(BPRW) Enviva Partners with Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Grow Career Opportunities for African Americans in Renewable Energy
(Black PR Wire) BETHESDA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Enviva Partners, LP (NYSE: EVA) (“Enviva”), a world renewable vitality firm specializing in sustainable wooden bioenergy, in the present day introduced that it has entered into multi-year recruiting and profession improvement pipeline agreements with 4 important Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) throughout the U.S. Southeast, to establish, recruit, and rent new staff for its quickly rising enterprise.
Enviva, which operates ten trendy biomass manufacturing vegetation and six port terminals from North Carolina to Florida, is in search of to rent expertise in any respect ranges of the group from North Carolina A&T University (Greensboro), North Carolina Central University (Durham), Alabama A&M University (Huntsville), and Jackson State University (Jackson, Mississippi). Enviva will take part in profession festivals and pupil enrichment alternatives at these universities and finance scholarship alternatives with every establishment to facilitate careers in renewable vitality and sustainable forestry for African Americans.
“As a global renewable energy company and leader in forest stewardship, we have a responsibility to be intentional about diversifying our workforce at all levels of our company to help shape the future of a net-zero world,” stated John Keppler, Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Enviva. “That work begins with recruiting some of the brightest and most ambitious minds which emerge from these prestigious HBCUs located in the geographic region of our operations. These institutions have world-class agriculture and forestry programs and help educate amazing future engineers to help us design, build, operate and continuously improve our plants, terminals, and business around the world. There are no better spaces from which to grow our business from a talent perspective.”
These new partnerships will reinforce Enviva’s present recruitment efforts, focusing outreach on an array of graduates from every of the colleges, together with electrical, mechanical, and civil engineers, in addition to forestry, agriculture, and agribusiness majors. Enviva expects to place the recruits throughout its facility fleet, together with at its company headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, and Raleigh, North Carolina, in addition to its manufacturing vegetation and terminals.
“As an HBCU alumnus myself, I am excited to pursue talent from these stellar institutions and welcome them into our company and industry as present and future leaders,” stated Don Calloway, Enviva’s Vice President for Equity, Inclusion, and Impact. “People are the core element of Enviva’s business, and as the industry is expanding rapidly, we must grow our talent pool. Enviva, and the renewable energy industry, will be significantly enhanced by the innovation, creativity, and perspectives these students bring to the table.”
About Enviva
Enviva (NYSE: EVA) is the world’s largest producer of business wooden pellets, a renewable and sustainable vitality supply that’s produced by aggregating a pure useful resource, wooden fiber, and processing it right into a transportable kind, wooden pellets. Enviva sells a big majority of its wooden pellets by long-term, take-or-pay off-take contracts with creditworthy prospects in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Japan. Enviva owns and operates 10 vegetation with a mixed manufacturing capability of roughly 6.2 million metric tons per 12 months in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. In addition, Enviva exports wooden pellets by its deep-water marine terminals on the Port of Chesapeake, Virginia, the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina, and the Port of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and from third-party deep-water marine terminals in Savannah, Georgia, Mobile, Alabama, and Panama City, Florida.
To be taught extra about Enviva, please go to our web site at www.envivabiomass.com. Follow Enviva on social media @Enviva.
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