n Industry Champions Even in his semiretirement, Moore still wants to give back to the trades and continues to train technicians at HiMark.
After 47 years of working in the trades, Bill Moore has turned to training the next generation of technicians. By Leah Den Hartogh Life just doesn’t always follow the set plan. With no intentions of following in his father’s footsteps, Bill Moore expected to find himself working as an electrician in his career. But it just worked out that there was an opening for a refrigeration apprentice, so he signed on. The rest is history. This was back in the 1970s. Since then, he has found himself working in several aspects of the trades, including on the tools, as a supervisor, service manager, and
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now as a semi-retired journeyperson, he has put on his trainers hat. “It’s been fun. There have been plenty of opportunities in this trade for me,” explains Moore. “I just thoroughly enjoyed it, working on the tools, working with my hands, to being a supervisor, to actually designing projects and managing them. It’s been a pretty awesome opportunity for me in our industry.” Although Moore took on plenty of different roles in his career, he states that his favourite has to be projects. “I like going and being a problem solver for people. I wore a service hat and that was fun, but my favourite was getting projects and implementing a solution for a customer. Seeing a project from start to finish and seeing the success of it. Another part of it that I loved was just encouraging young guys to get into the trades and watching them grow and learn.” He took on many different apprentices over his career, with more of them sticking to the trades than not. “I took guys on from high school, we did co-op programs through
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