Electrician - Construction

ApprenticeshipTraining

Program Description

Electrical First Year
Electrical Second Year
Electrical Third Year
Electrical Fourth Year

Electricians are skilled in installing, maintaining, troubleshooting and repairing: electrical distribution systems, lighting, fire alarms, motor control components, motors, generators, programmable logic controllers (PLC's), distributed control systems, DC and AC power systems, and DC and AC speed drives. These skills are used in the industrial, commercial and residential environments. The journeyperson electrician works in a challenging and rewarding trade where technology is constantly changing and competition is high.

This training is offered to indentured industrial electrical apprentices. Apprentices are required to attend technical training that consists of ten weeks per year over a four year period. This apprenticeship program requires that apprentices complete a set of core knowledge competency standards of technical training and, a complete set of core workplace standards for each level (year) of the apprenticeship. The apprentice will have to provide evidence to a certified assessor to prove competence for the core workplace competency standards. The completion of competency standards will be tracked by the use of a logbook provided for the apprentice and maintained by the apprentice for all four levels of the apprenticeship.

Click here: "Industrial Training Authority Apprentice & Red Seal Listings" to view information on the Electrician - Construction Apprenticeship and Program Profile.

Click here for: "Electrical-Construction Training Dates":

Costs:

Electrical apprentices must pay tuition and purchase the appropriate government published texts and required TRU lab manuals and worksheet packages. Students must have a current edition of the Canadian Electrical Code book. See the Apprenticeship Training Page for further details.

See the "Fees" section of the TRU Calendar for the statement of tuition fees.

Texts and supplies—contact TRU Bookstore for inquiries
$16.83 per month lab/studio fee

Application Information:

Currently there are waitlists for all trades - Apprentices will be accommodated on a first-come, first-served basis.

To get your name on a waitlist , click here: "TRU Trades & Technology Apprentice Application"

** Please note there are NO costs involved to have your name put on the waitlist. Once your name comes up on the list, we will contact you for further application instructions.

Contact:

For questions regarding Apprenticeship Training contact:

Click here to e-mail: Julie Dekowny
(250) 371-5659
Toll-free at 1-866-371-5659

Questions regarding the Electrical (Construction) Apprenticeship should be directed to:

Click here to e-mail: Peter Poeschek – Construction Trades Chairperson
(250)-828-5113

If you are not a currently indentured apprentice, please call the Industry Training Authority
at 1-866-660-6011 or, visit their web page at: http://www.itabc.ca/

NOTE: Prospective students are advised that a limited percentage of Thompson Rivers Electrical Trade Entry graduates find work and apprenticeships locally. The majority of graduates find employment outside the Kamloops region in the Lower Mainland, the Okanagan, Northeast BC, and in Alberta. All graduates who take the program will find employment if they are willing to relocate to work in this rewarding trade.

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