Reid FISHER
Darvel,East Ayrshire
Summary
Dedicated professional with extensive hands-on experience and safety background. Proven ability to manage hazardous environments while maintaining high standards of work. Skilled in machinery operation and committed to continuous learning.
Overview
1
1
Certification
12
12
years of professional experience
Work history
Technician
Network Rail
2020.06 - Current
Working day and night-shift patterns to a very high standard.
- Inspection of vegetation, fence lines , accesses and structures
- Renewal and repairs of boundary fence lines
- Renewal and repairs of access points
- Removal of dead dying and dangerous trees
- Vegetation maintenance and clearance from track/ overhead lines/ access points/ location cabinets/ structures and signals
- Tree removals
- Invasive species control
- On call emergency response
- Undertaking line blockages
- Safety critical duties
- Controller of site safety
- Person in charge of possession
- First aider duties
- Emergency first aider duties
- Possession support duties
- Receiving of permits
- Machine controller for various machines
- Machine operator for various machines
Tree surgeon
QTS Group
2014.07 - 2020.06
Working day and night-shift patterns to a very high standard.
- Rope access works
- Maintenance of line side vegetation
- Maintenance of boundary cuttings
- Clearance of track/signals/overhead lines/access points/location cabinets and structures
- Felling, pruning, crown reduction, stump grinding and eco plugging
- Dealing with hazardous dead, dying and dangerous trees
- Invasive species control
- Emergency response works
- Tactile installation on railway platforms
- Undertaking safety critical communications
- Machine controller on road rail vehicles
- General machine and tool maintenance
Education
Standard grades -
Loudoun academy
Ayrshire college
Barony College
Skills
Hands-on experience
Safety expertise
Hazardous environment management
High standards of work
Willingness to learn
Machinery operation
Affiliations
- Football - from a young age representing Scotland and various SPL pro youth teams, to then keep playing to present with various junior and amateur teams
- Golf - Representing club and Ayrshire in selected teams
- Socialising with friends and family
Certification
- Personal track safety
- Controller of site safety
- Overhead line permit
- Engineer supervisor
- Pos representative
- Protection controller
- Person in charge of possession
- Possession support
- Site warden
- Test before touch
- Electrical and Emergency first aid
- Manual handling
- Safe use of pesticides
- Respiratory protective equipment
- Basic chainsaw operation and maintenance
- Fell and process small, medium and large trees
- Process individual and multiple wind blown trees
- Use of pole mounted pruner
- Level crossing attendant
- Points operator
- Safe use of generator equipment
- Rail mounted disc cutter
- Cutting and grinding equipment
- Impact wrenches
- Compacting breaking and digging
- Scooters and skates
- Woodchipper
- Bushfighter
- Post hole borer & post driver
- Cable avoidance
- Dumper truck
- Machine controller - cutter head, chipper, material handler , highway permissible vehicle , demountable machine
- Machine operator - flail, trailer, wood chipper, highway permissible vehicle, motorised trolley
- Pos representative
- On track plant
- Drainage
- Boundary measures inspection and installation
- Gas safety
Driving
Full uk driving license
Class 2 license
Trailer license
Timeline
Technician
Network Rail
2020.06 - Current
Tree surgeon
QTS Group
2014.07 - 2020.06
Standard grades -
Loudoun academy
Ayrshire college
Barony College