Apprenticeship – Year Three

The first semester of year 3 starts with “Alternating Current Theory”. In this class, you learn how the electricity that we use in our homes and businesses functions.

What factors affect the “flow” of electricity”? We’ll teach you about capacitance and inductance. In this semester, you discover the characteristics of motors and transformers.

“Commercial Wiring” is your next class. Commercial wiring encompasses the wiring of businesses, schools and restaurants. Many of the concepts you learned in “Residential Wiring” will be expanded on in this class. You’ll work on sizing the service for individual businesses and a shopping center. You’ll work in the NEC as it applies to commercial buildings, transformer installation rules, cooling units and sizing conductors

On your job, you will be assuming more responsibility. Your conduit bending skills are ready to be passed on to green (new) helpers. You will be wiring equipment (heating and cooling units) and “landing” panels (terminating wires on lugs and circuit breakers). After 5000 hours of OJT (approximately two and one half years), provided your progress in on-track, you will be at 75% of the Journeyman rate. At the end of your third year (6000 OJT hours), you should be at 80% of the Journeyman rate.