Joseph Grant

• Day to day operation of buildings heating, cooling, air filtration, and humidification, via building automation system and manual controls.
• Communicating professionally with tenants and fulfilling their requests to ensure confidence in Public Works, without over or under communicating, as appropriate to circumstance.
• Communicating with supervisors and team, promoting a smooth team dynamic, listening to others and providing feedback to clarify what is understood. Staying locked in and effective as a team.
• Scheduling/Planning jobs & coordinating with internal and external contractors, sprinkler techs, electricians, carpenters, engineering firms, plumbers, to ensure they are accommodated, supported and can gain appropriate building access in their tasks.
• Participating in and gaining ongoing experience in troubleshooting of equipment status, equipment alarms, & unforeseen leaks & maintenance.
• Ongoing engagement and learning about chemical control of cooling tower water
• Responding to variables such as temperature and humidity out of desired range
• Assisted in fire drills, fire bell tests, and coordinated with contractors doing sprinkler system maintenance
• Proactively learning and experiencing job specific content.
• Past background in industrial and residential construction as a laborer alongside plumbers, electricians, pipe fitters, welders, carpenters. Therefore affiliated with many maintenance related tasks.
• Gaining valuable technical experience each day, with the advantage of possessing my 3rd class power engineer license & knowledge.
• Actively engaged & proactively pursuing higher competence in my job. (showing up, doing my best, and being my best every day).

Fed 2 bagging stations & trucks simultaneously in fast paced time dependent environment, while operating salt compaction and salt grading shaker systems, keeping salt flow organized to fulfill orders for amount of tonnage per each gradient of salt.

Keeping salt flowing all day long.

Communicated with maintenance, management, baggers, vapor recompression department to ensure smooth operations.

Assisted Vapor Recompression department when necessary, such as unplanned plant shut down when Nova Scotia Power ordered us to shut down, boiler chemicals and tests, training in operating, etc.

Responded to equipment failure, shut down, locked out, fixed it myself or called maintenance.

Equipment checks, greasing and cleaning equipment.

Clean as you go housekeeping.

Left this job because of health effects of night/day shift work rotation after one full year of pushing through.

- Shadowed operators

- Responded to unplanned maintenance events such as leaking sinks and leaking pipes.

- sketched a large refrigeration plant.

- gained work hours for power engineering 3rd class license.

- Graduated with Honors.

- Excelled in my studies, demonstrated a commitment to high work standards as a mature student.

- helped other students when possible

- near perfect attendance record.

- Worked effectively among many construction teams, on oil refinery shutdowns, civil construction, residential carpentry, industrial carpentry, as a skilled laborer, spotter, and helper of trades of all kinds.

- coached many new construction workers on spotting, jack hammering, safety tips, eye contact with operators, welders arc safety, welders helper safety, safety working in congested environments with lots of moving trucks, power tools throwing steel dust / sparks, fire hazards, Etc... & more.

- stayed cool with supervisors and foremen who love anger and yelling at others.