Cody Bader
Summary
Skilled steel fabricator with a strong knowledge of welding processes and the ability to assemble mechanical equipment. Responsible supervisor with excellent project oversight, team management and blueprint interpretation skills. Detail-oriented, organized, professional, hard working, and reliable.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Afternoon Shift Foreman/Lead Fabricator
International Steel Fabrication
04.2019 - Current
- Train new employees and delegate daily tasks and responsibilities
- Conduct performance reviews and provide staff with feedback and guidance
- Maintain clean and well-organized production areas to avoid unnecessary hazards and work delays
- Organize and prepare blueprints and material for upcoming projects to ensure a seamless transition between jobs
- Responsible for completing pre-weld checks, post-weld heat straightening, and quality control forms
- Build and assemble a variety of sawmill equipment for companies such as BID, USNR, and Milltech
- Fabricate structural assemblies, tanks, drums, rig mats, gates, handrails, stairs, ladders, troughs, chutes and ducting
- Layout holes, burn slots, cope beams, fit plates, fabricate custom parts, build jigs and templates
Steel Fabricator/Welder
Applied Industrial Technologies
11.2012 - 01.2019
- Rolled custom drums, track burned parts, built sprockets, debarker rolls, drag chains, custom guards and other miscellaneous sawmill equipment
- Repaired severe cracks in industrial equipment
- Gouged and replaced wear plates, hard-surfaced, resurfaced and rebuilt worn out parts for machining
- Heat shrank hubs, couplings and rolls to shafts
- Responsible for welding, painting, finishing of products, and preparing them for shipping
Education
Welding Level 3 -
Thompson Rivers University
Kamloops, BC2015
Welding Level C -
Thompson Rivers University
Kamloops, BC2011
Skills
- Red seal certified steel fabricator
- Red seal certified welder
- Registered millwright apprentice (4500hrs)
- 11 years welding and fabrication experience
- 4 years in a supervisory role
- CWB certified all positions FCAW
- Proficiency in FCAW, MCAW, GMAW, and SMAW
- Expert in plasma and oxy-acetylene torch cutting
- Highly experienced in sawmill equipment fabrication
Timeline
Afternoon Shift Foreman/Lead Fabricator
International Steel Fabrication
04.2019 - Current
Steel Fabricator/Welder
Applied Industrial Technologies
11.2012 - 01.2019
Welding Level 3 -
Thompson Rivers University
Welding Level C -
Thompson Rivers University
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