We Build Electrical Professionals

Who Are We?

The Professional Electrical Training Centers provide apprenticeship opportunities for individuals seeking a career in either the Electrical (Inside wireman) or Voice, Data, Video (Installer-Technician) industries.  Nationally Certified Instructors utilizing our state-of-the-art educational institutions prepare individuals for careers in current, emerging, and future technologies.  Our mission is to develop the most highly trained, dedicated electrical professionals in the country.

What is an Inside Wireman?

Trained Journeyman Inside Wiremen performs service, installation and maintenance for a wide variety of residential, commercial, municipal, utility and industrial environments including family homes, commercial office buildings, powerhouses, retail stores, hospitals, schools, manufacturing plants, petrochemical refining, water treatment facilities, and heavy industrial production.

Types of work involved in these projects include the installation of equipment, conduit, wire, cabling, and controls for power, lighting, distribution, metering, grounding, building automation, energy management, solar, wind, emergency, and UPS systems.  Other work includes field engineering, instrumentation, supervision, safety, QA/QC, estimating, and project management.

What is an Installer-Technician?

Trained Installer-Technicians perform service, installation and maintenance work for many of the same customers as Inside Wireman (homes, office buildings, hospitals, schools and factories).  However, Install-Technicians specialize in the low-voltage marketplace.

Types of work for these customers include the installation of low-voltage cabling, equipment and supports for voice, data and video systems used in telephony, security, sound, fire alarm, nurse call systems, networking, CCTV, building system management.  Other skills include supervision, design, programming, start-up and commissioning, safety, estimating and project management.

How Can I Prepare?

Acceptance into the program is very competitive.  To prepare applicants for the rigors of the apprenticeship the following areas of study are suggested - secondary and or post-secondary algebra, geometry, trigonometry, chemistry, physics, technical writing, economics, business management, computer sciences.