Eddy Current
Senior Member
This probably isnt the right section, but does anybody know a good place to look for road work. Is there certain words to put into a job board search or what? Just wondering how people get these road work jobs.
I googled "travelling electrical work" or you might try an employment agency. Good Luck
This probably isnt the right section, but does anybody know a good place to look for road work. Is there certain words to put into a job board search or what? Just wondering how people get these road work jobs.
First you need to clarify if you want to travel for work, or if you actually want to work on roads
I thought you meant highway construction as well.
I know some guys who do power plants for GE. They travel. That might be a place to look. You can check with unions. And any big job like a stadium, highrise, etc. should have plenty of work which often requires bringing in people from outside the local region. Find out who does the EC for big projects by gorilla companies like Bovis, Lend-lease, Bechtel, etc. Those companies do power plants, airports, etc.
Also check into companies that build wind farms.
Oh, i didn't think of that, thanks.
not to be discouraging, but what you are looking for may not be
available easily to you.
Coincidentally one of the jobs i found when i put in traveling electrical apprentice is of a company called Interstates. Anybody ever heard of them? Im not certain if it is a traveling job though it says
"TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: For full time company employees, ability to travel to jobsites with +/- 75 miles from office is expected." that doesnt really sound like a job that would travel around to different states to me.
http://interstates.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req=98896&&#job
Try google Electrical Outage and Shutdown work . Used to do a lot of that when I was younger . A lot of companys looking for Craft people to travel . Once you get on one of these jobs you'll start hearing from people about work going on elsewhere and work that is comming up . A lot of people have little travel trilers and just travel this way . Miss doing this but the next big goal in my life is retiring ...
One thing about travel - especially to other states is you will need to acquire/maintain licensing for the places you work. There are similarities in many places, there are reciprocating licenses and CEU's in many places, but you need to learn about each place you do work as there are differences. Of course not all places use the same edition of NEC or have local amendments, or even their own code, usually at least based on NEC.
I can't speak for other states, but know many are similar to here. Here the apprentice is not a license holder of any kind, but must still be registered. It is the responsibility of the individual to register and renew his registration when it expires. If an employer wants to help with that process that is fine, but the registration is for the individual and not for a company. Should that individual decide to work for someone else his registration is not tied to any particular employer and is valid until it's own expiration date, which happens to be on the same two year cycle as the license holders expiration dates.An apprentice wouldn't be covered under the companies license?