Matt Wilson

Senior Vice-President, Safety

Matt Wilson is BC Hydro’s Senior Vice-President of Safety. Matt leads a team that includes Safety, Security & Emergency Management, and Learning & Development. The Safety group helps ensure that everyone who interacts with the BC Hydro system gets home safely, every day. This team develops and implements our Safety Framework, provides learning solutions to enable a trained, competent, and qualified workforce, and establishes and implements a corporatewide approach to protecting and preparing our people, assets and operations from events or incidents.

Matt joined BC Hydro in 2006, and most recently held the position of Director, Construction Services within the Operations team where he was responsible for leading a province wide multidiscipline team in the delivery of capital construction projects, maintenance, emergency support and vegetation management. He previously held senior leadership roles at BC Hydro as Senior Field Operations Manager, Regional Manager – Lower Mainland Distribution and Stations.

Prior to joining BC Hydro, Matt worked in the telecom utility sector at TELUS. There he led a team of construction and customer-facing staff in the Sea to Sky corridor with accountability for delivery of major construction initiatives including World Cup ski events at Whistler Blackcomb. He brought this experience with him to BC Hydro, where he played a key role in the successful construction and operation of the Winter Olympic venue energization program in 2010.