Ken Wyper - Thomson Bridge

Ken Wyper

Advisory Commitee - Substations and Transmission

Ken provides guidance to Thomson Bridge in the development of strategic initiatives for the transmission and generation sectors.

In his four decades with TransGrid NSW and its predecessors Ken has held several roles including Senior Asset Monitoring Engineer, Substation Systems Support Engineer and Technical Training management. These roles have included the monitoring and managing of high voltage asset condition, fault investigations, development and implementation of asset replacement and maintenance policies, procedures and work instructions.

For five years, Ken was the Technical Training Manager for TransGrid’s Registered Training Organisation (RTO). In this role, Ken integrated TransGrid’s Technical Training Standards with National Competency based standards focusing on the National Training packages for Transmission Lines and Substations staff.

He held a number of external committees and organisations, including:

National Training Advisory Group (Substations)
National Safety Rules Committee (Transmission representative)
Electricity Supply Industry Skills Council
NSW Electricity Supply Industry Training Group

Qualifications

Asset Management Certificate (PAS55) Asset Management Institute, London
Diploma of Business Systems, University of New England
Certificate IV in Frontline Management, University of New England
Bachelor of Vocational Education and Training
Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment
Advanced Certificate in Industrial Electronics
Post Graduate Certificate in Partial Discharges in Electrical Insulation
Electrical Engineering Certificate