You’ve worked with them before: talented individuals who are anxious for the real world of work. Where can they begin a rewarding lifelong career and have the opportunity to earn college credits at the same time? Powering America offers programs where individuals can learn valuable career skills in industry supported training, earn competitive wages right from the start while receiving on-the-job training, accumulate college credits, and open the door to unlimited opportunities in the expanding electrical and high-tech information systems industry. Our goal is to help you alert interested individuals to a career path that prepares them to become qualified professionals in an exciting and expanding industry.
Powering America careers can be broadly divided into four segments: “Inside” which includes standard electrical installation and maintenance for office buildings, retail stores, manufacturing plants, malls, and more; “Voice Data Video” which includes the installation and maintenance of computer networks, internet connections, fiber optic systems, life, health, and safety equipment, and voice, data, and video systems; “Outside” which includes specialized high-voltage cabling and equipment for utilities to bring electricity from the generating plants to the consumer and low-voltage cabling and equipment for long-distance communications; and “Residential” which includes electrical installations and maintenance in our homes and apartments.
Here’s what a Powering America career can mean:
College Credits – anyone completing our career education programs may be eligible to receive from 22 to 58 credits toward the award of an associate’s degree. We also enable credits earned in our apprenticeship programs to be transferred to a four-year college for application towards a bachelor’s degree. All of this without incurring debt!
Pay & Benefits – our apprenticeship programs combine formal, instructor-led class work with real work experience. It is possible for individuals to earn total wages of from $80,000 to $150,000 during a three- to five-year apprenticeship—earning while they learn. There are excellent benefits as well.
A Future – there dozens of Powering America career choices, from technical to managerial to entrepreneurial. The place to begin is with apprenticeship training. With it, it is possible to build exciting, challenging, and rewarding lifelong careers.
Powering America professionals say they enjoy this work. They will tell you it’s a great career because the work engages the mind. It is challenging, it can be physically demanding, but it is also rewarding. And, beyond that, our electrical and technical professionals can, and often do, become supervisors or take management positions within the companies they work for. In some cases, they even purchase the company or start a new company of their own. In one study it was found that 7 out of 10 of the owners and senior managers of electrical, line, and technical contractors started their careers as apprentices. Some may become electrical inspectors or safety professionals, some may return to school to become engineers or project managers, where credits earned under an apprenticeship program can be a real help.
Our programs don’t lock people into a job, they unlock opportunities. By contacting one of our local training centers, your students can decide where they start, and more importantly, how far they want to go.
A choice of programs is available to qualified men and women. Don’t let job titles like “journeyman” fool you, many women have built successful careers through our programs, and our industry is always on the lookout for bright, capable applicants regardless of gender or any other factor.
How Can I Get More Information?
The electrical training ALLIANCE is a nonprofit organization that works with the Powering America team to train the next generation of electrical workers. The ALLIANCE consists of 300 joint apprenticeship and training centers (JATCs) in the United States and Canada, more than 100 electrical industry manufacturers and training partners, and a vast network of public and private educational institutions from secondary school level to the university level.
Commercial and Industrial electricians (Inside Wiremen) install power, lighting, controls and other electrical equipment in buildings. The table below shows the approximate percentage of Linemen performing specific duties.
Voice Data Video Installer Technicians install circuits and equipment for low voltage systems, such as phones and computer networks. Many of the work processes of VDV Installer Technicians are listed below:
The table below shows the approximate percentage of Linemen performing specific duties.
