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Ventura County Joint Apprenticeship Training

ELECTRICAL APPRENTICESHIP (IBEW / NECA)

Ventura County Electrical Joint Apprenticeship Training instructors are experienced journeymen wiremen, graduates of the electrical apprenticeship program. These individuals have extended their education and are credentialed electrical instructors with the state of California.

Their extensive work experience and continual updating of instructional and technical skill qualify them as the best in the electrical construction industry.

A continual technical and educational advancement for our instructors.

Ventura County Electrical Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee, sends their electrical instructors to the University of Tennessee, one week per year,for four years, each attend classes in the latest instructional techniques in industrial vocational education. Many return to U.T. after graduating from the institute to take additional technical course such as Smart House, Local Area Network Design, Installation and Trouble Shooting and many other courses offered.

Ventura County Electrical Joint Apprenticeship Program, Five year apprenticeship classes are held at Ventura College. Apprentices are required to complete eight thousand hours of On the Job Training and a minimum of Two hundred thirty two hours per year in class study.

Experienced instructors provide apprentices not theory but, often have journeymen who volunteer their time provide specialized practical knowledge.

Mr. Herman Heist, retired IBEW Linemen, donates his time to work with IBEW apprentices on Knot tying and Rigging. After forty years in the trade, Herman holds offices such as, President and Business Manager. He see's the value of giving back to his industry.

The IBEW has many qualified Journeymen who as with Mr.Heist, share their knowledge and skill to better our apprenticeship and union.



Rick Allen
Fourth year

Education Training and Qualifications

  • U.S. Army
  • IBEW Electrical Apprenticeship
  • IBEW Journeymen Electrician 22 Years
  • Foreman
  • General Foreman
  • UCLA Instructor Certification Class
  • Third / Fourth Year Electrical Apprenticeship Instructor Fifteen Years

Curriculum

  • Motors
  • Synchronous
  • Wound Rotor
  • Capacitive Start
  • Motor Control
  • Schematic
  • Diagrams
  • Lab Hook Up
  • National Electrical Code
  • Commercial and Industrial Blue Prints
  • Transformer
  • Solid State Control
  • Fiber Optics
  • Computer

Comments:

Our industry is changing rapidly, the training that we provide is vital to the survival of craftsmen. In the type of work that we are exposed to industrial and commercial demands electricians that can problem solve, that are self motivated and that constantly attending classes to learn the latest methods in installations and design.

Our apprenticeship provides the basic building blocks for the journeymen, theory and hands on experience that is not afforded the apprentices in the field.

We are developing course material constantly for the journeymen and the apprentices to ful fill the need of our nation in providing qualified, skilled craftsmen.



Rick Kanatzar
Second Year

Education Training and Qualifications


  • Graduate University of Irvine
  • IBEW Electrical apprenticeship
  • Twelve years IBEW journeymen electrician
  • foremen
  • IBEW local 11 Journeymen class
  • Electronics
  • Vocational Education instructor University San Bernardino
  • NJATC / University of Tennessee Instructor Training Institute
  • Six years Electrical Third and Forth year apprenticeship instructor
  • Codeology instructor journeymen

Second year course description:

  • Blue print interpretation
  • Job management
  • Automatic Controls- Residential
  • Electronics Fundamentals
  • History of Labor law and the electrical movement
  • National Electrical Code
  • Grounding
  • Overcurrent protection
  • Earth testing
  • Load calculations
  • Test instruments
  • Lighting controls illumination
  • Harmonics
  • Trade secrets

Codeology:

Ten week course for journeymen wiremen offered through the Joint Apprenticeship Training Program. Codeology is a systematic approach and insight to the use of the National Electrical Code. The application of orderly approach to the assembly of the National Electrical Code and which replaces the "Haphazard Hunt and Hope System many of use."

Codeology allows the journeymen to decide where the answer to question is located before opening the code book.

Comments:

To impart as much knowledge and experience as possible onto the apprentices. Our future electrical depends upon our journeymen and instructors to train the apprentices on the job skills as well as technical. Journeymen training is a never ending process, the industry is continually changing. Codeology is an example of the benefits offered to the members of the IBEW to keep them aware and proficient in their trade.

CONDUIT BENDING CLASS

Gerrard Meichtry -

Our trade requires Journeymen and Apprentices to be proficient in conduit lay out bending and installation method.

Robert Moody -

Instructor Robert Moody provides such training, in theory as well as practical experience.


Don Feeley, Kevin Helferty, Francisco Gutierrez -
Bending a Greenlee "Chicago" Bender.

Ventura County Electrical Joint Apprenticeship Training Program has equipped their class room with the latest types of bending equipment such as the 855 Greenlee, 880 Hydraulic, Greenlee Chicago benders along with assortment of hand benders from one half inch to one inch.


Pat Saggs, Francisco Gutierrez, Todd Evans -
Performing bends on an 855 Greenlee.

All Apprenticees are required to attend one semester of conduit bending, eighteen weeks four hours of intense instruction and practice.

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IBEW Local Union No.952
3994 E. Main St. P.O. Box 3908, Ventura,Ca 93006
Tel: 805-642-2149 Fax: 805-658-7507
E-mail: geneh@ibewlu952.org