Lineman Apprenticeship - IBEW Local Union 1393

Linemen work on power lines or may work at power plants, focusing on lines and generators used for electricity distribution. They install and maintain the overhead distribution and transmission lines that move electrical power from power plants to local consumers such as businesses, homes and factories. Outside Linemen are often climbing poles or work in bucket trucks, installing or repairing electrical power lines out-of-doors.

Outside Linemen Apprentices will develop skills through employment in the following areas:

• Planning and initiating projects

• Follow OSHA and customer specific safety requirements

• Setting towers, poles and constructing other devices to support transmission/distribution cables

• Establish work positions for maintaining and repairing overhead distribution or transmission lines

• String new wire or maintain existing wire

• Install and maintain insulators

• Install and maintain transformers and other equipment

• Use climbing tools, hand tools, and heavy equipment on a daily basis

• Construct energized and de-energized circuits

• Transformers connections

• Delta and Wye transformer connections

• Ensure compliance with specific job safety rules

• Appropriate hand signals to use with ground crew and equipment operators

• Blueprints, including symbols used

ALBAT Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is an opportunity for inexperienced individuals to learn a career skill through actual "hands-on" training - not just reading about it in a book. 

ALBAT Electrical Power Line Apprentices are actual full-time employees of electrical contractors and earn excellent pay and benefits while they are being taught these skills by master craftsmen on the job. 

In addition to the on-the-job training, ALBAT apprentices receive related classroom instruction, which covers the techniques of the trade and also the theory behind the techniques. 

ALBAT Apprentices learn "how" on the job and "why" in the classroom. 

Apprenticeship Training

Because of the nature of Outside Electrical Construction Industry work, outside linemen are required to move about from place to place. It is also necessary for apprentices to travel from area to area, not only to contribute toward the progress of the job, but also to obtain the diversity of work experience required to become a competent Journeyman Lineman.

ALBAT apprentices must also attend related training sessions on their own time – generally, one four-hour session each ALBAT Training month, from September through June. Apprentices complete a course of study that includes 18 workbooks and 21 tests.

Minimum Qualifications for Apprenticeship

To meet minimum qualifications for apprenticeship, applicants must:
 

• Reside in the states of:  INDIANA, OHIO, ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN, KENTUCKY
• Minimum of 18 years of age
• Read, hear, speak, and understand instructions and warnings in English
• Able to work legally in the United States
• Provide a valid social security number
• Complete application form
• $25.00 application fee (nonrefundable)
• Education Background (provide all that apply):
  • Submit a transcript of high school grades with date of graduation or copy of diploma
  • GED exam score or copy of GED Certificate
  • Associate degree (or greater)
• Proof of valid Class A Commercial Driver’s License with air brakes, or copy of valid driver’s license with copy Class A Commercial Driver’s License Temporary Permit with air brakes
  • Date of birth and expiration date must be visible
  • License or Temporary Permit must be valid at time of application and at time of selection for apprenticeship
• Resume indicating present and previous employers, if any
• DD-214 to verify military training and/or experience if you are a veteran
• ALL APPLICANTS WILL BE SCHEDULED & ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE APTITUDE TEST PRIOR TO INTERVIEW