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Par Joanie Veitch,
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Gary Lowe has been a key member of Fleet Maintenance Facility Cape Scott\u2019s civilian workforce for more than 30 years.
JOANIE VEITCH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gary Lowe doesn\u2019t skip a beat when asked what he enjoys most about his role as\u00a0 Work Centre Manager in the Marine Machinery Shop at Fleet Maintenance Facility Cape Scott.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe talent,\u201d he says, his pride in the facility and the people who work there clearly evident as he walks the shop floor, exchanging greetings with everyone he passes along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe skill and creativity of the tradespeople who work here, and their ability to find solutions for difficult situations…it\u2019s incredible,\u201d Lowe says, pausing for a moment on his \u201825-cent tour\u2019 of the FMFCS Machine Shop. \u201cThe people here are so creative, if you have a problem you just talk to them and they will work out a solution; they make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Working out solutions and fixing things is a large part of what seems to drive and sustain Lowe himself, not just in his work, but in his personal life too, having set up a mechanical shop in his garage at his home in Lower Sackville, and working on home renovation projects in his spare time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to keep busy,\u201d he laughs. \u201cI\u2019ve always been curious, I guess. As a kid I was always fixing things and trying to figure out how things work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before becoming a manager in the FMFCS mechanical division three years ago, Lowe spent most of his career \u2014 first as a tradesperson then as a supervisor \u2014 installing, maintaining, testing and repairing equipment and systems fitted on board Royal Canadian Navy ships and submarines, as well as shore-based equipment, at FMFCS and other locations.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s still fixing things, but now he works out solutions at a management level: scheduling, dealing with human resources issues and resolving conflicts, always with the goal of smoothing out any glitches that might slow things down or cause problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t let yourself get upset or fly off the handle when things aren\u2019t working out. When you have an issue or a situation that\u2019s causing problems, you just have to work to find a way to solve it, to make sure the work moves ahead as soon as possible,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

For Lowe, and many of the people who work at FMFCS, the pay-off is the sense of pride felt watching a ship or submarine leave for a deployment, he says, \u201cafter spending many long days and weekends getting it ready, knowing you were part of the team that enabled that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowe\u2019s career at FMFCS began in 1986, after completing the Industrial Mechanics (Millwright) program at Nova Scotia Community College in Bridgewater and getting hired on as an apprentice in the Marine Machinery Shop. In 2003 he moved to the Control Systems Shop as a Mechanical Systems Instrumentation Technician, after doing a couple of other short stints \u2014 first in the Antenna Shop and then Fire Control.<\/p>\n

He was promoted to supervisor in the Marine Machinery Shop in 2008, where he worked for 10 years before becoming Work Centre Manager \u2014 initially in an acting capacity, before taking a permanent position in 2019.<\/p>\n

Working in different roles throughout FMFCS gave Lowe a much better understanding of the maintenance operation as a whole, he says, giving credit to the supervisors and managers who mentored him as he took on more responsibilities.<\/p>\n

As a manager now himself, he tries to do the same. \u201cIt helps you see the bigger picture, at a global level, of what we do here. This organization, the whole place acts as one huge team and works so well together. The teamwork here is amazing. We\u2019re working together towards a common goal and we all feel a united sense of pride in that.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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