Peyton Townsley
DeRidder
Summary
Thorough team contributor with strong organizational capabilities. Experienced in handling numerous projects at once while ensuring accuracy. Effective at prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Major Projects Foreman
Primoris
Las Vegas, NV
01.2026 - Current
- Supervise multiple crews including HDD drilling, fiber installation, splicing, box crews, and concrete restoration teams
- Coordinate daily field operations, scheduling crew activities and work locations across multiple job sites
- Perform field verification and white-lining to ensure accuracy of underground utilities prior to construction
- Review, mark up, and redline construction drawings, updating prints to reflect field conditions and as-built changes
- Collaborate with engineering and project management teams to revise drawings and resolve field discrepancies
- Coordinate with traffic control and barricade companies to ensure safe and compliant work zones
- Ensure all work meets safety, quality, and regulatory standards, minimizing risk and rework
- Identify field issues and implement solutions to maintain project timelines and operational efficiency
Safety Coordinator
PCA
10.2021 - 01.2026
- Inspected worksites, practices, and gear for compliance with established safety standards
- Recommended changes to company culture to improve safety and meet changing demands
- Conducted safety audits and investigated plant quality issues
- Conducted investigations into incidents and reported on findings
- Identified and resolved process and equipment issues to minimize production downtime
- Monitored and evaluated plant performance to identify areas for improvement and take corrective measures
- Traveled to different plants within the company to assist, develop and implement new process and safety strategies
- Investigated incidents, determining root causes and implementing corrective actions
- Educated employees on hazardous waste management, emergency response and safe work practices
Process Operator
PCA
10.2021 - 01.2026
- Reported to shift supervisor on production status, problems and deviations
- Maintained compliance with health, safety, and environment practices
- Isolated and prepared equipment for corrective and scheduled maintenance procedures
- Observed all safety rules and regulations and encouraged others to do same, effectively reducing work-related injuries
- Communicated effectively with team on technical level
- Used problem-solving and issue-resolution skills to promptly and successfully address production problems
- Trained new production staff members on safe and efficient production procedures and proper communication skills to senior operators
- Observed pressure, temperature and draft meters to verify correct operation of automatic combustion control systems, feed water regulators and burners
- Used automatic gas feeds and pumps to fire gas-fed boilers
- Collected and tested water samples from cooling towers and other systems
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Designated Recovery Boiler Safety Coordinator
- Assist in the operations of the unit using sound and safe environmental procedures
- Performing lab analyses, interpreting results and adjusting process variables to ensure quality and insure all specifications are met
- Perform Basic Care rounds to inspect all key process points in the facility, to identify anything abnormal
- Housekeeping of Process facility and also Control room
- Working knowledge of mechanical and rotating equipment
- Able to use safety monitors, equipment, and proper calibration of PPE
- Tend kiln and mixing tanks to recover lime from lime sludge and produce slaked lime from recovered lime
- Observe and control various levels, temperatures, flows, consistencies, and pressures
- Analyze data trends for optimization of the process
- Adjusts dampers to maintain kiln at specified temperature
- Adjust rheostats to regulate intake fans according to percentage of oxygen in kiln, and exhaust fans according to rate that sludge decomposes into quicklime and carbon dioxide
- Control conveyors to move quicklime to and from storage bins to dissolving tanks that automatically mix quicklime with green liquor to form slaked lime
- Maintaining detailed reports of operations, log any activities and process adjustments made and any issues encountered during the shift
- Knowledgeable of LOTO Operator-authorized equipment
Journeyman Welder
Deep South Crane And Rigging
06.2019 - 10.2021
- Fabricated shop parts directly from blueprints
- Removed rough spots from work pieces with portable grinders, hand files and scrapers
- Set up and operated shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment
- Welded in flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions
- Inspected welds and checked critical measurements to meet specifications
- Conducted special welds with extremely low tolerances for industrial operations
- Removed and repaired unacceptable welds with air arc and grinder to meet quality guidelines
- Operated hoists, cranes, and power tools to dismantle equipment to find and remove defects
Welder
Family Land Construction
03.2017 - 05.2019
- Welded in flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions
- Inspected welds and checked critical measurements to meet specifications
- Fabricated shop parts directly from blueprints
- Removed and repaired unacceptable welds with air arc and grinder to meet quality guidelines
- Utilized blueprints and diagrams to compare finished products against design specifications
- Set up and operated shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment
- Bolted, clamped and tack-welded parts to secure components prior to welding
- Inspected welds for accuracy and conformance to specifications
Education
High School Diploma -
Deridder High School
DeRidder, LA05-2019
Certified Pipe Welder - Welding
Pelican Chapter Associated Builders And Contractors, Training Center
02-2019
Skills
- API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspections
- API 570 Piping Inspections
- API 653 Above Ground Storage Tank Inspections
- Control Room Operations
- Inspection of critical equipment
- Personal Relations
- Encouraging Others
- Attention to detail
- Decision-making
- Crew leadership
- Effective communication
Certification
- API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspector, American Petroleum Institute, 116876
- API 570 Piping Inspector, American Petroleum Institute, 120156
- API 653 Above Ground Storage Tank Inspector, American Petroleum Institute, 126303
- Transportation Worker Identification Credential, 04/01/19, 04/01/24, 18433031
- D1.1 Certification, American Welding Society, 18070286
- 40 Hour Fire Training
- 40 Hour HAZMAT
- 40 Hour Confined Space Rescue
Timeline
Major Projects Foreman
Primoris
01.2026 - Current
Safety Coordinator
PCA
10.2021 - 01.2026
Process Operator
PCA
10.2021 - 01.2026
Journeyman Welder
Deep South Crane And Rigging
06.2019 - 10.2021
Welder
Family Land Construction
03.2017 - 05.2019
Certified Pipe Welder - Welding
Pelican Chapter Associated Builders And Contractors, Training Center
High School Diploma -
Deridder High School