Workforce Development for Water Utilities

Khris Dodson of Syracuse University’s Environmental Finance Center discusses a wide range of workforce development issues for water utilities. Khris identifies the problems with utility workforce development and also delves into potential solutions. It’s a great and important episode. In this session, you’ll learn about:

What the biggest job needs are for water utilities
Strategies to develop the skilled trades
Why our culture doesn’t value the skilled trades highly enough
How to align skill sets and geographical barriers with workforce needs
Why more attention needs to be paid to retention strategies
Compensation issues
How utility rates impact the workforce
Keys to succession planning for the utility workforce
What the anticipated impact of artificial intelligence, machine learning and the internet of things might be

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Show Notes

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