MICHAEL CHEEKES

• Perform routine machine maintenance and troubleshooting issues.
• Conduct regular equipment inspections and identifying necessary repairs.
• Monitoring of machine settings and making adjustments as needed.
• Maintain a clean and organized workstation, adhering to safety protocols.
• Operated various types of machinery, contributing to the successful completion of diverse projects.
• Maintained open communication lines with supervisors regarding project status updates, potential delays, or any concerns affecting production timelines.
• Upheld high-quality standards.
• All tasks previously mentioned with this employer.

• Maintained a safe working environment by adhering to safety protocols and conducting regular inspections.
• Followed plant safety procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Performed minor mechanical work and routine equipment maintenance.
• Knowledgeable of machine maintenance in order to troubleshoot effectively.
• Adhered to EPA and OSHA regulations.
• Operated and controlled grader, loader, bobcat, backhoe, trucks, rigid and semi side tippers, roller operator.
• Enhanced team communication by providing clear instructions on tasks, goals, and expectations to fellow operators.
• Increased plant efficiency by monitoring and adjusting equipment settings as needed.
• Maintenance and construction grading.
• Loading trucks with gravel.
• Roadside clearing.
• Culvert installation with head walls.

• Driving road train side tippers for road construction.
• Excavator, loader and bob cat operator.
• Drainage and flood way construction.
• Installation of culverts and headwalls.
• Completed daily inspections, basic maintenance and common repair actions to keep equipment operating at full capacity.
• Complied with truck driving rules as well as company policies and procedures regarding safe vehicle operations.

Workshop Duties

• Welding, grinding, oxy cutting, fabricating, drill and tapping threads, removing broken bolts, replacing all types of bearings (worn and seized).
• Servicing all farm machinery.
• Servicing and maintaining trucks and trailers.

Farm Work

• Ploughing, clearing paddocks, fence lines, contour banks, fire breaks, sheep work, assist during seeding and harvest.
• Fertiliser and Lime sand carting from Perth, Geraldton and Dongara.
• Operated and controlled Grader, Excavator, Loader, Forklift and Truck equipment.
• Subcontract work for BPH (WA) truck driving; side tippers.

• Driving road train side tippers for road construction.
• Completed daily inspections, basic maintenance and common repair actions to keep equipment operating at full capacity.

• All workshop and farming duties as listed with Leopold Contracting except subcontracting.
• Nursing for Sprayer including mixing, storing and transporting chemicals.
• Operating loader to clear paddocks and fill spreader truck with fertiliser.
• Fertilizer carting from Perth and Geraldton in road train.

• Driving water trucks to fill potable water tanks & dust suppression.
• Operated with safety and skill to avoid accidents and delays.
• Completed daily inspections, basic maintenance and common repair actions to keep equipment operating at full capacity.
• Workplace inductions.

• Driving a refrigerated semi, delivering cold stores throughout the Perth Metro area & surrounds.

• Sandblast and spray paint new truck bodies. Achieved a high-quality finish by preparing surfaces and applying appropriate painting techniques.
• General workshop duties. Maintained a clean and organized workspace for optimal productivity and safety compliance.
• Fit suspension to trailers.
• Trades assistant to vehicle body builders.

• Load and unload general freight from national rail. Transport wide loads.
• Restraining full loads of pipe with bolsters and restraining mobile plant equipment.
• Streamlined material delivery processes which increased efficiency and reduced downtime.

• Assemble and disassemble Mould with mesh.
• Pour concrete walls and screed floors.
• Install tin roof.
• Load & unload truck with Hiab.
• Completed various concrete finishing tasks including screeding, edging, and floating for high-quality results.
• Ensured proper curing techniques were applied.
• Contributed to a clean work environment by performing daily job site cleanup tasks, promoting overall safety standards.
• Utilized wheelbarrows, shovels and other tools to move, spread and level concrete.
• Demolished and repaired old concrete surfaces.
• Safely operated concrete-cutting and finishing drills, power saws and trowels to complete assigned tasks.
• Assisted with concrete mixing, following instructions for proper ratios of cement, sand and water.

Bobcat operator

• Level out sand pads for residential and industrial sites, final trim experience, site clean ups, moving packs of bricks and pavers, loading trucks with sand or rubbish, building limestone walls (meter blocks).

Excavator operator

• Dig footings, building limestone walls (meter blocks), basic servicing of machines.

Labourer

• Screeding sand and setting up form boards for residential & industrial sites, screeding concrete, final finish of concrete (helicopter experience), setting up form boards for tilt up panels construction, steel fixing, lifting of tilt up panels.
• All general building duties including demolition, laying pavers, installation of storm water pipe and power tool experience.
• Concrete cutting experience (quick cut).