James Alexander Porter


Contact details: 
Email: Jamesporter123@outlook.com
Mobile number: 07495467893.

Personal profile
I am an ambitious and hard working person, I enjoy taking on a challenge and become very dedicated towards any work given. Also I have a mature and willing attitude upon tasks I am chosen to uptake. 
During my working life I have experienced many types of working industries.

Skills and Qualities
-Able to prioritise and organise busy workloads
-Reliable and responsible
-Good time management
-Team worker
-Sound knowledge of how to behave in a professional manor
-Easy to approach
-Great communicator
-Ability to adapt easily to new surroundings

Achievements and Qualifications
Throughout my life I have a wide range of achievements. I have received an award for the British canoe union; I gained a level 1 of ‘Paddle power passport’. I have also achieved awards of the following :
 -working safely in an engineering environment
-carrying out engineering activities efficiently and effectively 
-using and communicating technical information
-producing components using hand fitting techniques
-preparing and using lathes for turning operations
-preparing and using milling machines
-engineering environment awareness
-engineering techniques 
-engineering principles 
-engineering materials processes
-fitting and assembly techniques 
-turning and milling techniques and technology 
-Mathematics Award ASDAN
-Literacy Level 1
-Adult numeracy Level 1
-Certificate of Personal Effectiveness Level 1
-2 credits at level 1 on a course entitled Angling Educational Course
-Young first aider award
-Working with others Level 1
-ABC Level 1 Award in motor vehicles studies
-Functional Skills English Level 1
-Functional skills Mathematics at Level 1
-Edexcel BTEC level 1 award in work skills
-Presidents badge in the boys brigade 
-Level 2 diploma in Aircraft Maintenance
-Level 1 Award in welding skills
-Level 2 NVQ diploma in performing engineering operations
-Level 2 in engineering Technology

work / career history
Throughout my working life I have worked for a variety of companies in order to gain myself valuable life skills and experience.
Here is a list of working companies I have spent time with:
-Site labourer for CUBE at this job I learnt many skills such as how to work well in a team, the importance of communication and prioritising my work load. August 2012- February 2013
- Angling Home improvements as a sales assistant in which I learnt how to communicate with the public in a professional manor. February 2013-June 2013
-Trainee lifts engineering where I was taught how to fix and install lifts - june 2013-July 2014
-Bar worker at the Church tavern which involved learning customer service and how to deal with challenging customers. July 2014-October 2014 
-Labouring at several different companies as I was an agency October 2014-February 2015
-Highway Traffic Management this job involved directing and ordering the traffic in order to complete road works safely and successfully. -February 2015 -November 2015 
-Stapleton's was another company I completed work for, this was a tyre company and I was involved in working in a team to load tyres within a certain time limit. November 2015 -March 2016
- Indigo windows products at a company in Aldridge in which I worked on the different machines creating the fittings for windows. This job taught me different machine use.
March 2016 to present 
Thank you for taking some of your time to read through my CV, references are available on request.