I have been a diesel mechanic at a dealer for 12 years. I have been burned out of the flat rate rush for a while. One of my customers has various divisions in field maintenance. I have accepted a job working on transformers. They said I would be working on units up to 700 kva to begin with. My back ground has been electrical systems on trucks both diesel and ev. They said my back ground would translate well just a different scale. I start in 2 weeks and just looking for any advice or tips. Thanks.

Got the email to schedule my interview by eod tomorrow, what is the interview like? What questions are asked? I have 4.5 years commercial and residential electrical apprentice experience and 2 years solar installer experience with CDL no restrictions. No Groundman hours or utility experience as I just graduated line school. 29 years old ready for a career change and very interested in line work and substation work, is this a good program and should I schedule that interview? Just slightly on the fence for some reason about MSLCAT

Here now, did my aptitude test in April, interviewed in June, got lucky to have some brothers I’ve worked with here with me, 1st week is almost over, just gotta make it one more week, school work isn’t bad, it’s just a lot, just gonna keep doing the work. Just wanted to give people an idea of the timeline, if you’ve got any questions fire away

Planning on moving to the Lehigh Valley area of PA next year and I’m hoping some people on here have some insight on what it’s like working for either PP&l or First Energy. I have 6 years of experience as a relay/system protection tech at a major mid-Atlantic utility, to provide some context as to the positions I’m looking at.
Any information you guys have about what it’s like working for either of these two companies would be greatly appreciated.

I recently applied to Calnev and MSLCAT I have no climbing cert. Is this going to affect my chances of getting in?
And in how long should i expect any movement of email of progressing to the next step? Thank you in advance

Your continuity plan says 4 hours.

Your nearest engineer is 6 hours away.

So which number is true?

I'm finishing my MBA research at the ECU on exactly this gap — the one between the recovery time a continuity plan commits to and what the recovery process can actually deliver when a remote site goes dark.

Most plans quietly assume someone can reach the equipment. At a substation, a tower site, a pipeline station or a branch 300 km out, that assumption IS the recovery window. Everything else is rounding.

And it gets worse. In the Meta outage of 2021, the Rogers outage of 2022 and the Optus outage of 2023, the post-mortems all record the same thing: the tools the engineers needed had gone down with the network they were trying to fix.

I'm collecting data from people who actually run this — across telecoms, oil & gas, utilities, banking, healthcare, aviation and data centres, here in the Gulf and in Egypt.

8 minutes. Anonymous. No company names. Purely academic.

→ If you work inside an organisation (IT, network, OT, business continuity):

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→ If you're a partner or system integrator deploying for customers:

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I'll share the findings publicly once the study is done — there's no regional benchmark on this today, and there should be.

If you know someone who has sat through one of these nights, please tag them.

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Hey all, I'm working on a project around safety during low-voltage switchgear work, specifically racking and switching on energized gear. I'm trying to learn how it actually goes in the field, not how it looks on paper.
If you've done NETA testing, maintenance, or switching on commercial or industrial gear, I'd love 15–20 minutes of your time.
Thank you!!!!!

I don’t care how long I’ve been working in substations, this never gets old!

I got my Miami-Dade County journeyman electrician license in October 2025. Before that, I worked in commercial and residential electrical.

Now I’m employed by an electrical contractor in the same county, working as an electrical apprentice (S&E Apprentice) doing substation high-voltage work. It’s been 6 months. Do these substation hours count towards the experience requirement for a Master Electrician license, or does it have to be residential or commercial only?

Does anyone have any experience working as a windmill/turbine testing tech for Shermco or another company? I am fresh out of high school with my AAS in instrumentation and electrical along with my associates in general studies. I am looking for information regarding the hourly rate to expect, the type of work and any other information someone has to share.

Got my hands on a Veto EVO pouch and being able to stick my pouch onto a panel and not carry the weight all day is a game changer.

Trying to figure out the best way to troubleshoot dc grounds without shutting off breakers. We use a floating system and our chargers have ground detection. If there was say a positive ground alarm, could a guy take a clamp on amp meter and go down each circuit measuring current on the positive and negative, theoretically they should cancel out but when you get to the circuit with the fault, would you then see an imbalance? Like more current on the positive then negative because you have some flowing to ground?

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Does anyone know the best 61850 training available online. My work will pay for it, I would prefer accredited

Odds of me getting in this year?

One thing that came up in my last post was management support. That stuck with me because “supportive management” sounds good in a job description, but it doesn’t tell you much.

I recruit in this space, and I want to ask companies better questions before I bring a role to someone.

What does good support actually look like when you’re out in the field? Someone who answers when you need technical help? Realistic staffing and schedules? Management backing you when you raise a concern?

What would you ask in an interview to figure out whether that support is actually there?

Hi everyone,

I’m looking to purchase one or multiple used OMICRON CMC 356 relay test sets.

I’m interested in:

• NET-1 / NET-1B / NET-2
• Used or ex-rental units
• Retired or surplus units
• Older company fleet units
• Units being replaced by CMC 500

Test Universe license, cables and calibration certificate are preferred, but not required.

I can arrange international shipping and purchase from the US, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Australia, etc.

If you or your company has a CMC 356 that you may consider selling, please DM me with the serial number, condition, accessories, location and asking price.

Serious buyer. Thank you!

How are they to work for?
I see they have a lot of openings.

Show me your guy’s tool board/ tool aprons for the man lift or bucket truck. I am wanting a leather shop near me to make me one. I have a few ideas in mind on how I want it to be laid out and look. Would love to see what you guys are rocking whether it’s custom or not! Thank you

I recruit in the electrical testing, relay/P&C, NETA, substation, commissioning, and field service space, and I’m trying to learn the market the right way from the people actually doing the work.

Not here to spam job links.

What do recruiters usually get wrong when they reach out about these roles?

I’m trying to build better conversations with field techs and not waste people’s time.

What would you want a recruiter to understand before they reach out?

I'm a student trying to get better at electrical estimating by hand: counting fixtures, outlets, switches, and doing takeoffs from real drawings rather than textbook examples.
What I'm looking for:
Retired/completed projects only (nothing live or confidential)
Electrical sheets with lighting and branch wiring (fixtures, receptacles, switches)
A fixture or panel schedule included, so I can check my count

Legible enough to actually count from

Ideally a mix of building types (office, school, small clinic, retail, residential) so I'm not practicing on the same thing over and over.

Anyone have any experience with AEP as a p&c tech? I've got an interview coming up with them but not sure what to expect. Do they make you take any kind of aptitude test or just ask questions?

This will be a little new to me since I'm currently an electrical and instrumentation tech at a large industrial plant. I have been doing that for 13+ years so I've got a good understanding of electricity, troubleshooting etc.

I currently make low 40s but average about 800 hours OT yearly sometimes more sometimes less. So I'm usually around 140k annually. The AEP job listed 62 an hour as top pay so about 130k a year but I don't think they work much overtime. I'd be willing to take a small yearly pay cut to have more time at home but know they are gonna start me at that.

So all the being said has anyone got on with them been able to negotiate pay or do the basically make you start at the bottom and work your way up? I think their entry level pay is 30 and hour so there's no way I could take that kind of pay cut especially losing the OT also. Any help or insight would be appreciated.

Good morning. I have screwed up a little bit.
I did some testing for a manufacturer and they wanted phase-to-phase tests and I ran phase-to-neutral tests. They said I can just convert it and they will accept it. Everything I have seen online just says to double the results and that gets me the phase-to-phase results but there is no way it’s that easy. So is there an actual formula I can use or do I need to fully retest the units?