Jane Ryan

• Coordinating, setting up, managing and removing traffic control
• Directing traffic around areas of disruption, such as roadworks, accidents, building sites and planned maintenance
• Directing pedestrians to maintain safety around changed vehicles and road conditions
• Communicating via two-way radio with other road traffic team members, emergency response teams and construction workers to give and receive updates on traffic and conditions
• Operating road signs, such as a Stop/Slow bat, and using hand signals to direct traffic flow and pedestrians
• Explaining operations and answering driver and pedestrian questions
• Setting up and taking down temporary road signs.

• Transporting crushed rock, sand and gravel to and from specified locations
• Verifying the types of materials being transported and ensuring that they do not exceed weight restrictions
• Ensuring the materials and loaded correctly onto the Dump truck
• Promptly reporting any accidents injuries or mechanical faults to management
• Navigating through rough terrain
• Operate machinery safely and efficiently.

• Clean up worksites from hazardous or obsolete material
• Assist welders, carpenters, painters or other tradespeople on-site
• Handle and transport materials (e.g Cement) and equipment (e.g Drills and grinders)
• Use power tools and machinery when needed
• Follow instructions from supervisors to perform manual labor tasks (e.g Digging, stacking up goods)
• Put up warning signs (e.g Signposts, cones) for vehicles and passersby
• Help with setting up and transferring temporary structures
• Report issues with equipment or unsafe conditions.

• Weekend and holiday work on family farm

Responsibilities included:

• Driving farm machinery: Tractors/Loaders/JCB Loader/Combine Harvesters
• Feeding cattle, administering medicine and cleaning waste.
• Operating milking equipment to milk cows
• Ensuring all milking equipment and other farm equipment is maintained properly
• Ensured pens were clean with fresh bedding by using Machinery to remove old bedding and insert clean bedding.
• Manual handling.

• Subbing in mainstream and special classes as a teacher and Special Needs Assistant in various primary schools.