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Main career website:

http://www.boiseinc.com/careers/JobOpportunities/FindaJob.html

• Power and Recovery Manager
• Pulp Mill Shift Manager
• Senior Process or process control Engineer
• Environmental Engineer
• Customer Service Rep
• Logistics/transportation/traffic Manager
• Asst Papermill Manager
• Hourly employees / operators / Maintenance
• Recaust wt Manager
• Export sales manager / forecaster
• Safety Manager
• Asst HR manager
• May be some hourly positions in the near future
• May also be additional salaried positions as well

Rick Michelson
HR Consultant

Simpson Tacoma Kraft Company
801 Portland Ave
Tacoma, WA 98401

253-596-0339 Office
253-596-0142 FAX
425-210-2222 Cell

rnichol@simpson.com
http://www.simpson.com

Be part of the Nippon Team. We work hard, we play hard, and we enjoy both. We have competitive salaries and excellent benefits. Relocation assistance is also provided for most positions. We are currently interviewing for the following positions:

Maintenance Engineer – Electrical (Salaried) Requires BSEE

Electrical & Instrumentation Supervisor (Salaried)

Maintenance Planner – Mechanical (Salaried)

Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians (Hourly)

Multi-Craft Mechanics (Hourly)

Extra Board (Hourly Float Pool)

Please send resume with cover letter specifying position applying for and salary requirements to:

Give the videos a watch and let us know what you think!

They even came to the mill to make a short video about us that was played at the awards banquet.

Thank you Chamber of Commerce!  If there’s ever an awards banquet for best Grays Harbor business supporter you’ve got our vote.

In June, Grays Harbor Paper joined the EPA Climate Leaders Small Business Network and voluntarily pledged to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 5% in 5 years. Since then we’ve been working to calculate our baseline GHG emissions and create a GHG tracking procedure.

Grays Harbor Paper chose The Climate Leaders program because it has been around since 2002 and is (was) a great resource for companies. The EPA offered free technical support and guidance in creating a greenhouse gas inventory and reduction plan and provided a voluntary and credible program to US businesses large and small.

So why scrap such a successful program?? According to the Dear John Letter (pdf link) we received the EPA is bowing out due to the presence of several robust state and NGO climate programs (there’s plenty of fish in the sea). We also suspect it has something to do with the EPAs upcoming role as a GHG regulatory authority (it’s not you it’s me). Or perhaps the program no longer fit in the budget (were we too high maintenance?).

Unfortunately by taking away well-liked voluntary programs the EPA is sending a message that mandatory regulations are how it plans to engage industry. As GreenBiz put it the EPA is taking away a carrot and leaving only a stick (ouch).

Despite the end of our budding romance with Climate Leaders we won’t be discouraged (not to say we didn’t spend a few tear-filled nights devouring the contents or our ice cream filled freezer). We plan to brush off this momentary setback, remember the good times we had together and focus on what we really want from a climate partnership in the future.

Read the full Dear John Letter (pdf)

Link: EPA Climate Leaders Program



But the poo paper intrigued me and I decided to investigate. I don’t think there is a paper out there cooler than Harbor 100 (although I am biased), but I have encountered a close second in Poo Poo Paper. Not only do they sell 100% “recycled” cards and paraphernalia made of animal poo, they’ve also named their online store the Poo-tique.

I also learned a lot from their website. Did you know that an elephant produces 220lb of dung and urinates about 15 gallons every day? I’m glad to hear they’re putting all that waste to good use. Check out some of their well digested products:

I don’t know if I want to stop and smell their roses though.

Just kidding, they claim they’re odorless and our elephant poo card smells just fine.

PooPoo Paper: Environmentally Friendly Gifts

David and I have been scheming up some ways to deliver some quick info in tasty little chunks and video seems like the best way to do it. This first video might be a little rough around the edges but, that’s why it’s introductory… throw some ideas and suggestions our way and rest assured that our ears will perk.

