Ernest Douglas is the new president and CEO of Qulliq Energy Corp. Premier P.J. Akeeagok announced the appointment on Friday in a news release. (Photo courtesy of LinkedIn)
Ernest Douglas named new CEO of Qulliq Energy Corp.
Previous CEO Rick Hunt recently became president of Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission
A longtime leader in Atlantic Canada’s energy sector has been named the new president and CEO of Qulliq Energy Corp.
Ernest Douglas is taking over at QEC, Nunavut’s publicly owned electricity generator and distributor, after a 14-year career with Eastward Energy, a privately owned natural gas distributor in Nova Scotia, according to a news release from Premier P.J. Akeeagok.
Douglas replaces Rick Hunt, who left Qulliq to become president of the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission. That appointment was announced in July 2023 but took effect last October.
Bill Nippard, QEC’s vice-president of operations, has been serving as CEO in the interim since October.
“Mr. Douglas has a demonstrated record in leadership positions, including in relationship building,” Akeeagok said. “His expertise will help drive QEC forward in the coming years.”
Go after the incompetent engineering department who constantly claims overtime when they use up their leave credits!! Oh and how they cannot even hire beneficiaries in the corporate office and the engineering department.
You want the projects properly runned and within budget get more people like Mr Wilson as the Engineers don’t have a clue what they are doing.
Why haven’t the GN looked at the IEP with Qulliq?
Where is the line-up of beneficiaries with engineering degrees applying to work in the engineering department? Guessing QEC’s HR overlooked their resumès?
The QEC had a beneficiary engineer who left likely due to mismanagement. You might be surprised the engineering department employs more than just engineers.
The recent president failed to take action, leading to staff departures as the Board intervened in staffing.
The engineering department should focus solely on electrical and mechanical engineers. If an actual audit is done on staffing, you will see they are clearly overstaffed and cannot keep up with the budget. QEC often borrows operational funding from the GN due to overpaid staff and unnecessary overtime. The corporate office lacks staff beneficiaries.
Article 23 of Nunavut?
https://www.qec.nu.ca/sites/default/files/iep_-_eng.pdf🤑
Plenty of sunscreen ☀️ Get a sunburn changing a light bulb💡
Needless to say that after all these decades Nunavut hasn’t qualified any Inuit engineers for these jobs. It’s long past time for people to ask Why not? (And preferential hiring of the unqualified doesn’t cut it.)