Job Corps students have two years to complete their academic and vocational training. Students are able to work at a pace set forth by their learned skills. Typically, students spend eight months to one year enrolled in the program at Delaware Valley Job Corps.

Electrician Helper Vocational Students are required to demonstrate proficiency in the following fields:

 

Electrical Core Skills

Safety:

  1. Inspects, maintains, and uses appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
  2. Follow safety rules.
  3. Demonstrates safety precautions during all tasks and tool operation.
  4. Works safely with and around others.
  5. Indentifies safe work site procedures, including fall protection, confined and open work areas, and heavy equipment.
  6. Takes corrective action when faced with a safety hazard.
  7. Handles, stores and disposes of hazardous materials acording to OSHA, MSDS, and manufacturer's instructions.
  8. Demonstrates safety precautions when working with and around electricity.
  9. Demonstrates proper lifting techniques.
  10. Demonstrates Lock Out/Tag Out procedures.

Tools:

  1. Identifies hand tools.
  2. Identifies portable power tools.
  3. Identifies stationary power tools.
  4. Employs safe and proper use of hand tools.
  5. Employs safe and proper use of portable power tools.
  6. Employs safe and proper use of stationary power tools.
  7. Cleans and stores tools.

Trade Math:

  1. Converts measurements from feet/inches to decimals and vice versa.
  2. Calculates square foot and linear measurements.
  3. Solves construction problems using whole numbers and fractions.
  4. Solves construction problems using decimals.

Blueprints and Building Codes:

  1. Reads and interprets building plans (floor plans, sections, elevations).
  2. Interprets and follows blueprints, plans, and electrical specifications.
  3. Interprets drawing and electrical symbols.
  4. Employs Architecture Scale to determine measurements from building plans.

Temporary Work Platforms:

  1. Identifies scaffolds and components.
  2. Safely erects and dismantles scaffolds and platforms.
  3. Safely erects and uses ladders.
  4. Demonstrates the accurate use of safety harness and tie off techniques.

Measurement:

  1. Measures using tape or ruler accurately to the nearest 1/8".

Electrical Core Skills

Fasteners:

  1. Identifies nail, screw, bolt, and staple types, sizes, and uses.
  2. Identifies various fasteners, anchors, sizes, and uses.

Load Center:

  1. Identifies components and their uses.
  2. Shapes and terminates branch circuit wiring in a load center.

Raceway Systems:

  1. Calculates raceway bends, saddles, and offsets.
  2. Measures, cuts, and bends to specifications.
  3. Installs raceway.

Basic Concepts of Electricity:

  1. Identifies and applies basic provisions and purpose of National Electric Code 90 and 100.
  2. Identifies basic electrical terminology.
  3. Employs voltmeters, ammeters, and ohmmeters.
  4. Installs residential 120 volt circuits.
  5. Installs low voltage circuits.

Luminaries and Other Electrical Devices:

  1. Installs luminary fixtures.
  2. Connects switches, receptacles, and outlets.
  3. Installs GFCIs and AFCIs.

Trouble Shoot and Repair Electrical System:

  1. Performs voltage and current checks on energized systems; panel boards, circuits, appliances, etc.
  2. Performs continuity checks on de-energized circuits.
  3. Analyzes non-functioning wiring and equipment.
  4. Conducts appropriate tests.
  5. Makes required repairs.

Counter Skills:

  1. Identifies and defines materials and parts.
  2. Takes physical inventory.
  3. Maintains and processes inventory.
  4. Locates item and cost in parts catalog.
  5. Locates and pulls parts from inventory bins.
  6. Inspects deliveries for damages and shortages.

Lighting Maintenance

Branch Circuits and Switch Controls (per NEC 210):

  1. Installs lighting circuits.
  2. Installs lighting and receptacle circuits.
  3. Installs luminaries (fixtures) and fan outlets.
  4. Installs low and high voltage switch controls (per NEC 404).
  5. Checks voltage, current, and continuity in luminaries, switches, and receptacles.

Indoor Circuits (per NEC 410):

  1. Installs track lighting and dimmer lighting circuits.
  2. Installs lay in fixtures/recessed fixtures.
  3. Installs luminaries (fixtures).

Outdoor Circuits:

  1. Installs outdoor branch lighting circuits.
  2. Installs garage lighting and door opener circuits.

Commercial/Industrial Electrical Principles

Commercial Safety:

  1. Identifies increased dangers of working on a high rise building, shafts, riser openings, holes in decks, welding set, etc.
  2. Identifies safety procedures for working near edges of high rise buildings.
  3. Identifies increased danger of working with high voltage.

Pipe:

  1. Bends pipe up to 2" with bending machine.
  2. Bends concentric pipe from panels or service to risers.
  3. Fastens pipe vertically and horizontally using straps, hanging supports, and racks.

Cabling:

  1. Describes the principles of raceway installation in block/brick walls.
  2. Installs conduit underground using PVC and rigid conduit.
  3. Explains the uses of pulling machines, pulling wheels, and baskets.

