written & practical
- Metal arc gas shielded welding - written & practical
- Risk assessment
- Manual handling
- Noise awareness
- Confined spaces
- Working at heights
- Lock out tagging procedures
- Orbital Welding
- Safety course & refreshers
- Tig welding - written & practical
Affiliations
- fishing, football, running and keeping fit
Certification
full clean driving licence
Timeline
Contractor Maintenance pipe fitter/welder
Teva Pharmaceutical
10.2008 - Current
Maintenance engineer
Rockton, Fiddlers Ferry Power Station
11.2007 - 10.2008
Pipe fitter/maintenance engineer/welder
Colgate Palmolive
02.2004 - 11.2007
Fabricator welder
DPP contractors
04.1991 - 02.2004
YTS Scheme
Ford Motor Company
09.1990 - 09.1991
GCSEs - GCSE
St John fisher & St Thomas More High School
09.1987 - 05.1991
full clean driving licence
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