Careers

Current open positions with Iowa municipal utilities

Looking for a career in water?

Or electicity?... Or telecommunications?... Or gas?

An Iowa municipal utility may be looking for You!

Communities all across Iowa provide vital services to their citizen owners; these include electricity, gas, water and telecommunications.

Municipal utilities offer community control over decisions. They employ thousands of people in a variety of jobs that combine public service with a technologically forward-looking industry. It’s a great time to be a part of the public utility industry.

Over 37% of Iowa’s municipal gas utility employees are over age 50. That means that Iowa’s gas utilities need to find replacements for more than one out of every three gas utility workers during the next 10 years.

Would you like to find a job in your home county? Between 2005 and 2014, there may be as many as 932 municipal water utility employees retiring in Iowa. That’s over 9 employees per county! Positions range from clerical assistants to utility superintendents.

Enjoy working outdoors? Be a power line mechanic at an electric utility – research shows that Iowa’s municipal utilities might need over 100 new line mechanics within the next 10 years.

Consider working for an organization that will invest in your professional development and will recognize excellence. Some towns even offer scholarship programs for students interested in working at their utility.

• Typical municipal utility careers
• Educational programs that can prepare you for a municipal utility career
• Current open positions with Iowa municipal utilities
• IAMU's municipal utility careers brochure (pdf)