A ``New Deal`` for utility industry engineers and their bosses
- Sargent and Lundy, Chicago, IL (United States)
Most utility industry engineers are experiencing significant job security anxiety brought on by unprecedented industry changes such as impending industry re-regulation, diminished domestic new generation projects, utility restructuring, and re-engineering. Observations of leading utilities, A/Es, and major manufacturers show that many challenging opportunities for engineers are emerging from these changes but these jobs often require early planning and investments in broadened skills, improved business perspective and competitive flexibility to capture and maintain them. There is a growing corporate expectation that engineers can become comfortable with competition, business accountabilities, frequent job change, offshore assignments, and lifelong learning. This article is written to help utility industry engineers, their managers and executives better understand these changes and to hopefully create a broader acceptance of a New Deal. This New Deal focuses on visioning industry change impacts on future job content, co-planning and co-investments in skill and business perspective broadening, early identification and winning of challenging opportunities and, most importantly, strong personal commitments to staying on top of the new utility game which is competition, competition, and competition.
- OSTI ID:
- 514798
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970456--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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