
OIL & GAS

AGRICULTURE

FORESTRY

Experience / Services
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
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Senior management and leadership experience with ultimate P&L responsibility
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Diverse background over varied industries often operating in extremely challenging conditions
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Develop and manage relationships with First Nations businesses
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Lead and inspire high performing teams; attract top talent: motivate and coach for maximizing goals
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Company expansion from distribution to transmission
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Project manager for multi-million-dollar contracts; results-driven
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Service and maintenance program creation for heavy equipment
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Safe work program / establish standard operating procedures and protocols
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Full service forestry provider with operations in protection, harvesting, silviculture, and engineering
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Expert relations with federal, provincial, and industry clients
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Entrepreneurial, a determinate history of turning profitable ideas into actual profits
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Project Management

Strategic Planning

Procedures & Protocols

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Jim Keyes
Jim has spent the last 30 years working in project management and contract supervision in the forestry, agriculture, and gas and oil industries.
From being the founding partner of a company that introduced innovative new practices to the forestry industry and has multi-million dollar annual revenue; to participating on the construction management team of a 1.4 billion dollar natural gas facility build; to being the Incident Command and Operation Chief for several Type 1 wildfires in BC—Jim’s experience and expertise level is vast.
During his time in the forestry industry, Jim played an instrumental role in implementing safety and environmental systems and standards that are now common practice in the BC forest industry. Jim also engineered and oversaw the transition and expansion of services at Marwest from utility distribution to transmission, integrity, and maintenance.

PRIMARY FOCUS SINCE 2021
CkuKutusem Utility Services 2021 LLP founding CEO:
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Established a corporate strategy around lean delivery of services and solutions specific to pipelines and energy transportation.
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Recruit top performers in the management and supervision of pipeline maintenance and integrity, and in accounting and financial controls.
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Drove responsible growth by operating within a practical risk framework, by understanding the outside world and by focusing on client needs.
