Valentin Landes

10 Shutdowns in the pilbara on BHP, RIO TINTO and FMG sites

• Assisting Boilermakers, mechanical fitters and riggers
• Fire watch
• Confined space watch
• Mechanical rigging, use of chainblocks and come along
• Screen panels change out
• Outskirts change out

• Crushpad operator. Taking car of receiving fruits and processing them in the crusher and presses
• Cleaning wine presses and crushpad.
• Loading and unloading bins of grapes with forklift
• 12 hours shifts 6 days week, high risk environment

• Crushpad operator for 2022 vintage.
• Unloading trucks of grapes bins on the forklift
• Crushing grapes
• Adding chemicals under instruction of winemaker
• Barrel washing

• 3 months labouring building the new oval in Margaret river
• Building gabion walls made out of limestone rocks.
• Assisting machine operators for earthmoving operations.
• Compacting big areas with compactor plate
• Painting
• Setting up formwork for concreters
• Laying turf
• Planting
• Tools used: grinder, clipping gun, compactor plate, sikaflex gun, powersander, paint roller kit.

Assisted a plasterer on different jobs around margaret river.

• Setting up, gluing and nailing Gyprock sheets.
• Setting up insulation
• Cutting gyprock sheets.
• Flushing gyprock

Labouring for a building company assisting 2 carpenters. The main job was to build a house from ground up south of Margaret river and the conversion of a car port into a room in Busselton.

• Assisted the tradesmen with all the tasks involved in building houses
• Use of a gas gun to assist the build of houseframe
• Pouring slab with concrete
• Cladding
• Cutting timber with circular saw
• Assissting in the build of a wooden deck
• Setting up insulation
• Tools used : Gas guns, impact drivers, drills, Jack hammer, power sander, concrete saw, sikaflex gun, circular saw, concrete drill

Assisted in the maintenance and exploitation of the different vineyards belonging to Stella bella around Margaret river.

• Assisted with maintenance and installation of irrigation equipment.
• Wire lifting to manage canopy growth
• Removed weak and diseased shoots from vines to improve space and resource availability for healthy shoots to grow.
• Setting and removing Nets on vines
• Shoot thining
• Planting new vines

Part of a team of vineyard hands sent on vineyards around Margaret river to prune vines during the winter season.

• Cut grape vines down to single or double to promote growth of new shoots.
• Wrapping those vines on wires

• Taught surfing each summer (June to September) for the last 5 years in the French Bask country and Landes's coast lines
• Held surf lessons for Kids and Adults in English, Spanish and French

• Managed assistance in a community supported agriculture farm on the North-Shore of O’ahu -Crops management
• Harvesting, packaging -Composting

• 6 months internship in a non-profit promoting the benefits of gardening and permaculture for young childrens
• Created educational content about gardening and permaculture
• Held workshops about gardening for elementary schooled childrens
• Fundraising to support the non-profit