Solutions for an Aging Workforce
Network Planning Meeting
Newark International Airport Marriott Hotel
Newark, New Jersey

More than 80 electric and natural gas utility company human resource, operating and community affairs executive and their partners met in Newark, NJ this summer for a one-day Utility Workforce Planning Network meeting, Solutions for an Aging Workforce. Hosted by PSEG and UBEC, the senior managers representing public, co-op and investor-owned utilities from across the country addressed industry workforce development issues related to the aging utility and the need to recruit and develop skilled and craft labor.

The meeting sessions included a review of Network progress to date and presentations on industry workforce development solutions. Participants provide input on key Network program and next steps during breakout discussions to review industry solutions to workforce issues.

Meeting speakers and their topics included:

• Leading Workforce Development: The Corporate Commitment by Peter A. Cistaro, Vice President, Gas Delivery, PSE&G



• Network Progress Report: An Action Plan to Recruit and Develop Skilled Employees for Electric and Gas Utilities by Penny Manuel, Vice President and SPO, Gulf Power Company and Chairman, Network Executive Committee



• A Communication Strategy to Meet Utility Workforce Development Objectives by Joe Swope, Manager, Utility Communications, UGI Utilities, Inc. and Chairman, Network Marketing and Communications Committee



• Partnering to Develop a Workforce for the Future: Strategies That Work by Dana DeYoung, Director, Talent Management, PSEG and Chairman, Network Education & Training Committee



• Ready for the Job: Building Skills and Alliances to Meet the Demand for Utility Labor in New Jersey by Jeffrey Stoller, Deputy Executive Director, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University