Simon Hall

Hard working, punctual, disciplined, polite, respectful. Can work as individual or part of team. Worked in construction since 2002, beginning as a labourer, with 8 years as a skilled worker/Groundworker.

Ground Worker/operative - Barhale plc - Walsall

(2022-05)

• Pipe laying
• Drainage (shallow -600 ml)
• Deep drainage (3-4 metres limited roles)
• Installing man hole rings & benching
• Concrete finishing (float & brush finish)
• Dumper & roller operator

Ground Worker - D.H.C - Smethwick

(2021-10 - 2022-04)

Predominantly slab laying for the entire estate (8 houses & multi roomed apartment complex) mainly doing it alone, screeding beds to set levels & laying 450x450x 30 ml patterned slabs around the entire mini estate, approximately 1000 slabs laid, majority single handedly.

Groundworker - J.M.C Green builders (return) - Evesham

(2021-01 - 2021-10)

Contracted work for local council authority (Dudley) repairing paths & walls on council properties.

• Slab laying
• Concrete finishing

Ground Worker - M.j building & civil engineerig - Birmingham

(2019-10 - 2021-01)

Working on highways expansion in the Selly oak area of Birmingham.

• Kerb/edging laying
• Installing 'iron work' (gulley lids)
• Man hole benching

Ground Worker - POD Point - London

(2018-09 - 2019-10)

Commercial & domestic groundworks for installing power points for electric vehicles, various locations, house gardens/Driveways, commercial car parks, business verges. Would have to identify most convenient areas to trench dig or block pave remove & re-instate, install ducting for underground cables & build concrete bases for stands for charge points if asked for. Working all over country, in teams of 2 where I was lead.

Would receive work off provided tablets & depending on where I was working where regularly would have to work self sufficient, identifying equipment required, finding local building suppliers & purchasing them to complete jobs.

Ground Worker - K W Bell Group - Gloucester

(2018-03 - 2018-09)

Working on New build housing estate. Spent months on installing a walkway through woodland backing onto the new housing estate, using timber panels & wooden stakes as edgings to a set width from beginning to end (almost 1 mile) & using a weather residual fine stoning to use as the path base.

• Pipe laying/shallow drainage (600 mml)
• 'Block & beam' installing

Ground Worker - J..M.C Green Builders - Evesham

(2017-09 - 2018-03)

Worked on various water treatment plants across the Midlands, replacing sections of old metal piping (600 ml dia.); re-instating dugout areas & compacting ground using 'whacker plates'.

• Concrete finishing

Ground Worker - Colas Ltd - Birmingham

(2017-06 - 2017-09)

• Pipe laying
• Drainage (shallow)
• Kerb laying
• Tarmac laying
• Concrete finishing (float)

Ground Worker - Keavman contractors - Birmingham

(2017-01 - 2017-06)

Part of team doing groundworks for a large size warehouse/unit owned by Western union power where heat/power source ran from a state of art furnace that worked from using recycled timber/pallets, etc, mainly constructed & partly designed by company I worked for at time.

• Pipe laying
• Drainage (shallow -600 ml)
• Deep drainage (septic tank 4 m deep)
• Concrete finishing (rough & float finish)
• Steel fixing

Ground Worker - Team xero - Warwick

(2014-03 - 2016-12)

• Pipe/duct laying
• Drainage/gulley pots/inspection chambers (shallow-600ml -1 metre)
• Kerb laying
• Cable feeding/pulling
• Installing 'iron work' (man hole /gulley lids)
• Dumper & roller operating

B-tec level 3 - Building studies - Mons Hill college (2007-09 - 2008-06)

GCSE - English, History, Geography, Electrical Science - Thorns School & Community College (1982-09 - 1986-07)

B-tec level 3 - Health & safety, Environmental Awareness, Technical Drawing (CAD), The Science of materials used in construction, Graphical Detailing in Construction, Surveying - Present