SCA hosts Junior Achievement Job Shadow 2012, cultivating career interests of seventh-grade students from Oliver Winch Middle School
SOUTH GLENS FALLS, N.Y. – SCA employees at the South Glens Falls, N.Y., facility spent the morning of Feb. 14 explaining the variety of career opportunities available in manufacturing, as well as some paths to get there, to 41 seventh-grade students from Oliver Winch Middle School in South Glens Falls. This event was part of Junior Achievement’s annual job shadow program.
The students received an overview of the company and a tour of the nearly 150-year-old paper mill before being matched with SCA employees who work in areas such as finance, purchasing, engineering, maintenance, human resources, health and information technology, as well as with the leaders of the United Steelworkers (USW) Union Local 1478.
Left to right: Seventh-graders Sabrena Quintois-Mckinney, Sarah Huntley, Kylie Bronson, Shelby Brayman and Sydney Potter receive a tour of the SCA South Glens Falls tissue mill from Operations Manager Terry Miller as part of a job shadow event the company hosted in partnership with Junior Achievement on Feb. 14, 2012.
“Many young people don’t realize the variety of professions within the manufacturing industry,” said Mike Mound, regional director of SCA’s Northeast Operations for its away-from-home professional hygiene business in North America. “Our employees take pride in mentoring the students on their future career paths and being able to share their job experiences and what our company is all about with the kids in this community. We take great pride in our work here at SCA, and it’s really fun to share our passion with the students.”
“In discussing possible locations for our school’s job shadow experience, I requested that we go to a local business because I believe it’s important for students to understand who the employers are in their own community and see what career opportunities are available right here,” said Sandra Catricala, seventh-grade teacher at Oliver Winch Middle School, who initiated the partnership between the South Glens Falls School District and Junior Achievement last year.
Mike Mound, regional director of SCA’s Northeast Operations, leads a team building exercise with Jude Daigneault and Dylan Murphy of Oliver Winch Middle School on Feb. 14, during a school visit to the SCA South Glens Falls mill as part of Junior Achievement’s job shadow program.
“This is the second year we’ve been able to do this at SCA, and the students have really enjoyed and benefited from seeing how the skills they’re learning in school are used in the world of work,” Catricala said.
SCA has approximately 400 employees in upstate New York at its mill in South Glens Falls, converting facility in Greenwich and distribution center in Saratoga. In addition to New York, SCA’s North American away from home professional hygiene business has manufacturing facilities in Alabama, Arizona and Wisconsin, and employs more than 2,200 in the United States and Canada.
SCA in North America
SCA’s North American away from home professional hygiene business is one of the three largest producers of away-from-home tissue products in North America, supplying paper napkins, tissues, towels, specialty wipers, dispensers and soap used in commercial settings such as restaurants, office buildings, schools and healthcare facilities. Tork® products are made from 100-percent recycled content. SCA uses more than 750,000 tons of paper a year; on average, more than 60 percent of those tons are post-consumer waste. The first American papermaker to earn EcoLogo™ certification, SCA also has earned Green Seal™ certification on many of its products. More information is available at www.torkusa.com.
About SCA
SCA is a global hygiene and paper company that develops and produces personal-care products, tissue, packaging solutions, publication papers and solid-wood products. Sales are conducted in 100 countries. SCA has many well-known brands, and in the U.S. sells the TENA® line of bladder control products and Tork® brand napkins, paper towels, bath tissue and wipers. Global sales in 2010 were $15 billion. SCA has approximately 45,000 employees. SCA’s Americas headquarters is in the Cira Centre in Philadelphia. For more information visit, www.sca.com/us.
TENA® and Tork® are registered trademarks of SCA Hygiene Products.
About Junior Achievement:
Junior Achievement (JA) is the world's largest and fastest-growing organization dedicated to educating young people about business, economics and financial literacy. Through age-appropriate curricula, JA programs begin at the elementary school level, teaching children how they can impact the world around them as individuals, workers and consumers. JA programs continue through the middle and high school grades, preparing students for additional key economic and workforce issues they will face in the future. Today JA of Northeastern New York reaches more than 24,000 students in 12 counties, from as far north as Warren County and south to Dutchess County. More information is available at www.janeny.org.