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EPCOR powers up roles that flow into rewarding careers
K
irstine Hull remembers
applying for her first
real job as a summer
student, answering
a job posting that
her mother had circled in the
newspaper and left on the kitchen
table at breakfast. “It turned out to
be the only place I ever applied to
for work,” Hull says. “At EPCOR,
back when it was Edmonton
Power.”
Twenty-eight years later Hull is
the senior vice president of corporate services at EPCOR Utilities
Inc., which has evolved since 1891
from the city’s light and power
company into a North American
utilities company with operations
in four provinces and three states.
She remembers advice she got
from her father, a bricklayer. “One
thing he said to me, and I’ll never
forget it, is ‘Listen to the people
that do the work.’ That has gotten
me through my whole career.”
David Anli began his career at
EPCOR with two eight-month
terms as a co-op student before
taking his first full-time position
at the company in 2009 as an
engineer-in-training. Fifteen years
later, he’s maintenance manager
for major electrical projects and
recalls the mentorship, both
official and unofficial, that helped
him take on new roles.
An electrical engineer when
he started at EPCOR, he began
thinking about branching out. “I
knew I wanted to challenge myself
more and take a look at some
management routes,” he says.
“I also pursued my MBA while
working full time and taking night
classes.”
That degree was partly subsidized with personal development
funding available to every
full-time employee, and Anli augmented it with leadership courses
offered through the EPCOR
School of Business.
“I became more interested in
development - everything from
leadership to communications,
how to give and take feedback,
and that really made me want to
take more training courses.”
Your success is my success,
and that carries over into
the people I work with.
— David Anli
Maintenance Manager,
Commercial Operations
David Anli, maintenance manager, commercial operations, at EPCOR Utilities.
Hull says that people would be
surprised by the variety of roles
needed at a company like EPCOR:
data scientists, lab techs, water operators, powerline technicians and
computer programmers. There are
a variety of field and office roles
available.
“And as we’ve become more digital in the delivery of our services,”
she says, “there are new skill sets
that we’re hiring for that wouldn’t
have been there back in the day,
like social media. We have people
who monitor our social media and
do our marketing.”
Anli says the best parts of his
job begin with its challenges, both
as an individual and as part of a
team.
“I really like challenges and
problem solving,” he says.
“Perhaps that’s my engineering
side coming out. Every day is a
little different and that makes
