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Nicholas Verge

Airdrie,AB

Summary

  • Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
  • To seek and maintain a full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
  • Dedicated professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
  • Responsible Operator brings expertise with digging, backfilling and general site maintenance. Safely operates diverse equipment to handle and accomplish assignments moving materials, lifting heavy loads and improving site layouts. Offers good technical and mechanical abilities.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Heavy Equipment Operator

Flint Energy
Fort McMurray, AB Kearl Lake
10.2023 - Current
  • Loader operator (980, 988)

1. Cleaning large windrows along haul roads in order to widen roads.

2. Building safety berms.

3. Transporting materials to desired locations.

4. Tramming various sizes of pipes throughout the mine.

  • Excavator operator (490, 670, 870)

1. Building tow berms along the bottom of high wall in order to assist in the dewatering of shovel pit.

2. Excavating sumps at the end of tow berm in order to contain the buildup of water.

3. Building level pump pads for crew to then install a pump setup.

4. Working near autonomous 797 haul trucks.

5. Maintaining communication with other operators within the work area in order to keep safe and ensure plan is being followed.

Civil Earthworks Foreman

Shott Earthworks Inc
Kearl Lake, Fort Mcmurray, AB
04.2023 - 10.2023
  • Inspected completed work to verify quality standards and compliance with criteria.
  • Trained new employees to learn new systems, apply best practices and comply with protocols and regulations.
  • Handled issues with relative ease by implementing best practices and applying critical thinking skills to find best solutions.
  • Checked equipment to determine if maintenance was required.
  • Created and implemented plans in daily toolbox meetings.
  • Overseeing multiple crews, and ensuring best practices are in place.
  • Documented construction and extraction workers' hours, wages and other pertinent information.
  • Created and implemented plans to maximize efficiency of workers.

Heavy Equipment Operator

Shott Earthworks inc
Kearl Lake, Fort Mcmurray, AB
07.2021 - 04.2023
  • Excavator operator ( 324, 336, 365)

1. Excavating trenches to subgrade, and then placing and grading bedding sand to final grade.

2. Grading pipeline ROW to final grade.

3. Excavating ditches with TOPCON GPS excavator.

4. Loading rock trucks on stockpile.

5. Lifting and placing various materials such as; pre-cast manholes, culverts, pre-cast splash pads, pre-cast trenches, and pipe sleeves into excavations.

  • Skid-steer operator (249)

1. Building/grading ramps to final grade.

2. Snow clearing.

3.Grading material in sub-stations to desired grade.

4. Backfilling excavations.

5. Using forks in order to move materials.

  • Dozer Operator (D6, D8)

1. Bulking out large cuts and stockpiling material.

2.Maintaining stockpiles and creating paths for rock trucks to travel.

3. Grading roads to sub-grade.

  • Loader operator (966, 980)

1. Loading rock trucks with materials.

2. Using bucket in order to maintain/clean work area.

3. Building access ramps.

4. Moving various materials with fork attachment, as well as loading/unloading materials from trucks.

  • Rock truck operator (730, 760)

1. Stockpiling material effectively and efficiently.

2. Hauling material to desired locations.

3. Communicating with other operators and placing material where needed.

  • Labourer

1. Using various makes of plate tampers in order to achieve proper compaction during backfill operations.

2. Signalling/Spotting for heavy equipment near fixed structures.

3. Ensuring proper set up of laser level, and verifying desired grade with grade stick.

4. Using rake and shovel around areas unsafe for heavy equipment to work near.

Heavy Equipment Operator

Tunnel and Trench
Crossfield, AB
12.2020 - 07.2021
  • Excavator operator (308, 315)

1. Excavating trenches for placement of communications utilities.

2. Excavating entry and exit holes for horizontal directional drill.

3. Loading and unloading excavator from trailer.

4. Operated excavator to dig on and around live utilities in underground or telecom utility fields.

  • Horizontal directional drill operator ( Ditch witch 2020)

1. Determined accurate angles and depths before drilling or giving instructions.

2.Adhered to directions of locater operator in order to successfully create bore.

3. Monitored water flow while pulling product through bore path.

4. Loading and unloading directional drill from trailer and tracking machine to desired location.

  • Labourer

1. Assisting operators in maintenance of heavy equipment.

2. Using shovel in order to hand expose underground buried utilities.

3. Using the proper ratio of water and bentonite in order to create mud mix for bore path.

4. Driving truck and trailer to and from various sites.

Heavy Equipment Operator

Highline Mushroom Farms
Crossfield, AB
07.2019 - 09.2020

Loader operator (930, 966)

1. Using loader equipped with grapples in order to fill feed hopper with materials to produce the necessary compost required for growing mushrooms.

2. Cleaning the work area with bucket attachment.

3. Stockpiling excess material for future use.

4. Ensuring daily pre-trip inspections were performed and proper preventative maintenance had been completed.

Labourer

1. Using hand tools such as grinder, axe, and knife in order to accomplish daily tasks.

2. Assisting in fuelling machinery and ensuring no spillage occurred during the process.

3. Spotting for heavy equipment while in close proximity to buildings, silos, etc.

Education

HEO Certificate Program - Heavy Equipment Operating

Olds College
Olds, AB
12.2020

High School Diploma -

Olds Koinonia Christian School
Olds, AB
06.2019

Skills

  • Heavy equipment operation
  • GPS experience
  • Mine awareness
  • Experience with Mine-star
  • Heavy equipment safety
  • Equipment transport
  • Adaptability
  • Experience with truck and trailer
  • Works well under pressure
  • Quick learner
  • Able to work independently, and in team environments
  • Upbeat, outgoing, positive
  • Dewatering

Languages

English

Certification

  • HEO certificate
  • CSO
  • WHIMIS (2015)
  • H2S alive
  • CSTS
  • RSTS
  • Ground disturbance Level 2
  • Class 5 non GDL license
  • Standard First Aid and CPR/AED Level C
  • Transportation of dangerous goods
  • Wildlife awareness
  • Rigging (basic)
  • Leadership for safety excellence (LSE)

Timeline

Heavy Equipment Operator

Flint Energy
10.2023 - Current

Civil Earthworks Foreman

Shott Earthworks Inc
04.2023 - 10.2023

Heavy Equipment Operator

Shott Earthworks inc
07.2021 - 04.2023

Heavy Equipment Operator

Tunnel and Trench
12.2020 - 07.2021

Heavy Equipment Operator

Highline Mushroom Farms
07.2019 - 09.2020

HEO Certificate Program - Heavy Equipment Operating

Olds College

High School Diploma -

Olds Koinonia Christian School
Nicholas Verge