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Ryan Kellberg Brings Real-World Experience to Product Testing
As a product evaluation engineer in our Wood Products Lab, Ryan Kellberg doesn’t just look at technical specs and spreadsheets — he helps break things. On purpose. ... Read More
December 8, 2025
Courtney McKee Grew Her Career From the Ground Floor — and She’s Still Climbing
Courtney McKee’s Weyerhaeuser career started 21 years ago at our lumber mill in Idabel, Oklahoma. She began in an entry-level position as a lumber grader and has since risen to a strategic supply chain role supporting all our lumber mills as a lumber supply planner. ... Read More
November 18, 2025
Erick Cooper Makes Safety Personal in Plymouth, N.C.
When Erick Cooper onboards new hires at our lumber mill in Plymouth, North Carolina, he makes sure to emphasize his favorite motto: Make safety personal. “I tell them, ‘If you don’t remember anything else I go over in this week’s activities, I want you to remember one thing, and that is to make safety personal,’” he says. “If you make safety personal when you come to work every day, you’re going to do everything within your power to do your work the right way — the safe way.” ... Read More
October 20, 2025
Jill Bell Finds Purpose and Perspective in a Return to Safety — and Home
Jill Bell knows what it means to grow with a company. She started as a forest engineer in Western Timberlands right out of college. Over the past 22 years, she’s progressively moved up the operations ranks to area manager of our Snow Peak tree farm in Oregon. ... Read More
September 12, 2025
Kelly Dougherty Is Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
By the time Kelly Dougherty joined Weyerhaeuser 14 years ago, she had already worked in Florida, Georgia and New Zealand — so working with five teams in four locations on two coasts in the years since has hardly fazed her. ... Read More
August 20, 2025





