Chris Balcombe
Thornlie
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
EMSO Maintenance
05.2025 - 07.2025
- Basic hand tools
- Power tools
- Basic Maintenance
Heat exchangers
09.2024 - 11.2024
- Basic hand tools
- Power tools
- Daily safety checks on equipment
- Working confined spaces
- Lifting heavy
Borrello beef
10.2023 - 09.2024
- Lifting Heavy box
- Electric pallet jacks
- Managing a small team
- Strapping machine
- Daily safety checks on equipment and plant.
Town of Claremont (Parking Officer)
09.2022 - 09.2024
- Public parking direction
- Customer service focus
- Dealing with customer complaints
- Undertook the Parking sign and line marking audit.
- Stock control of new parking signage and street signage.
- Worked under the OH&S requirements set down by the Local Government.
- Use of various technology and hand tools to perform my roles.
- Assist at large events such as the Perth Royal Show and various music festivals.
Opal Healthcare (Murdoch)
07.2023 - 10.2023
- General Kitchen Hand
- Food preparation & handling
- Customer service
- Hygiene practices
Casual work as a Boilermaker
Rose Work Engineering
11.2022 - 02.2023
- Daily safety checks on equipment and plant.
- Daily use of various hands tools to complete each task
- Manufacturing of steel pilers and frames for construction sites
- Working on construction sites.
- Interpretation of site drawings and engineering drawings.
- Stock takes of the workshop.
Internship
Barnett Custom Knives
07.2019 - 07.2022
- Studied the art of knife making
- Forge work
- Heavy duty machinery
- Learnt to temper steel
- Heat treat steel
Education
High school -
Cyril Jackson
High school -
Treetop Montessori
01.2018
Skills
- Hand and power tools
- Welding
- Grinding techniques
- Heavy lifting
- Customer service abilities
- Attention to detail
- Team collaboration
- Safety procedures
Certification
- Bladesmith Award for best Utility knife - 2022
- Heavy metal fabrication
- Certificate 2 - 2018
- Blacksmith
- White Card 2022
- Work safe at heights
- Work in confined spaces
- Elevating work platform (ewp)
Timeline
EMSO Maintenance
05.2025 - 07.2025
Heat exchangers
09.2024 - 11.2024
Borrello beef
10.2023 - 09.2024
Opal Healthcare (Murdoch)
07.2023 - 10.2023
Casual work as a Boilermaker
Rose Work Engineering
11.2022 - 02.2023
Town of Claremont (Parking Officer)
09.2022 - 09.2024
Internship
Barnett Custom Knives
07.2019 - 07.2022
High school -
Cyril Jackson
High school -
Treetop Montessori