New company that wants to use my license.

[RinderLi]

The best way is to approach a lawyer. There should be a contract in where all of your agreements are stated. Of course, those agreements should be well talked about before being placed in the contract.

 

[mlnk]

In California the CSLB has lots of rules about an individual qualifying a company or corporation to do contracting. It is a fairly common arrangement. The positions are called RME and RMO, Responsible Managing Employee, (Officer). There is some personal responsibility, but usually lots of insurance to protect individuals to a large degree. And there are attorneys who specialize in RME, RMO contracts. Mass. may have the same thing, so I would contact the license board in Mass first. There are also RME forums on the web.

 

[MBLES]

Master LIcense

Master LIcense

i have searched the forum and found alot of good information. i read one post where it mentions that a contract should be made to establish what responsibilities the master of record is responsible for. i was wondering what exactly, besides the making sure the electricians are following NEC, kind of responsibilities would be on a contract. Im not looking for legal advise I am trying to figure out what Im getting into. Has anyone every done this with a shop they were Master of Record with??

 

[mgookin]

It's very common for the national builders to hire employees and make them division managers or higher when they hold the GC license that qualifies the company. Pulte, Lennar, all of them do it.
They open an office in a region and hire a guy (several guys) with a GC license and he qualifies the company. It's very legal and done all the time.

Sounds like OP has a slightly different situation, and OP, correct me if I'm wrong.
OP is with an industrial company who does not engage in construction contracting. They just want an in-house staff member to be the qualifier. That's still not uncommon. It keeps them from having to put jobs to bid which means they don't need to draw up as much for specs, saves time, saves money, gets the plant where it needs to be sooner and that too has a value.

OP am I right?

If so, I'll suggest you contact your state licensing board and ask them to walk you through the regulations which makes this possible.

 

[iwire]

Employees don't get licensed, the get certified. They cannot contract nor pull permits accept as a authorized agent of the company.

That is not the deal here in New England, each employee doing electrcal work is required to have journeymans license* or they are an apprentice working under the direct supervision of a j-man at no more than a 1 to 1 ratio.

As a journeyman in MA I can pull a permit, contract work and have one employee working under me.

To go bigger requires a masters license.


* Jouneyman license here is 8,000 hr on the job training and 600 hours class time.

 

[gadfly56]

you should read the MA code amendments that will answer half your questions.
In MA you need to be an officer in the company. Only 1 master license is issued under your name. You cannot have your own business with your licence and then use it with another company. you would need to withdraw the licence from your name and apply to the board with the name change. They will than approve of the license or deny.

Depending on how big the company is would determine how much compensation you should get.

From the company having multiple licences in different states just wondering if this is for a solar company.

As I recall, this is the same as the procedure and restrictions in NJ. You would not believe how much of a hassle it was for my last company to change their license holder.

 

[growler]

Not a true electrical contractor..they are sick of subbing electrical work out and have recently started electrical division.

my inner cynic wonders at something like this. most of us want to be an integral part of
something, and diving into it and then finding out that your part was to fall on the grenade
doesn't feel good.

My inner cynic wonders at the statement of the OP. They are sick of subbing out electrical and recently started their own electrical division.

Do they have anyone that's capable of starting and running an electrical division. It may not be as simple as they think. I would want to know have they have things set up and what they hope to accomplish. It may cost them more in the short run.

Many large companies sub everything out and are very happy with the results.

 

[gadfly56]

My inner cynic wonders at the statement of the OP. They are sick of subbing out electrical and recently started their own electrical division.

Do they have anyone that's capable of starting and running an electrical division. It may not be as simple as they think. I would want to know have they have things set up and what they hope to accomplish. It may cost them more in the short run.

Many large companies sub everything out and are very happy with the results.

This is a very individual experience. If you have a couple of EC's to whom you feed regular work and they want to keep your business so they try to keep you happy that's great. If you are constantly fighting with your subs regarding scope and schedule maybe it is time to expand a little. At my last company we would always sub out the fan tests for new clean agent installations. If finally got to be a sufficiently large PIA that they decided to buy the equipment, get a couple of techs trained, and do that work themselves.

 

[petersonra]

My inner cynic wonders at the statement of the OP. They are sick of subbing out electrical and recently started their own electrical division.

Do they have anyone that's capable of starting and running an electrical division. It may not be as simple as they think. I would want to know have they have things set up and what they hope to accomplish. It may cost them more in the short run.

Many large companies sub everything out and are very happy with the results.

there are several HVAC companies around where I live that have "electricians" working for them to do electrical work associated with HVAC installs. I am told some of them have branched out a little into general electrical service work. I don't know if they bothered to get an EC license or not. It's not clear to me if they need an EC license to do electrical work associated with HVAC installs or not, but as best I can tell most HVAC guys do most of their own electrical work.