OPPORTUNITY AND VARIETY

Jen Penner tells Tank Storage Magazine about her love of a challenge and finding her feet as an engineer   Jen Penner is a project manager at Canadian Tank & Vessel, a Saskatoon, Canada-headquartered company which builds, repairs, and maintains storage tanks and spheres. Like so many of us, her career path was not exactly planned. ‘I graduated from university with dual degrees in chemical engineering and biology and to be honest had no idea what I wanted to do or what career path I was going to take. If you asked me in university why I went into engineering I would have answered “because I like math and science”. Now, almost 10 years into my career I may still not have a better answer why I decided to get an engineering degree!’ Penner says. She settled on the engineering side and shortly after graduation, began to work for Husky Oil, which had a remote office in the city she was living in. ‘I had a toddler at the time and decided many of the new graduate opportunities that companies typically offered that often required moving through different departments and locations over a number of years was not what was best for our family. I knew that my...