Most of the time with Daily World bits like this though, I would normally just Tweet and leave it at that. Trudging through the normal newspapery writing throughout, it actually wasn’t until the end when I stumbled upon a sentence that made my mind consider a fairly hefty concept:

If we can do it right here, and if we can sharpen our saw and build our relationship here, we’re going to be able to grow our regional green economy… and then it  won’t be any job at all for anybody else to duplicate it.

Lisa Smith – Executive director of Olympia-based Enterprise for Equity

Through the peppering of pronouns and adverbs, there is a huge idea there that makes incredible sense and then it dawned on me: if nothing else, this could be a huge first step for any region to discover their “greener” economy. This is the concept I gather:

“Going green means finding what the area can do best with what it has and do that better than anyone else can.”

Mind you, this is my take so, if anyone can read it differently, let me know.

It seems like industry has always made room for this idea in some sense: there’s no reason to force trees to grow in a desert or plant wheat in the mountains, it’s just not efficient or [gulp] profitable. Now, though, we have shifted our concerns and are trying to find ways to do business without taking more than is necessary. The stakeholders in the same equations are broadening: considerations for our fellow community members have now expanded to those that we will never see but are affected in some way by our decisions… thousands of miles away and many generations forward.

So, in an effort to trim down that lengthy quote and wrap up what was just a moment of my pondering, I offer this up as another way to look at the same concept:

Love where you live.

Bonus: Googled “love where you live” before I typed it out here to make sure it wasn’t a song or movie or some catchphrase but I found this little video. I quite like it as a broad idea before it becomes a BBC ad.

Link: Daily World: Daylong conference examines “going green” movement

I’m astounded.

And from the sound of it, even people at Grays Harbor Paper are surprised by the numbers in the recent carbon assessment from Carbon Solutions Northwest.

Let’s start with some points of reference. These were all taken from the EDF’s PaperCalculator, BTW:

• Virgin paper produces an average of 5826 lbs. of CO2/ton of paper
• 30% recycled content is around 5160 lbs. of CO2/ton
• 100% recycled content is around 3605 lbs. of CO2/ton

These numbers cover all sorts of things including the use of gas fired dryers, paper decomposition, processing, pulping, etc. Surprisingly, they never seem to drop THAT much in the “nearing zero” sense that we would all love to see. This can be attributed to the energy intensive processes used in the manufacture of all paper. Don’t think that virgin paper has this close of a margin on recycled content though! This is just CO2 equiv…. recycled content automatically means less raw material which is good any way you look at it.

Now comes the Harbor 100 number: 650 lbs. of CO2/ton of paper

Yeah… crazy! There’s a noticeable drop THERE and this is attributed to the unique methods of directing tackling energy hungry processes like electricity and heat generation differently.

Ughhh… sounding PR-y. (You don’t know how much I hate press releases… sorry David!) Seriously though; biomass which is wood waste in most processes was the key to making such a low impact product: producing carbon neutral electrical energy and steam/heat on site automatically fills in the most energy intensive and carbon laden processes. The margin is so huge… I don’t even know what to say so I’ll let the numbers speak for themselves.

Note: So, this is just icing on the cake: Carbon Solutions also has a figure before the carbon neutral electrical energy is taken into account. This number would better represent the CO2 output when just the manufacturing process is considered: 1545 lbs. of CO2/ton.

Impressive.

Link: The real press release pdf

This just keeps going! That last post about how energy is becoming more and more of a priority for businesses; well, it just keeps coming up. This time from the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) [I assume because people saying NWEEA "neweeeeahhh" would get annoying. Personally, I can't think "Northwest" and not type NW]. A little insight into how other places like Kenworth are making their own strides in this area. So big!

I’m impressed with how quickly the issue of energy is being discussed in the manufacturing industry. Probably because these environments are huge consumers of energy and, when you begin to consider the value that smart energy usage has on not only your bottom line but on reducing wasteful consumption, it just makes sense to incorporate it in a business and manufacturing infrastructure.

Our own John Begley and Eli Recondo get a little screen time on this one so be sure to give it a watch!