A young Ontario man will spend his summer working at Canfor's Bear Lake sawmill as one of the winners of a social media job contest.
Chris Hill, 24, who hails from Millgrove and is a student in the mechanical engineering technology program at Mohawk College in Hamilton, starts a four-month stint in May.
He was one of 13 people from across Canada to land a summer job through The Greenest Workforce, an online job search service hosted by the Forest Products Association of Canada.
Along with posting openings from participating forestry companies, it hosted a Green Dream contest - the prize being forestry-related employment for the summer.
Hill said he entered the competition on the advise of his instructor, who has a background in the forest industry and said there were plenty of opportunities in the field.
Hill has never worked in a sawmill before but is looking forward to the experience.
"I'll be dealing with a lot of automation, which sounds like a lot of fun," Hill said. "I'm really excited to get involved in that and learn more."
Specifically, he will be helping operate the mill's programmable logic controller.
"Because a lot of the machinery is automated, I will be looking at what the programs are telling the machines to do," Hill said.
