About Blue Hills

Blue Hills Ltd. is a majority owned indigenous corporation. Blue Hills is registered with the Tulita District Benefits corporation and the Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business (PSAB).

Northridge partnered with Wayne and Bobbie Lennie who both have extensive experience within the Sahtu area that we operate. Blue Hills has primarily been focused on new business opportunities with clients that value having an indigenous owned company as the prime contractor. Blue Hills is headquartered in Canada’s North.

Blue Hills is a contractor responsible for supporting maintenance and operations in the Sahtu area. Blue Hills is ISN compliant and safety is the highest priority in every project we undertake.

“Our Mission is to provide high quality customer service while retaining training opportunities, meaningful employment and profits for the benefit of our stakeholders”

Blue Hills Values

Safety is Our Tradition

The oil industry has high expectations for safety. We strive to exceed these expectations and most importantly ensure our workers return home to their families without incidents or injuries that could have been prevented.

Dynamic People

Our focus is to develop and retain a diverse workforce that is adaptable to provide our customers solutions in the toughest conditions.

Relationships with Integrity, Trust, and Loyalty

Blue Hills is committed to our customers. We take pride in our professionalism, finding solutions to difficult projects under the most extreme conditions.

Ethical Business Practices

Contracts & agreements are negotiated and signed by all parties with clarity. Accurate invoicing, prompt payments, and reporting are an integral part of our business processes.

Reliable Equipment

We achieve high productivity with quality, clean well maintained equipment. Operators take pride in the equipment we deploy to job sites.

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Blue Hills Team

Blue Hills’ most valuable asset is our people. We strive to have a diverse team with industry leading experience to deliver the best service to our customers. We pride ourselves to always do a job that exceeds our customers’ expectations.

Blue Hills, in partnership with Northridge, employs full-time equipment operators, mechanics, apprentice mechanics, and laborers to support our operation. Seasonal and project based work requires increased staffing. Blue Hills priority hires indigenous beneficiaries and NWT residents before filling positions from outside the North.

Wayne Lennie. President, Blue Hills

Wayne Lennie

President

Wayne is the President of Blue Hills Ltd. Wayne grew up in Inuvik, Deline, Tulita, and Norman Wells and has spent his career working and living in different areas of the NWT. Wayne is a Civil Engineering Technologist.

Wayne’s extensive contracting experience has been gained from owning and operating his own general contracting company. He held senior technical and project management positions with both government and private organization in the construction industry. Wayne has lead many large infrastructure projects in the North including; Dempster highway ice bridge construction at Tsiigehtchic, $40M tank farm in Gameti, $4M 14 unit housing project in Dettah/Ndilo.

In 2013, when the Sahtu experienced increased activity within the oil and gas industry Wayne and Bobby founded W&B Contracting to pursue opportunities. In 2017, they strategically aligned with Northridge to found Blue Hills and expand capacity.

Bobby Lennie, Director, Blue Hills

Bobby Lennie

Director

Bobby is a director in Blue Hills Ltd. Bobby originally grew up in Tulita and attended high school in Yellowknife.

Bobby has a background in the automotive and heavy equipment industry, working in the oilfield and related areas for the past 23 years. Bobby has gained significant oilfield industry experience moving rigs, taking part in critical lifts/moves on oilfield leases particularly on services rigs, pumpjacks, and over bunkers. He has also been involved with ice road building projects, profiling, flooding, road maintenance, operating graders, skid steer mounted ice auger, and snow cats.

Outside of work Bobby enjoys being active in the community, organizing trips and local tournaments for hockey, softball and helping with other organizations in the Sahtu.

Bobby and Pascal grew up as childhood friends, this trusting friendship led to the founding of Blue Hills.

Pascal Audet, President, Northridge

Pascal Audet

Vice President

Pascal is President of Northridge. Pascal was raised in the Sahtu and went south to attend high school in Alberta. While in Alberta, Pascal was intrigued with the oil industry and the opportunities it presented. After high school, Pascal gained employment in the oil industry and eventually brought his experience back North to expand the family business.

Pascal’s parents Reg and Carmen Audet provided water and sewer services in the community of Norman Wells under the company Reg’s Water Service. Pascal and his parents founded Northridge in 2002 with an emphasis on developing a business that was focused on supporting the oil field opportunities in the Sahtu. Pascal continues this family legacy of providing the essential water and sewer service to the community of Norman Wells 35 years later. Pascal continues to grow Northridge’s gold standard approach in the oilfield.

Outside of work Pascal enjoys spending time with his wife Shannon and children Ethan, Emmet and Ember at their family cabin in the Franklin mountains.