Seneca
Jessie Burkett is an experienced maintenance professional with a career spanning over two decades in the lumber industry. Currently serving as the Maintenance Manager at Seneca Sawmill Company since February 2019, Burkett has previously held the role of Millwright and Project Manager at Northwest Hardwoods from January 2007 to February 2019, focusing on equipment maintenance and fabrication. Prior experience includes working as a Planer Setup Technician at Interfor from August 1998 to July 2006, responsible for maintaining and repairing planer equipment and ensuring quality control. Jessie Burkett completed education at Lane Community College from 2013 to 2017.
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Seneca
Seneca started as a small sawmill operation founded by Aaron Jones in 1953 in Eugene. Today, daughters Becky, Kathy and Jody continue the legacy of leadership and innovation in the wood products industry, overseeing a family of companies consisting of: Timberlands – we have about 167,000 acres that we manage sustainably. We have 92% more timber on that land than we had 25 years ago. In 2019 we planted our 40 millionth tree. If those seedlings were laid end-to-end, they would cross America 5 ½ times. Sawmills – some of the most innovative in the country. Biomass plant – we take the scraps from our milling process, as well as some of the slash that would otherwise have been left on a landing after a harvest, and we use it to fuel our biomass plant that creates enough green sustainable energy to power 13,000 homes. It is the cleanest running biomass plant in America. The byproduct from the biomass plant is ash, and since all of the fuel going into the plant is organic, the ash is certified organic, and we market it to farmers here in the Willamette Valley to get tilled back into the soil annually in August and September. Sustainability is a core value of our multi-generational family business and it is woven throughout all of the Seneca companies. We plan for generations. Generations of trees and generations of family. We employ about 475 people. We consider them all part of our Seneca Family.