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Ladell Nakachi

Ladell Nakachi

Cairns,Australia

Summary

I'm open to secure part-time, casual, or full-time work. Highly motivated, with a desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Very strong in working as a team and helping each other to reach the same goal in a safe manner.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Field Supervisor – Construction

Ben Hall Construction
Gove Nhulunbuy, Australia
10.2024 - 03.2025
  • Managed day-to-day operations.
  • Mark out the trench to dig out and install the pedestal.
  • Use a laser to determine heights for the pedestal for excavation.
  • Operating a 1.7T digger to dig out a trench.
  • Read plans.
  • Inspection test planned, signed off with the client.
  • Backfill laterite into trenches by loading laterite into a 14T tipper with a skid steer.
  • 1.7 T digger condition materials.
  • Use wacka packa.
  • Order concrete for bedding in trenches for the pedestal to sit on.
  • Insert block into trenches – (block 1200 x 900 x 600).
  • Rigging the pedestal block into the trench with a Franna.
  • Screed concrete and bedding sand.
  • Form up form work from 500 m to 800 m shutter in height, using bracing.
  • Form up curb, ballast, restrain.
  • Install fencing around the substation.
  • Mark out and dig out the earth grid.
  • Maintained accurate records of employee timecards, leave requests.
  • Performed maintenance checks on vehicles used by field personnel.
  • Provided guidance to team members on job-related tasks, techniques, best practices.
  • Supervised and coordinated daily activities of field personnel to ensure efficient operations.
  • Evaluated employees' performance through periodic reviews; took appropriate disciplinary action when necessary.
  • Prepared and submitted detailed progress reports to senior management.
  • Liaised with project managers and clients, ensuring expectations and deadlines were met.

Track Superintendent – (rail Maintenances)

DTI – Infrastructure A Gamuda Company
Karratha, Australia
07.2023 - 09.2024
  • Completed 242 km of rail on the Rio Tinto network and 365 days incident-free.
  • Managing and coordinating the work of subcontractors, and ensuring they meet their contractual obligations.
  • Conducting regular site inspections and reporting on project status to stakeholders.
  • Resolving any issues or delays that may arise on-site.
  • Scheduling and coordinating all aspects of the scope of work process, including hiring and supervising workers and subcontractors.
  • Planning a schedule meeting with stakeholders.
  • Approved scoping plans.
  • Managed daily operations.
  • Planning and scheduling logistic movements, such as floats picking up material, and creating a Monday delivery schedule plan.
  • Ensure project materials and workmanship meet the project quality standards.
  • Managed 3 teams of 20 men and 2 teams of 5 men for the rail train crew.

Follow Mount, Folk Lift Operator/ Driver

Cairns
Woree, Australia
05.2023 - 07.2023
  • Loading and unloading materials from a variety of vehicles and from doubles and triples' trucks.
  • Moving pallets – packed materials around the site or storage facility.
  • Performing equipment checks and basic maintenance.
  • Follow written instructions and keep records.
  • Manual handling with heavy-lifting materials.
  • Use the scanner to scan bar codes on the material.
  • Load pallets into containers, meeting the timeline for containers to be taken away to sea swiftly.
  • Drive the truck to deliver good pallets to the depot.
  • Unload material from the flatbed.
  • Conduct a prestart on the forklift.
  • HR is driving to deliver packages to customers in a timely and efficient manner.
  • Inspected HV and LV for mechanical items and safety issues prior to operating them.
  • Assisted with loading and unloading freight when necessary.
  • Reported any incidents involving the truck or its cargo to management immediately.
  • Checked loads to ensure that cargo was secure and distributed evenly.
  • Completed necessary paperwork and documentation for deliveries.
  • Drove trucks to and from job sites to deliver supplies.
  • Managed time effectively to meet tight delivery deadlines.

Site Supervisor-Re Rail

Downer Rail Infrastructure / Rio Tinto
Tom Prices, Australia
12.2019 - 07.2023
  • Develop strong client relationships.
  • Held a toolbox meeting.
  • Excel data input.
  • Gantt review meeting.
  • Planning meeting.
  • Create a roster in Excel.
  • Reporting culture on incidents.
  • Ensure all safety incidents are reported in a timely fashion.
  • Provide accurate and comprehensive documentation, such as daily progress reports, QA reports, production reports, action plans, and methodology plans.
  • Actively develop future leaders and employees' skill sets.
  • Organizing and planning workflow.
  • Delegate tasks to workers.
  • Setting goals for performances and deadlines in ways that comply with the company's plan and vision.
  • Organizing toolboxes meeting.
  • Create a calendar invite for the meeting.
  • Monitor and manage workforces.
  • Scope and inspection of works.
  • Planning a meeting with clients.
  • Scope works.
  • Maintained accurate records such as daily reports, timesheets and other related documentation as required by management.
  • Managed and supervised a team of 10+ site staff members to ensure safety, quality control and efficient operations.
  • Investigated accidents or near-miss incidents; documented findings in an incident report form.
  • Ensured that all personnel wore appropriate personal protective equipment while working at construction sites.
  • Communicated regularly with clients regarding progress updates on projects.
  • Ensured that workers followed safe work practices when operating machinery or performing hazardous tasks.
  • Supervised a team of 30 to 40 construction workers, providing guidance and resolving issues as they arose.
  • Established and maintained close working relationships with staff, clients and vendors.

