At First Wood hires talented people from all over the world, regardless of nationality or gender.
Global Employee Vol.1
Tokyo office, Industry Reseach
After graduating from university in Belgium, I started my career in the construction industry. This made me interested in sustainable construction materials, with wood being the most sustainable and environmentally friendly material of all.
Since I had studied Japanese at University, I wanted to experience working in Japan. I found a sustainable company in the same field: First Wood.
Japanese language classes are provided to improve Japanese at a business level. As Japanese is the main language in the company, you can put what you learned to practice every day and even master technical terms. I am currently researching the overseas timber market and I will be actively involved in new business development, marketing and SDG’s initiatives.
First Wood aspires to be a sustainable company: while producing wooden construction material we find ways to use our waste products, so everything of the tree is put to good use. For example: wood chips are used as a raw material for paper, wood scraps are upcycled to building material and sawdust is turned into a biobased energy source.
With Japan’s aging society and dropping birth rate, First Wood is actively hiring foreign employees to stimulate globalization. In order to preserve the environment, we promote small-scale forestry, cutting trees with light machinery that has a low impact on the forest. Our mission is to protect Japan’s rich forest resources, this way we are able to pass them on to future generations.
