Joseph Blando

OBJECTIVE:A career position utilizing my professional skills work experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Maintenance Worker and Motor Vehicle Operator, Facility Management Division (FMD) U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Bluemont, Virginia 20135 From July 22, 2017 to Present (full-time with 40 or more hours per week).

Responsible for performing a full range of Roads and Grounds duties. As a Maintenance worker and Motor Vehicle Operator, oversees

the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Bluemont, Virginia site.

• Use a computer to do timecards, send and receive emails, forms, and paperwork. (excel, word, outlook).
• Operates a computer to keep track of Roads and Grounds supplies and inventory.
• Drive Chevrolet and Dodge 2500 series pickup trucks to get back and forth to jobs on the site, and haul salt and supplies.
• Operate garden tractors, zero turns to mow the grass on the site, a Kubota rtv to operate the leaf vacuum, and

pickup broken limbs for the trees to put into brush pile.

• Drive three and five ton size diesel, and electric forklifts to load and unload trucks.
• Use manuel and electric pallet jacks to move supplies, sidewalk salt and furniture.
• Dispose of old motor oil, filters, transmission fluid, and hydraulic fluid in the right hazmat drum.
• Operate different size trucks, tractors to clean the driveways, and sidewalks with snowplows and snow blowers.
• Keep the ramps and sidewalks cleaned with snow shovels, hand snow blowers and salted for safety.
• Load and unload furniture from buildings with carts, dollies, and steel furniture carts.
• Drive a large commercial 26,000 lb. box, and stack body truck to move and deliver furniture, and supplies on site.
• Use power tools, chain saws, hand saws, push mowers, weed eaters, leaf blowers and a leaf vacuum.
• Wear Personal Protective Equipment (hard hat, gloves, eye and ear protection, and steel toe boots).
• FEMA forklift training class (eight hours) completed on August, 2017.
• Fixed traffic signs and painted cross walks for the safety of pedestrians.
• Use drills, wrenches, screwdrivers, ladders and ratchet tie down straps.
• Collect trash and put it in the proper place from different buildings daily.
• Physically pushed and pulled 100 lbs. on flat and plywood carts.
• Kept a clean and safe work place and also take Security and Safety test on the computer.

Supervisor: Tony Atkinson

Phone: (540) 542-2141