Michelle Cameron
Culture Leadership
This award recognizes an individual employee or team who have demonstrated cultural leadership exemplifying TransAlta’s commitment to the Culture Charter and its related principles by role modelling a learning, purpose and results culture and creating a healthy workplace culture, where their colleagues are welcomed and included.
Environmental Leadership
Maureen Tang
This award recognizes a site, project (all fuel types and projects eligible), team or individual that has planned and executed a positive environmental initiative this year. This can include chemical reduction or substitution, heat rate improvement, waste reduction, energy conservation, habitat enhancements, and more. In memory of Matt Holder.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Grant Berg
This award recognizes a leader, employee, or team who have demonstrated TransAlta’s values as well as exemplifying TransAlta’s commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I) Pledge by promoting and creating an environment where their colleagues feel they belong and are accepted.
Innovation
Gavin MacPhee for the Windrise Bat Deterrent
This award recognizes an employee-initiated project that solved a problem or improved the way we run our business. This project must have been completed within the past year.
Leadership Excellence
Jason Villadsen
This award recognizes a people leader who consistently demonstrates TransAlta’s values in their decision making and actions, has a bias to action that achieves key business outcomes and is recognized by their team as a trusted advisor and mentor.
Project of The Year
Calgary Office Move team
This award recognizes a high performing project team fully aligned and focused on achieving the project or initiative objectives. This project must have been completed in the past year.
Safety Leadership
Blake Krassilowsky
This award recognizes employees who demonstrate safety leadership through a visible commitment to improving safety at TransAlta; consistently demonstrate proactive safety behaviours, such as hazard and near-miss reporting; raise awareness around safety at TransAlta; and embody the principles of TransAlta’s total safety program.
Technical Excellence
Antonio Ala Vargas
This award recognizes an individual who consistently demonstrates superior technical expertise, applies this knowledge in the execution of their role and shares their knowledge with others.
Safety Performance
Ontario Wind team
This award recognizes the facility that has the best overall safety performance. Sites are ranked by points for initial analysis of quantifiable measures, including best Total Recorded Injury Frequency (TRIF), most improved safety performance year-over-year, planned inspections, FLHA Audits, and compliance for emergency response drills for the past 12 months.
Outstanding Partnership
Centralia’s Partnership with First Mode to Decarbonize Mine Trucks
This award recognizes an individual, team or project that developed or enhanced an outstanding internal or external partnership, collaboration, or relationship, that improved TransAlta’s operations, performance, or business within the past year.
Best Facility
North Saskatchewan River, Small Hydro and Fort Saskatchewan teams
This award recognizes a TransAlta facility that delivers outstanding results including business efficiency, environmental, health and safety measures, total satisfaction (including employee and community), and a Standout Factor based on a 100% weighting.
