Theresa Pelkey, BS Chemical Engineering

I have been fulltime with Cargill Salt, Newark CA since 2006.  However, I also worked  for Cargill when I was in college for DSONA, Fullerton CA as a coop in 2004 and for DCI, Indianapolis IN as an intern in 2005.  In Salt, I have already had many career opportunities.  I started as a Project Engineer in the Solar department and then moved the Refinery department as a Packaging Supervisor.  I was then given a tremendous opportunity to be a Project Engineer for the Refinery department, which is my current position.  In this role I am working on a team to replace all of our packaging equipment with new automated equipment.  I am on the Salt Packaging Team, the Newark Cargill Cares Team, the Newark Idea Management Team, and SWONs. I graduated from the University of WI – Madison after 5 years with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering.

I was raised in a small town in WI, with my family of four.  My mother, Karla, my father, Jerry, and my younger sister, Jennifer.  I enjoyed our winters ice fishing and our summers camping and boating/fishing.   I  went to college in Madison WI, at the University of WI – Madison.  This is where where I met my husband, Ben.  We were married on June 25th, 2011.  We moved to CA for my career and now live in Santa Clara with our 2 dogs, Karman and Herbie,  our Russian Tortoise, Shelley, our Hermit crab, and our frog, Gus.  Our friends call us the Pelkey Zoo!   We spend much of our winters in Lake Tahoe snowboarding and our summers are spent enjoying the weather and sights in Northern CA.  My sister  moved to the bay area 2 years ago and Ben’s sister lives here as well.  It is nice to have some family around being 2000 miles away from our families in WI.  Though, it always makes the trips back to WI a busy, fun filled time. 

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