Welcome from Kitchener, Ontario.
I apprenticed as a machinist in the 1980s working on knee style vertical mills, surface grinders while making cutter heads and carbide cartridges. When the recession hit and we were laid off.
I went back to school for Machinery Design and spent co-op work-terms at Kellogg’s Engineering in London.
Following the completion of Project 2000, I was recruited by a company in the farmland North of London and designed some patented machinery for a corrugated pipe company (Big O Pipe).
Big O had plants and warehouses across Canada, there was a sales yard in Taber, Alberta.
Technology transfers from Norway, MRPII / PLM software implementations and more capital machinery projects were managed for a fabrication firm and SIHI Vacuum Systems.
Now, I work PT for an automotive and industrial machinery company in Cambridge and HQ is Woodstock where the company has a parts warehouse and a machine shop that turns and grinds rolls for virtually every flour mill in Canada.
Variety of work is good !!
I have been in metalwork, food processing, plastic extrusion, Flare Gas Recovery Skids for oil refinery operations and . . . now supply chain for automotive restoration & finishing.
