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
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3
Equivalent to A level. - Typical duration
- 30 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Engineering and manufacturing
- Maximum funding
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£27,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Skills
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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.