Apprenticeship training course

Power industry overhead linesperson (level 3)

Planned and reactive work to maintain and repair plant and equipment associated with power distribution or transmission overhead lines.

• Qualification level: 3 ; Equivalent to A level.
• Typical duration: 30 months
• Apprenticeship category: Engineering and manufacturing
• Maximum funding: £27,000 ; Maximum amount government will fund ; for apprenticeship training.
• Skills:
  Skills an apprentice will learn

  • Review drawings, instructions, or information to understand the task for example, work instructions, wiring diagrams, design specifications, utility plans, on-line search documents.
  • Prioritise and plan work with consideration for safety, environmental impact, quality, and cost.
  • Identify and organise resources to complete tasks for example, consumables.
  • Identify apparatus to be worked on.
  • Conduct plant or vehicle checks.
  • Receive and clear a safety document (permit to work). Brief a working party.
  • Identify hazards and risks and apply control measures.
  • Apply health and safety procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, safe access and egress, demarcate the work area, working at height, confined spaces, COSHH.
  • Respond in the event of an emergency first aid situation including situations where there is electrical risk.
  • Apply measures to leave power work environments in a safe and secure condition for example, anticlimbing guards, danger notices, barriers, lighting.
  • Apply sustainability principles for example, minimising waste.
  • Segregate waste for reuse, recycling, and waste transfer.
  • Select, check, prepare, use or operate, and store personal tools and equipment.
  • Use working at height equipment for example, mobile working platforms, scaffolding, ladders.
  • Select, inspect, and use personal climbing equipment to access and manoeuvre to a work position at height on overhead line plant and apparatus.
  • Fit and operate a rescue device at height.
  • Select, check, and prepare resources.
  • Record information.
  • Identify areas for improvement. For example, in relation to quality, cost, time, safety, and environmental impact.
  • Communicate with others to give and receive information for example, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
  • Apply team working principles.
  • Report or escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
  • Produce or amend documents for example, handover notes, procedures, reports.
  • Use digital and information technology. Follow cyber security requirements.
  • Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.

Full information on Power industry overhead linesperson (level 3) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

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