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Important contributors in the summertime

Aug 01, 2024

A helping hand during the summer … Each year, a seasonal summer workforce plays an important role in helping GRDA meet its mission for Oklahoma.

Every summer, the Grand River Dam Authority’s facilities become the backdrop for valuable work experience as summer employees temporarily join the workforce to supply an important helping hand. They arrive from several different backgrounds, with several different career goals and spend their summer days doing several different types of jobs. Some are familiar faces, some are brand new, but all become part of Team GRDA, at least for a few months.

Many of them will return to the college classroom in the next few weeks, but since early May, they have played an important role and provided many contributions to Team GRDA’s daily operations. During the summer months of 2024, they helped GRDA meet its electric, environmental stewardship, economic development, and efficiency mission for Oklahoma.

Not only is it a summer paycheck for these employees, but it is also a preview of what may be a future career path. While that is important to these students, it is also important to GRDA, which places a high priority on its highly skilled, diverse and experienced workforce. That is where its successful mission has always begun.

Plus, the impact of GRDA’s summer employees also stretches into the surrounding communities. Like the permanent workforce of 600-plus Oklahomans, summer employees earn important wages that are circulated throughout the state’s economy, in the communities where they live, work and play. Whether the focus is on the job, the dollars or the work experience, Team GRDA’s summer force is an important component in the GRDA economic engine that facilitates over $450 million in economic activity in Oklahoma annually.

Thank you to our summer employees. Have a great school year!

GRDA is Oklahoma’s largest electric utility; fully funded by revenues from electric and water sales instead of taxes. Each day, GRDA strives to be an “Oklahoma agency of excellence” by focusing on the 5 E’s: employees, electricity, economic development, environmental stewardship, and efficiency.