RICHARD BEST

Primary job is survey and inspect cars as they are brought into our lot by the Longshoreman. Notate any and all damages. Once inspection is complete we use a shuttle van to take guys into the filed to bring cars into the shop

prior to shipping them out. Occasional maintenance is done in our department to vehicles left longer then 30m days, tire check, battery check, ect. Others duties may include vehicle consolidation in our yard to make space for new shipment from the vessels, running vehicles through car wash as needed, taking cars to the shop for routine maintenance as well as our own work vehicle.

Through Abacus I worked as a contractor as a Laborer Supervisor at Talen Energy located in Curtis Bay, MD. Talen energy is an old BGE powerplant. At the powerplant as a Supervisor where I was responsible for a crew of at least 7 to 12 guys at any given time, this crew included painters, forklift operators and porters. Our daily duties included but were not limited to painting both in offices and throughout the powerplant in an industrial environment, coal removal, both wet/dry mopping of the turban deck, trash removal, maintaining mens and women's locker rooms as well as offices, office bathrooms and hazardous waste removal. I was responsible for the up keep of the inside and outside of the plant. This included snow removal, emptying of scrap metal, trash removal and coal yard maintenance. A well as the upkeep of painted safety areas such as speed bumps, crosswalks, ladders, ect. As another part of our responsibility we assisted other contract companies such as Clean Venture, CAMZ, Brock Scaffolding, and Jet Blast in various projects around the plant. As the supervisor I was also tasked with keeping up with inventory supplies such as paint, hand soap, toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning supplies, degreasers, stripper and wax for floor scrubbers.

Sadly in the beginning of March 2023, the Powerplant was taken over by the bank and forced to make cuts and after 8 years I was unfortunately let go.

My daily job duties consisted of but were not limited to using a forklift for unloading in-bound cargo, inspecting, inventorying, and signing for customers freight upon arrival. Then filling out a receiving report which consisted of me weighing each item, measuring the length, width and height of each item, again verifying the piece count and finally tagging the freight with the GLOBAL job number, receiver number, and sub number. The next step in the process I was responsible for keeping a personal log of the freights job number, the receiver number, the date it was received, the customer name, the amount of pieces received in, the total weight of all the cargo received, and the warehouse location in which those items will be stored. The final step in the process is where I turn my receiving report into the office personnel to have all the correct information converted and sent to the customers via e-mail, along with any pictures that would have been taken at the time of delivery had the freight been received in with any damages.

When I would not have freight to receive in , I would also be responsible for helping with the up keep and daily organization of the warehouse and all of it's corresponding departments, which included sweeping the warehouse, emptying trash cans and hoppers, changing light bulbs throughout the facility, painting poles, bumper guards on dock doors, lines on the floors for designating areas, ect., and performing daily maintenance inspections on all equipment.

I entered this career with no previous work experience in this career field. When I started, my job was fire taping drywall. This process was used to familiarize myself with the tools of the trade which later helped me move onto actually "finishing drywall". The process consisted of taping seems or patches in sheets of drywall, then blocking, skimming, and sanding them down to complete the whole finishing process. That was the extent of my time in the construction field. When the work ran out and there was no drywall finishing left to be done ... I was laid off.

At Clark Western which is now known as Clark Deitrech, I started out filling orders in the shipping department. As I learned the material and familiarized myself with the different sizes, lengths and thicknesses of the drywall studs and tracks, I began to use a forklift to pull orders and fill skids to be shipped out, using an RF scanner to confirm the transition of the freight from produced, to staged, to loaded on a truck, to finally shipped out. I eventually moved into production where I used a forklift to clear the production lines. I used an RF scanner to scan stock skids or special cut orders into there assigned locations in the yard, and sometimes used a band saw inside the shop to help cut special orders when the shop was flooded with work. Over time, I earned the opportunity to come in with the management once a month on the weekend to do inventory for the whole plant. In my last year with the company I also served as a member of the safety committee, receiving training in CPR through The Red Cross and being responsible to perform weekly safety inspections on various ares of the plant, were once a week we discussed our findings as a part of our weekly safety meetings. I had also just began training inside the plant, to put in the required hours of training by OSHA to receive my certification operating and over head crane.

My job duty was to pull an order ticket, scan it into show I had begun picking/pulling the order. I would use a walkie rider (an electric pallet jack) to pull along two pallets at a time, picking items off the list, and stacking the items in a way that you can square out a pallet so that you maximize the space to be used on each pallet. When the list was pulled and completed, I would then take the skids to the corresponding truck to be loaded. I would drop the skids, stretch wrap them, and finally take the order list and scan it again to show that the order is 100% pulled and completed.

This was only a temporary position.

I was responsible to help unload incoming shipments, inventory the freight, inspect it for damages, sort and re-palletize the freight as needed. I also helped pull orders and help stage them to be loaded out.

This was a temporary position.

The job duty was to take an order list of items, walk a cart around the warehouse to all the locations on the list, pick/pull the items and place them in the assigned tote, and when the list was completely pulled we would take all the items to a packing station where they would be packaged and sent down the conveyor belt to the people who would palletize the order for shipping.

This was a temporary position.

At Amports we would be driven out into the field by a shuttle van, given a car make, model, and vin number and asked to bring that specific vehicle up to the main building where the vehicle would be ran through the car wash, followed by being ran through the shop where a separate crew would install any miscellaneous parts as well as inspect any and all aspects of the vehicles before they are returned to the lot where they are picked up and delivered to the sales company who would eventually see them to society.

I was hired as a maintenance mechanic trainee, but after about two weeks of not really grasping on to the specifics of the job duty's, I asked to try out in the production department. The production department also only lasted about two weeks because at the time of my transfer, the company did not really need another production employee, which means they did not really have a specific job available at that time that they were trying to fill. But at the request of the maintenance supervisor who hired me, he thought I a was good enough worker that he asked them to give me a chance in the production department. Sadly, because they did not have a specific use for me, I did not have a specific job title, and after being bounced from job to job. I left the company to seek a better fitting job in a area that I felt comfortable with.

When I started at Spartan I hand unloaded freight out of containers, palletized, and inventoried the freight as I received it in. When I was done, we would use a forklift to place the freight/pallets into the corresponding warehouse location. Over time I was moved into the office to solidify the freight cashier position, where I would prepare bill of ladings, organize fax's, and handle payments for shipments either by check or cash, as well as prepare receipts for customers. By the time I left Spartan I had also began jockeying trailers around using a jokey truck to move loaded/unloaded trailers around our facility to load and unload.

I left Spartan to seek more money because they had promised me money for learning new job's, that do to circumstances they did not keep their word.

This was my first warehouse position. My job duty was to load/unload trucks using a forklift. I had to inspect inventory, and sign for all incoming freight. If there was damage, I was responsible to take pictures of the damages prior to signing for the shipment, as well as note and exceptions on the drivers bill of loading. After I received the shipment I was responsible to measure the length, width, and height of each item, as well as weigh it on our scale. I also had to document all the information on my receiving report, as well as label each piece with GLOBAL's job number, receiver number, and sub number. I had to document the GLOBAL warehouse number, receiver number, sub number, amount of pieces, the total weight of the shipment, as well as the GLOBAL warehouse location in which place the freight would be stored. Finally, I would turn the paperwork into the office personnel and use the forklift to place the freight in it's correct location.