2022 RETA Breeze Nov-Dec

WELCOME OUR NEW RAI: JUSTIN MICHAEL

Justin started in refrigeration at age 18 when he went to work for his dad at Preston Refrigeration, Van Buren office back then. He started out as a helper and worked his way up to job site Superintendent. He left Preston and went to work for River City Industrial Refrigeration in Texas and after his dad’s passing, he started to get into the project management side and service side some. After about 14 years on non-stop travel and having small kids he took a job as an operator at a Gerber baby food plant in Fort Smith, AR. Nestle Nutrition bought Gerber and soon RETA became a big part of their training. He got his RETA CIRO while at Gerber. Through some mutual

friends he was contacted when Tyson Foods was looking to put together a corporate training group and the CIRO helped him get his current job at Tyson. Then after working with RETA closely, they as a group decided to go after our RAIs. He took RETAs Train the Trainer at the 2021 Conference and then applied and took the RAI exam at the 2022 Conference. He looks forward to representing RETA and Tyson in the future as a RAI. He enjoys what he does and believes in RETA’s mission. There is nothing better than seeing that light bulb in an operator’s head go off when they truly understand what is going on in the pipes.

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