Also called: Powerline Technician Instructor, Line Construction Instructor
Teaches students to climb utility poles, set wires and work safely around high voltage at lineworker training schools.
At 7 a.m. you lead a group up a field of practice poles, checking every climber's gaff and harness. You teach how to frame a crossarm, run a bucket truck and rescue a hurt partner from the top of a pole. Afternoons are classroom lessons on electrical theory and safety rules.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Apprenticeship, about 4 years after high school. Journeyman lineworker after a 3-4 year paid apprenticeship, plus years of field work.
Ways in: Apprenticeship, On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Electrical Lineworker Technology.
Growing faster than average. Grid upgrades and storm repairs create big demand for lineworkers.
Low risk for 10 years. Nothing replaces an instructor coaching students up a pole and around live lines safely.
Classes: Physics, Electrical CTE, PE (strength).
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-1194.
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