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Joel Hansen

Regina,SK

Summary

Red Seal, Journeyman, All position Welder May 2018-present. I have experience working in fabrication shops using various types of wire processes , overhead cranes and machinery, interpreting blueprints to fit and fabricate many pieces of equipment or heavy duty construction trailers. Since April 2019- December 2021 I have been working on- site heavy duty construction of grain terminals all over western Canada with FWS Industrial Projects Canada, that involves various types of tasks and skills including craning in and installing tower mods, bridges, drag chain/belt -conveyors , Spouting runs , a 220 foot man-lift etc.. Other tasks include various rigging and hoisting while operating a tele-handler (Including tailing), erecting structural steel while operating Aerial and lifts all the way up to 185; JLG. CWB welding in all positions in various thickness’ and joints of steel while working at heights and in confined spaces. More recently since April 2022- Present Canadian Tank and Vessel going to shutdowns at pulp mils and mines across western Canada with the fitting and Welding of Super duplex, Duplex, and other stainless steels, as well as carbon steel and all kinds of mine processing equipment. Always thinking ahead and planning to accomplish the tasks with team members.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Welder

Canadian Tank and Vessel
04.2022 - Current
  • Orano Mcclean Lake: Tank floor replacement and active sulphur tank platform demolition and reinstallation
  • K2 Mosaic Esterhazy Potash: Jacking and sliding with hydraulics of Potash Dryer
  • Sol/Esso Fuel Port Terminal, Georgetown, Cayman Islands: Hydraulic jacking of a tank to demolish a floor and reinstall and weld it. Demolition of 60' x 80' Diesel tank.
  • LDC Canola Canola Crushin Plant: Erection of 2 crude and 4 degummed canola oil tanks
  • K2 Esterhazy Mosaic: Demo and rebuild of brine water tank
  • Cargil Canola Crushing plant, Regina Saskatchewan: Fabrication and installation of stairs on Degummed oil tanks
  • Nutrien Allan: Installation and welding of wear plates inside of underground ore bins
  • Cargill Canola Crushing Plant, Regina Saskatchewan: construction of 2 crude and 3 degummed canola oil tanks
  • Nutrien Redwater Fertilizer Plant: Construction of two 55x50 foot Stainless tanks with stairs and adjoining catwalk.
  • Allan, Nutrien Potash Mine Shutdown: Demolition of damaged areas of Siphonsizer tank and launderer. Fit and replace lap Patches as we’ll as surfacing on areas of tank. Fun inserts on Launderer repaired with 7018 and flux core welding.
  • Alignment and fit up of a new gear on large Potash cooker/drier
  • Demolition and replacement of man-way and structural beam on hot Thickener
  • Mosaic, Belle Plaine Surface Potash Mine: Construction of 55’ x 58’ Recycle Tank from start to finish. Fit + weld floor and shell plate. Welding and manipulation using key plates and other fit up gear, of vertical seams (ultra sound tested). Weld Pickups on ''3 O'clock ''and tractor sub-arc machines. Fitting and coning as well as welding of duplex stainless steel roof. Landed 77 000 pound roof during hoist from wind girder. Welding + back welding of Super duplex Stainless pipe nozzles + man-way from AWP in all positions. 2”, 16” and 24” Pipe nozzles
  • Skookumchuk Paper Excellence Shutdown: Welded on brackets to hydraulically lift tank and demolish carbon tank floor using carbon arc gouging and plasma cutting with Gulco track machine. Fit and Weld new Stainless Steel floor, minimizing distortion with proper fit up and use of key plates.
  • Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Shutdown: Plasma cutting/demolition of old stainless supports for cladded materials. Rigging and hoisting with electric wenches and transfer of rigging mid pic, of 3/8” rolled Super Duplex stainless tanking liner. Good communication and Fit up of plates using U bars, key plates and bull pins.
  • Screw dogs. Welding multiple pass seems controlling/ managing inter-pass temperatures with the use of heat guns.
  • Shop- Sub arc maintenance and testing, material handling, welding on nuts/lugs on super duplex Stainless steels for an upcoming project. Weld testing procedure and testing of super duplex stainless steels involving control of inter-pass temperatures with a heat gun.

