Job Skill Superbook #20 Book 4. Utility Company Job Guide: Electricity, Telecom

To work a manual job at a utility company, you have to be young, in good shape physically and have good eyesight.

You need a CDL, commercial driver’s license because you’ll be a driving a truck to go around installing and repairing powerlines, water lines, etc.

Some companies do their own training.

Some unions do training and apprenticeships.

Some community colleges have certificate programs.

BIRMINGHAM ELECTRICAL JATC
5000 EAST LAKE BOULEVARD
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35217
bejatc.org
(205)849-5522
Fax: (205)849-5521

There are lamp-posts and utility lines everywhere. The people who put those wires up and fix them are called linemen.

You can get entry level jobs but the best way is to get some prior experience in electricity before you take a job with the phone company
or an electric utility company climbing poles or being raised in a truck to work on the wires. Call the local power and telephone companies and ask them about the training to become a lineman or woman.

hotlinelearning.com, hot line is the online technical training center for electric utility workers and contractors.


They need people to climb cellphone towers to do maintenance on them. They are quite high at 500 feet. You have to be fit to climb them. Ask local cellphone companies how you can become a tower climber.

Alabama

Alabama Power, a Southern Company
alabamapower.com/about-us/career.asp

Chain Electric Company
jobs-chainelectric.icims.com/jobs/search?pr=0&

Decatur Utilities
decaturutilities.com/employment.html

Henkels & McCoy
jobs-henkels.icims.com/jobs/intro

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative, Inc.
powersouth.applicantpro.com/jobs/

Tennessee Valley Authority
jobs.tva.com

Wiregrass Electric Cooperative
wiregrass.coop/careersAtWec.aspx

United States Utility Company Websites in Alphabetical Order

alabamapower.com, Alabama Power [Southern Company]
alleghenypower.com, Allegheny Power [east coast holding company]
ies-energy.com, Alliant
alpenapower.com, Alpena Power Company
aep.com, American Electric Power,(featuring interactive industrial site database)
ameren.com, Ameren,(nee Union Electric & CIPSCO)
about.apsc.com/homepg/default.asp, APS -Arizona
aenergy.com, Atlantic Energy east coast [Conectiv = Delmarva Power & Atlantic Energy]
avistacorp.com, Avista Corporation


Rural Electricity Websites

nreca.org, NRECA - National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
rurdev.usda.gov, USDA Rural Utilities Service - RUS.

United States State Regulatory Agencies

naruc.org, NARUC - National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners


National Electric & Gas Utility Associations

abate-energy.org, Association of Businesses Advocating Tariff Equity

abccert.org, Association of Boards of Certification

acaa-usa.org, American Coal Ash Association

acca.org, Air Conditioning Contractors of America

aeecenter.org, Association of Energy Engineers

aeic.org, Association of Edison Illuminating Companies

afce.org, Alliance for Competitive Energy,The Alliance is a group of large and small utilities throughout the nation.

afe.org, Association for Facilities Engineering

afgi.org, Association of Financial Guaranty Insurors

agcc.org, American Gas Cooling Center

aham.org, Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers

If you think about it, telecommunications is the career of the future. We got telephones, internet, satellite TV, cable TV, GPS, radio, etc. Everything is gonna be wireless sooner or later.

There are many basic infrastructure jobs in laying thing like cable, electric and telephone wire, installing switches, semiconductors, repairing blown equipment, etc.

Gale at galegroup.com, 800-877-gale, publishes the Telecommunications Systems & Services Directory.

There's an article for "telecommunications equipment installers" at bls.gov/oco.

National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
(703) 519-8035
natoa.org

Nati