Bradey Wegener Email & Phone Number

Airdrie, Alberta, Canada

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

• Lead, manage, coach, and motivate staff; this includes providing direction, expertise and advice to employees, identifying employee training requirements, and formally managing the performance of employees.• Manage all elements of employee relations, including hiring, terminations, training, performance appraisals, and resolving labour relations issues.• Provide leadership and support to the project leaders and staff in the area; this includes ensuring project leaders are accountable for achieving all project deliverables in a timely manner and with respect to quality and customer service expectations. • Ensure all direct reports (including apprentices) receive proper training and development opportunities, sign Blue Book task sheets, identify training requirements, and review or manage individual performance on a regular basis. • Work closely with HR to manage training of staff, performance issues, succession planning, recruitment, and to effectively deal with labour disputes or grievances.• Plan and manage the sourcing of employees, contractors, materials, equipment and tools for both operating and capital projects.• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing practices and processes and develop strategies to improve system performance, customer service, or construction techniques; implement required improvements.• Coordinate with the Design, Maintenance, Planning and Engineering teams to facilitate system maintenance and upgrades.• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with local customers, landowners, business owners, and community leaders.• Investigate, report on, and resolve customer complaints, damage claims or incidents.• Ensure employees adhere to work methods, safe work practices/policies; this includes investigating incidents and following up as required. • Manage a capital and operating budget; this includes annual budget planning as well as providing monthly current estimates and variance analyses.

Strathmore

• Prioritized, organized, and scheduled work orders and construction projects.• Oversaw contract crew projects (large tender, turnkey, and routine unit price projects). • Assembled and managed complex job plans for large projects that required significant coordination efforts.• Authored and led complex switching programs for large projects.• Continuously pursued advanced work methods and live line techniques to ensure a consistently high standard of reliability and efficiency. • Provided effective leadership and coaching to employees and contractors.

Airdrie, Alberta, Canada

• Completed a 7-month temporary term as an Acting System Operator in the Control Center.• Completed all levels of training/testing to become a fully qualified System Operator in a short period of time.• Took part in a 15-week rotating schedule, alternating through different areas as the Operator in Charge.• Obtained working knowledge of several advanced systems and programs, including Distributed Automation, Auto-Transfer and SCADA systems. • Directed and approved numerous complex switching programs, including the commissioning of substations.

Strahmore

Led a construction crew, completing a variety of distribution overhead and underground projects.

Strathmore

Worked as a member of a distribution construction crew. Worked as an operations lineman completing numerous service orders daily.

Strathmore

Journeyman Powerline Technician Certificate, Construction Trades

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