Skills
Demonstrate Safe Working Practices
- Identify, control and eliminate potential health and safety hazards
- Select, wear, adjust, use and maintain correctly fitting protective devices
- Perform evaluation and rescue procedures
- Apply basic first aid to treat various conditions
- Practice good housekeeping
- Provide training and instruction to coworkers
- Work within safe physical limits
- Maintain a safe working electrical environment
Communicate and Interact with Others
- Communicate with co-workers
- Communicate with customers and external organizers
- Report hazards, incidents, injuries, and environmental impacts
- Maintain documentation
Prepare a Job Plan
- Identify worksite considerations
- Determine job specifications
- Determine job material and equipment
- Establish and apply lockout, tagging and hold-off procedures to electrical equipment
Select, Operate and Maintain Tools and Equipment
- Select, inspect, maintain, and use hand and small power tools
- Inspect, operate and maintain vehicles and auxiliary equipment
- Set up and stabilize mobile equipment
Install, Maintain and Remove Power Systems Pole
- Identify and verify pole requirements
- Frame, erect and backfill steel, wood or concrete poles
- Straighten poles
- Remove poles
- Test and assess the integrity of the poles
Maintain Transmission Towers and Structures
- Conduct visual inspections on transmission towers and structures
- Service transmission towers and structures
Install and Maintain Underground Distribution Systems
- Assess and determine overhead and underground power system problems
- Diagnose problems of single and three phase transformers
- Diagnose problems in the power distribution station
- Isolate and restore power to a problem or affected area
Install and Maintain Underground Distribution Systems
- Install concrete or fiberglass foundations for equipment
- Install underground cables
- Install and remove underground primary and secondary junction boxes and switching cubicles
- Terminate and splice primary and secondary underground cables
- Test cables and connections
- Perform switching, isolating, and grounding operations of underground equipment
- Perform maintenance operations in an underground power system
Install, Maintain and Remove Transformers
- Identify and select the appropriate transformer for installation
- Install and energize pole mounted transformers
- Install, connect and energize padmount transformers and other underground system transformers
- Perform maintenance operations on transformer
- Remove a transformer
Install, Operate and Maintain System Protection, Control and Instrumentation Equipment
- Install, operate And/or remove power interrupting devices
- Ensure system power quality improvement
- Maintain metering transformers, metering devices and associated components
- Conduct current, voltage and phase rotation checks
Handle Energized Conductors Using Live Line Tool Method
- Maintain live line tools and equipment
- Install protective barriers
- Change insulators and relocate conductors using live line tools
- Maintain live line components
Select, Maintain and Operate Rigging and Hoisting Equipment
- Select required rigging and hoisting equipment
- Maintain hoisting and rigging equipment
- Perform the lift or move
For more information, see Ontario College of Trades Training Standards
