We get to see things from conception to
as constructed to see its full lifecycle
and it's a really unique opportunity
I'd say the number one skill is not only
knowing my discipline inside and out
which is geotechnical engineering as
well as geoscience but I also need to
have an understanding of bridge
engineering and hydrology there's that
whole element of understanding the
forest and the hydrologic cycle and
climate change that come into our roles
as engineers to understand what we need to
appreciate and observe and maintain and protect
I wouldn't want to add up how many
roads I've built or how many bridges
I've installed but the number is many
we do a lot of different jobs but all engineering oriented
you have a huge network of people 
that you can reach out to
I have a network of other engineers
that I can talk to and I've never quit
learning even up to this day on 
how to do my job
A lot of interesting projects and my sites are remote
one I did for Parks and that was one of these times
where we had to stay out overnight and
then hike to our site
we were looking at replacing 
an existing pedestrian bridge
we used a drone to understand what we
were looking at from an aerial
perspective we flagged a number of
danger trees and dropped one that turned
out to be the perfect bridge
we just work together as a team to solve
problems it's rewarding it's just nice
to be working with a collection of
people that are passionate about what
they do and they also care 
about you as a person
