Lucas Q.

Experience

• Design Engineer FLSmidth · Full-time Feb 2024 – Nov 2024 9 mos Orillia, ON, undefined Develop initial design concepts and advance them to final design stages, ensuring designs facilitate construction methods and streamline plant maintenance and operations.
  
  Handoff projects within budget and on time while fostering innovation, technical excellence, and ensuring quality control and assurance while adhering to and upholding design engineering standards across all projects.
  
  Evaluate and provide feedback on design documents and drawings and offer technical support for various project requirements.
  
  Support quality assurance processes and manage client expectations, as well as coordinate with other project teams to identify needs and requirements.
  
  Draft and review technical documents such as specifications, equipment lists, calculations, reports, and design criteria while also collaborating with other designers to successfully complete engineering projects.
• Engineering Technologist Fortis Mining, Engineering & Manufacturing · Full-time Feb 2022 – Jan 2024 1 yrs 11 mos Canada Continuously spearhead the design of structures and assemblies for potash mines in Saskatchewan using SolidWorks and AutoCAD. Notable ongoing projects include underslung decks for shaft conveyance, sheave design, and roller assemblies for shaft maintenance, and retrofit designs of vehicles for material handling. All designs consistently conform to provincial health, safety, and mining regulations.
  
  Regularly collaborate with sales and project associates to engineer an expansive range of lifting attachments and their strings. Designs span from simple chase blocks to more complex cheese weight and rigging assemblies, with some rated for working loads exceeding 100,000 lbs.
  
  Apply a deep understanding of material properties in ongoing projects to ensure safety and functionality. This knowledge is particularly pivotal when designing features that need machining or welding, considering factors like heat affected zones and residual stresses in relation to component geometry and loading.
  
  Lead and engage in a myriad of engineering projects, which include but are not limited to conveyance lift plans, utility vehicle upgrades, fall protection systems, and personnel control zones.
  
  Consistent collaboration with on-site technicians, in-house engineers, and contracted professionals has been key to project success.
  
  Vigilantly ensure projects meet essential standards such as CSA G40.20/G40.21 & ASTM B308/B308M-20 for material specifications, CSA W59 & W47.2 for welding parameters, and ASME B30.20 for lifting devices.
• Mechanical Designer Niagara Energy Products Inc. · Full-time Jul 2019 – Mar 2021 1 yrs 8 mos Niagara Falls, ON, undefined Prepared fabrication packages and material take offs (BOMS) for mechanized equipment used to manufacture 50-ton, nuclear-grade waste storage containers, using SolidWorks, Draftsight and Excel. Sourced mechanical components, generated manufacturing drawings and provided support on the shop floor during fabrication.
  
  Worked on capital projects to automate manufacturing, including the design of an overhead gantry system that used a robotic welding arm to reduce the time taken to fabricate units and cut the number of manufacturing defects.
  
  Collaborated on a project to design an enclosed cell with robotic arms fitted with sandblasting equipment, to dramatically reduced the amount of manpower and time required for finishing processes.
  
  Produced fabrication, installation drawings, and material take offs for the rerouting for paint bay ventilation systems.
  
  Worked in conjunction with Quality Assurance, Procurement, and Sales to produce estimates valued at $100K+ for customer-based billable projects, for nuclear and non-nuclear products; often this required reference to quality standards such as ISO 9001 and CSA N299, and ensuring conformance to criteria found in ASME Section IX, CSA N285, as well as additional technical specifications dictated by nuclear power stations.
• Mechanical Designer Zwart Systems · Full-time Jul 2017 – Jul 2019 2 yrs ON, Canada Created CAD models of irrigation systems and grow room equipment for large-scale, multi-million-dollar grow operations, which involved designing and modelling water treatment and handling systems and growing equipment using SolidWorks, Inventor and AutoCAD and producing technical drawings for use in on-site manufacturing.
  
  Supported the migration from an Autodesk Vault to a SolidWorks PDM system by organizing and populating the CAD archive, which improved design efficiency by introducing a standardized approach.
• Solidworks Designer Marathon Equipment Inc. · Full-time Jun 2016 – Jul 2017 1 yrs 1 mos ON, undefined Designed and produced technical drawings for the fabrication and assembly of sheet metal components, trailer weldments, and electrical/plumbing routes for asphalt repair equipment using SolidWorks and AutoCAD.
  
  Supported R&D projects that made products more robust, designed and optimized new and existing assemblies and parts, prepared parts for laser cutting and bending applications, and created floor plans for a new facility.
• Intern/Co-op Mechanical Designer AVL Manufacturing Inc. · Internship Sep 2014 – Jul 2015 10 mos Hamilton, undefined Produced models and engineering drawings of parts and assemblies for large portable power units using SolidWorks, as well as created floor plans for the flow of plant materials using DraftSight and conducted research and analysis on engineering data and design packages for numerous improvement projects.