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SOUND ENERGY EFFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT (SEED) Project: (Also see the PDF at the bottom of this page)
Thanks to a US Department of Labor grant for job training and placement in the building energy efficiency sector, The Northwest Energy Efficiency Council (NEEC) will implement the Sound Energy Efficiency Development (SEED) project through a regional partnership of employers, Workforce Development Councils (WDCs), labor organizations, community and technical colleges, and One-Stop Career Centers. The SEED program will provide training and job placement assistance in energy efficiency assessment occupations in the Energy Efficient Building Construction and Retrofit and Energy Efficiency Assessment industries within the five counties within Washington state: King, Snohomish, Pierce, Kitsap, Clallam. Click here for information about training programs in counties around Seattle.
Please contact Ms. Russell Paez, Green Jobs Navigator at Northwest Energy Efficiency Council, for more information about SEED: 206-588-4984 / russell.paez@putnamprice.com. Visit the SEED website at http://www.neec.net/seed.
Click on the local utilities below to view their employment/apprenticeship websites:
Snohomish PUD - Tacoma Power - Seattle City Light - Puget Sound Energy
Utility Job Descriptions:
Cable Splicer
Cable Splicers splice, terminate, and maintain power cables in a network distribution system. They install and maintain conductors, transformers, network protectors, switches, and related electrical equipment. They also locate and repair electrical faults and perform physically demanding work in confined areas such as manholes, vaults and tunnels.
Electrician Constructor
Electrician Constructor work with electrical circuits while they install, maintain and repair equipment at substations. They perform work on commercial and residential transformers, conductors, circuit breakers, switches, and control devices. Electrical constructors read prints, construct major components of a substation, install wire and troubleshoot control circuits.
Generation Electrician Constructor
Generations Electrician Constructors work with electricity and provide service and maintenance to powerhouses and switchyards equipment. They perform work on transformers, exciters, electronic governor’s motor controllers, conductors, high voltage circuit breakers, switches, protective devices, and cutouts. Generation electrician constructors maintain, construct, troubleshoot and repair major components of powerhouses using blueprints, manuals and raw materials.
Line worker
Line workers install and maintain overhead and underground distribution and transmission electrical circuits. This includes installing and maintaining poles, wires, transformers, switches, terminations, underground cables, etc. Climbing wooden poles is an essential skill.
Meter Electrician
Meter Electricians install single and poly-phase, transformer-related, and self-contained meters as well as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) using wireless technology and instrument transformers.
Utility Construction Worker
Utility Construction Worker workers use hand, electric, pneumatic and power tools for the construction, maintenance and repair of underground electrical distribution system infrastructure and other components of city power grids. Utility construction workers are comfortable with manual labor, large machinery and roadside worksites.
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SEED flyer for Seattle area counties