One of Canada's Greenest Employers
Maclean's Magazine added ENMAX to its list of Canada's 30 greenest employers in April 2009, recognizing our organization's efforts to create a culture of environmental responsibility. Maclean's highlighted the high percentage (98%) of ENMAX employees that adopted our EcoPledge program, which encourages workers to take action to reduce their environmental footprint at work and at home.
One of Canada's Leading Corporate Citizens
ENMAX took the number six spot on the list of Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada in 2009, an honour bestowed by Corporate Knights magazine, one of the country's leading publications with a focus on corporate social responsibility.
The ranking methodology used by Corporate Knights includes factors such as the quality of connection an organization has with its employees and with the environment, as well as responsible financial metrics.
Mayor's Excellence Award for Environmental Stewardship
Calgary Mayor David Bronconnier presented the Mayor's Excellence Award to ENMAX Energy in January 2009, recognizing the alliance we've maintained with the Calgary Board of Education since 2003. Its goal is "encouraging leadership and environmental stewardship to help young minds grow" and has inspired a series of projects with over 25 local schools in areas including waste reduction, renewable and alternative energy sources and energy conservation.
ENMAX 2008 Annual Report Top Winner
The Oilweek Magazine/ATB Financial Annual Report competition honoured ENMAX with the Apex Award for the best annual report overall and for outstanding editorial and design in the government/public sector category. Being recognized for excellence in corporate reporting is important to ENMAX, as we strive for clear and transparent disclosure.
ENMAX 2008 Corporate Responsibility Report Earns Platinum MarCom Award
ENMAX employees are an important audience for our Corporate Responsibility report, which has been published annually since 2007. ENMAX's second Corporate Responsibility report, published in 2008, garnered a Platinum MarCom Award from the Association of Marketing & Communication Professionals for the efforts we made to promote the report to employees, including the use of internal and external websites and a hard copy summary report.
ENMAX One of Alberta's "Most Respected Corporations"
ENMAX is becoming known for our pioneering efforts when it comes to applying new technologies for power generation and in 2009, Alberta Venture magazine named ENMAX one of Alberta's Most Respected Corporations, recognizing the culture of innovation we've developed. Our efforts to test various micro-generation technologies in employees' homes and to promote alternative generation options, like more natural gas-fired facilities, is helping raise awareness that a new model for electricity production is needed in Alberta.
Inaugural Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award
The Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award was established by the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Power & Energy Society in 2009. It recognizes people in the industry who have contributed in a significant way to making automation of electric utility distribution systems a reality. Jack Li and Dean Craig, both of ENMAX Power, were honoured to jointly receive the first-ever award for their vision and efforts in promoting automation technology. Distribution automation automatically switches distribution circuit faults to restore power to customers as quickly as possible and to date, has saved Calgary electricity customers more than 10 million minutes of outages.
Emerald Foundation Award Finalist
In April 2010, the Alberta Emerald Foundation announced that ENMAX was a finalist in the Business category for the 2010 Emerald Awards, which recognize environmental excellence in Alberta. ENMAX was nominated as a result of our collaboration with the Calgary Zoo in creating the new ENMAX Conservatory, which opened in 2009. The Alberta Emerald Awards will be presented in June 2010.
ENMAX Among Alberta's Top 50 Employers
ENMAX was again recognized as one of Alberta's Top 50 Employers for 2010 – a designation we have earned for the fourth consecutive year. The editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers highlighted a number of reasons why ENMAX is considered a top employer, including:
- new employees receive at least three weeks* of paid vacation, in addition to 10 personal paid days-off and a shutdown during Christmas;
- our organization considers previous work experience when determining the salary level of new employees;
- we help older workers transition to retirement with phased-in retirement options and assistance with retirement planning; and
- employees receive time off to enjoy the Calgary Stampede Parade – a proud western tradition.
ENMAX has made a concerted effort to create a workplace that offers diverse and challenging opportunities and competitive compensation and benefits. Flexible work practices, family-friendly offerings like on-site child-care and a 24/7 fitness facility also help attract and retain employees.
* ENMAX employees with at least 10 years experience on date of hire (using 20 years of age as a starting point for calculation purposes) will accrue vacation at the rate of four weeks per year, until the beginning of their fifteenth year of employment with ENMAX. ENMAX employees with less than 10 years prior experience (as defined above) will accrue vacation at three weeks per year until achieving 10 years prior experience or the beginning of an employee's eighth year at ENMAX, which ever comes earlier.