Maintenance Team | The Heartbeat of our Hospital: Kevin

Kevin is a certified millwright at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. A millwright is a skilled tradesperson who installs, maintains and repairs industrial machinery, ensuring proper functionality. From heat valves in patients’ rooms, to air compressors for laundry, to HEPA filter exhaust fans in the Intensive Care Unit, to the MRI cooling system, there isn’t an area at our Hospital that Kevin doesn’t support.

Kevin and the Maintenance team have to carefully plan their projects, often coming in early or staying late, to support a positive experience for patients and ensure staff can work with minimal interruption. They collaborate internally and with contractors to ensure essential Hospital equipment is ready to go.

Check out these photos to see Kevin in action. You might be surprised at what you see!

Did you know that there is a fourth floor of the Hospital? Kevin works up in the Penthouse, maintaining the Hospital’s enormous air exchange systems.

Kevin inspects the air handling units that keep our air clean and fresh.

There are dozens and dozens of fan coils located all over the Hospital. They serve various functions, from cooling server rooms to maintaining a comfortable temperature for patients, and Kevin looks after them all.

Kevin maintains the Hospital’s hot water heating pumps…

When the weather turns warm, the Hospital’s cooling towers get to work, taking heat out of the building to be cooled and returned as cool air.

Kevin maintains the deionized water systems, which are essential for our Medical Device Reprocessing Department’s processes.

Kevin and Amanda Swazey, Supervisor, Food and Nutrition. Amanda and her team call on Kevin to service various equipment. Kevin even machines and fabricates parts that are needed.

Kevin not only supports Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, but Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute too! The fume hoods and other equipment in the lab sometimes needs Kevin’s finesse.
(L-R): Melissa Hacio (Clinical Research Services Research Assistant, TBRHRI), Viktoriya Dyukaryeva (Ortho Research & Development Officer, TBRHRI), Tanya Niederer (HR/Operations Coordinator, TBRHRI) and Kevin (Lead, Millright, TBRHSC)