Temporary Power:

  1. Installs temporary wiring at construction sites.

Industrial:

  1. Reads simple motor control circuits.
  2. Wires stop/start/forward/reverse magnetic starters.
  3. Installs rigid/IMC conduit.

Generators, Motors, Alternators, and Batteries:

  1. Describes power production and distribution.
  2. Identifies the difference between single-phase and 3 phase motors.
  3. Identifies basic control circuits.

Fiber Optics

Principles:

  1. Describes the principles of fiber optic cabling, speed, cost, etc.
  2. Describes basic terminology used in fiber optics, bandwidth, cone of acceptance, etc.
  3. Identifies basic fiber optic components and their purpose.

Cable:

  1. Identifies characteristics and uses for fiber optic cable types.

Tools:

  1. Identifies and demonstrates the use of fiber optic tools.
  2. Identifies and demonstrates the use of fiber optic test equipment.

Devices:

  1. Identifies and demonstrates the use of fiber optic devices.
  2. Installs cable in splice tray and cabinet.

Connecting Methods:

  1. Identifies components and uses of a generic ST/SC fiber optic connector.
  2. Identifies and demonstrates preparation procedures of fiber optic connections.
  3. Identifies, installs, and inspects a mechanical splice.

Cable Testing:

  1. Performs a continuity test on a fiber optic patch cable.
  2. Performs a continuity test on a spool of fiber optic cable.
  3. Demonstrates the procedures for performing a loss test.
  4. Demonstrates use of a power loss meter to measure attenuation in fiber optic cable.

Cabling

Installation:

  1. Identifies cable terminology.
  2. Identifies cables and their characteristics and uses.
  3. Identifies cable installation industry standards, national/local building codes.
  4. Identifies cable jacket markings.
  5. Demonstrates techniques to fish cable through ceilings, walls, floors, conduit, innerduct, risers, and firestops.
  6. Installs wall outlets, caddy plates, junction boxes, outlet plates, etc.
  7. Installs surface-mounted raceways, support hardware, and cable supports.
  8. Labels cables at termination ponts.

Hardware, Tools, and Equipment:

  1. Identifies connector types and their uses.
  2. Identifies network cabling hand tools and their uses.
  3. Identifies network cabling testers and their uses.

Twisted Pair Cabling:

  1. Identifies the components and characteristics of twisted pair cables.
  2. Identifies types, categories, and performance ratings of twisted pair cables and their uses.
  3. Identifies types and components of modular plug connectors.
  4. Identifies wiring configurations.
  5. Terminates patch cables using UTP and ScTP modular plugs.
  6. Identifies multiple cable faults that may simultaneously occur in network cabling.
  7. Demonstrates continuity testers on patch cables.
  8. Troubleshoots and corrects opens, shorts, split pairs, reversals, and transposals in network cabling.
  9. Performs tone and trace tests.

Horizontal and Backbone Cabling:

  1. Identifies terminology related to horizontal and backbone cabling.
  2. Identifies basic cabling standards to meet industry standards for cabling.
  3. States the 4 pair twisted color sequence from memory.
  4. Identifies components and characteristics of hardware components used in horizontal and backbone cabling.

Coaxial Cabling:

  1. Identifies the types and uses for coaxial cable.
  2. States teh composition of coaxial cable.
  3. Terminates coaxial cable to F-Type connectors.
  4. Terminates coaxial cable to BNC connectors.
  5. Tests terminated cables.

STP Cabling:

  1. Identifies the types and uses for 2-pair STP cable.
  2. Terminates 2-pair STP cable in UDC connectors.
  3. Tests terminated cables.

Electrical Fundamentals

Concepts of Electricity:

  1. Describes basic provisions and purpose of National Electric Code 110 and 250 for residential electricians.
  2. Describes Ohms Law.
  3. Identifies a single and three-phase service.

Single-Phase Load Centers:

  1. Identifies components and their uses of associated with load centers.
  2. Installs appropriate size service and panel boards.
  3. Selects and installs overcurrent protection.
  4. Installs service ground.
  5. Selects and installs appropriate types of cables and conductors.
  6. Selects and installs appropriate types of connectors and raceways.
  7. Installs equipment grounding.

Residential Circuits:

  1. Identifies components and their uses associated with residential circuits.
  2. Determines general wiring requirements.
  3. Installs appropriate cables - Nonmetallic Sheathed, Metal Clad, Armored.
  4. Installs underground feeder and sub-panels.
  5. Installs special purpose residential 120 volt circuits.
  6. Installs thermostat controlled electric resistance-heating equipment.
  7. Installs track lighting and dimmer switches.
  8. Installs luminary fixtures.
  9. Connects switches, receptacles, and outlets.
  10. Installs GFCIs and AFCIs.
  11. Installs appliance circuits.
  12. Installs ceiling suspended paddle fans.

Raceway Systems:

  1. Lacates existing junction boxes and raceways.
  2. Determines, calculates length requirement and installs raceway.
  3. Installs boxes and enclosures.
  4. Installs raceway in metal studding.