Transcript SITE BC - Engineering Market

SITE BC - Engineering Market
Nelson Lee, MASc, PEng
[email protected]
June 30, 2012
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What I want to share with you
• The employer's perspective
• The job market - potential opportunities
• Steps you can take to be one employed
• A little background about me
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Who is Nelson Lee
• Born in Canada to immigrants
• Wife is from Taiwan
• Lived and worked in Taiwan, HK, China 1990-2003
• Team Leader with EBA, A Tetra Tech Company
• Responsible for Business Development for Sustainability
team of 6 and hopefully growing
• Fully employed but always looking for work!
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The employer's perspective
• Aging work force
• More technically advanced business environment
• Cost of labour
• Shift in focus to an Asian market
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Employer's perspective
• Communication
• Performance ?
• Reliability ?
• Credentials
• Salary expectations
• Responsibility expectations
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Opportunities - the Job Market
• Optimistic view
• Potential risks such as
• Economy
• Environment / climate change
• Politics
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A look to the future
• "Begin with the end in mind", Stephen Covey
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Why look to the future?
• Strategy is about positioning yourself for success based
on your understanding of the future,
• paraphrased from Michael Porter, Harvard
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What we know
2020-2030!
Forward Looking Statements
Some of this presentation may contain forward-looking statements. The audience is
cautioned that the assumptions used in the preparation of these statements involve risks
and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking
statements.
These forward looking statements are intended to stimulate thought.
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20 Year Outlook
•World population around 8 billion
•Canada 37+ million, 10-15% more than now
•AB 5 million, 25% growth
•BC 6 million, 30-40% growth
•SK 2 million, 40-50% growth
•Some of us retired,
•AB 24% increasing to 33% > 65,
•BC 12% increasing to 24% > 65
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20 Year Outlook
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Technology will advance!
Highly mobile, electronic networking / marketing
Services growing
Urban populations increasing
Demand for better education increasing
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20 Year Outlook
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Economy close to 50-75% greater,
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Greater proportion of seniors
China largest economy
India largest population
BC and AB trade with Asia doubled, less dependent on US
More foreign investment in resource sector, minerals and
especially fossil fuel
More of the current youth in "leadership" - stay home,
social media life style
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Expected Big Opportunities
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TransCanada XL pipeline,
Enbridge Gateway pipeline,
TransCanada gas pipeline,
Kinder Morgan line twinning project
Shell, Encana, EOG, Progress, Apache, etc., BC Government
supporting 3+ LNG plants, or more
• Shale gas, expansion in BC,
• Conventional oil and gas in AB, coal in BC/AB
• Enbridge gas plant purchases, other gas plant investments
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Expected Big opportunities
•Federal monitoring of oil sands, BC monitoring of Air in NE
•BC Hydro dams, including Site C, transmission line projects
(opening up 16 mines in NW BC), power demand up 30% in 2030 years
•Pacific gateway project-roads, bridges, rail, ports investments,
BC expansion to India and China, and transship to the US
•Foreign investment in mining and energy
•AB, BC GHG program, pending SK, Federal GHG limits,
Renewable Fuel standards, regulations on coal industry
•Washington Marine Group $8 billion Navy contract
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Expected Big opportunities
•Circum-Polar initiative, DNIAND adaptation support, NT, MOT
adaptation in transportation
•Renewable energy initiatives in ON/BC, energy efficiency in AB
•Mining initiatives, both exploration and development
•Global product labeling pressure
•Calgary to Edmonton rail service
•Collective residential, commercial development and
transportation networks
•AESO transmission line in AB, BC Hydro transmissions lines
along main corridor, while cutting staff
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Industry Challenges
•Attracting / retaining staff, especially intermediate and
senior to meet goals
•Leveraging technology and management systems to be
more productive, efficient and satisfying to stakeholders
•AB and SK are worker limited
•BC may approach worker limitations
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Steps you can take
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Recall employer's perspectives
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The employer's perspective
• Aging work force
• More technically advanced business environment
• Cost of labour
• Bottom line is great need!
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Employer's perspective
• Communication
• Performance ?
• Reliability ?
• Credentials
• Salary expectations
• Responsibility expectations
• Yes, they have concerns, but these can be addressed
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Steps you can take
• Make employment your highest priority, daily activity
• Communication - work on English language proficiency Toastmasters, classes
• Watch TV, read newspapers, read industry or professional
journals - all in English
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Study job market, regulatory environment of your job market
Join professional associations, attend, volunteer
Attend conferences - volunteer, seek reduced rates, subsidies
Local schooling, especially continuing professional
development - knowledge and networking
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Steps you can take
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Local clubs, school boards, volunteering - networking
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Form focus groups to understand market and opportunities
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Daily phone calls to potential employers with follow-up
LinkedIn, Facebook etc., be active, contribute
Get involved in politics at any level - always looking for
members, volunteers
Local work experience - Contract positions, temporary
work, part-time work, ideally engineering
Set goals and track performance - drives and encourages
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Steps you can take
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Keep yourself fit, eat well and get sufficient rest
Smile a lot, especially when talking to people on the phone!
Let's face it, looking for work is work!
It's hard and can be discouraging
But in my experience,
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10 calls, talk to one person,
10 talks, 1 solid lead,
10 leads, 1 job offer,
10 job offers, 1 perfect career
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Environmental
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AECOM
AMEC
Associated
CH2MHill
EBA
Focus
Golder
Levelton
Stantec
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Engineering
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Bechtel
Flour
Hatch
Brown and Root
Peter Kewitt
PCL
Ledcor
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Conclusions
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The glass is really half full
You can take control of your future
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Nelson Lee, MASc, PEng
Senior Sustainability Strategist
EBA, A Tetra Tech Company, has a strong background and
focus in greenhouse gas (GHG) markets and related
environmental management systems (EMS).
For nearly 25 years he has advised corporations and
governments on strategies for improving their sustainability
related to environment, health, and safety performance and
GHG management, both in consulting and in a third-party role.
Nelson currently leads EBA’s growing GHG / Climate Change /
Sustainability Team and is frequently called upon to speak at
seminars and provide training.
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Nelson Lee, P.Eng.
Senior Sustainability Strategist
Practice Leader,
GHG and Sustainability Practice
[email protected]
403.203.3305x850
604.685.0275
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