Best Places to Work: Summit Utilities Inc.

Summit Utilities is a growing natural gas utility providing service to homes and businesses in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Being part of the Summit Utilities team means embracing excellence and innovation, committing to safety each and every day and seeing to it that employees do all they can to serve each other, the customers and the communities where they live and work.

Summit strives to create and embrace a diverse work environment that demands engagement and celebrates new and varying ideas.

As a company, Summit understands that home and family are important, and it works hard to provide employees a generous benefits package designed to support them at work and at home. Summit also provides 90 days paid at 66.67% for new parents, and it can be taken intermittently within 12 months of the birth or adoption of a child.

Every employee receives 20 paid hours a year to volunteer in their communities and employee recognition comes from the Blue Flame Program and the monthly PEAKS (Pioneering, Excellence, Agility, Kindness and Safety) nominations and selection.

The holiday decorating contest is an anticipated event, and Summit has been known to help employees cool down with snow cones when the temperature hits triple digits.

Summit has embraced flexible hours and remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, ramped up existing safety practices and devised safe work protocols. Employees made creative use of internal communications tool The Pipeline to hold virtual book clubs, trivia games and share photos of their pets.

DID YOU KNOW?
Summit Utilities Inc. has won six consecutive, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield “Blue and You” wellness competitions.

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