MEET THE TEAM
Our team has experience with all aspects of project management, engineering, and design to implement capital projects in a cost effective manner.
MGE is a close knit team that prides itself on utilizing these vastly different perspectives to reach the best possible outcome to meet and exceed our Client’s needs.
The Mack Global team is comprised of individuals from a variety of disciplines; Engineering to Construction, Finance to Technologies, and more. The diversity of our staff has enabled MGE to become a broad spectrum company with the ability to view projects from various perspectives and provide the best solutions possible.
Les Mack
CEO
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Les Mack graduated from Queen’s University in 1989 in Mechanical Engineering and later received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 2007. Les held engineering roles in the fields of mechanical, process, process safety, machine safety, and project engineering. The majority of his engineering experience is primarily in the industrial and manufacturing sectors. He started his career as a process engineer in the cement industry assisting senior engineers to engineer and design new cement plants. After leaving the cement industry, he accepted a position as a mechanical engineer in the mineral processing industry that enabled him to obtain “hands on” field experience. In a short time, he was promoted to Engineering Manager and led a team of engineers, designers and engineering contractors for major site expansions.
Les realized his passion for engineering and needed to further develop his engineering skills. He decided to join an international engineering company as a mechanical/process engineer that enabled him to develop a broader and deeper understanding of engineering, best practices, codes and regulations.
Shortly after receiving his MBA, he started an engineering, procurement and construction management company. He continues to enjoy engineering, mentoring and supporting teammates as they develop throughout their career paths while helping customers meet their business needs.
Janice Mack
Project Support & Administrative Lead
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Janice is the Project Support & Administrative Lead. After spending over 25 years in her nursing career, she joined the MGE team to help with administration, HR and finding ways to give back to the community. She currently leads the Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable department and the Project Controls/Support team. One of her primary roles is to “move money” and ensure the team (inside and outside of MGE) are happy and paid on time.
Janice is proud to be part of such a great team of caring individuals. This team not only takes great care of each other, but they take great care for the success of our customers and respond to their needs as well. They have generous hearts when organizing food drives and when giving towards various charities in our communities. They played a major role towards the development of our C.A.R.E Values and what MGE stands for today.
Jayne Kirkey
Project Controls Team
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Jayne is a member of the Project Controls Team, a group that wears many hats and whose goal and purpose is to support and enable her team to hit their deliverables and make things happen. She has spent the last 7 years supporting Procter & Gamble, first the Brockville site and now Tabler Station location as well. One of her primary responsibilities to turning effort hour estimates provided by the team into proposals and working closely with her Clients to turn those into purchase orders. This in turn enables the Engineers, Designers and Construction Team Members to turn plans into action. In addition, Jayne also assists with budget tracking, scheduling, and any other general office support that is required. Outside of the office, Jayne feels very strongly about giving back to the community and annually organizes a food drive supporting the local food bank as well as supporting the local Salvation Army with the annual Angel Tree toy drive initiative.
Karin Merkley
Project Controls Team
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Karin is a member of the Project Controls Team. She has joined Mack Global Engineering almost 5 years ago after coming to Canada as a new immigrant in 2014. Despite her background being Supply Chain Management, she opted for a career change to utilize her specific skills within a new role. She has been supporting both Procter & Gamble, Brockville and Tabler Station for the last couple of years. Besides general project support and working closely with the project manager, one of her primary responsibilities are parts procurement and getting involved with any logistics requirements that are of need. Being part of the P&G Relocation Team, she can proudly say that they have already successfully transferred several production lines from Canada to the United States. Outside of the office, Karin likes to travel – for now concentrating more on the North American Continent – as she has seen a lot of the Far East and Europe already.
Sarah Ervine
Project Admin Support Leadership
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Sarah, has been with Mack Global Engineering since 2015. Sarah is a member of the Project Admin Support Leadership team. In her role she is a mentor, and coach, supporting her team in meeting the deliverables that are set by Mack Global Engineering and their strategic customers. Sarah is also skilled in Capital Project Cost Development and Management, which includes creating estimates and proposals for the company’s customers, which in turn yields work orders for Mack Global Engineering. Sarah works closely with the site lead to create project schedules and guides which provide direction for Electrical and Mechanical Designers, Engineers, Technical Team and Project Leads to operate and manage their deliverables. Sarah is a key player in developing strong working relationships with Mack Global Engineering customers. Aside from her career at Mack Global, Sarah is very much involved in her community by supporting United Way, Habitat for humanity, Community and Family Services to name a few.
