Career Opportunities: Culture

Regardless of what position or title you have at Des Moines Water Works, every employee contributes to the quality of life for all citizens within the Des Moines Metro area.  Do you have the mindset and attitude to contribute to this level of quality?

Even before the green movement became popular, Des Moines Water Works practiced a number of "green-friendly" initiatives, which we continue today.    We are members of the Climate Registry, which is a nonprofit collaboration among North American states, provinces, territories and Native Sovereign Nations that sets consistent and transparent standards to calculate, verify and publicly report greenhouse gas emissions into a single registry.  You can learn more about Climate Registry at www.theclimateregistry.org.

To see a list of some of our green initiatives, click on the below link.

DMWW Green Initiatives

Guiding Principles

DMWW Management and AFSCME Local 3861 Union Leadership

We commit to build trust, create open relationships and produce a stronger organization by following these guiding principles. 

·         Mutual Respect

Value each person as equally important to the organization

Speak of others as if they are present

Give each other the benefit of the doubt

Treat each other as we’d like to be treated

·         Honesty

Share our genuine thoughts and feelings

Talk Straight

Share what you can when you can

Share our intent to help clarify what we mean

Admit to our mistakes and rectify them

·         Genuine Communication

Seek to understand each other

Truly listen to each other

Have the courage to speak

Clarify/summarize discussions and identify next steps

Be open to new ideas

·         Commitment

Seek timely resolutions of issues

Be self motivated

Do what you say you will do (keep commitments)

Learn from the past and focus on making  DMWW stronger

Work Together

 Des Moines Water Works complies with the Iowa Smokefree Air Act effective July 1, 2008.