Texas Tech University

John Gallant

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Image: Distinguished Staff Award - Chancellor's Award of Excellence Recipient: John Gallant - Operations Division - Utilities

John Gallant
Lead Utility Operator
Operations Division - Utilities

As the Lead Utility Operation, John has been a driving force to keep the Department of Utilities adequately staffed and properly trained to operate all utility plants safely, reliably, and efficiently. He has kept the department in 100% compliance with completion of all required training for two years since taking over the training program. In addition, he conducted research on the best option to convert the Personnel Qualification System training program to an on-line training system, spending countless hours single handedly completing phase one of the conversion by putting all final testing and training materials on Blackboard. John also went beyond his normal job requirements and worked with Human Resources to attend numerous job fairs to search for qualified applicants.