Meet Kendall Kildow
Kendall Kildow joined the Energenecs team in October 2020. We asked Kendall a few questions about his job at Energenecs as a field service technician.
What are you typically working on?
There's some weeks where it's a lot of calibrations. Other weeks, it's a lot of solving problems with broken parts, or issues with communications with a city's control system, or making something work temporarily because the parts are back ordered. There isn’t a typical day in my field service world!
How did you get into this industry?
I had an internship in the wastewater field when I was going to school at Mid-State Technical College. When I graduated, I went down to Indiana to work as an Instrumentation Technician in oil seed and ethanol processing plants. The company also happened to do wastewater work.
I kept doing calibrations and some troubleshooting in wastewater, along with everything else in the refineries. And so I just kind of kept getting pulled into wastewater. After I moved back to Wisconsin, I got a call from a recruiter who was looking for somebody who had experience with controls and/or water and wastewater, and I'm back at it with Energenecs!
What do you do in your free time?
Many house projects! I like building stuff. I’m big into hunting, camping, fishing, especially ice fishing. Spending time with friends and family, getting the kayaks out, visiting a few state parks every year, just enjoying the reasons we came back to Wisconsin.
Other than constant house projects and school sports, I am focused on building a track sled to make ice fishing easier and more fun. There is a good amount of equipment I take on the ice, this will make it faster and easier to get on the ice and go further out. Basically, a track sled is a stripped down snowmobile that uses a small engine, set up to pull sleds full of ice fishing stuff and people behind it like a dog sled, but more compact than a snowmobile.
I normally stick around the northern part of Wisconsin and whatever lakes and rivers we can find time to fish on. Sometimes friends find a good spot and we go down to wherever that is, maybe sign up for tournaments, but we never take them too seriously.
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