Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (EJATC)

 

Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (EJATC) of Watertown is a five year electrical apprenticeship program. We are co-sponsored by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 910 (IBEW 910) and the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Northern New York Chapter (NNY NECA). The apprentice combines on-the-job work experience with classroom training. The classroom training takes place 2 nights a week. Apprentices in both our Plattsburgh and Watertown programs would be assigned to one of our local electrical contractors (click here to see who are contractors are). As you learn by doing, you are also paid directly by the contractor with whom you are employed. In this process, you receive guaranteed promotions and pay raises, in addition to learning a new trade.

The best part of all...there's no cost for the training!!! Apprentices completing this program have no loans to repay.   You are simply responsible to pay for the books required to complete the program.

More Good News...

As your skills improve, and you complete -- and pass -- the class work, you will also receive pay increases. The pay structure for our apprentices is based on a six (6) period system (click here to see Our Wage Page. Our first year students start out as first period apprentices. After 1000 hours of on- the-job (OJT) training, and satisfactory progress in the classroom, you would then move up to the second period (or second year). After the successful completion of your first year classroom training and 2000 OJT hours, you would move up again to third period.

After the third period, apprentices would advance with each successful class year completion combined with 1500 OJT hours. Upon passing the 5th year in the classroom and completing 8000 hours of OJT, you would be granted Journeyman Wireman status. At this point, you would be awarded IBEW Journeyman papers, as well as a New York State certificate qualifying you as a Journeyman Wireman.

Your Journeyman status is recognized in every IBEW local in the United States and Canada. Plus our program is recognized by the American Council on Education (ACE), and is equivalent to 55 college credit hours .