Pacific Hydro named Employer of Choice in national award

The national HR Leadership Awards for 2009 has named Pacific Hydro as the winner of the Employer of Choice for companies with fewer than 1000 employees.

The award recognises Pacific Hydro's efforts to implement programs that build a healthy and productive workplace and is recognition of the Company's internal focus on building a high performing culture, ensuring staff have access to the high quality professional development opportunities and supporting continual improvement of management practises across the business.

"Pacific Hydro is passionate about staff development to help ensure that the business achieves its goals", said Pacific Hydro CEO, Rob Grant.

"We promote a healthy and happy workplace that fosters best practise and high performance while also creating a culture where people feel connected and motivated by the mission and objectives of the business."

Pacific Hydro has grown rapidly since its inception in 1993. Over the past five years alone the company has doubled in size and in the next five to ten years it will need to at least a double again if it is to achieve is business goals.

"Pacific Hydro plans to make a significant contribution to zero emission energy in Australia and around the world in the next ten years", added Mr Grant.

"We are a dynamic business in a substantial growth phase and we recognise that developing staff along the journey with us, who are commitment to the company and its objectives, is essential if we are to achieve our goals."

"It's clichéd but our staff really are our best and most important asset", added Mr Grant.

"They are committed to achieving the company's business goals and they are our advocates for sustainability with communities, governments and with other  business. We value the significant contribution our staff make and so it makes sense that we want to support them, their professional development and create a positive culture where they want to grow and contribute."

Pacific Hydro believes that being an employer of choice in this intensely competitive industry is what helps set it apart from the competition and ultimately provide superior value to its shareholders.