Donald Aspinall has over 30 years of experience in petroleum distribution, equipment operation, transportation, and facility management. He has worked as a terminal operator, plant technician, supervisor, and manager. He has extensive experience in marine operations, equipment maintenance, and safety inspections. He holds certificates in petroleum operations, coastal rescue, and equipment operation.

1. Donald Aspinall
Ph:(902) 823-1637
Mobile: (902) 817-3081
daspinall53@gmail.com
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE
• Petroleum Industry – Terminal operations and dock technical services.
• Hire Industry – service and repair construction plant and tools, contracts and sales,
transportation.
• Management – managing commercial marine and retail petroleum distribution facilities.
• Plant Technician – operation and maintenance of VPSA oxygen facility.
• Marine Industry – cook, deckhand, engineering duties, water taxi operator, FRC coxswain.
• Equipment Operation – small excavators, dumpers, forklifts, skid-steer loaders, log skidder,
balers, hydraulic crane.
• Transportation – taxi, small heavy goods vehicles.
• Recycling Industry – supervising staff, sorting and processing household recyclables.
WORK HISTORY
Nov/12-Present Terminal Operator/Dock Technician, SGS Canada Inc
Day to day duties of operating a tank truck petroleum distribution terminal,
on contract at client facility, duties including tank gauging, maintenance,
troubleshooting, and quality assurance./Overseeing daily duties of discharge-
ing petroleum products from marine tankers to terminal storage facility and
loading of product to various ships, duties including tank gauging, quality
assurance, paperwork, maintenance, oil spill response.
Nov/02-May/12 Fitter/Hire/Sales/Driver, Chadwicks Ltd. Grafton Merchanting ROI
Maintain and repair hire fleet – and customer tools and plants, ranging from
power tools to excavators, processing hire contracts and consumables sales,
tool/plant and scaffold delivery and pickup.
Nov/00-Oct/02 Plant Technician, PR Instrumentation/Axitec Mechanical
Operation and maintenance of VPSA oxygen separation facility for Praxair,
Canada, on customer site(Norske, Canada Ltd), supplying oxygen for use in
various paper making applications and secondary treatment systems. Duties
included routine equipment maintenance and failure analysis on electric/
pneumatic actuators, PLC's, and process sensors, process tuning, calibrations,
24hr. On-call.
Oct/97-Nov00 Site Attendant, Supervisor, PREP Recycling Depot/Augusta Recycling
Supervising staff, sorting and processing household recyclables and dangerous
goods, operating balers and crushers, forklifts and tractors.
Feb/94-Jul/96 Manager, Shell gas bar, Circle K Food Store
Managing retail gas bar and convenience store. Duties included day to day
operation of the business and staffing, safety inspections, inventory control,
general maintenance. Experience in 'point of sale' devices and business computer.

2. Oct/78-Nov/93 Commission/Reseller Agent, Coal Harbour Petroleum Products Ltd.
Overseeing the operation of a 450ton floating marine fuel station. Providing fuel,
lubricants, and services to tugboat fleets, fishing vessels, and pleasure vessels.
Other duties included equipment maintenance, bunkering, overseeing regular-
scheduled drydocking. Experience in 'point of sale' devices & business computer.
CERTIFICATES & TRAINING
General
• Servicing Course on Makita Power Tool Range Training Certificate, 28th
29th March, 2012
• Manual Handling Training Certificate, 23rd November, 2011
• Lift Truck Training Certificate, 17th November, 2011
• Basic Programmable Logic Control Certificate, July 2006
• Successful Small Business Management Certificate, March 1991
• Heavy Duty Diesel Mechanics(Part 1) Certificate, February 1988
Coast Guard(Aux)
• RHIOT(Rigid Hull Inflatable Operator) Training Certificate, January
1998
• Coastal Search and Rescue Training Certificate, May 1998
• Restricted Radio Operator License, Gov't of Canada, DOC, July 1997
• Basics of Oil Spill Response Training Certificate,
• Occupational First Aid Level 1 and CPR(C) Certificates,
Petroleum Industry
• Basic Service Station Fire Protection Certificate, March 1996
• Supervisor Of Oil Transfer Operations Certificate, December 1993
• Transportation Of Dangerous Goods Certificate,
• Workplace Hazardous Materials Certificate,
I have also attended other training courses in the past on Hilti Power Tools,
Partner/Husqvarna Professional Power Cutters, Atlas Copco Air Tool Systems,
and Workplace Safety Procedures.
INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES
I have been a member of the International Lion's Club, held positions of President,
Secretary, & Chairperson; I was a member of the Canadian Coast Guard
Auxilliary, executive of a Bingo Association, Co-Chair of Tranportation
Committee for the BC Festival Of The Arts.
I am an avid reader of maritime, history, exploration and adventure. Have
travelled extensively up and down the British Columbia Coast.
Some of my leisure time is spent repairing just about anything
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Was self-employed as a rigger, refitting commercial fishing vessels for resale,
marine salvage work, and doing general maintenance work on rental units and
small businesses.