Overhead Lines Advanced Apprentice – Penwortham

Overhead Lines persons are overhead line engineers who work at height constructing, maintaining, testing, repairing and replacing overhead lines and equipment. In the projects team, you’ll work on distribution systems up to 132kV.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands‑on experience.

The apprenticeship programme takes approximately three years to complete, and you’ll spend your first 12 weeks being inducted onto the programme at one of our Training Centres. You’ll earn while you learn and develop your knowledge, skills and behaviours to become a Power Networks Craftsperson, achieving a City & Guilds Level 2 Qualification in Electrical Engineering.

Your training will include periods of on‑the‑job training and development, learning from an experienced and qualified Overhead Linesperson. Following a formal assessment of your knowledge, skills and behaviour, you’ll become a qualified Overhead Linesperson yourself.

You will represent National Grid and carry out work handed down by other areas of the business.

Join us, and we’ll see you participate in craft skills activities on the live LV network, on dead LV, HV and EHV circuits (live HV circuits if part of a Hot Glove team). You’ll help with network operations, connect generators and services and organise your own projects.

You’ll also:

• Construct and alter overhead lines, install pole‑mounted plant, run and terminate cables to plant and overhead lines
• Carry out routine inspection, maintenance and repairs of overhead equipment
• Record asset routes, details and positions
• Record plant details
• Locate and identify cables, test insulation, phasing and continuity on LV cables
• Test earthing, voltage, phasing and phase rotation
• Write outage requests and switching programmes for simple outages