Stewart Irvine

Sanding and prepping furniture for staining and varnishing .

• Checked fluids, tires, brakes, and other systems as part of Number-point inspection.
• Completed oil changes and filter changes to vehicles that were booked in for servicing.

• Assisted senior mechanics with complex repairs, gaining hands-on experience and improving technical skills.
• Made basic repairs to cars and other vehicles, asking questions, and taking notes to increase personal knowledge.
• Took assessments to prove knowledge base and skills.
• Observed senior mechanics completing major repairs.
• Test drove vehicles before and after repairs to determine functionality, necessary actions or completion statuses.
• Utilized diagnostic tools effectively to pinpoint specific issues contributing to vehicle malfunctions or suboptimal performance levels quickly.
• Studied manuals and repair books to increase knowledge and mechanical understanding of vehicles.
• Assisted with preparation of race vehicles utilized in rally Australia and targa Tasmania.
• Involved in dynamometer horsepower testing of vehicles racing in the local Porsche cup .
• Built lasting relationships with suppliers and vendors for optimal discounts on necessary parts purchases while minimizing costs for both the shop and its customers.

Commercial and residential turf installations for Carabooda roll on instant lawn .

Residential lawn and garden maintenance including all aspects of lawn and garden maintenance including renovations , fertiliser programs , herbicide and insecticide applications , lawn mowing , pruning of trees shrubs and roses.

Mowing of 5 different turf varieties : Greenlees Park , wintergreen ,Windsor green , common kikuyu and st Augustine buffalo.

Duties also involved regular maintenance of the mowing machinery including blade changes on rotary mowers ,cylinder back lapping on all cylinder machinery.

Machinery utilised in the mowing was:

* Kesmac 11 gang tow behind cylinder mower

* Sammut single deck rotary mower

* Célèbre single deck rotary mower

* Sammut 6.6m triple deck rotary mower tow behind.

* John Deere 5 gang ride on cylinder mower

* Toro triplex cylinder mower.

Duties involved :

* Mowing of greens ,tees , fairways and rough.

* Flymo mowing of bunker hills and faces

* Sandpro and manual raking of bunkers.

* Renovations of greens scarifying and top dressing.

* Spraying of herbicides to assist with weed control.

* General gardening duties.

Equipment used in these duties

* multiple Toro and John Deere cylinder and rotary mowers

* Toro sandpro and John Deere ride on bunker rakes.

* Variety of small Toro and John Deere workman type vehicles to carry out manual raking and general duties around the course.

Duties included

* maintenance of all turf and garden areas within the boundaries of Joondalup Arena sporting complex including multiple sporting ovals including west Perth WAFL ground.

* mowing, Fertilising, Renovations(coring, aerating, scarifying and overseeding.

* hedge trimming, whipper snipping and edging.

* All aspects of irrigation running, maintenance and repairs.

* Daily work duty recording.

* servicing and repairs to mowers , work

Vehicles and tractors.

* Line marking on the athletics oval and WAFL oval for athletic events and west Perth wafl games.

EQUIPMENT USED

* multiple Toro and John Deere cylinder and rotary mowers.

* tractor driven coring and aerating machinery

* tractor driven scarifying machinery

* large amount of hand operated machinery edger, whipper snipper , hedger etc.

Duties :

* Mowing

* Fertilising of granular and foliar products.

* Herbicide , insecticide and fungicide (post and preemergent) applications via granular and foliar products.

* Harvester operation

* managing and organising duties for staff when manager was not available or on the farm.

* programming and testing of the central pivot irrigation units including assessing bore sustainability by recording water levels before and during pivot operation.

* recording water table levels

* supervision of staff during installation of turf when required including travel to country areas to install turf.

* Mechanical duties including maintenance of all farm machinery , mower blade changing and backlapping of cylinder mowers.

Duties :

*Structured and assigned day-to-day duties for team members.

* purchasing and Implementing nutrient programs as constructed with the assistance of consultants.

* budgeting of expenses for all operational aspects of the farm (staffing, mechanical , nutrient , watering , weed and insect control)

* training of new staff and current staff ensuring all staff where up to the standards required by the business.

* recording water usage over the yearly time frames implemented by the dept of water to ensure we were working within our licensed usage.

* providing turf availability to the sales manger for current contracts and upcoming contracts.

* preparation and installation of new varieties of turf to keep up with market and industry requirements.

* programming and management of irrigation pivots including maintenance schedules and assessing bore sustainability and requirements for removal and servicing to ensure irrigation targets could be met.

* Management of unused areas of the farm property including mechanical and herbicide controls of weeds.

* Feeding of livestock (9 red Angus cows) living on the farm property utilising grass clippings from the kikuyu regrowth areas prior to harvesting.

Duties

* implementing startup and building of customer base for ongoing business

* purchasing of equipment to carry out work required by client base.

*advertising and marketing of business and services provided.

* daily schedule of customers to be serviced

* mowing edging and whipper snipping of clients lawns residential and small commercial.

* fertilising of clients lawns utilising both granular and liquid products dependent on the required nutrients as set in the fertilising schedules.

* Post and pre emergent controls of weeds insects and diseases .

* Renovations including scarifying , aeration and top dressing if required

* invoicing and account control utilising QuickBooks software.

* consultation to clients who enquired about lawn deficiencies and ways to improve lawn quality and appearance.

* installation , repairs and setting of all types of irrigation systems .

* installation of multiple varieties of turf in residential sites.

* installation of landscape packages for new home builders in two rocks

Duties

*assist staff with preparation with daily tasks including pre starts and loading of products and equipment onto vehicles and trucks to carry out there duties for that day.

* Ensure that trucks and vehicles had been safely loaded and loads tied down correctly before they would leave the yard.

* Communicate with clients as to the tasks to be carried out on the given day and when the operators were onsite and had begun their daily duties.

* inform clients and management of any issues with the sites I was allocated to supervise or any issues that might have affected the outcome or the operators ability to complete the task.

* Communicate the operators progress with clients including photos of the site and the machinery in operation.

* travel between my allocated sites for the day to ensure the works that were scheduled were being carried out correctly and to the spec that was set by the client.

* keep operators running during their allocated daily tasks , which would include restocking with products , refueling machinery on long days, marking reticulation or any ground components that required to be marked to minimise damage to clients sites.

* Liase with the workshop manager and operations manager if any issues regarding our equipment was going to have to be corrected and any possible affect on the completion of the works on that day or ongoing.

* Due to my mechanical background I would carry out repairs onsite to minimise downtime and allow our mechanical technicians to continue works in the yard.

* Training of all new staff or current staff who required to learn a new piece of equipment .

* carrying out calibration testing on spreading/spraying machines to ensure accurate application of our or our clients products.

* Workshop admin duties including assessment of repairs ordering of required parts then scheduling repairs with workshop technicians to keep machinery operational at all times.