Our company
Three cheers for CH2M HILL
Underscoring the strength of CH2M HILL’s overall commitment to corporate citizenship, three independent programs recently recognized the firm’s sustainability, workplace and business practices. In Georgia, CH2M HILL achieved Silver Level partner status in the Partnership for a Sustainable Georgia, a state-sponsored, voluntary environmental leadership initiative. In Oregon, the firm was ranked one of the “ 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon” by Oregon Business magazine, which determined winners through employee surveys and a company questionnaire about workplace policies. And top business magazine Fortune ranked CH2M HILL among the 2008 “ America’s Most Admired Companies” in the engineering/construction category for the sixth consecutive year.
Our communities
Ask us for a tour!
 Is your community’s water or wastewater system operated by CH2M HILL OMI? Have you ever visited the facilities to learn more about how water systems work? If not, give our local office a call – we’d love to show you around and describe what we do. Over the years we’ve collectively hosted thousands of tours for school groups, scout troops, and 4-H clubs like the girls pictured here, who recently visited Seattle Public Utilities’ Cedar River Water Treatment Plant in Renton, Wash., and learned about water treatment and testing. Facility tours help kids or adults better understand the water cycle, the importance of protecting watersheds, and so much more.
Service to Lebanon lands Distinguished Service Award nomination
CH2M HILL OMI people have been serving Lebanon, Ore., since 1982, operating and maintaining the city’s water and wastewater systems. In recognition of their long community commitment – including ensuring safe drinking water and clean waterways – the team was nominated for a Lebanon Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award last month.
Nominees are chosen based on factors such as employees who are active in the community, superior business practices, ethics and quality, leadership, a positive influence on their business and community, and advancement of education. CH2M HILL OMI did not take top honors in the “Small Business of the Year” category, but “it’s a tremendous honor to have been nominated among so many other great local businesses,” says Brian Helliwell, project manager.
Our partners
Magazine lauds clients for corporate citizenship
Some of our top industrial clients are also ranked among the country's top corporate citizens. A new list of America's “ 100 Best Corporate Citizens,” compiled each year by CRO Magazine, recognizes the corporate responsibility efforts of large public companies in eight categories: climate change, employee relations, environment, financial, governance, human rights, lobbying and philanthropy. Congratulations to our partners whose strong commitments to citizenship put them on the 2008 list, including PG&E and Dow Chemical Co. CH2M HILL OMI helps our various business clients with a range of industrial operations and maintenance services, such as operating industrial wastewater or groundwater treatment systems.
Safety spotlighted in DeFuniak Springs, Fla.
 Check out the April issue of American Water Works Association’s Opflow magazine, which will feature a two-page story about the safety practices followed at the water and wastewater system in DeFuniak Springs, Fla. Public Works Director William Holloway co-authored the piece, along with Jayne Swift, CH2M HILL OMI project manager. The city shares four basic practices that help foster a successful, award-winning safety culture across utility operations. Most recently, the city won the Florida Water Environment Association’s Safety Award.
Prescott Valley, Ariz., shortlisted for ‘Deal of the Year’
Last year, the Town of Prescott Valley, Ariz., pioneered a successful program to auction the rights to effluent that comes from the town’s wastewater treatment plant. Their program has now been listed among the finalists in the Global Water Awards’ “Water Deal of the Year” category. Leading industry publication Global Water Intelligence sponsors the annual award program, and winners will be announced in April. More information about the Prescott Valley effluent auction project is on the Global Water Awards Web site. CH2M HILL OMI has operated and maintained the town’s wastewater plant for the past 15 years.
Our people
National conferences tap employee expertise
Four of our people were on center stage to share their knowledge and experience at two recent national conferences. In early February, employees Rob Kuta and Elliott Wheeler presented lessons in “incorporating environmental sustainability in your design-build project” at the Design-Build Institute of America’s water infrastructure conference in Atlanta, Ga.
Later in the month, Steve McNicol and Jeff Sanford, with other CH2M HILL employees, hosted a sold-out full-day workshop that presented strategic and tactical approaches to asset management with clients from Albany, Ore., and Pinellas County, Fla. The workshop was part of the Utility Management Conference in Tampa, Fla., jointly sponsored by the American Water Works Association and Water Environment Federation.
Operators, mechanics, managers... oh my
Our company was founded to help operate and maintain water and wastewater treatment systems. So it’s no surprise that operators make up more than 20 percent of our total work force of 1,650. But it might be harder to guess what are the next “most popular jobs” at CH2M HILL OMI. Here’s the answer:
- Mechanics – 150 employees
- Equipment operators – 115 employees
- Project managers – 105 employees
- Utility workers – 95 employees
As our business has grown to include delivering comprehensive municipal services, we’re adding lots of other jobs too, such as planners, code enforcement officers and transportation experts. In general, well over half of our work force is “out in the field” every day, working directly to serve the needs of our municipal and industrial clients.
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