Full Name
Wayne Peterson
Job Title
Executive Director
Company
CECCO
Speaker Bio
Wayne Peterson is the Executive Director of the Construction Employers Coordinating Council of Ontario (CECCO) taking on this role in 2017.
Wayne began his career in construction as a sheet metal worker working for H.H. Robertson. He advanced in his career with Robertson and in 1975 became site supervisor for structural and cladding erection of three arenas in St John, New Brunswick and then four months completing the firm’s City Town Centre project in Churchill, Manitoba. In the fall of that year, he took a withdrawal card from the union to become Operations Manager of Robertson’s Hamilton Heavy Industry Division.
Seeing limited opportunities for further advancement with Robertson for the extended future Wayne left Robertson in 1981 and was involved as a minor partner establishing John Kenyon as a cladding contractor in southern Ontario and later as a full partner in Inscan Architectural Systems.
In 1988 Wayne returned to Robertson as National Construction Manager in charge of all aspects of Robertson’s projects from coast to coast. One aspect of this position was managing the over one thousand unionized sheet metal work force and all the related provincial collective agreements. In 1994 Wayne moved to a position of National Sales Manager of Robertson while retaining the labour relations duties of the Construction Manager.
The wind down of Robertson internationally presented Wayne with the opportunity to start another cladding firm, Rainscreen Systems Inc. One year into this endeavor the Ontario Sheet Metal Contractors Association (OSM) and the Toronto Sheet Metal Contractors Association (TSM) came calling looking for a new executive director. Wayne turned the daily operation of Rainscreen over to his two sons and took on the joint association executive director role. Through his eighteen-year tenure with OSM & TSM before retiring in 2016 Wayne had achieved the goals, he set for himself upon taking the position.
In 2013 Wayne’s contribution to the sheet metal industry was recognized by the Sheet Metal Air Conditioning National Association’s (SMACNA) as their chapter Executive Director of the year. This is an award recognizing Wayne’s contribution to the industry does come north of the border often.
Wayne began his career in construction as a sheet metal worker working for H.H. Robertson. He advanced in his career with Robertson and in 1975 became site supervisor for structural and cladding erection of three arenas in St John, New Brunswick and then four months completing the firm’s City Town Centre project in Churchill, Manitoba. In the fall of that year, he took a withdrawal card from the union to become Operations Manager of Robertson’s Hamilton Heavy Industry Division.
Seeing limited opportunities for further advancement with Robertson for the extended future Wayne left Robertson in 1981 and was involved as a minor partner establishing John Kenyon as a cladding contractor in southern Ontario and later as a full partner in Inscan Architectural Systems.
In 1988 Wayne returned to Robertson as National Construction Manager in charge of all aspects of Robertson’s projects from coast to coast. One aspect of this position was managing the over one thousand unionized sheet metal work force and all the related provincial collective agreements. In 1994 Wayne moved to a position of National Sales Manager of Robertson while retaining the labour relations duties of the Construction Manager.
The wind down of Robertson internationally presented Wayne with the opportunity to start another cladding firm, Rainscreen Systems Inc. One year into this endeavor the Ontario Sheet Metal Contractors Association (OSM) and the Toronto Sheet Metal Contractors Association (TSM) came calling looking for a new executive director. Wayne turned the daily operation of Rainscreen over to his two sons and took on the joint association executive director role. Through his eighteen-year tenure with OSM & TSM before retiring in 2016 Wayne had achieved the goals, he set for himself upon taking the position.
In 2013 Wayne’s contribution to the sheet metal industry was recognized by the Sheet Metal Air Conditioning National Association’s (SMACNA) as their chapter Executive Director of the year. This is an award recognizing Wayne’s contribution to the industry does come north of the border often.
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