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Applications for both the Outside Line and Substation Technician Apprenticeships are currently closed. Submitted applications are being processed. Aptitude tests and interviews will be scheduled once applications are processed. Notifications will be sent via email.
For apprentices, we appreciate everyone’s patience while we manage our new website. As you may have noticed the usual access point for materials such as videos, study guides, vector practice packets and other JATC materials has changed. We plan to update this to a new permanent location. Until that is available, you can access these materials two ways: first by clicking here; second is to use the hamburger menu and select Study Guides under Apprentice Resources. With either option, enter your credentials associated with your previous Webservices account. From there this will be a familiar page to navigate. There will be another update once we relocate the material to its permanent location.
Who Are We?
The Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee of the California-Nevada Line Construction Industry (California-Nevada JATC) is a non-profit association designed to systematically train unionized workers for the outside electrical construction industry.
The main focus of the California-Nevada JATC is to keep the outside electrical industry within our two states with an adequate number of highly skilled journey level workers. We do this by offering two different apprenticeship programs: Outside Electrical Lineman Apprenticeship and Substation Technician Apprenticeship.
Train for this work with the California-Nevada JATC, and go from a new apprentice to a journeyman lineman in fewer than four years. With more than 500 line contractors in the organized electrical construction industry, you can be assured of meaningful, lifelong work – with opportunities for advancement.

Power Lineman
As a journeyman lineman you’ll build, maintain and repair the power lines that carry electricity to homes and businesses. When you apply for the California-Nevada Outside Lineman Program you’ll be taking the first step to a career that not only has a tremendous impact on the people you serve, but one that will have a positive impact on your future as well.
Substation Technician
As a journeyman Substation Technician you will build, maintain, operate, and repair electrical power substations, switchyards, and associated systems.
When you apply for the California-Nevada Substation Technician Program you’ll be taking the first step to a career that not only has a tremendous impact on the people you serve, but one that will have a positive impact on your future as well.
Governance
The California-Nevada JATC is governed by a Board of Trustees. The Board is made up of six (6) members; three (3) to represent the Western Line Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA), and three (3) members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
Trade Classes Offered
Need to recertify First Aid or CPR? Interested in becoming crane certified? Need to take an OSHA 10 ET&D class? We have that too.