Foreman-Re Rail

Downer Rail Infrastructure / Rio Tinto
Tom Prices, Australia
11.2018 - 11.2019
  • Lead workers to meet deadlines and goals.
  • Provide leadership and provide information about the task ahead.
  • Guide workers through decision-making.
  • Delegate the workers to the task at hand.
  • Organize observation talks.
  • Data input excels, and Word document / create roster.
  • Setting up goals for worker crews to meet deadlines in a timely fashion.
  • Organizing safety chats within team bonding.
  • Stocktake on tools.
  • Organized, planned work.
  • Report all incidents.
  • Complete reports such as the daily progress report, daily shift reports, action plans, and observation charts.
  • Held a toolbox meeting.
  • Conducted regular performance reviews with crew members.
  • Inspected tools, materials, and equipment to ensure quality standards were met.
  • Resolved conflicts between workers in a timely manner.
  • Developed and implemented strategies to improve team productivity.

Operator/Roller /loader/bobcat Pad Foot

Downer Civil Construction / Pinga streets Upgrade stage 2
Port Hedland, Australia
09.2017 - 11.2018
  • The operator's pad foot follows behind the grader.
  • Operate the roller using vibration when required.
  • Operate the loader, loading and unloading dirt into the side tipper.
  • Operate the vac truck to locate underground services.
  • Operate Bobcat cleanup works. Clean-up works.
  • Read site plans to locate underground services.
  • Operate pad foot.

Leading Hand/loader Operator/ Folk Lift/HR Truck Driving

Downer Rail Infrastructure /Longer Train Project-BHP
Port Headland, Australia
07.2015 - 09.2017
  • Operate a heavy-duty forklift to move sleepers.
  • Use FL to unload and load sleepers onto the semi-float.
  • Use FL- to unload turn-out components off the float.
  • Use FL-Moving goods packed on pallets or crates around the storage facility.
  • Use FL-Stacking goods in the correct storage bays, following inventory instructions.
  • Drive a flatbed with sleepers.
  • Drive the tipper truck to.
  • Checking that loads are secure.
  • Use FL-Stacking empty pallets.
  • Performing daily equipment checks on forklifts, report all faulty equipment to supervisors.
  • Use FL- to remove train wheel components, loader operator.
  • Construct turnout (Underpinning Knowledge).
  • Cut rail.
  • Normal clip-up track with tools such as an applicator.
  • Do verse testing.
  • Construction Vortex Fencing.
  • Space sleepers to correct centers.
  • Correction on Tracks.
  • Manage the ballast stockpile with a loader.
  • Set up biscuits and clips 1.2 - 1.8 km dual track.
  • D - Stressing.
  • Loader operation: loading sleepers onto a flatbed.
  • Load ballast into tippers.
  • Drag rail with a loader.
  • Construct turnout (Underpinning Knowledge).
  • Cut rail using a rail saw.
  • Normal clip-up track with tools such as an applicator.
  • Do verse testing.
  • Construction Vortex Fencing.
  • Space sleepers to correct centers.
  • Correction on Tracks.
  • D - Stressing.
  • Loader operation: loading sleepers onto a flatbed.
  • Load ballast into tippers.
  • Drag rail with a loader.
  • Manage ballet's stockpile with Loader.
  • Resolved conflicts between staff members in a professional manner.
  • Performed regular inspections of equipment and tools used in production processes.
  • Oversaw daily operations to ensure smooth workflow processes.

Leading Hand /Operator/Track Worker

Downer Rail Infrastructure /Roy Hill Package 3-Stackers and Reclaimers
Port Headland, Australia
02.2015 - 06.2015
  • Delegate operators, such as graders, loaders, and rollers, to the task on the formation to prepare works.
  • Attend the meeting with the supervisor and other leading hands.
  • Managing and controlling the activities of the labor force and the workflow practices.
  • Provide positive motivation to all team members.
  • Work according to workplace health and safety standards.
  • Attend daily work meetings.
  • Do pre-start in the mornings.
  • Construct mono and standard-gauge track works.
  • Do up a correction list for all tracks, including Mono and Standard tracks.

