Number of X-Cel Conservation Corps graduates placed into full-time wastewater operator positions: 49

Employers who have hired X-Cel Conservation Corps graduates:

  • Woodard & Curran

  • Veolia

  • Pace Industries

  • Accurate Metal Finishing

  • Pulmuone Foods, USA

  • Watermark Environmental Inc

  • Home Market Foods, Inc.

  • Lowell Regional Wastewater Utility

  • Suez

  • Aotco

  • Coca Cola

  • Vernon, NY Department of Public Works

  • Rousselot

  • Twin Rivers Technologies

  • Triumvirate Environmental

  • City of Attleboro DPW-Wastewater Division

  • Weston & Sampson

  • Wind River Environmental

  • Hollingsworth & Vose Company

  • OMI, Operation, Maintenance & Investment

  • Mass Water Resource Authority

  • Dianne’s Fine Desserts

  • Dav-Tech Plating, Inc.

  • PPM Industrial Water Services

“I’d never been on a paid vacation before this job. I got to use some of that paid vacation time I get at my new job to go on a cruise, thanks to X-Cel Conservation Corps. It is a good job!”

“Our company has no openings for wastewater operators in Massachusetts, thanks to X-Cel Conservation Corps. We are very pleased with the XCC graduates we’ve hired.” - XCC employer partner

“I feel like I’m living in a dream! I can’t believe this has all happened so fast! I love this wastewater job and I’m making really good money.” - XCC grad

To date, X-Cel Conservation Corps has placed 49 graduates into full-time positions as wastewater operator positions with 24 different companies.

Currently X-Cel’s primary employer partners are Woodard & Curran and Veolia. Crew members who complete phase one with X-Cel Conservation Corps, apply to and interview with our employer partners, and then are placed into paid internships with the companies. Woodard & Curran and Veolia operate multiple wastewater treatment facilities in the Greater Boston area and interns are able to gain varied work experience in wastewater treatment at the different facilities. Interns are also encouraged to continue studying for higher level wastewater treatment license exams while participating in their paid internships.

We are seeking additional employer partners. There is currently funding available to reimburse employers for the wages for the paid internships.

If you are an interested employer please contact Don Sands at dsands@x-celeducation.org or 617-504-6261.