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SECONEWS HAPPY NEW YEAR! find benefit in this day and age. In addition, SECO SECO Energy’s Board of provides employees with high-quality, low-cost Trustees has approved the medical, dental and vision coverage. It’s a great 2021 SECO Scholarship place to work, and we are an essential employer Program. $36,000 is up that offers a healthy balance of work and personal for grabs to be split among life with a generous paid time off program, student 943500 12 high school seniors loan reimbursement and more. interested in pursuing When you talk to your kids and grandkids about a career in the energy industry and living in a who they want to be when they grow up and if they want to raise their own families home served by SECO. If your here locally, SECO Energy and the high school senior could use SECO AND OTHER electric industry is a great place $3,000 for tuition or books and to plant local career roots. Our might want a paid internship on ENERGY COMPANIES SECO Scholarship Program is a holiday or summer breaks, now recruiting tool that introduces us ARE LOOKING TO is the time to apply. to local students pursuing a career HIRE A WORKFORCE in the growing energy industry. The energy industry is a We hope to attract local students growing field in Florida and WITH THE TECHNICAL who want to engage with SECO across the nation. SECO and SKILLS AND TRAINING for internship opportunities or as other energy companies are a possible future employer. looking to hire a workforce with
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the technical skills and training COMPETITIVE FIELD. To be eligible to apply, the required in this competitive student must be a high school senior field. According to the 2020 U.S. who is graduating in May/June 2021. Energy and Employment Report (USEER), Florida currently has 124,954 traditional energy workers The student must live in a home served by SECO statewide – with a number of them gearing up toward Energy, plan to pursue a career in the energy industry retirement in the coming years. Of these energy and attend an accredited Florida college, university workers, 54,283 are in electric power generation, or vocational/technical school and be enrolled 18,802 are in fuels, and 51,869 are in transmission, full-time by the end of 2021. Qualifying degrees or certifications are in technology, engineering, math distribution and energy storage. or business. Growth in electric vehicles, renewables, energy storage and the need for increased cyber-physical security drives the need for skilled workers. Notfor-profit electric cooperatives prioritize community support, environmental stewardship, corporate citizenship and sustainability. SECO Energy offers competitive wages but we also offer a pension plan and healthy 401k match – which is a hard-to-
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