Valentino Gonnie

Experience

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  Local 627

  Sept 2008 - Jan 2012

  Boilermaker / Ship Fitter / Ship welder (seam)

  Working for local 627 doing shut downs rebuilding and maintaincing ducts welding also fitting and rigging up materials. Going threw training on welding ships boiler also back gouging n welding up plates for ships. Learning the process of ships. i fit plates on ships for bae systems welding seams also back guaging from back side. hanging from the ship from lanyards n position lanyards where i had to ge things done. using flux welder 211 no gas. also help bullrigging in confine spaces.

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  Irwin Industries

  Jan 2009 - Aug 2009

  Welder helper

  Responsibilities being a fire watch doing own paper work hot work permits inspecting all welding equipment leads. While welding helping out the welder move equipment also wearing a harness when needed to get in higher places where I was needed to prevent fire. Accomplishments Learning to be clean. good housekeeping Skills Used good house keeping, Team work

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  CCC Group, Inc.

  Jan 2010 - Jul 2010

  Structual welder

  Responsibilities Welding and fitting - Heavy wall, over head and vertical welding, fabrication. Torch, Air arc, Fabrication. -Mig flux core gas welding, dual shield an inner shield. Also stick and stainless Steel. Fitting up for milwrights also ironworkers and welding it out. Understanding welding symbols. Accomplishments Read blue print and did welds on my own. Skills Used SMAW FCAW

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  Vantage Mobility Intl

  Nov 2011 - Apr 2012

  Chassis welder 2

  Customized vans for the disability or for the wounded veterans making the slide out doors for better access for wheel chairs. welding them using mig welding made at least 11 vans a days had quality work and had to have fast service made me a good wire welder.

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  Ironco Enterprises, LLC

  Apr 2012 - May 2012

  Production Welder

  Building Kone cranes for huge companys using MIG welding carbon also flux core welding dual shield fixing repairs for structals and building beams stairs structural. Was a welding shop.

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  IMCOR - Engineering and Manufacturing Division

  Jun 2012 - Jul 2012

  Erector Welder

  Building generator for big solar power plant located in gila bend using flux core welding with dual shield. also had QC always inspect our welds and sign off when was good all was UT welds.

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  Jacobs

  Dec 2012 - May 2014

  Ironworker (Foreman)

  Working on the new mine. Hanging Iron also bolting up. Was a lead man supervising 10 worker 6 ironworkers 4 welders putting up tanks cat walks also platforms reading blueprints. Reading all welding symbols what needed to be welded or being repaired o fix the problem also solving a problem.

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  CCC Group, Inc.

  Mar 2013 - Apr 2013

  Ironwoker/ Structual welder

  Welding with stick 7018 for every craft on site on a new mine for the polish plant located in Carlsbad, new mexico. Welding supports for millwrights and the pipe crew and pipe racks. also making new beams and braces for ironworkers. Connected beams and columns when I didn't have much work for welding kept my self busy

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  CLP Resources

  May 2014 - Jul 2014

  Pipe Welder

  welding pipe using 6010 root and 7018 hot pass and cover pass also making racks to support the pipe. worked for TDI being a pipe welder for a gasline for a new ganola bar factory

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  CSI

  Jul 2014 - Jul 2014

  Pipe welder

  Also was a pipe welder welding water lines that were pressure for schools and had a boiler there for heat. a month job kept me busy welding and cutting pipe

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  Nexus Steel

  Aug 2014 - Feb 2016

  Ironworker/Wire Welder

  Was connecting iron also bolting up using ironworking skills hanging iron. Also was Welding stick 7018 a lot for some jobs welding tubes and beams. Used a lot was LN25 flux core welding beams and doing a lot of welding all welds were UT welds. moments welds. worked at ASU stadium, ASU law, Quarter mall, Phx sky airport, Perioa sports field, Marina Heights, Boeing, Banner hospital, children's hospital banner.

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  TIC The Industrial company

  Mar 2016 - Jul 2016

  Ironworker Lead / wire welder

  Building a dragline relocation near douglas Wyoming for cloud peak coal mine. Re connecting walls and fitting all beams and bolting up. Also doing some welding using stick 7018 we all have to preheat all the time because of weather condition. ON feet for 12 hrs 6 days a week heights from 60 ft climbing and using JLG. Also was using wire feeder miller suitcase 0.45 n 1/16 wire with dual shield flux core. Welding full pin weld all were ut n also visual . My professional welding skills grew passing and more talent used Show less

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  Tradesmen International

  Jul 2016 - Jul 2016

  Welder

  doing a shutdown for freeport helped weld som new beams n x braces was a leader of crew and welder helped rigged and got things done early

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  Sundt Construction

  Oct 2017 - Apr 2018

  Building ducts also fitting using iron working, rigging ,welding skills to complete the job. Using crane to rig ducts off hoppers and to fit on table. Bolting up with ironworking skills also welding stitch welds. Bull rigging pipes inside ducts for support reading blueprints to connect and weld up. Was welding 6010 /7018 on baffles deflectors. Also welding with fluxcore on heavy ducts and Ejs. I was promoted to a foreman position for Ejs weld out crew. I was supervising the welders where we weld out ejs and baffles plates also deflectors. We would also do the fitting up on ejs erecting them on putting up the pillows and blankets on ejs. I was reading prints laying out what was needed to be done. Planning ahead for my crew. Showing and teaching each welder to do alot more better and getting things done correctly at the first time of job task.