Welder

LPL Management
01.2022 - 04.2022
  • MGM grain facility shutdowns involving demolition of old dust ducting and fans, Craning and rigging on grain filled equipment, safe hot work and demolition with the use of grinders sawmills and impacts. Involved in the craning, rigging of new screw auger conveyors and 2 new large bathhouse structures and the welding
  • Fabricating of gussets and transitional spouting. Involved in various maintenance repairs and swapping of motors.

Welder

FWS Industrial Projects Canada
04.2019 - 12.2021
  • Viterra Inland Terminal (New build) Biggar, Saskatchewan October 2021-Present: Assembled bucket elevator sections from a 185; man lift. Ironworking/ stacking tower mods. Fit/ cut / welded rounded spouting off of distributors into dead-boxes/bins. Tower spouting off head drives.
  • Richardson Canola Crushing Plant (Continuous Concrete Silo pour) Yorkton, Saskatchewan October 2021: Responsible for installing and tying back the stair tower and emergency exit slip-ladder from a hanging scaffold as the 140’ continuous concrete slip was poured and jacked up for 6 straight days.
  • Viterra Inland terminal (Rail Upgrade) Weyburn, Saskatchewan August 2021-September 2021: Demolition of old rail structure, Installation of multiple platforms/ main rail-side bridge. Installation of MTS hydraulic spout as well as fabricated supports for the hydraulic lines. Installed all rail side and return house spouting.
  • SWT Inland terminal (upgrade) Gull Lake, Saskatchewan July 2020: Installed head drives and lifting beams on the top tower mod, Assembled various spouting runs and supports as well as general tower infill and handrail. Also installed a jib pole mod that had an electric cable wench attached.
  • G3 Inland Terminal (New build) Vermillion, Alberta - January 2021-May 2021: Installed a Large 3 part section of a Westeel bridge above steel bins as well as the 3 drag conveyors they were supporting. Built and plummed a 220’ man-lift elevator welding in multiple supports from a man basket after stacking sheet metal mods. Various spouting runs off of the bulk- weigher and tower infill/grating. Installed Grain vacuum sampler systems within the tower as well as using a man basket to install a stick -built angle iron bridge supported by half inch steel cables with proper wire rope procedures, that carried the piping to the inspection room. Installed half 1 1/2” and 2” aluminum sample piping inside drop ceilings feeding to sampler boxes. The welding of hss and beam supports from a man-lift that supported a snatch- bloc running from a wrench to a retractable rail-spout. As well as other welding and mechanical installation tasks and site demobilization
  • Viterra Inland terminal (mechanical bridge repair) Binscarth, Manitoba Used a 135’ Genie manifest to use non hot work practices on an active plant using a saw-zal to remove large hss knee supports a warrior bridge.
  • Richardson Pioneer Inland terminal (Shutdown) Dundonald, Manitoba August 2020- October 2020: Stick building multiple levels of tower mods and installing grating supports, ladder cages. Also involved with craning in large spouting runs off heads from bulk weigher to bulk weigher.
  • G3 Inland Terminal (New build) Stettler, Alberta January 2020- July 2020 Various spouting runs off of the bulk- weigher and tower infill/grating. Installed Grain vacuum sampler systems within the tower as well as using a man basket to install a stick -built angle iron bridge supported by half inch steel cables with proper wire rope procedures, that carried the piping to the inspection room. Installed half 1 1/2” and 2” aluminum sample piping inside drop ceilings feeding to sampler boxes. The welding of hss and beam supports from a man-lift that supported a snatch- bloc running from a wrench to a retractable rail-spout. As well as other welding and mechanical installation tasks and site demobilization
  • Viterra Inland Terminal (Shutdown) January 2020: A shutdown on an active plant using non hot work methods to remove throat spouting below ground. Re-fabricated the spouting to a steeper angle to improve grain flow, As well as other miscellaneous tasks.
  • G3 Inland Terminal (New build) Stettler, Alberta November 2019- December 2019:Assembled truck scale and conveyors boot pit area as well as re-fabricated handrail/platforms where they inhibited assembly. Shot in and shimmed boot-drives for a bucket elevator system. Used a crab wench to lift hanging platforms from the roof of a cement silo to weld in HSS and angle iron supports for q- decking and Rebar to hold up a concrete floor for grain Cleaners.
  • Viterra Inland Terminal (Steel bin Expansion) Balgonie, Saskatchewan October 2019- November 2019: Installation of a new Catwalk bridge, using man baskets and 120 Genie AWP. Was also responsible of installing the sections of drag on top of the cat walk and the installation, splicing and tensioning of the chain inside that drag. Also underneath the bin added the return to house belt conveyor including the welding and fabrication of spouting feeding into it a long with installing splicing and tensioning of the belt.
  • G3 Inland Terminal (New build) Morinville, Alberta September 2019-October 2019: Responsible for the assembly of a drag chain conveyor , Welding of a checker plate flooring as well as fabricate and add supports.
  • Richardson Pioneer Inland Terminal (shutdown) Wadena, Saskatchewan June 2019- September 2019: Demolition of existing spouting runs and equipment within the roof tower including the head drives of the bucket elevator. All methods of demolition followed safe hot work protocols as it was an existing plant. Craning and Re installation of new head drives as well as a lifting beam tower section. Re installation of new square and round spouting runs as well as fabricated/welded structural supports at heights working from the steel as well as a scissor lift.
  • Viterra Inland Terminal (Shutdown) Balgonie, Saskatchewan April 2019-June 2019: Responsible for the measuring/ acetylene torch cutting of multiple diameters of pipe while rigging it up on the correct angle for installation on distributor feeding into the 130 slip deck roof. Various welding supports and flanges were CWB welded in the completion of this task.

