Training Department

TRAINING DEPARTMENT

JEFF SATTERFIELD | TRAINING MANAGER

We wanted to give some recognition to Eicaiah Solis as 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.

Eicaiah Solis in San Antonio

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 of which 8 hours needs to be from a code change class highlighting code changes to the current edition (2020 version) of the National Electrical Code and 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.