Training

TRAINING DEPARTMENT

JEFF SATTERFIELD | TRAINING MANAGER

We wanted to give some recognition to Eicaiah Solis, he competes in San Antonio to represent Helix Electric and the ABC of Nevada at the National Craft Championship competition. Eicaiah competed in January and won the skills competition.

The National Craft Championship honors the best the merit shop construction industry has to offer. NCC is a part of ABC’s effort to raise the profile of careers in construction and highlight the $1.1 billion that ABC member companies spend annually on workforce development. Each year the competition draws some of the nation’s most talented craft professionals and highlights the important role that craft skills education plays in the construction industry.

ROPER

BOOTCAMP

The first class of roper bootcamp has started. David Gilbreath has revamped the program and will be running both the classroom and jobsite trainings. The new program will have the ropers working through three phases of skills.

The first session will be on boxing and layout. The second session will cover drilling and pulling branch circuits. The final session will have them terminating and making up units. In addition to the jobsite work, the ropers will be assigned classwork to help round out skills to help make them productive. We will be running the program through the coming spring and summer. With the backlog of multifamily work, Dave and the ropers are going to be kept busy.

Electrical Safety Professionals has made some changes to the electrical qualifications card renewal process. To renew for Electrical Journeyman, you need 18 hours of instruction by approved providers. Master electrical you need a total of 30 hours. 8 hours needs to be from a code change class highlighting code changes to the current edition (2020 version) of the National Electrical Code. 4 hours must be on electrical safety based on the NFPA70E current edition. The balance of CEU’s can be on electrical code or safety related topics. The link to ESP’s website is https:// electricalsafetypro.org/?page_id=2008 here you will find the online application and information on testing and licensing.

We just received accreditation from ICC for a NFPA70E CEU class based on the 2021 edition, this will be open to all employees, no approval is required. We will be scheduling various CEU classes for the coming months.

If you have any questions on renewing or obtaining your license, reach out to the training department.

IT DEPARTMENT

FRANK FARINA | CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

We are reaching out to everyone to share more exciting news on changes with Helix’s IT infrastructure. We are beginning the transition of all things files @ Helix to a new platform called Egnyte. When this transition complete you will have access to any file, from any device, anytime, and anywhere (no VPN connection required). You will of course still need to have permissions to files to see them.

We are going to complete the rollout in phases. We will share more information and training as we work through these phases so stay tuned for regular updates.

The first phase will be to push Egnyte out to all Helix computers and to lay the foundation for next steps. This will be happening over the course of this week and next. At some point over this time, you will notice that you have a new H: drive and P: drive in File Explorer. The H: (Helix) drive is where all common files at Helix will go. The P: (Private) drive is where your private work-related files will go. Only you have access to the files in your P: drive (besides IT Administrators). Note that we have configured Egnyte to automatically sync the files in your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders from your computer to your P: drive. Can’t find Egnyte?

Reach out to the Service Desk at itsupport@helixelectric.com.

Use the ServiceDesk app on your Okta homepage to track your request

Effective immediately you will see an Egnyte chiclet/tile on your Okta Dashboard. This chiclet is an easy way to get into Egnyte and access your files in your browser. You are welcome to explore there but we will be sending more information and providing training on that shortly.

When Egnyte gets pushed to your computer you may see the following window pop up. Simply enter your email address and Okta will verify that it is you. You should only have to do this once.