Inclusion and diversity
Inclusion and diversity fuel Avista's culture
The strength of Avista has always been its people. As one of the leading utilities in the Northwest, Avista offers interesting career challenges and boundless opportunities to all our employees, to help them grow, contribute, and achieve. Together we continue to build a culture where difference is valued. By recruiting diverse perspectives we're able to deliver our best thinking in the work we do each day.
When we hire, we look for talented people who can deliver on the following:
- High performance results
- Authenticity
- Vibrant exchange of different viewpoints
- Spark creative solutions
In exchange, we offer the following:
- Safe work atmosphere
- Mutual respect, kindness, and trust
- Acceptance and inclusion of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, abilities, gender, race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, generational differences, and more.
- Sense of community with shared values of excellence, innovation, and social responsibility
Discover ways Avista helps individuals build successful futures when they join our team
Employee development programs
- Apprenticeships
- Aspiring Leaders Program
- Engineering development program
Student development programs
- Student engineering development program
- Student employment programs
- Scholarships
Other community career programs
- Support of veterans-to-work initiatives
- Hands-on activity events promoting construction trades to young women
- STEM program support