Denver Water’s overall goal is to retain and attract top performers: Individuals passionate about our vision and mission and motivated to serve our customers with distinction. Experts who, in turn, can help Denver Water become the nation’s No. 1 water utility.
To support this goal, Denver Water focuses on the following areas to ensure a competitive and rich Total Rewards offering:
- Some positions have the opportunity for hybrid work schedules.
- Opportunities for flex schedules, include:
- Half-day option, in which employees work four 9-hour days, and one 4-hour day (not including lunch).
- 4 x 10s, in which employees work four 10-hour days or some variation that results in 40 hours per week (not including lunch).
- 9 x 80s, in which employees work eight 9-hour days and one 8-hour day (not including lunch) in a two-week period, with the 10th day off (exempt employees only, not eligible for hourly employees).
- Time off
- Nine personal leave days to be used in the calendar year.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Paid time off accrual.
Denver Water provides market-based, competitive pay. Job postings include salary ranges.
Delivering safe, clean drinking water spans across many job categories, including:
- Audit
- Customer Care
- Distribution and Property Management
- Engineering (Civil, Construction, Dam Safety, Electrical, GIS, Survey, Mechanical, Hydraulics)
- Finance (Accounting, Budget, Rates, Treasury)
- General Counsel/Legal
- Health Clinic services
- Human Resources
- Information Technology
- Public Affairs
- Recreation
- Safety and Security
- Sales and Plan Review
- Water Distribution
- Water Quality and Treatment
- Water Resource Strategy (Environmental and Watershed planning, Demand planning, Efficiency, Water rights, Raw water supply)
Denver Water offers excellent benefits to support employee well-being.
- Medical, dental and vision plans.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
- Optional life, critical illness and accident insurance plans.
- Wellness program with financial rewards for participation in preventative care and wellness activities.
- On-site gym and health clinic.
Learn more about Denver Water’s 2024 benefits.
Transparency in Coverage Rule
https://www.cigna.com/legal/compliance/machine-readable-files
This link leads to the machine-readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.
Denver Water offers competitive programs that allow all employees an opportunity to save for retirement.
- Pension. Plan costs are shared by Denver Water and employee contribution.
- 401(k) plan. Denver Water will match pre-tax dollar investment by employee.
- 457 plan. Supplimental retirement savings by employee contribution.
- Retirement financial planning reimbursement, upon eligibility.
Denver Water invests in its employees' career development and offers the following opportunities:
- Tuition reimbursement.
- 80-hour Leadership Academy.
- Access to hundreds of training resources through our learning platform (leadership, technical skills, computer software, writing, communication and more).
- In-person training sessions presented by the learning and organizational development team.
- Career coaching by the Talent team.