OUR COMPANY

        The owner and president of the company still enjoy working on the field for installation, alignment or commissioning jobs. As mentioned before, he is a mechanical engineer, with a Master’s degree and more than 25 years of experience.

Etienne Verret

      Etienne is a Mechanical Engineer licensed in Quebec and Newfoundland. His 12 years of Hydro experience including 5 years in the repair and overhaul of pumps and hydroelectric turbines, makes him a valuable asset in the evaluation/recommendations for repair of turbine components. Etienne specialize with the use of the Laser Tracker, vibrations analysis and the writing of site-specific procedures. As a project management professional (PMP), Etienne can also assist you with the management of all or parts of your Hydro projects.

Douglas Leubner

       Doug possesses a Masters in Mechanical Engineering and joined Hydro Expertise as a Technical Director in 2012. Prior to joining Hydro Expertise, Doug had over 29 years of power plant experience primarily in the area of predictive maintenance and component troubleshooting. Doug has extensive vibration analysis training and experience and is also skilled in laser alignment, motor current analysis, thermography, lube oil analysis and root cause analysis as well. Doug specializes in hydro turbine generator vibration analysis and balancing as well as providing technical direction in the alignment and erection of turbine generators during overhauls.

Jonathan Paradis

Ghislain Lamirande

Nicolas Lessard Pérez

        For the next few years, Hydro Expertise is aiming to achieve a reasonable growth of our level of activities. We have met with very competent personnel lately and some of them will join us as soon as our contract needs increase. Nevertheless we will make sure that we continue to offer a good service to our clients, because satisfied clients are priceless.

Info to come.

You want to work with us?

Hydro Expertise is looking for mechanical (or electrical) engineers with pertinent experience in hydrogenerators to supervise various jobs of installation and alignment of hydrogenerators and/or to get expertise in unit commissionning.

• Full time / Part time
• Engineers (mechanical, electrical)
• Mobility and interest for field work
• Competitive salaries based on experience

If you are interested and think you have the skills we are looking for, submit your resume to [email protected]

Hydro Expertise DL Inc.
295, Roy Avenue, Dorval, (Quebec)
H9S 3C9

Hydro Expertise can provide technical informations related to the assembly and the alignment of hydro-generators and turbines. Please contact us if needed.

Laser Tracker

Hydro Expertise has many years of experience with the used of the FARO Laser Tracker in Hydro Generator Power plants. Along with customer’s and supplier’s Hydro Expertise worked to refine and improve the techniques using the FARO Laser Tracker in the erection of Hydro generators.

Find an abstract of this document here: Laser Tracker Measurements for Hydro Units ABSTRACT
Find the complete document here: Laser Tracker Paper final Rev.1

Electronic level

Hydro Expertise is very familiar with the use of electronic level for unit alignment.

Participants of the HydroVision 2004 Conference received a complete presentation of our paper titled “Unit alignment: Optimize the use of your electronic level”. (HydroVision CD: Paper no.102)

Find an abstract of this document here: Electronic level abstract.pdf

Find the complete document here: Unit Aligment: Optimize the use of your electronic level.pdf

Rotor and stator sweep with air gap sensors

Find a rotor sweep example here: Rotator sweep example.pdf

Bearing Failures Troubleshooting

Dany Lessard recently presented a technical paper at HydroVision 2014 Nashville, TN about bearing failures and solutions provided.

Find the complete document here: Murphy’s law of Bearings and Shaft Alignments