Rail Maintenance -Track Worker/Operator

Downer Rail Infrastructure
Kwinana, Australia
06.2014 - 05.2015
  • Change concrete sleepers and timber sleepers.
  • Box out turnouts with ballast using hand tools, such as Pelican picks, shovels, and folks.
  • Used a rail saw to cut the rail.
  • Used underfoot grinder.
  • Welder-offsider.
  • Use a profile grinder to grind rail after welds, including hot grinds and finished grinds.
  • Use dog knockers, track machines.
  • Use Spike pullers, track machines.
  • Use clip-up machines.
  • Repair work on turnouts.
  • General maintainers on track.
  • Drive trucks, gang trucks, flatbed trucks, and vehicles. Prestart Truck and Vehicle Daily.
  • Operate loader—moving dirt, loading trucks with ballast using a bucket—using folks to load rail onto semi, moving sleeper, and loading onto trucks.
  • Operate Bobcat: clean up, load ballast onto the rail track; use folks carrying sleepers.
  • Operate the roller to roll the foundation when building the track.
  • Huck bolt joins and operates a petrol drill.
  • Use applicator, plant, and equipment.
  • Work according to workplace health and safety standards
  • Attend daily work meetings
  • Repaired, replaced or adjusted track components as necessary.

Form Worker/Dogman

J Adamini Formwork
Subiaco, Australia
04.2014 - 05.2014
  • Form up beam formwork.
  • Install step downs and rebate for balconies.
  • Read plans to locate the position of the Bubble Deck to be landing on top of the suspended slab.
  • Dogging bubble deck onto suspended deck.
  • Dogging steel on a suspended deck.
  • General dogging around the site, things need to be moved.
  • Set double frames for precast slabs—Bubble Deck.
  • Laying joists timber out onto bearers.
  • General House Cleaning.
  • Back prop under bubble deck.
  • Strip form work.
  • Vibrate concrete into columns, walls, and also on the slab.
  • Screeding concrete.
  • Tie steel for beams

HR Truck Driver &Track Maintainer - Rail Labourer

T6 Rail Specialist, Port Hedland WA
, Australia
01.2012 - 10.2013
  • Drive a 9-ton truck carrying railway components Drive and maintain work vehicles, and logbooks.
  • Load Jumping Jacks, Wack Packa, Loader Bucket, and Jib Excavator Buckets onto trucks.
  • D-stressing and clipping rails.
  • Install crossing.
  • Install rollers and patch sleepers with special grout.
  • Replace sleepers under the rails & knock pins into sleeper tie downs using a sledgehammer
  • Replace pads under the rails using a rail jack.
  • Cutting, grinding, and drilling rails on weld joints.
  • Huck bolts plates on either side of the defective weld.
  • Correction on track.
  • Use applicator, plant, and equipment.
  • Work according to workplace health and safety standards
  • Attend daily work meetings

Youth Worker

Genx Youth Services
Cairns, Australia
04.2010 - 06.2012
  • Provide support and care to young people experiencing mental, emotional, social, and intellectual difficulties.
  • Working with young Indigenous people with mental disabilities such as Autism, Foetal alcohol syndrome, congenital rubella, Valgus deformities and deafness
  • Complete the client progress and/or incidental report.
  • Plan and organize recreational activities, including sports, handicrafts, bushwalking, and fishing trips.
  • Liaise with teachers, social welfare departments, local authorities, health professionals, and parents.
  • Worked at Mount Isa for 24-hour shifts, with an overnight stay for 7 days of ongoing shifts.
  • Organize a child safety meeting with youth justices.
  • Assisting clients with their transition into care and case management.
  • Carry out residential care duties.
  • Collaborating closely with authorities and child services.
  • Sit in court cases for young people for support.
  • Provide a goal performance chat.
  • Updates the calendar to YP events and appointments.
  • Pre-fill handover notes.
  • Input data for daily progress reports on YP.
  • Engaged YP family gathering.
  • Do shopping for house clients, cook, and organize the school's interactions.
  • Provided emotional support and guidance to youths in difficult situations.
  • Participated in regular meetings with staff members to discuss program goals and objectives.
  • Organized recreational activities such as sports, games, field trips, and arts and crafts.
  • Assisted with homework and provided tutoring in subjects as required.

Form Worker/ Concreter

Watermark Plumbing Pty Ltd
Karratha, Australia
07.2009 - 11.2009
  • Company Overview: Subcontract to Thiess in Cape Preston.
  • Construct a timber framework.
  • Erect and strip formwork for concrete work.
  • Install culvert, floodway, and pipes.
  • Form and erect around culvert pipes.
  • Set height pins for the culvert.
  • Pour concrete over the culvert, up to 1.5 meters in diameter and 21 meters long.
  • Strip form work from the culvert.
  • Use a sniper vibrator to vibrate around culverts when pouring concrete.
  • Form and erect stop ends around culverts.
  • Work in a safe area with barricades and signage.
  • Laboring
  • Subcontract to Thiess in cape Preston