Welder/Fitter

Brandt
09.2018 - 04.2019
  • Responsible for the fitting and welding of various kinds of heavy duty construction trailers and buckets while interpreting blueprints and making sure production was to its utmost quality. The welding included all types of wires process’ and diameter on thick frames and bucket teeth. Fitting and shop organization was done through the use of overhead and gantry cranes a long with forklifts to make the best use of lean construction.

Education

Red Seal Welder -

Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
06.2021

Skills

  • Tank Vert welder
  • Very experienced in working with cranes,at heights and large aerial work platforms up to 185 '
  • Fabrication
  • Blueprint reading
  • Stick welding
  • Torch cutting
  • Layout and fitting
  • Flux-cored arc welding
  • Vertical welding
  • Structural welding
  • Steel fabrication
  • Equipment operation
  • Efficient and skilled in the use of Plasma cutters, gouging, oxy acetylene torches
  • -Fitting and Welding beams, shell plate, floor plate and coning of tanks using key plates, pins ,U bars, nuts , wedges and dogs
  • Using key plates to manipulate the steel and minimize distortion
  • -Experienced Fabricator of structural steel, handrail ,supports using all kinds of hand tools torches, chop saws etc
  • - Reading and interpreting drawings and 3D models
  • -Knowledgeable in large and small mechanical installations of large equipment and conveyors Experienced with Iron working of bridges and Tower sections as well as building floors inside buildings
  • -Good Communication with pre task planning and the continuing of the task Experienced with hand/ radio Signaling crane and Tele-handler operators as well as a competent rigger
  • -Problem solving when ncr’s or mis alignments occur
  • -Safe work practices all the time , used to working at heights ,Working from man-lifts,Vert buggies, take all precautions necessary before starting task
  • -Layout and pre planning lean construction skills
  • Tool repair and maintenance
  • Joint preparation

Certification

  • CWB: SMAW/FCAW Carbon steel all position
  • General Mine Safety and Awareness
  • API Tank Welding Certification
  • Operator Certificate: Aerial ,Boom, Scissor lift
  • Operator Certificate: Class 7 Rough Terrain Forklift
  • Fall Protection
  • Confined Space
  • SCSA [WHMIS]
  • Nuclear plant worker
  • First Aid

Timeline

Welder

Canadian Tank and Vessel
04.2022 - Current

Welder

LPL Management
01.2022 - 04.2022

Welder

FWS Industrial Projects Canada
04.2019 - 12.2021

Welder/Fitter

Brandt
09.2018 - 04.2019

Red Seal Welder -

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

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