Your Cooperative

McCone Electric, a rural electric cooperative, serves electric power to 14,400 square miles of eastern Montana. MEC's member owners have relied on our low cost, reliable electric service for over fifty-years. Eastern Montana is a fantastic place to live. The air is clean, the vast rugged prairie is full of wildlife and your next door neighbor is almost always nice.

Cooperatives are unique organizations. Unlike private corporations, which are owned and operated by a few select stockholders, cooperatives are equally owned by all the members they serve. Each member has one vote in electing a Board of Directors. There are nine directors (three from each district), who develop policies for McCone Electric Co-op.

The Board of Directors enlist the general manager of the co-op to implement the policies it develops. The general manager uses the co-op's employees to carry out the day-to-day operations of the co-op.

The co-op has three departments of operations: administration, operations, and member services departments. These departments are set up to handle the work loads of the co-op. The administration department processes billing and handles questions concerning bills. They also handle the co-op's computerized accounting system; as well as inventory control, capital credits, and material. The operations department is responsible for the construction and maintenance, as well as the operation of the co-op's electrical system. This department makes sure the system is operating properly. The member services department is responsible for many things, including keeping the members informed, doing energy audits, heat loss calculations, marketing, advertising, safety programs, electrical questions, etc.

All three departments were set up with one goal in mind, to provide quality service to the members of the co-op.

Current McCone Electric Employees

Steve Tilton                                                 General Manager

Circle Office Personnel

Sonja Arnston                                              A/P Payroll Accountant

Scot Brown                                                  Manager of Member Service/Safety & Compliance Manager

Vickie Brown                                               Consumer Service Representative

Jessica Franklin                                          Human Resource Specialist/Administrative Assistant

Willy Green                                                 Member Services Representative/Combination Technician

Theresa Haynie                                          Manager of Finance & Administration

Jennifer Hogan                                           Plant Accountant

Clay Nagle                                                  Manager of Operations

Nichole Sikveland                                       Consumer Accountant

Circle Line Personnel

Trevor Dean                                                Apprentice Lineman

Taylor Hanson                                             Sub-Foreman 

Nate Paine                                                  Apprentice Lineman                                         

Dillon Simons                                             Journeyman Lineman

Nathan Tuttle                                              Line Foreman

Tyler Walter                                                Journeyman Lineman

Jordan Line Personnel

Jonathan FitzGerald                                  Sub-Foreman

Cody Murnion                                            Journeyman Lineman

Adam Stanton                                            Sub-Foreman   

Kaiden Thomas                                          Apprentice Lineman