2023-07-24 14:10:06
The BBF Group (Brasil BioFuels), which operates in sustainable agribusiness from palm oil cultivation, biotechnology, biofuel production and renewable energy generation, is one of the companies that employs the most in the northern region of the country, with almost 7,000 direct jobs around 21,000 indirect ones.
Currently, around 29.6 million people live in the Amazon region, according to the Brazilian Institute of Research and Statistics (IBGE). For the BBF Group, it is essential to create employment and income opportunities for this population, as long as the forest is maintained.
The BBF Group closed the first half of the year with the hiring of 1486 new employees. There were 947 who started working in the company’s operations in Pará (PA), 45 in São Paulo (SP) and 494 in São João da Baliza (RR). Still, 440 job vacancies are open to work in the company, in the states of Pará, Roraima, Rondônia, Amazonas and São Paulo.
The company plans to increase its workforce in the Amazon region until 2026, the year in which it intends to start production of the unprecedented Green Diesel (HVO) and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) biofuels in Brazil.
“Since 2019, we have had a huge leap in the number of employees, increasing our staff by 18 times, going from 345 in 2019 to 6,850 in 2023, so far. Now, our expectation is to increase the number of employees in the coming years”, says the CEO of the BBF Group, Milton Steagall.
Opportunity, training and development for BBF employees
The BBF Group believes in the socioeconomic development of the regions where it operates and in the potential of its employees. In this pillar, the company encourages the development and professional journey of its employees by offering professional training courses, lectures and internal campaigns.
In the first half of this year alone, around 80 training groups were formed, including technical, regulatory and competence development classes, among which more than 1,600 employees received various learning and improvement courses with internal and external instructors.
In addition, the company also seeks to collaborate with the inclusion of people with disabilities (PCD) in the labor market through a partnership with the National Industrial Learning Service (SENAI) to encourage professional training and personal development workshops for young talents in Pará. After training, the company still offers several opportunities to graduates within the selection process for its permanent staff.
Internally, the BBF Group constantly guides its employees with preventive actions in all the company’s activities with the objective of guaranteeing and improving the safety of the work environment, prevention of accidents and occupational diseases.
“When we look at the number of almost 7,000 people working in the BBF Group’s operations, we are filled with pride, not only because we are one of the main employers in the north of the country, but because we want to increasingly encourage people through professional development. Our mission is to promote improvements and generate more growth opportunities for our employees”, says Rogério Ribas, Superintendent of Personnel Management at the BBF Group.
Diversity and inclusion in the job market
The BBF Group has almost 7,000 direct employees who work in five states in the North region and in the city of São Paulo (SP). About 85% of these professionals work in Pará, mainly in the cultivation of more than 60 thousand hectares of oil palm planted in the state by the company.
In addition, the BBF Group regularly participates in the Employment Fair for People with Disabilities and Rehabilitated by the INSS, promoted by the State Secretariat for Social Assistance, Labor, Employment and Income (Seaster).
Another important highlight is the diversity of the BBF Group’s workforce. Currently, around 15% of positions are held by women. The female employees of the BBF Group are involved in all of the company’s activities, mainly in the agricultural area, where their role is extremely important for the start of the Group’s vertical business.
The BBF Group’s business model is not mechanized, generating thousands of jobs in the North of Brazil. “The operations of the BBF Group depend directly on humanized labor. Therefore, we greatly value the local job market, especially women who accept the challenge of working within our cultivation. We can say that it is through the hands of our women farmers that our business is born, so they have a special place within the company”, concludes Ribas.
About the BBF Group
The BBF Group (Brasil BioFuels), a Brazilian company founded in 2008, is a producer of palm oil in Latin America, with a cultivated area of over 75,000 hectares and a production capacity of 200,000 tons of oil per year. The company is a pioneer in the creation of sustainable solutions for the generation of renewable energy in isolated systems, with thermoelectric plants powered by biofuels produced in the region. Its agricultural activity recovers areas that were degraded until 2007 in the Amazon, following the Oil Palm Agroecological Zoning (ZAE), approved by Decree 7172 of the Federal Government, of May 7, 2010.
The BBF Group has created an integrated business model in which it operates from the beginning to the end of the value chain – from the sustainable cultivation of oil palm, extraction of crude oil, production of biofuels, biotechnology and generation of renewable energy – with assets totaling around R$ 2.2 billion and activities generating more than 6 thousand direct jobs in the North region of Brazil. The BBF Group’s operations are located in the states of Acre, Amazonas, Rondônia, Roraima and Pará, comprising 38 thermoelectric plants (25 in operation and 13 in implementation), 3 palm oil crushing units, a soy extruder and a biodiesel plant.
The company is expanding its offer of biofuels and has established partnerships for the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO), also called green diesel. The new sustainable fuels will be produced from 2026 in the country’s first Biorefinery, under construction in the Manaus Free Trade Zone.
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