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Certified Line Worker Training
The Certified Line Worker Training Program will provide the necessary foundation for you to begin your line worker career as a helper/apprentice for an electric utility company.
For more information, call (504) 762-3093 or email jwade@dcc.edu.
- Offered at two locations
- Delgado Community College in New Orleans - 25 weeks
- Fletcher Technical College in Schriever - 16 weeks
- Financial aid may be available to those who qualify
- Graduates will:
- Obtain NCCER Certification
- Be qualified for employment as a line helper
- Receive job placement assistance
Line Helper/Apprentice
What will you do?
- Provide assistance to line crew by providing tools and equipment
- Make work area safe
- Drive equipment to job site
What skills do you need?
- Teamwork
- Be comfortable with heights
- Able to drive heavy commercial vehicles
- Listen and follow directions
- Come to work on time
Line Worker
What will you do?
- Alternating Current / Direct Current
- Climb Poles
- String Cable
- Install transformers and other pole top equipment
- Identify defective devices such as fuses, switches, and wires
- Lay underground cable
- Inspect and test power lines
What skills do you need?
- Apply knowledge learned during training to work environment
- Define how the various parts of the distribution system interact and diagnose how any changes or malfunctions in its parts will affect the system
- Solve problems involving limited options by applying common sense understanding such as selecting the correct cutting tool or proper size wire for a job
- Listen to and understand customers' needs
- Understand mechanical relationships in practical situations such as understanding leverage, how pulleys work and the direction gear arrangements turn
- Visualize length, width, thickness, height or depth and the differences among shapes, widths or lengths
Crew Lead/Senior Line Worker
What will you do?
- Supervise crew members
- Determine schedules and work activities
- Check for unsafe work conditions
- Communicate with customers
What skills do you need?
- Handle customer concerns and issues
- Assign priority or sequence to the steps for completing a job
- Coordinate several competing activities for efficient use of time and materials
- Adapt work procedures or priorities in response to changing or unforeseen requirements or conditions
Crew Lead/Senior Line Worker
What will you do?
- Schedule and oversee work of line crews
- Review crew member performance and provide feedback
What skills do you need?
- Financial management
- Computer skills for report preparation
- People management
Note: Most utilities use a pre-employment test. To pass you will need math, communications, problem solving and mechanical reasoning skills.
Program applicants should be:
- Over the age 21 (preferred)
- Willing and able to work in adverse and inclement weather conditions (heat/humidity, cold, light rain, etc)
- Able and willing to work extended hours and away from home if needed depending on work assignments and/or storm restoration (opportunity for overtime)
- Able to carry 50 lbs. or more for extended periods of time
- Able to read and write at 9th grade level or above
- Drug free and be willing to submit to a pre-program drug screen and periodic random drug screening
- Willing to refrain from the use of drugs or alcohol that may impair your ability to work safely
- Willing to submit to a background check that verifies your education, driving records and criminal history