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Justin Amurao

Surrey

Summary

Highly motivated electrical apprentice with 4 years of hands on experience in system installation, defect diagnosis, and troubleshooting. Skilled in reading blueprints, wiring diagrams, and executing projects in commerical and utilities.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Apprentice Electrician

Western Pacific Enterprises
08.2022 - Current

Capilano Substation

  • 60kv SF6 circuit breaker and bus assembly working alongside BB/HITACHI, inspecting connections, lifting breakers and bus into place with crane
  • 25kv GIS switch gear install and terminations, pulled, dressed and landed cables into gear through gland plates, read prints and terminated cables into proper locations, stripped hydro cable and performed hydro terminations for ground, moved switch gear into place
  • Installed copper bus on 25kv switch gear, worked closely with Hyundai, applying grease, preparing surfaces with alcohol, inspecting connections for dust, bolting and torquing to spec
  • Wired 25kv switch gear PNC panels, moved and bolted panels into place, pulled cables and dressed cables to panels, read prints and terminated all cables into correct locations
  • Installed and built battery rack, read engineering spec, prints and diagrams to build battery rack, lifted batteries with proper procedure safely to rack
  • Installed 38 stacking reactor bays, moved and stacked reactors into place with crane, grounded reactors, built aluminum wall bus, installed nema pad connections, torqued everything to spec once all completed


Mainwaring Substation

  • Moved, stacked and installed 48 reactor bays (3 reactors each bay), gantry crane used for critical lift of reactors, grounded reactor bays, installed aluminum wall bus
  • Installed PNC for 12kv switch gear, moved PNC panels into place, drilled and bolted down, pulled cables from GIS gear to PNC panels, read prints and cross checked with pull schedule and various other drawings to solve deficiencies with wiring in PNCs, worked closely with CPC tech to solve any problems with panels
  • Wired 12kv GIS gear, pulled cables, stripped and terminated cables into gear referencing prints and other drawings to terminate and work through issues


Sperling Substation

  • Installed contingency bus, drilled aluminum plates, drilled anchors for bus
  • Pulled cable for new breakers, after cables were pulled stripped and terminated cables in PNC panels


Apprentice Electrician

Bridge Electric
01.2022 - 08.2022

Bentall 6

  • Installed 12kv switch gear for main electrical room, installed strand bus in gear, pull and wired gear,
  • General rough in, pulled cables, installed boxes, piping, laying out

Apprentice Electrician

Alpine West Systems Electrical
03.2021 - 01.2022

The Paramount

  • General rough in, pot lights, pulling bx, bending pipe
  • Managed lighting control and power system for entire floor, pulled cat 6 cables for the whole floor, troubled shooted power and lighting systems for the floor, working closely with programmer to diagnose and fix problems

Education

Electrical Apprentice Level 3 - Construction Electrician

British Columbia Institute of Technology
Burnaby
07-2025

Skills

  • Blueprint reading: worked with various prints from architectural, wiring diagrams to one line diagrams
  • Cable Pulling: Has been apart of many different cable pulling situations from, high voltage cable pulls with a tugger to rough in cable pulls for lighting
  • System trouble shooting: Ability to diagnose and trouble shoot electrical system defects and issues
  • Termination and wiring: Highly experienced in cable terminations, stripping and wiring for panels and switch gear
  • Problem solving: Strong problem solving skills applied in various electrical installation and repairs
  • Communication and teamwork: effective communication and teamwork skills evidenced through working with coworkers and journeyman

Certification

  • PSSP/WPP CAT 2,3
  • FALL PROTECTION
  • WHIMIS GHS
  • CLASS 5 DRIVERS LICENSE

Timeline

Apprentice Electrician

Western Pacific Enterprises
08.2022 - Current

Apprentice Electrician

Bridge Electric
01.2022 - 08.2022

Apprentice Electrician

Alpine West Systems Electrical
03.2021 - 01.2022

Electrical Apprentice Level 3 - Construction Electrician

British Columbia Institute of Technology
Justin Amurao