HV Training and Jobs?

[Callum Jackson]

Hello


I was wondering if someone can give me a good idea of the steps needed to work my way into a HV job role. I'm just finishing my apprenticeship and I'm looking for the next step in my career, I have a almost exclusive industrial and commercial background and over the last five years have found my real interest is much more geared to the heavy side of electrical work.

Do I need previous training or experience or is there schemes run to make LV trained electricians HV qualified? i'm sure i've heard SSE train up there electricians to HV?

Any advise from people who have made the transition would be appreciated, how you did it and why?, what company you work for and what it is like.

Many thanks

 

[Pete999]

I was an AP HV and had to take an initial HV APs course which if I remember correctly had to be updated every three year and you had to pass an exam before you were made an AP (Authorised Person)

 

[Callum Jackson]

Did you do your qualifications off your own back or did your company fund you?

 

[Pete999]

Did you do your qualifications off your own back or did your company fund you?

My company funded me, the initial course was three weeks with an exam at the end of each week, and it was residential so you had course work every evening. The update was two weeks the same scenario.

Not sure what HV work you intend getting into, I was an AP which meant I did all the switching, locking off making safe and writing a switching program. This was an important role, if your company / firm looked after HV ring mains or HV radials my experience / qualification allowed me to switch and act as an AP on 11KV