  • Boilermaker/ Welder/ Foreman

    Aug 2016 - Apr 2018

  • Boilermaker Foreman

    Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
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  Trillium Construction Services

  Apr 2018 - Feb 2019

  Pipe Welder

  Working in a shop pipe welding with mig root flux core cap. Also helping with structual making beams, stairs welding cjp full pin welds which are all UT. Welding up to 1ft pipes full pin welds which are cjps that has to be UT.

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  Brahma Group, Inc.

  Feb 2019 - Apr 2019

  Pipe Welder

  Welding 4ft of pipe carbon using fluxcore ln25 for google project. Also welding structural stiffs passing all ut full pin welds also meeting acception by inspectors also. Helping fitting pipes.

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  Tradesmen International

  Apr 2019 - May 2019

  Tank welder/ Fitter/ Rigger

  Welding and fitting tanks for LAX in los angeles california. Making fuel storage tanks fo LAX Airport. Welding using LN25 207 no gas innershield wire 5/64 also using 7018 stick rods. And using jet rods. Welding on the outside about 90ft in the air in a buggy weldng and back gouging . using my rigging experience helping rig the plates also pipes for the outside...fitting up tanks to.tack for fit up.

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  360 Industrial Services

  May 2019 - Apr 2020

  Millwright welder/ Lead

  Building a new.federal Ups production facility. Building new conveyors for ups installing conveyors using 6011 using degrees and also.exact measurement. Also doing sorters installing new chains with new chain links.also new slots shoes which installing in a.fast pace.to keep production going to.meet deadline..we.also.doing handrails meeting blueprint requirements. Also tearing down conveyors beam also shoots by using a torch also air arcing. Using chain falls by bullrigging beams down. Using techniques to lower heavy beams. Show less

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  IMI - A Global People Company

  Apr 2020 - Jun 2020

  Conveyor installer/ Lead

  doing layout taking a lead using blueprints setting up baselines n gridline reference installing steel headers to support conveyors also rollers and sorters.

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  W&K Gesellschaft für Industrietechnik mbH

  Jun 2020 - Nov 2020

  Mechanical Technician/ Foreman

  We were building the New White claw facility for Mark Anthony Brewing. Using Blueprint which was all in metric measurements to do layouts setting up big pallet towers which where conveyors were install by mean and my crew. I was a lead man of 5 guys on my crew using forklift to install conveyors which were all stainless steel and Titanium. Using center lines to go off and installing chain conveyors that were for pallets also the pickers. we also were installing roller conveyors where we had to level by a certain measurement and level all the way for forklift to access pallets. we also install tables lines for the bottles lines which were gonna be for white claw, dasani, mikes hard limeade, cocoa . This Distribution was for Mark Anthony Brewing which we were really about safety. Show less

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  Veteran Staffing Network

  Nov 2020 - Jan 2021

  Mechanical Leader

  building Honeywell project using conveyor parcel installing sorters also putting belts on by starting on time and on time to get done. doing laying for new conveyors to be install.

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  IMI - A Global People Company

  Jan 2021 - Oct 2021

  Mechanical Lead

  Building the new GYR 2 Amazon Facility which im doing hangers mezzanine conveyors leading a crew of 8 people which are all journey mans in the mechanical field. Using my skills to get things done as of using a blueprint also my math skills doing incline n decline also bracing which is alot of mathematics. Using two blueprints which is header steel prints also conveyor drawing im also doing header steel.

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  HEMI Systems

  Oct 2021 - Nov 2022

  Journeyman Millwright

  Building the New Bang Energy Plant setting up layouts pulling in heavy equipment weighing more then 100,000 using skills and math to pull in can lines

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  Crothall Healthcare

  Jan 2022 - Oct 2024

  Assistant Chief Engineer

  Working in a Laundry Plant facility maintaining the boiler chemicals acid salt and eco lab. Doing lot of Mechanical work on tunnels from chains gear boxes sensors trouble shooting to find the issues. Also working on Baggers, Chicago's folders, ironers, feeder. Trouble shooting Dryer from Milnor using experience and using books to find the issues. Performs preventative maintenance activities on equipment as scheduled. Ensures timely and quality completion of all maintenance and repairs, including overhead rail system and conveyor systems.. Assists technical and mechanical personnel including outside vendors. Maintained the maintenance log by making entries of incomplete tasks and new problems. Notified Production Supervisors on the status of any equipment that will impact production or cause down time and when back online. Performs other duties as assigned. Also is a combo welder welding from stainless steel to all sorts of metal welding pipes for boilers or water lines also helping production if a part break to keep production going. Also helping Chief of engineers with all problems assisting him from what needs to be completed and fixing the problem asap. Show less

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  Emerald Textiles

  Nov 2024 - now

  Maintenance Engineer