Supplier Profile
Nicholas Hirsch, Engineering Manager | WL Port-Land Systems, Inc.

Born: Oct. 1 in Fort Branch, IN.

Years with company/industry: 1/21.

Family: Wife, Kelly; daughter, Samantha; sons, Benjamin, Matthew, and Nathan.

Education: University of Pittsburgh.

Favorite hobbies/interests: Bible study, discipleship, physical activity, hunting, and playing cards and board games with family and friends.

Favorite sport team: Canon-McMillan (my children’s school).

Favorite vacation spots: Acadia, ME; Laurel Highland mountains; anywhere there’s a beach and pool nearby.

Best mentors: Jesus and my parents, Robert and Janet,taught me love, joy, humility, commitment, and giving your best.

If I wasn’t in the grain industry, I would: Design and build something for someone, or be a professor or a coach.

Favorite quote: “The manner in which a person employs the surplus of hours after provision has been made for work, meals, and sleep make him either a mediocrity or a man to be reckoned with.” -J. Oswald Sanders

From the March/April 2023 Grain Journal