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For three out of the past five years, Scott Gray of Toronto has won the Harry C. Miller Manipulation Contest, a competitive event at the annual Safe and Vault Technician’s Association Convention, held in the United States. Mr. Gray, 38, applies his expertise in his daily job as a safe and vault technician for Tomac Safe & File Services Inc. He tells the Post‘s Jessica Vitullo that these skills can come in handy outside of work — and even get you a free meal.

QWhat exactly do you do?

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GrayOur company is a service provider for the banking industry in Canada. We are safe and vault technicians for all of the big national banks and retail banks, credit unions and cash companies under them, all the ATM companies, as well as government and commercial enterprises.

QWhat is a typical workday for you?

GrayWe’re on a need basis. We’re usually found in a Royal Bank, a TD or BMO, opening safety deposit boxes, or getting keys that are stuck out of the teller’s wicket (a miniature set of safes and cabinets where tellers keep deposits, cheque slips and cash). Or maybe they lost their keys by mistake. That’s sort of a very regular day. I just came from drilling open an ATM for G4S (a security company that services Canadian banks).