Carpenter/Form Worker

Hedley Constructions Pty Ltd
Cairns, Australia
11.2001 - 06.2009
  • Measure, mark, and construct timber framework and formwork.
  • Build floors, wall frames, roofs, and lay timber floors.
  • Install fittings and fixtures, flooring underlay, insulating material, and floor skirting.
  • Prepare excavation work.
  • Install skirting and architraves.
  • Erect trusses.
  • Form up the pathway and driveway.
  • Install posts for driveways.
  • Install gates for units.
  • Install external timber decking.
  • Defects in units.
  • General demolition and laboring.
  • Use hand and power tools, plant, and equipment.
  • Read and interpret plans and specifications.
  • Work according to occupational health and safety standards.
  • Form worker:
  • Form up a foundation for columns.
  • Form up slabs.
  • Form up concrete walls and columns using plate washers and Z bars.
  • Mark the position of concrete walls and columns using RL points.
  • Set frames, U heads, Bearers, jacks.
  • Lay timber and plywood for the suspended deck.
  • Assist in building shutters.
  • Assist in building elevator shafts.
  • Assist in building ramps for cars.
  • Assist with steel fixing A, B, C, D layer.
  • Vibrating concrete in concrete columns and walls.
  • Form up step-downs for the balcony and wet areas.
  • Strip formwork from the suspended deck.
  • Install windows and doors into the shutter to create an opening.
  • Work in a safe area with barricades and signage.
  • Normal general laboring work when required

Education

Blue Card Working With Children

Queensland Government
Cairns, QLD
03-2025

High Risk Work - Folk Lift

Worksafe
Perth, WA
12-2024

Certificate 3 - Certificate 3 in Rail Infrastructure

CERT
Perth, WA
09-2019

Certificate 3 in Business

Leadership Management Australia
Perth, WA
03-2016

Perform Basic Rigging

Consolidated
Perth, WA
11-2014

Construction Wheeled Front End Loader Operations

AATS
Babinda, QLD
11-2013

Roller Operations

AATS
Babinda, QLD
11-2013

HR - Type - O

Truck School
Cairns, QLD
01-2013

White Construction Card

Worksafe
Perth, WA
12-2011

Skills

  • Equipment maintenance
  • Operational oversight
  • Operations planning
  • Site management
  • Site preparation
  • Problem-solving
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Crew supervision
  • Risk management
  • Site inspection
  • Site supervision
  • Quality assurance
  • Material inspection
  • Job site cleanup
  • Site safety
  • Willingness to learn
  • Self-control and integrity
  • Client relationship management
  • Time management
  • Teamwork
  • Employee motivation
  • Team leadership

Accomplishments

  • Pillar nomination thought leadership
  • Pillar nomination thought safe champion

Languages

English
Professional

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Field Supervisor – Construction

Ben Hall Construction
10.2024 - 03.2025

Track Superintendent – (rail Maintenances)

DTI – Infrastructure A Gamuda Company
07.2023 - 09.2024

Follow Mount, Folk Lift Operator/ Driver

Cairns
05.2023 - 07.2023

Site Supervisor-Re Rail

Downer Rail Infrastructure / Rio Tinto
12.2019 - 07.2023

Foreman-Re Rail

Downer Rail Infrastructure / Rio Tinto
11.2018 - 11.2019

Operator/Roller /loader/bobcat Pad Foot

Downer Civil Construction / Pinga streets Upgrade stage 2
09.2017 - 11.2018

Leading Hand/loader Operator/ Folk Lift/HR Truck Driving

Downer Rail Infrastructure /Longer Train Project-BHP
07.2015 - 09.2017

Leading Hand /Operator/Track Worker

Downer Rail Infrastructure /Roy Hill Package 3-Stackers and Reclaimers
02.2015 - 06.2015

Rail Maintenance -Track Worker/Operator

Downer Rail Infrastructure
06.2014 - 05.2015

Form Worker/Dogman

J Adamini Formwork
04.2014 - 05.2014

HR Truck Driver &Track Maintainer - Rail Labourer

T6 Rail Specialist, Port Hedland WA
01.2012 - 10.2013

Youth Worker

Genx Youth Services
04.2010 - 06.2012

Form Worker/ Concreter

Watermark Plumbing Pty Ltd
07.2009 - 11.2009

Carpenter/Form Worker

Hedley Constructions Pty Ltd
11.2001 - 06.2009

Blue Card Working With Children

Queensland Government

High Risk Work - Folk Lift

Worksafe

Certificate 3 - Certificate 3 in Rail Infrastructure

CERT

Certificate 3 in Business

Leadership Management Australia

Perform Basic Rigging

Consolidated

Construction Wheeled Front End Loader Operations

AATS

Roller Operations

AATS

HR - Type - O

Truck School

White Construction Card

Worksafe

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