The Challenge
With approximately 1200 water-related positions opening in the Northern Georgia region over the next 5 years, action is needed to recruit, train, and diversify our future water workforce to best serve and represent their communities.
The Water Tower's training programs focuses on getting trainees out of the classroom through hands-on experience in real-world conditions in a controlled environment to set every trainee up for success, whether they're new to the industry or looking to advance in their career.
Entry Level Training and Upskilling (CE's) Opportunities
The Water Tower is committed to assisting utilities in meeting their personnel and training needs to ensure that essential water, wastewater and stormwater services continued to be delivered. Our workforce initiatives range from recruitment to training to placement to upskilling with programming covering a variety of topics, over multiple platforms. Our focus is to get students out of the classroom and into the field to experience real-life situations in a controlled manner and we have designed our campus to allow for these hands on experiences.
Looking for a career?
Water providers in your area are looking for people just like you to help protect the systems that communities rely on every day. No experience? No problem. Whether you're starting out or starting over, it pays to work in water.
Water Training and Recruitment (WTR) Hub
Building off of the success of our workforce pilot program, Water Workforce for Resilient Communities, the WTR Hub, established as part of a nearly $2 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will expand TWT's reach beyond Georgia into multiple states across the U.S.
The WTR Hub is a unique national utility, academic, and nonprofit network focused on expanding internships and post-secondary bridge programs that will result in an increase in the number of certified water operators in drinking water, wastewater, water reuse, and stormwater fields.
Training Collaboration
The Water Tower partners with training providers to bring key training courses to TWT's campus for the benefit of utilities, our partners, and the broader water community.
Prime Power leverages its more than 30 years as a leading emergency power provider to train and certify technicians in the emergency power supply systems (EPSS) and related industries including the water and wastewater industry. Taught by some of the most respected and knowledgeable experts in the emergency power world, our programs combine classroom work, both in person and eLearning, with hands-on practice.