Rod McKay
Senior Electrical Engineer P. Eng
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Rod is a Senior Electrical Engineer who has been part of the MGE team for about a year. Rod has vast engineering experience in industrial projects and services such as: leading projects and mentoring colleagues; preparing power studies, hazardous area classifications, and machine safety reviews; specifying and designing industrial automation systems, low and medium voltage substations, lighting, fire alarm systems, and instrumentation. Rod’s ethic is to work closely with MGE team members and customers to deliver projects with excellence. Outside the office Rod enjoys restoring old farm tractors, fiddling with electronics, bagpipes, and practicing his French.
Bishop Flood
Engineering Intern
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Bishop is an Engineering Intern that recently joined the Mack Global team in May 2019. Since then, he has been supporting and is stationed out of the Belleville Procter & Gamble site. He works closely with mechanical engineers as one of his primary responsibilities is to design power and control systems to feed the equipment they supply. He graduated from Queen’s University in Kingston in April 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. Since then, he has been enjoying his new home in Belleville, and enjoys golfing and playing volleyball outside of work.
Lyle Casselman, C.E.T.
Project Manager
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Lyle is a Project Manager who joined the MGE Belleville team in January 2022. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Ryerson in 1989, he has conducted and managed environmental, health, safety and hygiene projects for government and private clients located across Canada, with a specialization in the assessment and remediation of hazardous substances, mould, and contaminated sites. Lyle is also an active member of the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) and Technology Accreditation Canada (TAC). Outside of the office, he can be found in his wood shop, on the golf course, or camping with his family.
Cesar Moreno
Electrical Mechanical Engineer Intern
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Cesar Moreno is an Electrical Mechanical Engineer in training who graduated from the Technological University of Panama in 2020. After completing an 8-month work internship with Mack Global Engineering through the IAESTE exchange programme, Cesar decided to return to Canada and to join us fulltime at the beginning of 2022. We are looking forward to continue watch Cesar grow both personally and professionally with us here at MGE. In his spare time Cesar likes to play chess and go biking.
Slawek Bielawa
Mechanical Designer
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Slawek is a Mechanical Designer on our Engineering Team and has over 15 years’ experience in 2D and 3D CAD design. Whether on-site or working remotely across multiple sites, Slawek uses his skillset to provide solutions to some of our top global blue-chip clients. His projects include detailed Engineering packages, equipment layouts, dust control systems, material handling systems, NFPA explosion propagation protection, sanitary design for the food industry, and clean design for GMP standards. Slawek’s experience also extends to CAM programming, construction and field support, as well as HVAC design for the rail, bus, mining and defense industries. With a mindset for safety, Slawek is a worker representative on MGE’s Joint Health and Safety Committee. In his off time, Slawek loves spending time outdoors with his family and enjoying good food.
Stavros Fotopoulos
Engineering Intern
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Stavros is a recent graduate from the University of Ottawa, specializing in Biomedical Mechanical Engineering. Since joining the team in September of 2018, he has taken on the role of project lead for a variety of projects across Ontario. Outside of the office, Stavros enjoys trying new activities with family and friends and practicing guitar.
Tim Gallant
Belleville Site Lead
Senior Mechanical Designer
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Tim CET, CAPM is a senior Mechanical Designer for Mack Global Engineering who took over leadership of the Belleville team in the beginning of 2021. He has successfully lead numerous projects and prides himself on promoting team cohesion. “We are better together”. With 22 years of mechanical and structural design experience Tim is able to form conceptual and detailed engineering designs for a vast array of different projects and systems. One of the roles he has taken on is to use his extensive experience to mentor new engineers and designers. This knowledge has not gone unnoticed within the academic world as Tim has also been enlisted at the local college to teach new engineering designers. One of Tim's passions is to help the community by organizing a food bank drive and “Coats for Kids” in the Belleville area.
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