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Member Handbook > OJT/Work Processes/Mandatory State Certification
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On-the-Job Training
Work Processes
Commercial Inside Wireman
Residential Wireman
Sound and Communications Systems (Voice/Data/Video) Installer
Mandatory State Certification
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING (OJT)
In order to be eligible for approval, a training program must comply with all applicable State and Federal laws and regulations. WECA's Training Programs are approved by State and Federal agencies. WECA and its approved-to-train Member Contractors must continually provide evidence of the following key commitments:
- Safe job site facilities and safe equipment sufficient to train WECA apprentices
- Skilled workers, who meet the criteria for journeymen or instructors, as trainers at the job site
- Adequate arrangement for related and supplemental instruction (classroom instruction)
- Ability to offer training and supervision in all work processes of the trade
JOB SITE VISITS
To help ensure that WECA approved-to-train Member Contractors understand their role in the above commitments, WECA staff periodically conduct prearranged job site visits to help educate the journeymen who help train WECA apprentices on the valuable roles both they and WECA instructors play in training a qualified workforce. All WECA approved-to-train contractors must cooperate in helping coordinate these visits.
WORK PROCESSES
COMMERCIAL INSIDE WIREMAN
Over the course of a five-year apprenticeship, a WECA apprentice must complete a total of 8,000 OJT hours.
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8,000 Hours |
| WORK PROCESSES |
Min. |
Max. |
1. Planning and Initiating Project
- Establishing temporary power during construction
- Establishing grounding systems - i.e., ground rods, rings, ufer
- Can include slab and site work - exterior, surveying, digging, forming, pouring pole bases, transformers, pads or other poured-in-place concrete for electrical systems, excavation, rock crane work, grouting racking, trenching, conduit placement, leveling and trench and backfill, pull lines and mandrel of all utility conduits
- Setting or pouring concrete vaults, manholes, pull boxes or transformer pads
- Material handling and management
- Blueprints/layouts
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650 |
850 |
2. Planning and Installing Branch Circuits
- All underground and in slab raceways
- Raceways under 2" - includes all conduit under 2", cable, boxes, supports above grade (rough-in)
- Wiring/Installing - includes branch wire
- Splicing/Terminating - installing and terminating all devices, i.e., receptacles and switches
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2,800
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3,500
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3. Establishing Power Distribution and Panels within Project
- Raceways 2" and over - includes all conduit, boxes, supports above grade
- Service and feeder cables - includes feeder wire
- Panel boards over 200 amp, setting and terminating main switchgear, distribution boards, panels
- Transformers
- Bus duct
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1,100
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1,300
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4. Trim, Finish and Hookup
- Installing fixtures, recessed fixture housings and motors
- Final connections of power to any motor or resistive load such as HVAC and other specialties
- Terminating all lighting poles, wall packs, bollards and other exterior light fixtures
- Splicing/Terminating - installing and terminating all devices, i.e., receptacles and switches and final connection to lighting fixtures inside building
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1,200
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1,500
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5. Special Systems- includes all conduit, cable, boxes, supports and devices associated with special systems
- Instrumentation and process control systems
- Energy management system
- Intercom-signal systems
- Telephone, data, video and alarms
- Motor control center
- Theatre, nurse call, Halon fire suppression and other such specialty systems
- Installing and terminating wire for lighting control systems and any other control system
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1,100
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1,700
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6. Startup, Testing and Troubleshooting Electrical Systems
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200
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300
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| Note: The minimum hours shown above in each category, when totaled, do not equal the required 8,000 hours. Between the minimums and maximums shown, if lacking minimum OJT hours an apprentice needs to work an additional 950 hours to achieve the required 8,000 hours. The 950 hours can be accumulated throughout all the categories, but must not increase the maximum hours shown in any category. |
950
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RESIDENTIAL WIREMAN
Over the course of a three-year apprenticeship, a WECA apprentice must complete a total of 4,800 OJT hours.
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4,800 Hours |
| WORK PROCESSES |
Min. |
Max. |
1. Planning and Initiating Project
- Establishing temporary power during construction
- Establishing grounding system
- Layout for devices and appliances
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250
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750
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2. Installing Underground, Slab and Power Distribution Systems
- Includes work in foundation, slabs, and installing conduit. Includes all work involving joint trench such as excavating, conduit, pull lines and conductors. Includes work on site light systems including conduit, wire, splice boxes, pole base building and pouring, setting light poles, carport work and landscape lighting
- Power Distribution: Includes main switchgear, feeders, sub panels and panels. Includes installing meter mains, switchgear, meter banks and sub panels including conduit terminations, installing secondary and/or sub feed conductors, phase equipment, and terminating conductors
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250
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750
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3. Rough - In
- Layout
- Box
- Drill
- Run wire
- Make-up
- Power Distribution: Includes installation of main switchgear, feeders, sub panels and panels, meter mains, meter banks and sub panels including conduit terminations, secondary and/or sub feed conductors, phase equipment, and terminating conductors
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1,500
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2,500
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4. Trim Out
- Installing devices, plugs, switches
- Installing fixtures
- Equipment hookup, which includes terminating and hook-up of appliances, and disconnects
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500
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1,500
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5. Special Systems
- Includes layout, installation, termination and punch down, troubleshooting, certification and service from both building and site, and making up satellite base and fixtures
- Intercom and signal systems
- Telephone, television, data, video, and security alarms. Category five wiring and any other control or low-voltage systems
- Home automation/energy management systems
- Swimming pools/spas
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250
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750
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6. Troubleshooting and Repairing Electrical Systems
- Power testing
- Service work
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100
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500
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| Note: The minimum hours shown above in each category, when totaled, do not equal the required 4,800 hours. Between the minimums and maximums shown, if lacking minimum OJT hours and apprentice needs to work an additional 1,950 hours to achieve the 4,800 hours. The 1,950 hours can be accumulated throughout all the categories, but must not increase the maximum hours shown in any category. |
1950
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SOUND AND COMMUNICATIONS INSTALLER
(VOICE/DATA/VIDEO, or VDV)
Over a three-year apprenticeship, a WECA apprentice must complete a total of
4,800 OJT hours.
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4,800 Hours |
| WORK PROCESSES |
Min. |
Max. |
1. Component Installation
Will
perform work of any of the following or other Systems but is not limited to
any one or all listed: Fire Alarm, Telephone, Sound Video, Burglar, Data,
Annunciator, Intercommunication and Facsimile and Reception where not the
work of an inside wireman elsewhere determined
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750 |
n/a |
2. Wire and Cable Installation
Will
perform the work of any of the following or other Systems but is not limited
to any one or all listed: Fire Alarm, Telephone, Sound Video, Burglar,
Data, Annunciator, Intercommunication and Facsimile and Reception where not
the work of an insider wireman elsewhere determined
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1,500 |
n/a
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3. Splicing and Termination
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1,300 |
n/a |
4. Maintenance and Service
Perform work necessary to keep installed systems
operating as specified by system design. Perform troubleshooting, testing,
repair and replacement of system components and devices as needed. |
750
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n/a
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5. Testing and Start-Up
Performed all necessary to insure installed system(s)
functions as ordered, designed and installed. |
500
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n/a
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MANDATORY STATE CERTIFICATION
All Commercial, Residential and VDV apprentices MUST take, and pass, the State Electrician Certification Examination before their graduation date to be graduated from WECA. If an apprentice does not do so, he or she will not be given a certificate of graduation. If an apprentice finishes his or her program without taking and passing the exam, he or she has six months from the date of graduation to do so and receive his or her certificate of graduation.
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