Chris Macaffer

Accurate, competent and multi-skilled individual with an affinity for numbers, and vast experience in transportation dealing with vehicle/coach builds, refurbishments, rolling stock, shot-blasting, spray-painting, fabricating, welding, building, break-press and guillotine operator. Motivated self starter offering excellent all-round capabilities and dedication to safe and efficient working practices. A fast learner with a proven ability to work with a multitude of tools, machinery and equipment.

Excels at juggling multiple tasks simultaneously and working under pressure towards company deadlines. Seeking a new role anywhere in the world and will happily relocate where the work is available. Proud of an unblemished record for attendance, time keeping and performance.

Eager to do overtime and will make an immediate impact.

Brake press operator & Fabricator-welder - Thomson Pettie Group - Cumbernauld, Glasgow

(2025-07)

Brake press activities for various contracts/customers, folding various different parts mainly for vehicles such as Mitsubishi, Volvo, Caterpillar etc

Fabricator/Plater - Air Products (eFab – Alloa) - Alloa

(2024-07 - 2025-03)

Working with drawings, fabricating/welding pipe supports.

• Mark holes on concrete, drill concrete, cut rods, resin in and fit pipe supports
• Fit guides, axel stops, u-bolts

Fabricator/Plater - Cairnhill Structures - Coatbridge

(2024-01 - 2024-07)

Fabricated pipe supports and various types of fabrication structures using hand held tools, burning metal using pug burner etc

Fabricator-Welder - Thomson Pettie Group - Cumbernauld, Glasgow

(2021-12 - 2024-01)

I have my own bay and bench, I pick pallets, on these pallets are various types of materials with drawings. I read drawings and fabricate & weld these parts.

• Fabricate and weld brackets, frames, small structures, mostly parts for Volvo trucks
• Duties include grinding, burning, dressing etc
• Recently fabricating and welding up rear frames for buses
• Using the brake press and some coachbuilding jobs

Fabricator/Plater - Severfield plc - Thirsk, North Yorkshire

(2021-08 - 2021-12)

Working in a fast moving production line meeting/beating targets.

• Reading drawings and working on heavy structural steel/beams fabricating anything required
• Tacking brackets/plates in correct positions with correspondence to drawings and weld where necessary

Fabricator/Plater - BAE SYSTEMS (Maritime naval ships)

(2020-11 - 2021-08)

Responsible for working in a safe manner obeying all PPE requirements.

• Use burning torch and sticky burner to cut metal to required dimensions/shape and dress
• Competent at reading drawings
• Fit plates/brackets in correct position according to drawing and tack weld using stick gear
• Fair up bulkheads and decking to correct positions

Vehicle Builder - Gemini Rail Services - Wolverton, England

(2019-08 - 2020-09)

• Clean, repair and sealing passenger seats
• Fitting PIS systems and other brackets with accordance to drawings
• Stripping vehicles such as removing seats, materials, panels, lifting up all old flooring
• Cutting sections of T-Rail out and making new rails and fitting
• Removing and fitting new vertical grab poles and new vestibule grab poles
• Measuring own sizes for flooring and cutting and fitting new floor boards with required cut outs
• Re-bating where necessary on boards to avoid new T-Rails using a router
• Where there are cables, cut a section on board and make a steel top-hat to cover cables
• Fit all seats and torque to required settings using torque wrench then witness mark

Vehicle Builder - Gemini Rail Services - Glasgow

(2019-01 - 2019-07)

Previously worked here when it was known as Knorr-Bremse and performed the exact same duties and worked on same contract during this time but the company closed at end of July 2019 and transferred to Gemini Rail in Wolverton, Milton Keynes, England

Vehicle Builder - Wabtec Rail Ltd - Doncaster

(2018-05 - 2018-11)

• General stripping and re-build duties
• Fit Whirly Gigs for doors
• Cut and fit new flooring, built new tables and fit them

Quality Technician (Finishing Team) - Bombardier Transportation GmbH - Germany

(2017-09 - 2018-03)

Started as a Vehicle Builder. Responsible for safely amending fitting parts/panels, seats and tables in train rolling stock. Spent the last 2 months in the finishing team putting in edging at certain areas within the trains.

• Insulating cables and completing snagging to ensure the train is immaculate prior to approval
• Managing high volumes of work and performing duties in accordance with health & safety policies
• Fitting protective screens to windows and measuring outlines to implement the correct sizes

Semi-Skilled Vehicle Builder - Promoted to Skilled Vehicle Builder - Knorr-Bremse Railways - Glasgow

(2016-10 - 2017-08)

• Worked plenty of overtime up to 55 and 70 hours per week to meet large production requirements
• Stripped the trains and removed all internal equipment such as seats, tables, panels and windows
• Cleaned the rust from the metal and panels and stripped it down to bare metal ready for plating
• Painted train parts and smoothed all the edges to ensure all areas of the trains looked brand new
• Fully refurbished the trains and completed fibre-glassing/repair work to the canopies and panels
• Fit upholstery to boards of wood and made them into luggage stacks
• Maintained high quality and safe workmanship whilst adhering to all set health and safety criteria

Vehicle Builder Apprenticeship (for 3-Way Tippers, Box Vans & Multi Lifts Trucks) - Logan Inglis Fabrication - Cumbernauld

(2008-05 - 2016-09)

Underwent training on a multitude of projects such as brake press and guillotine operator, fabricator and welder.

• Assigned various technical diagrams/drawings of brackets/parts that needed to be made for vehicles
• Trained on weld side-capes/tail doors, barn doors, mesh extensions and brackets for the vehicles
• Utilised welding machines, burning gear, plasma, band saw and other various handheld power tools
• Dressed the bracket by cleaning the rough edges in preparation to bend it at the required angles
• Spray painted bodies and trained to fit wood/floors to trucks, and fit PTO pumps and equipment
• Trained to shot blast all the paint off old bodies for council trucks for re-furnishing and painting
• Shaped parts starting from cutting flat sheets of various metals using a guillotine for all sizes
• Drilled and punched holes using tools of various sizes to meet the exact component specifications

Warehouse Operative - Mizuno - Cumbernauld

(2005-03 - 2008-05)

• Studied and processed work orders to pick and pack products ready to dispatch for customers
• Printed order details off and followed operating procedures for the creation of customer invoices
• Worked to meet team deadlines and updated systems of stock levels and new incoming orders
• Lifted pallets down from shelves using rotating forks and created additional space for deliveries
• Previously worked in dispatch dealing with client emails, phone calls and entering addresses
• Completed the NVQ in warehousing and gained a forklift licence to help moving heavy loads

Picker/Packer - Albert Bartlett & Sons - Airdrie

(2004-07 - 2004-08)

6-week job during school holidays

A' Levels - Craft & Design; Mathematics; Woodworking Skills; English - Abronhill High School (2005 - 2005)

GCSE Exams - Craft & Design; Mathematics; Administration; Science; German; English; Music; History - Abronhill High School (2004 - 2004)