Also called: High-Voltage Cable Splicer
Joins and repairs the thick underground power cables that run beneath cities.
You climb down into a manhole under a busy street, carefully strip and splice a cable as thick as your arm, and seal it so it lasts 40 years.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Apprenticeship, about 4 years after high school. A paid utility or union apprenticeship of about four years, often after starting as a lineworker helper, ending with a journeyman splicer card.
Ways in: Apprenticeship. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Electrical Lineworker (trade school).
Growing faster than average (about 7% over 10 years).
Low risk for 10 years. Cable sensors predict failures, but splicing high-voltage cable in tight vaults is precise handwork robots can't do.
Classes: Physics, Electrical CTE class, Algebra.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-9051.
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