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Lewis Kevin Sinclair
Aberdeen
Summary
Dedicated professional with strong commitment to skill development in the oil industry. Proven ability to collaborate effectively within teams and foster positive relationships. Eager to contribute to organizational success through hard work and adaptability.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Trainee Valve Technician - Fitter
WORLDWIDE OILFIELD MACHINE
Aberdeen
01.2025 - Current
- Pressure testing.
- Service and repairs to manual and hydraulic gate valves.
- Building valve assemblies.
- Building of seal assemblies.
- Retainer inspections.
- Test recordings, and gauge recordings.
- Building swivels.
- Building housing units.
- Servicing connectors and hydraulic fittings.
- Checking for any internal damage and recording.
- Loading containers for going offshore with a checklist.
- Reporting any damage to equipment or jobs to QC inspectors.
- Drifting bores to make sure gates are fully shut or open.
- Forklift operations.
- Sinking valves in test baths to check for air bubbles initiating leaks.
- Fixing leaks, trapped air, and pressure.
- Traceability of components with job sheets and route sheets.
- Checking containers that are returned from offshore and recording all the equipment that has come back to stores for inspection and testing.
- Help wherever it is needed.
- Working to a high standard and ensuring everything is fully functioning, safe to use, and sent away for repairs or repaired in-house if possible.
- Teamwork and the ability to work competently individually.
Labourer
WORLDWIDE OILFIELD MACHINE
Aberdeen
01.2024 - 01.2025
- Good standard of housekeeping in the workshop and paint bays.
- Taking all grease hydraulic fittings off, including bleeders, grub screws, bearings, and packing glands.
- Hard stamping and etching job numbers onto all valves, components, and internals.
- Decompress valves from internal pressure with grease fitting bleeders.
- Splitting actuators and releasing the spring with a press machine.
- Stripping of hydraulic gate valves, manual gate valves, spools, dual block actuator valves, single bore valves, globe valves, swivels, and housing units.
- Stripping all internals, such as O-rings, seals, pistons, stems, gates, and bearing caps.
- Polishing and cleaning all O-rings, seals.
- Polishing the seal assembly retainers.
- Buffing with die and angle grinders.
- Power washing all parts and components.
- Buffing with die grinders and large angle grinders.
- Polishing and cleaning internals.
- Palletising valves or jobs on pallets with all correct items boxed and protected with care, placing a job sheet and route sheet on the pallet with the correct job for organisation.
- Ensuring the workshop is always kept clean and hazard-free.
- Using forklifts to transport jobs from workshop to workshop.
- Using forklifts to take jobs off trailers when loading and unloading.
Comis Chef
Malmaison Hotel
Aberdeen
09.2017 - 01.2019
- Preparation every day of fresh ingredients.
- Timekeeping.
- Awareness of hot instruments.
- High-level display for food and signature dishes.
- COSHH checks, daily.
- Food contamination checks, daily.
- Clean working environment.
- Expertise in food and meat temperatures.
- Deeply cleaning the kitchen once a week.
- Making sure that all knives are sharp and safe to use.
- Ensuring that all equipment works daily with checks prior.
Kitchen Porter
Malmaison Hotel
Aberdeen
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Exceptional level of cleanliness.
- Ensuring that chefs always had clean utensils to use.
- Ensuring the front of house always had clean cutlery, plates, and other items.
- The kitchen was always cleaned to the highest standards.
- Washing pots, pans, and utensils daily.
- Washing cutlery.
- Taking ingredients up from walk-in fridges to chefs.
- Helping chefs when needed, to prep vegetables and sauces.
- Being a team player.
- Folding and cutting chip cup papers as neatly as possible.
- Making sure chefs always had a helping hand available.
- Mopping and sweeping the floor at the end of each service and morning routine.
- Taking rubbish bags out and emptying bins.
Paper Boy
Menzies Distributors
Aberdeen
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Collected set amount of papers daily.
- Ensured timely and efficient delivery of every paper.
ROV workshop at Saipem for work experience
Saipem
Aberdeen
08.2015 - 08.2015
- Gained experience through school at uncle's workplace.
- Assisted with sandblasting operations, enhancing practical skills.
- Engaged in learning about various types of ROVs.
- Supported housekeeping tasks, ensuring a tidy environment.
- Acquired knowledge of hydraulics and electrics.
- Developed work ethic and enthusiasm in a professional setting.
- Explored aspects of the oil and gas industry.
- Participated in a working environment, collaborating with team members to achieve target results.
Apprentice Slater/Roofer Tiler-Time Served
Graeme W Cheyne Builders LTD
Aberdeen
01.2024
- Completed a four-year apprenticeship with Graeme W Cheyne.
- Working in a team and being able to work individually competently.
- Stripping of roof slates, tiles, felt, Sarking boards, or sterling board.
- Removal and demolition of chimney stacks and cement skewers.
- Fitting and repairing leadwork (sideslips, raggles, lead aprons, valleys, and dormer windows).
- Stripping and installation of felt flat roofs.
- Grading of slates and preparation.
- Lime, cement, hordex pointing, and stippling.
- Collections and deliveries of materials and equipment.
- Scaffolding
- Vent installation
- Window and skylight installations
- Leak tracing and problem solving
- Cement work
- Fitting and running gutters with d/pipes
- Manual handling
- Traffic management and road closures
- Dealing with customers and public access
- Teaching apprentices.
- Setting up roof scaffolds
- Harling
- Coating
- Housekeeping
- Fitting fire breakers
- Fitting flues and stink pipes
- Pick out and pointing
- Power tools
- Lead welding
Education
Certification of Higher Education - Slating, Tiling, Leadwork SVQA LEVEL 6
Dundee & Angus College campus
Arbroath01.2024
Introduction to Construction - SVQA LEVEL 3
Fraserburgh college campus
Fraserburgh01.2019
Mechanical Engineering Level 1 PEO - Welding included
Fraserburgh college campus
Fraserburgh01.2017
Skills
- Equipment maintenance
- Team collaboration
- Quality control
- Safety compliance
- Valve assembly
- Hydraulic systems
- Pressure testing
- Leak detection
- Parts inspection
- Time management
- Housekeeping standards
- Manual handling
- Multitasking
- Problem Resolution
- Presentation preparation
Certification
- Full UK Driving license, 2021-11-01, Present
- Forklift License, 2024-12-01, Present
- CSCS Card (Construction Skills Certification Scheme)
- Working At Height Certification
- Health And Safety Certification
- COSHH (Caution Of Substances Hazardous to Health) Certification
- Site Awareness Certification
- Hand And Arm Vibration Certification
- Harness Trained
- First Aid Trained
- Skills Force Certification
Interests
Timeline
Trainee Valve Technician - Fitter
WORLDWIDE OILFIELD MACHINE
01.2025 - Current
Labourer
WORLDWIDE OILFIELD MACHINE
01.2024 - 01.2025
Apprentice Slater/Roofer Tiler-Time Served
Graeme W Cheyne Builders LTD
01.2024
Comis Chef
Malmaison Hotel
09.2017 - 01.2019
Kitchen Porter
Malmaison Hotel
01.2016 - 01.2017
ROV workshop at Saipem for work experience
Saipem
08.2015 - 08.2015
Paper Boy
Menzies Distributors
01.2014 - 01.2016
Certification of Higher Education - Slating, Tiling, Leadwork SVQA LEVEL 6
Dundee & Angus College campus
Introduction to Construction - SVQA LEVEL 3
Fraserburgh college campus
Mechanical Engineering Level 1 PEO - Welding included
Fraserburgh college campus