New Engineering Production Manager enhances efficiency and project delivery

In 2008, our President & CEO, Kerry Rudd appointed Barry Vallance, P.Eng. to his new role of Engineering Production Manager. In the last 12 months, Barry has taken on the responsibility for assessing our engineering systems and improving or developing new proce- dures and guidelines to enhance efficiency and project delivery, and produce consistent, quality products.

Our systems refer to any procedure, guideline, or process that we use in our day-to-day efforts to conduct business, execute projects, produce drawings, specifications, reports and proposals, manage documents, and communicate.

With new systems comes the need to educate staff in the form of in-house and off-site training. Barry is involved in the development and implementation of various training modules including:

• Quality management
• Contract law
• Environmental procedures
• Design standards
• Records management
• File naming conventions
• Specifications writing
• Drawing production
• Report writing
• CAD standards
• Document authentication

Barry has visited offices across the company, providing presentations to reinforce the company’s long-standing principles for quality management.

Training sessions include AE’s guidelines for quality assurance. Barry advocates involving reviewers in design work and accurately defining project needs early in the design process. Barry has been creating and encouraging the use of checklists to simplify design development and the quality review/audit processes. The process encourages involv- ing senior engineers and specialists for review early in a project to develop the most appropriate solution and avoid potentially costly re-work later in a project.

For more information, contact Barry at vallanceb@ae.ca

New leadership team in Saskatchewan

Bert Munro, P.Eng., Vice President and General Manager of the Saskatchewan operation is pleased to announce the following appointments and changes to our management team in Saskatchewan. Associated Engineering’s Saskatchewan operation has seen significant growth in the last three years. The management changes allow us to meet opportunities in the Saskatchewan market in the most efficient, competitive, and cooperative manner.

Carma Holmes, P.Eng., will lead the new Industrial/Structural Group in Regina. Carma is a Structural Engineer with more than ten years experience at Associated Engineering including design and construction of industrial, municipal, commercial, residential, and institutional structures. Carma’s group will provide internal structural services, and will expand our business in the industrial services sector.

Monique Kealey, P.Eng., will lead the Transportation and Urban Planning Group in Regina. Monique has 20 years of transportation engineering experience including transportation planning, traffic engineering, strategic public communications, and public consultation. The group will continue to offer services in transportation planning while expanding to transportation engineering and urban planning.

Marvin Loewen, A.Sc.T., PMP, will take on the role of Branch Manager in Regina and Senior Group Manager for Saskatchewan. Marvin has over 20 years of experience in land development, asset management, infrastructure rehabilitation, and program management.

Jason Horner, P.Eng., will lead the Regional Infrastructure/Industrial Group in Saskatoon. Jason has over 10 years experience in highway design and construction, and significant experience in on-site roadway construction and contract administration.

Paul Pinder, P.Eng., will take on the role of Manager, Transportation in the Saskatoon office. In his 19 years in transportation engineering, Paul has been involved in all aspects of highway design including detailed location reports, functional planning studies, detailed designs, geometric designs, environmental studies, signing and pavement marking plans, surfacing designs, culvert designs, truck scale design, and interchange ramp design.