Ian
Heating, Power and Stationary Plant Operations
On the job:
5 years
Depot Division
Saskatchewan
Ian originally took psychology in university, but when he randomly learned about power engineering, he realized he had found his calling. Ian’s work ensures that RCMP Depot has sufficient heating, cooling and water supplies, as well as a functioning fire safety system.
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Video transcript
00:00:06:01
Best case scenario is you would have frozen buildings in the winter and buildings that are overheating and unsafe to work in, in summer.
00:00:14:11
Boiler operation can be inherently dangerous just because of the pressures that the boilers operate under. So you can have risks of basically failed equipment that in power engineering terms, we call catastrophic failure.
00:00:26:02
There’s a few instances where something has gone wrong or something wasn’t working that I was just uniquely equipped to handle and solve. Sometimes, it’s things like those that make you feel really good when there’s just something that isn’t right and it’s a problem and it needs solving,
00:00:41:29
and you’re the one who can solve it. Specifically for the systems that I work with.
“There’s a few instances where something has gone wrong or something wasn’t working that I was just uniquely equipped to handle and solve.”
Ian
Heating, Power and Stationary Plant Operations
