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Joshua Hotchkiss

Calgary,AB

Summary

Flexible hard worker ready to learn and contribute to team success. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Ambitious, career-focused job seeker, anxious to obtain an apprentice level position to help launch my career while achieving company goals hand in hand.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Powerline Technician Apprentice

Victor Energy
Nisku, Alberta
02.2023 - Current
  • Mainly, transmission line experience. Specifically, in new builds and stringing crews.
  • Pile installation and concrete foundation installation experience.
  • Led crews on dead-end structures to ensure successful project completion. Installed and maintained overhead powerlines, ensuring regulatory compliance.
  • Operated heavy machinery, such as bucket trucks, cranes, and diggers, to construct and repair power lines.
  • Repaired malfunctioning equipment, enhancing reliability of powerline systems.
  • Implemented safety protocols during high-risk operations around high voltage lines.

Tower Rigger Foreman

True North Towers
Calgary, AB
09.2017 - 01.2023
  • Climbed various heights on multiple structures safely and efficiently to repair equipment.
  • Maintained and operated construction equipment such as electric and hydraulic winches and capstans.
  • Supervised projects to uphold schedule requirements and quality demands.
  • Planned and managed manpower and resource requirements to support project activities.
  • Communicated with employees to demonstrate high standards and mitigate issues.
  • Inspected rigging for safety and reliability.
  • Coordinated projects to build wireless cell sites within timelines.
  • Installed transmission lines, antennas, cabling, braces and supports to promote communications operations.
  • Conducted daily site safety meetings, equipment inspections and full rescue procedure inspections.
  • Established and enforced clear safety policies to protect workers from injury.
  • Prepared and planned worksites to help jobs run smoothly and efficiently

Owner/Director

MaxAlta Communications
Calgary, AB
04.2016 - 08.2017
  • Owned and managed a telecommunication contracting company
  • Negotiated contract jobs with clients, and hired staff and subcontractors accordingly
  • Performed all manner of tower and network infrastructure, enterprise, and residential work, including self support tower erection, tower installations and maintenance, enterprise and residential sales, installations, and service
  • Trained employees to perform all manner of telecommunications work, with a strong focus on safety and efficiency
  • Personally dealt with client companies to ensure satisfaction and good communication was always maintained
  • Kept organized safety and administrative paperwork

1st Year Apprentice Electrician

Concept Electric
Calgary, AB
07.2012 - 01.2014
  • Underground Utilities
  • Substations
  • Commercial and industrial experience
  • Demonstrated strong foundation of safety knowledge and implemented industry best practices.

Education

Some College (No Degree) - Electrical

Sait
Calgary, AB

Certifications

Skills

  • Nearly a decade of rigging experience at various heights
  • An overall vast knowledge of safe rigging and project coordination
  • Project Leadership/Project Foreman
  • Class 3 license
  • Experienced equipment operator: excavators, skid steer, loaders, bucket trucks, diggers
  • Helicopter work: Class D certified long lining, tower stacking with a helicopter, and helicoptering
  • Stacking towers with gin and winch
  • Concrete/rebar construction
  • Fabricating (steel work)
  • Mechanically Inclined
  • Problem-Solving
  • Job Planning
  • Dependable and Hardworking
  • Underground utilities (power and fibre)
  • Attention to Detail
  • Effective Communication
  • Effective Customer Communication
  • Line Work
  • Punctual and Reliable
  • Wire Splicing
  • Safety Procedures
  • Heavy Lifting
  • Blueprint Analysis
  • Construction Principles
  • Equipment Maintenance
  • Overhead line construction
  • Power line installation

Reference

  • Mitch Curzon. (owner-True North Towers) 587-432-7126
  • Matt Kuryluk (owner-Hybrid Wireless) 403-875-7734
  • Mason MacLean (Project Manager-Stoney Nakota Telecom) 403-880-1313

Timeline

Powerline Technician Apprentice

Victor Energy
02.2023 - Current

Tower Rigger Foreman

True North Towers
09.2017 - 01.2023

Owner/Director

MaxAlta Communications
04.2016 - 08.2017

1st Year Apprentice Electrician

Concept Electric
07.2012 - 01.2014

Some College (No Degree) - Electrical

Sait

Certifications

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