Chris Thomas

Working from a van, travelling Britain installing various types of equipment dependant on road highways requirements.

Storesman/cb forklift/delivery driver/labouring/fire board programmer - Wingates Ltd - Leeds

(2024-01)

• Stock ordering, preparation & light testing
• Loading/unloading
• CB forklift operation
• Fitting WES fireboards - smoke detection/alarms
• On site labouring - pulling cables & general labouring/maintenance
• Delivery to sites, taking industrial transformers, MDU units throughout Yorkshire

Yard Labourer/handyman/delivery - Yorkshire Diesel Power Ltd. - Pontefract

(2019-01 - 2023-08)

General operative, labouring, loading/unloading & delivery of products to prisons etc, help engineers on site with generator services.

Traffic Management Operative - Tracsis Traffic Data Ltd - Boroughbridge

(2018-01 - 2020-11)

Travelling around country, fitting cameras to record/monitor movements, whether its people, or traffic.

• Installations in train stations working anti social hours
• Prepare all stock, batteries, cables for week
• Making sure all appropriate power tools for duration
• Drilling roads, coning areas off where can to be safe in live lanes
• Keep van at home & rotate all cables, charges, tool batteries & cameras
• Reading maps for monitoring areas

Engineering / forklift /flatbed/ van driver/ labouring - Richard Allen engineering - Dewsbury

(2018-07 - 2018-10)

All labouring work, assisting engineers, delivering, unloading, stock replacement, forklift large unusual shaped items into place or onto flatbeds, doing basic installation.

Traffic camera / ATC installation - MHC Traffic - Leeds

(2016-03 - 2018-10)

Travel around the British isles installing traffic monitoring devices, physical work & away a lot. Work in all weathers & don't mind as I prefer working outdoors doing physical work - it keeps you fit & is varied, which I enjoy.

Cherry picker operator - Blades Access - Bradford

(2015-09 - 2016-10)

Travel around British Isles to work with contractors on various types of communications masts, dishes, wind farms, motorway bridges, line of sights.

HGV 2 Hiab driver / sign installer - Kingstal - Castleford

(2010-01 - 2015-10)

• CB forklift/yard work
• Loading trucks with HIABs
• Ordering
• Running yard
• Dealing with deliveries
• Work in workshops
• Power tools making sign preparation
• Fettling, sanding posts for powder coating runs
• Drive HGV2, vans, 7.5 tonnes, pickers
• Maintenance on signs around country
• Changing gear trays bulbs, damaged casings
• Report daily to office

Warehouse Operative, CB forklift, picker freezer - Jack Fultons Frozen Foods LTD - Barnsley

(2006-01 - 2010-01)

Picking dried, ambient, frozen, loading cages, filling HGV2 trucks ready for morning. CB forklift working through warehouse. Delivery of products to stores.

Bakery Operative/ delivery driver - Warburtons - Normanton

(1997-01 - 2006-01)

Picking all orders for supermarkets, shops, loading into shop delivery orders, transfers onto HGV2 trucks, deliver to shops. Working throughout bakery departments whichever needed cover. CB forklift driver throughout yard.

7.5 tonne driver - warehouse operative - Peters foods - Horbury

(1994-01 - 1997-01)

Working in freezer & fridges, picking orders to go out on all vehicles, ordering stock for each day, unloading/loading artic trailers everyday, get shop orders ready for delivery.

• Drive 7.5 tonne vehicles & deliver to stores
• Deal with collecting cash, banking money daily, paperwork & balancing
• CB forklift to load trucks
• Yard work

Warehouse Operative/Forklift Driver - Empire stores - Kettlethorpe, West Yorkshire

(1989-01 - 1994-01)

• Loading wagons/unloading - parcel to be sent out etc. (arctics)
• Picking catalogue items, using cages & picksheet going up & down isles
• Packing products
• Maintenance on lines running throughout store, making sure no blockages etc.
• CB forklift - goods in, returns, quality checks

2nd Chef - Ferry boat inn - Stanley

(1988-01 - 1989-01)

Running kitchen with assistance from other chefs/staff. Working splits, morning, afters, nights, preparation of menus for each service.

• Plan ordering for week, new menus, dailies, stock rotating, cleaning kitchen constantly
• Cooking a la carte & table dote
• Morning service - breakfasts till 11am
• Helping in pub when needed sometimes, opening up for staff

YTS Trainee chef - Prison service college

(1986-01 - 1988-01)

GCSE or equivalent