Transmission journeyman training is intended for experienced line workers who have completed the D-B series. This level of training offers more intensive details, topics and skills.
A Level - Four Levels (two classroom and two field)
A100 Level (five-day classroom)
- Blasting/drilling pole holes
- Installing screw anchors
- Installing a Malone anchor
- Installing a bridge –Strand anchor
- Installing a Dome anchor
- Installing a Grillage anchor
- Excavating and sloping/shoring tower footers
- Erecting tower structures
- Erecting a 765kV aluminum structure
- 138/345 kV steel pole (energized) insulator replacement
A100 Level (five-day field)
- Installing tower footers
- How to operate a puller
- How to operate a tensioner
- Meggers
- The barehand work method
- 765kV bonding on (bare-hand method)
- Installing/removing 345kV dead-end insulators (double string) energized
- Installing/removing dead-end insulators (double string)
- Installing/removing 345kV suspension insulators (single string) energized
- Installing/removing 345kV V-string insulatos (single string) energized
A200 Level (five-day classroom)
- Conductor types (I.D./characteristics)
- Pulling conductors
- Dead–end 765kV conductors
- Open loop shield wire installation and maintenance
- Installing expanded anchors
- Erecting a 765 kV structure
- Aluminum/steel tower inspection
- Inspecting new work
- Checking phasing
- Framing a multi-pole dead-end structure
- Repairing earthen slips and slides
A200 Level (five-day field)
- Installing/removing running corner insulators (double string) energized
- Installing/removing dead-end insulators (single string) energized
- Installing/removing suspension insulators (single string) energized
- Installing/removing running corner insulators (single string) D-E
- Installing/removing suspension insulators (4 bundle guyed V) energized
- Splicing conductors
- Sag wire
- Installing/removing horizontal post insulators (single string) energized
- Installing/removing vertical post insulators (single string) energized
