Rick Vanderveen

Rick Vanderveen is Director of Canadian Industrial Sector Operations Lodge Services. He is a second-generation Boilermaker of Local 146 (Alberta). After graduating high school, he began his career as an apprentice fabricator at Edmonton Exchanger and Refinery in 1982. While employed in the shop, he pursued his journeyman certification in steel fabrication, boilermaker and mobile crane operator. He served as the shop steward and was elected to sergeant of arms for Local 146 in 2003. He has worked in both field construction and maintenance. In 2007, he was appointed Local 146 Shop Business Representative to service 11 shops in Alberta. He was asked to serve as an International Representative in 2018. Vanderveen is also a graduate of the Harvard Trade Union Program.