Ross

About me:

Candidate Info :
Hello,

After some years involved in transport and logistics, including driving various trucks and vehicles,
am seeking some casual driving work.

Experience :
Worked As Casual truck driver at Logical Solutions from January 2016 to till now
Attend various clients as directed by the agency

Dec 2018 – August 2019 Casual training, for Elstone Diving.
Covering, OH&S, Manual Handling, and basic load restraint.

Worked As HC Truck Driver at Graham spar from November 2019 to December 2019
Drove Adelaide leg for 3 weeks. as a fill in. over Monday, back Tuesday.

Worked As Semi Trailer Driver at rock logistics from December 2017 to December 2019
Casual Semi driving for Rock Logistics.,
At Moolap, for BlueScope/Lysaght, delivering fencing materials,
To stores, and directly to clients.

Worked As Casual Driver at Via APS, recruitment agency from January 1999 to May 2015
Drive 20, 22, 24 pallet refrigerated semis, and 12 pallet rigid, to Woolworth Stores, Across Vic. More usually Melbourne day runs, with occasional country Vic Runs.
Loading, unloading of vehicles, completion of paperwork, receiving, dispatching duties, management of timelines to meet customer requirements
Assist the warehouse with order packing on occasions.

Worked As Trainer at Support Base Training. (Ready Workforce) from January 2000 to December 2000
Transport & Distribution Training (Warehousing)

Project managing client sites from initial assessments to preparation, and delivery of training programs
Completion of latter stages of “lapsed” projects.
Delivery of “trainer” training

Worked As Wilderness Manager at Breaking the Cycle from June 1995 to December 1998
Breaking the Cycle was a not for profit organisation that ran pre-employment training programs for long term unemployed youth, based on a wilderness trek.

This job involved two roles, Warehouse manager, and Wilderness Instructor,

WAREHOUSE involved running the warehouse for all the outdoor programs, when I wasn’t out on programs.
I was responsible for
ensuring all the supplies and equipment were kept up to date. Assembling stock for programs,
replenishing supplies, stocktaking, ordering, receiving, and putting away supplies as required.
Manage OH&S in the warehouse.
WILDERNESS involved managing approx 10 wilderness training programs per year, usually 8days/7nights duration.
Tasks involved
Management of the staff team, from 3- 8 staff at different times,
Responsible for up to 26 participants, during programs in isolated bush areas.
While participants (and staff) were involved in a range of activities, including walking, canoeing, cycling & abseiling.

FACILITATION & COMMUNICATION. This job also involved running meetings every night of each program, dealing with issues, broken agreements, and acknowledgements. During the day, at each event change, there were also ‘roadside’ meetings, to direct and control the group’s activities and progress.
The techniques and skills developed to facilitate meetings, around a fire at 6:30 each night, in the bush, came from Neurolinguisitc Programming and Transactional Analysis.
Dealing with long-term unemployed in a stressful situation, (for them) developed my communication skills greatly.

Worked As Sales and Marketing Siltex Australia at Medical Equipment from September 1992 to October 1993
Administration of sales quota, via cold calling & telephone canvassing.
Attendances of Trade Shows, follow up of enquiries, demonstration, delivery and instillation of products.

Worked at Wirrena from February 1977 to September 1992
Nyngan N.S.W.
Planning and developing existing bushland for cropping.
Managing biodynamic program, producing chemical free produce.
Investigating and implementing new farm management practices

My time here involved many varying tasks and activities.
Including:-
Truck driving, from on-farm grain tippers, to semis, Grain tippers, delivering grain to local and interstate customers. Flat tops, with varying loads, inc, farm machinery, silos, general freight.
Stock trucks, carrying sheep, and goats, on a mileage basis for a local operator.
Operating Machinery, inc Cat dozer, clearing land, pulling trees, pushing up tress to burn,
Steiger 225 hp Tractor, scarifing, 33ft, and 40 ft seed drill, stick raking, and ploughing.
John Deere dozer with hydraulic scraper, cleaning dams
Maintenance of supplies to run a farm.
Organizing fuel, oils, spare parts, maintenance programs for machinery, Storing, and delivering grainy orders, bulk and bagged.
Organising deliveries for containers of grain to Sydney, and other one-off requests.

Worked As Technical Officer at Secondary Metallurgy from February 1972 to December 1976
Aeronautical Research Laboratories
Laboratory work related to aircraft maintenance and Repair, for Defence Department