Recently returned from his "OE" Jacob (Jake) Saathof joined PF Olsen in February taking a role managing road-line harvesting and engineering in the Eastern Bay of Plenty region.
Jake graduated in 2008 from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Forest Engineering (1st Class honours).
Most recently Jake worked for Forests New South Wales in Australia as a Road Operations Officer where his responsibilities covered supervision of forest roading upgrades/construction in sensitive environments.
Jake has a good technical and practical understanding of forest harvesting having worked in both cable and ground-based harvesting crews in New Zealand.