Benjamin Murfield

Paint Department Supervisor at SmithCo Side Dump Trailers
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Sioux City, Iowa, United States, US
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Credentials

  • 10 HR Osha Certification
    Gallagher
    Jun, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • High Performance Management 2, 30 HR Certification
    Western Iowa Tech Community College
    Apr, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • High Performance Management 39 HR Certification
    Western Iowa Tech Community College
    Dec, 2017
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • SmithCo Side Dump Trailers
    • United States
    • Truck Transportation
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Paint Department Supervisor
      • Sep 2016 - Present

      - Supervise effective working of production personnel and prepare effective production schedules and ensure compliance to all company policies.- Prepared necessary paperwork, spreadsheets, and maintained records of all documents in accordance to company protocols. - Worked closely with other management team to properly achieve the desired quality and efficient production needs.- Created a handful of new and effective processes that pertain to procedures and quality assurance needs.- Maintain a daily, weekly, and monthly schedule of production needs, repair schedules, and general maintenance.- Help fix each area of the department in times of break downs. Tearing down and repairing promix application for adequate flow of material. - Fix and repair bearings, augers, blast pots, hoppers, electrical wires, lights, replace steel floor as proper maintenance required.- Self motivated and always continuing to improve every aspect to increase the overall efficiency of the department and company as a whole.

    • Blaster/Prepper/Painter
      • Jul 2007 - Sep 2016

      - Checked over the material for all repair needs to assure it was ready to be prepped out for the paint booths. This included all trailers that came through blast process and their associated parts.- Cleaned all debris around the welds. Buffed out any imperfections in the steel. Applied body filler to all pinholes, scratches, chips, and minor dents. Prepared the body filler application by sanding all areas to a smooth finish. Blew off all debris and dust preparing every piece ready for the paint booth.- Blasted trailers and their associated parts to specific profile depth to allow proper paint adhesion. - Applied primer on bare metal on various sizes of trailers and parts to a specific mil thickness for quality assurance purposes. Prepared primed surfaces of any imperfections prior to applying the top coat application. - Properly mixed the paint prior to the application process to the required viscosity to allow for proper flow out. - Applied various paints; poly urethanes, DTM urethanes, marine coating applications, under coating liners. - Achieved quality paint applications that met the quality assurance guidelines by using a wet mil gauge to determine the correct thickness of the paint application. - Repaired poor quality trailers by masking off the affected areas for overspray and fixing the associated areas to proper paint quality approval.

Education

  • Western Iowa Tech Community College
    Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
    2018 - 2019
  • Western Iowa Tech Community College
    General Studies
    2006 -

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