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Serves as an entry-level Electrician (Apprentice), entering at the Step 2, requiring 8,000 hours (48 months) in a systematic training program. The goal of this training program is to provide experience, combined with mechanical and operational instruction aimed at developing the apprentice's knowledge, skills, and abilities to assume the duties of a journey level Electrician. Apprentice training program is formulated by the Missouri Basin Region Joint Apprenticeship Committee in cooperation with the Department of Labor's Office of Apprenticeship. The program is comprised of on-the-job training supplemented with required classroom instruction and correspondence courses at progressively increased levels of both practical and mechanical complexity.

The full performance level of this training program is a journeyman Electrician. At the journeyman level, the incumbent will install, maintain, and troubleshoot issues with electrical equipment and devices in electric generating stations, and other ancillary facilities. Install and services electrical and solid state equipment such as generators, exciters, governor controls, transformers, power circuit breakers, battery systems, various types of switches, and switchboards; install metering, relaying, recording, and control devices with little or no immediate supervision at the journeyman level. Operates high-voltage switches and related devices. May perform electrical maintenance and repair of bridge and gantry cranes, and elevators as qualified, utilizing a variety of logic sequences and solid state circuitry. Properly installs protective grounds to protect workers.

Promotions to the next salary levels are neither guaranteed nor automatic, but based on supervisor initiation and meeting training requirements.