Linemen Complete Advanced Education Programs
Co-op lineworkers are advancing skills at Nash Community College
This year, Nash Community College recognized 11 electric cooperative linemen for completing advanced education work in the college’s Electric Lineman Technology program. Ten earned advanced certificates for completing 17 college-level credits; one earned a diploma for completing 36 college-level credits; and one completed work for his associate degree, completing 66 college-level credits.
The program includes Job Training & Safety courses in the classroom and outdoors on a specially-designed training field built by North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives. Program participants learn skills such as overhead line construction, underground line construction and the National Electrical Safety Code. Beyond classes in line work and energy management, they can take courses toward an associate degree ranging from writing and math to critical thinking, computers and communication.
Since the program began in 1998, 19 co-op linemen have graduated with an associate degree in Electric Lineman Technology. The community college program is supported entirely by the electric cooperatives, but it also is attended by linemen from Duke Energy and municipal electric systems.
In 2017, 335 students are enrolled in North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives’ Job Training & Safety Training Schools at Nash Community College.
Listed are co-op linemen who completed the work during the spring semester of 2017.
Advanced Certificate
Four County EMC
Anthony (Brett) Noble
Haywood EMC
David Mehaffey
Pee Dee Electric
Eli Randall
Piedmont Electric
David Bolick
Roanoke Electric
Justin Francis
South River EMC
Eric Simpson
Tideland EMC
Joshua Bain
Jason Kitchen
Phillip Sawyer
Union Power Cooperative
Chris Griffin
Diploma
Halifax EMC
Brandon Robertson
Associate Degree
Union Power Cooperative
Chris Griffin
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North Carolina Lineworkers in the spotlight
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