Careers

Because your health and well-being affect everything.

Cooperative Energy recognizes the important role a healthy work/life balance plays in our employees’ personal wellness, work performance and job satisfaction. We all have lives outside of work, and Cooperative Energy supports your individual and changing needs with these helpful and flexible programs.

Alternative Work Schedules (AWS):

If you would like the opportunity to get an extra day off for personal errands and activities, an Alternative Work Schedule might be for you!

Cooperative Energy offers the following compressed schedules in which you will work a total of 80 hours during each biweekly pay period.  The advantage is that you will have extra days off.

• 9/80 schedule in which you work eight 9-hour days in a 2-week period, one 8-hour day and then receive one day off every other week.
• Four-day workweek in which you work four 10-hour days each week of the pay period and have an extra day off each week.

Eligibility may vary for AWS, as some may not be appropriate for particular jobs or for certain employees, depending on departmental needs.

Personal Leave/Vacation

Setting aside time for relaxation is a vital part of a health work-life balance. Cooperative Energy’s personal leave program allows employees to earn from 96 hours to 160 hours a year, depending on tenure.  Employees are eligible to use personal leave after two months of employment. Cooperative Energy’s personal leave carries over from year-to-year up to maximum of 520 hours.

Sick Leave

Employees are eligible to earn 96 hours per year, to be used for illness or doctor’s appointments that cannot be accomplished outside of work hours.  Employees are eligible to use sick leave after two months of employment.  Employees may earn up to a maximum of 600 hours of sick leave and may carry over from year-to-year unused sick leave.

Family Sick Leave

Cooperative Energy understands the importance of our employee’s responsibility for caring for their family.  Employees may use 40 hours of sick leave per year to care for an ill child or parent.   Employees may also be eligible for additional family leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Holidays

Cooperative Energy recognizes that holidays are times to be spent celebrating with family and friends. Cooperative Energy provides nine company-paid holidays each year, including New Years’ Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Bereavement Leave

Cooperative Energy offers 40 hours of paid time off for employees who experience the death of an immediate family member.

Jury Duty and Time Off to Vote

Cooperative Energy encourages employees to fulfill their civic responsibilities.  Reasonable time off is allowed to enable employees to perform jury duty or testify before a grand jury if subpoenaed without loss of regular pay.  Also when it is not possible for an employee to vote before or after normal working hours employees may be granted time off for voting.

Military Leave

Cooperative Energy complies with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act which protects job rights and benefits for veterans and members of the reserves.   Cooperative Energy’s military leave policy also allows employees to be paid the difference between their regular pay and their military pay, if less, for a designated period of time.

Catastrophic Leave

This program allows fellow employees to donate earned personal leave to help provide assistance to employees affected by a life threatening or catastrophic illness, whether their own or that of an immediate family member, that has resulted in the employee exhausting his/her eligible paid leave.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Cooperative Energy understands that troubling circumstances may arise in our employees’ personal lives at any time.   To help, but not intrude in the personal lives of our employees and their families, we offer five free counseling sessions per calendar year per employee and per family member,   through a confidential EAP.

Fitness/Wellness

Cooperative Energy encourages employees to be healthy and physically fit.  In order to promote this, Cooperative Energy reimburses each employee one time during their employment period the initial health club membership fee up to $100.   Employees are also offered the opportunity to participate in an annual wellness exam and flu vaccination program.

Will Preparation and Estate Resolution Services

Employees who are enrolled in the Supplemental Life Insurance have access to will preparation and estate resolution assistance.    Fees are covered when using a participating plan attorney.   Out of network attorney fees are reimbursed based on a schedule.

Educational Assistance Program

An educational assistance program is offered to employees.  Reimbursement is limited to $5,250 per calendar year and paid on the basis of grades achieved.  Courses require advanced approval and must be job related.

Scholarships

Dependents of Cooperative Energy employees are eligible for the Electric Power Associations of Mississippi Foundation scholarships and a matching scholarship from Cooperative Energy.   Qualifying high school seniors planning to attend a two-year college are eligible to receive $300 from the Foundation and a matching $300 scholarship from Cooperative Energy.  Qualifying seniors planning to attend a four-year college are eligible to receive $600 from the Foundation and a matching $600 scholarship from Cooperative Energy.

Credit Union

Employees are eligible to participate in the Electric Power Associations of Mississippi Credit Union.  Payroll deductions are available for savings and loan repayments.

Community Volunteer Opportunities

To help fulfill our mission of improving the communities we serve and to give each of us the gratification that comes with making an impact, Cooperative Energy and our individual electric cooperatives offer community volunteer opportunities throughout the year.