Chris Tollas
Surrey
Summary
Hardworking professional experienced in field and ready for challenging assignments. Reliable in completing quality work and exceeding expectations.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Crane Operator
Bci
Surrey
10.2008 - 03.2026
- Operated cranes for heavy lifting tasks, ensuring precise load handling.
- Conducted thorough safety inspections on crane equipment, maintaining compliance with safety standards.
- Coordinated lifting operations with team members, enhancing operational efficiency.
Carpenter
Bci
Surrey
10.2008 - 03.2026
- Constructed custom cabinetry residential and commercial projects
- Interpreted blueprints and technical drawings to guide construction processes.
- Operated various power tools and machinery safely and efficiently on job sites.
- Performed repairs and renovations, ensuring high-quality workmanship standards.
- Supervised junior carpenters, providing guidance on best practices and techniques.
- Maintained a clean and organized work environment to promote safety protocols.
- Repaired or replaced damaged or defective parts using power tools and equipment.
- Fabricated staircases, doors, window frames and other wooden components for buildings.
- Fitted door locksets, deadbolts and other hardware on doors according to manufacturer's instructions.
- Positioned and installed floor joists, trusses and rafters.
- Read blueprints, schematics and drawings to determine layout requirements.
- Constructed forms for concrete pours in accordance with building codes.
- Led apprentices and trainees in building construction and renovation.
- Assembled furniture using glue, dowels, screws and nails.
- Built jigs and fixtures to assist in the production of parts.
- Anchored and braced forms to complete precise joining.
- Worked independently on projects and tasks within carpentry team.
- Roughed in door and window frames or subflooring in structures undergoing construction or repair.
- Erected scaffolding to assemble above-ground structures.
- Maintained records and documented actions for progress reports.
Education
Grade 10 - High School
Pcss
Creston, BC 05.1997 - 05.1998
Skills
- Crane operation
- Rigging
- Tower cranes
- Hoisting equipment
- Safety inspections
- Crane inspections
- Equipment inspection
- Load calculation
- Crane maintenance
- Equipment maintenance
- Construction safety
- Safety protocol
- Critical thinking
Certification
- Have intermediate first aid ticket for Metro safety training
- Have Telehandler ticket from Lavette machinery
- Have fall protection awareness training done at IUOE
- Have level a self tower CRANE ticket from Fulford BC
- And level one tower CRANE ticket working on level two and red seal
- Completed training for tower CRANE at IUOE training facility for level one and level two CRANE course
Affiliations
- Have warehouse experience, picking orders and running sit down Forklift order pickers and stand up forklifts at North American, tea, and coffee in Surrey
- Worked for Quentin construction doing renovation work in Vancouver for a year
- Have experience driving, single axle, flatbed trucks, delivering gang panels with trailer on and other construction equipment
- And have experience working on minor, mechanical issues with vehicles, replacing batteries, alternators water pumps
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Crane Operator
Bci
10.2008 - 03.2026
Carpenter
Bci
10.2008 - 03.2026
Grade 10 - High School
Pcss
05.1997 - 05.1998