POET

Why work at POET?
At some point every person who's ever had a big idea has been told: don't bother, keep your head down, do your work, know your place. At POET, we know our place. Our place is at the forefront of history pioneering an industry, challenging what's expected, changing the world.

Good Jobs, a Healthy Economy, and Pride
A strong community contains a lot of moving parts. Good jobs, a healthy economy, and maybe most importantly: pride. At POET, we're proud to be doing our part. Creating new local jobs and spurring economic developing while producing products that improve lives around the globe.

When you get here, you'll discover these ideas, which we call our Culture Statements, repeated again and again and practiced all day, every day:

We embrace change.
We aspire to live by the Golden Rule.
We always strive for excellence.

Our culture is the driving force behind the success of POET. It's the force that energizes us individually, invigorates our colleagues, propels us to new breakthroughs in technology and processes and ultimately unleashes great reward for the people who count on us.

Our vision is to live in a world with natural balance. Where we no longer take from the Earth, but rather use its enormous ability to regenerate. Where we are no longer dependent on fossil fuels, but rather rely on the power of nature and the genius of the human spirit. Where farmers are the creators, and innovators are the heroes. Where we use the resources given to us in ways we believe God intended.

For more than 30 years, POET has been a driving force behind renewable innovation and environmental stewardship. Our biorefineries dramatically reduced water and energy use by developing and deploying industry-leading technologies. Our missions helped empower some of the most impoverished communities on Earth with clean cooking stoves and sustainable farming solutions. Without biofuels like ethanol, greenhouse gases and airborne toxins would skyrocket and the world would be awash in grain with far too little demand. Our researchers have jumpstarted the global transformation to a greener economy with carbon-cutting biofuels and innovative alternatives to petroleum.

But that was only the beginning. Today, POET recognizes that our planet urgently needs bolder solutions and even better results if we hope to sustain Earth’s fragile balance tomorrow. That is why POET is focusing all of its collective resources and decades of experience to drive sustainable change on a global scale. At POET, we’re focused on cultivating solutions to deliver the fuel, feed and fiber our world needs in the most sustainable way possible. Just as we have done in the past, POET is embracing the climate challenge and showing the world we can do much more with much less.