BULLETIN 2003-08
WORK PROCESS
ELECTRICIAN – JOURNEYMAN
O*NET/SOC CODE: 47-2111.00 RAPIDS CODE: 0159
Description:
Plans layout, installs, and repairs wiring, electrical fixtures, apparatus, and control equipment: Plans new or modified installations to minimize waste of materials, provide access for future maintenance, and avoid unsightly, hazardous, and unreliable wiring, consistent with specifications and local electrical codes.
Prepares sketches showing location of wiring and equipment, or follows diagrams or blueprints, ensuring that concealed wiring is installed before completion of future walls, ceilings, and flooring. Measure, cuts, bends, threads, assembles, and installs electrical conduit, using tools, such as hacksaw, pipe threader, and conduit bender.
Pull wiring through conduit. Splice wires by stripping insulation from terminal leads, using knife or pliers, twisting or soldering wires together, and applying tape or terminal caps.
Connects wiring to lighting fixtures and power equipment, using hand tools. Installs control and distribution apparatus, such as switches, relays, and circuit-breaker panels, fastening in place with screws or bolts, using hand tools and power tools.
Connects power cables to equipment, such as electric range or motor, and installs grounding leads. Test continuity of circuit to ensure electrical compatibility and safety of components, using testing instruments, such as ohmmeter, battery and buzzer, and oscilloscope.
Observes functioning of installed equipment or system to detect hazards and need for adjustments, relocation, or replacement.
May repair faulty equipment or systems. May be required to hold license. May cut and weld steel structural members, using flame-cutting and welding equipment.
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING:
APPROXIMATE HOURS
1. Preliminary Work
600
- Learning the names and uses of the equipment in the trade,such as kind, size, and use of cable, wire, boxes, conduits, and fittings, writches, receptacles, service switches, cutouts, etc.
- Learning names and uses of the various tools used in assembling this material, care of these tools, and other instructions necessary to familiarize the apprentice with the material and tools of the trade.
- Safety
2. Residential and Commercial Rough Wiring
2500
- Assisting in getting the material from stockroom.
- Loading truck and unloading material and equipment on the job.
- Laying out the various outlets, switches, receptacles, and other details of the job from blueprints or by direction of the Superintendent of construction.
- Laying out the system with materials to be used, where they are to be placed, and other details as to how they shall be run.
- Cutting wires, cables, conduit and raceway; threading and reaming conduit, boring and cutting chases under the direction of the journeyperson
- Installing various kinds of wires, cables and conduits in accordance with
- Assisting journeyperson in pulling wires, attaching wires to fishtape, and keeping wires from kinds of abrasions.
- Connecting conductors to switches, receptacles, or appliances with proper methods of splicing, soldering and typing.
- Installing service switches or load center and subfeeders and fastening up these parts, running raceways and pulling in conductors under the direction of journeyperson electricians.
- Assisting in preparing lists of materials used, including names, number of pieces, or number of feet, etc., for office records.
- Loading unused material and cleaning up job area.
3. Residential and Commercial finish Work
1500
- Connecting and setting witches, receptacles, plates, etc.
- Installing proper size and types of fuses for each circuit.
- Installing and connecting various kinds of fixtures.
- Tracing and polarity of conductors and devices.
- Testing the circuit for grounds and shorts and locating and correcting job defects.
- Assisting journeyperson in installing and completion of the National Board of Fire Underwriters and special local regulations-proper sizes of wires, services, conduits, etc.
4. Industrial Lighting and Service Installation
2000
- Installing rigid conduit, electric metallic tubing BX armored cable wiremolds on all types of heavy electrical equipment and major-size service entrance installation.
- Wiring all types (gas, oil, stoker, etc.) of heating equipment.
- Installing wiring and controls for air conditioning.
5. Troubleshooting
1000
- Repairing all kinds of electrical work.
- Checking out trouble and making repairs under supervision of electrician.
- Checking out trouble and making repairs without supervision.
6. Motor Installation and Control
400
- Installing overcurrent devices.
- Checking for proper installation and rotation.
- Installing replacement motors.
- Analyzing motor circuits and trouble-shooting.
- Installing emergency generators and controls.
- Installing pushbuttons, pilot lights, relays, timing devices, and interlocking controls.
TOTAL HOURS
8000
The apprentice shall receive theoretical related instruction for a minimum of 144 hours per
year, for each year of their apprenticeship, in all aspects of the trade listed below:
FIRST YEAR
Safety instruction
History
Present and future of the trade
Trade jargon
Tools and equipment
Mathematics
Applied Science
Introduction to Electricity and Electronics blueprint reading and specifications
SECOND YEAR
Mathematics for electronics
Electrical wiring, residential
Residential blueprint reading
D.C. Fundamentals and circuits
Technical communications
THIRD YEAR
Geometry and trigonometry
Applied physics
Mathematics for electricians II
Motors and generators
Commercial and industrial blueprint reading
Electrical wiring, commercial
FOURTH YEAR
Electrical wiring, industrial
Transformers
Electrical drafting
Applied electronics for industry
Electrical machinery
Analysis and repair
Social economics
Advanced blueprint reading and layout
