Apprentice Linesperson - Level 3 - Sheffield
OCU Group
Sheffield (S9 3WD)
Closes on Friday 27 March 2026
Posted on 30 January 2026
Contents
Summary
You’ll assist with the construction, maintenance, and repair of overhead power lines while learning to work safely at heights using specialist climbing and lifting equipment. You’ll support inspections, fault‑finding, and essential network repairs, using tools and machinery to install, replace, and secure line components.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Power industry overhead linesperson (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8am - 5pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Assist with the construction, maintenance, and repair of overhead power lines
- Learn to work safely at heights using specialist climbing and lifting equipment
- Support inspections, fault‑finding, and essential network repairs
- Use tools and machinery to install, replace, and secure line components
Where you'll work
Five Weirs Walk
Sheffield
S9 3WD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
EA TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Training course
Power industry overhead linesperson (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Review drawings, instructions, or information to understand the task for example, work instructions, wiring diagrams, design specifications, utility plans, on-line search documents.
- Prioritise and plan work with consideration for safety, environmental impact, quality, and cost.
- Identify and organise resources to complete tasks for example, consumables.
- Identify apparatus to be worked on.
- Conduct plant or vehicle checks.
- Receive and clear a safety document (permit to work). Brief a working party.
- Identify hazards and risks and apply control measures.
- Apply health and safety procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, safe access and egress, demarcate the work area, working at height, confined spaces, COSHH.
- Respond in the event of an emergency first aid situation including situations where there is electrical risk.
- Apply measures to leave power work environments in a safe and secure condition for example, anticlimbing guards, danger notices, barriers, lighting.
- Apply sustainability principles for example, minimising waste.
- Segregate waste for reuse, recycling, and waste transfer.
- Select, check, prepare, use or operate, and store personal tools and equipment.
- Use working at height equipment for example, mobile working platforms, scaffolding, ladders.
- Select, inspect, and use personal climbing equipment to access and manoeuvre to a work position at height on overhead line plant and apparatus.
- Fit and operate a rescue device at height.
- Select, check, and prepare resources.
- Record information.
- Identify areas for improvement. For example, in relation to quality, cost, time, safety, and environmental impact.
- Communicate with others to give and receive information for example, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
- Apply team working principles.
- Report or escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
- Produce or amend documents for example, handover notes, procedures, reports.
- Use digital and information technology. Follow cyber security requirements.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
- Select and operate lifting equipment in overhead lines distribution work for example, cranes and winches.
- Carry out visual inspection to identify evidence of overhead services and buried utilities. Use locating equipment.
- Mark the position of services and sub-structures on the work site.
- Follow procedures for working on or in proximity to live apparatus.
- Select and use specialist LV live working PPE.
- Erect overhead lines plant and apparatus for example, poles, support mechanisms, stays.
- Install circuit main earths (CMEs) and additional (drain) earths.
- Install fixed earthing conductors and carry out earth electrode testing.
- Install cut outs.
- Install or replace conductors, insulators and ancillary equipment on overhead line plant or apparatus including sagging, tensioning and termination where required.
- Install, connect, and commission pole mounted plant and apparatus for example, transformers, pole mounted circuit breakers, and switchgear.
- Dismantle pole mounted plant and apparatus for example, transformers, pole mounted circuit breakers, and switchgear.
- Conduct pre-energisation tests.
- Conduct post-energisation (commissioning) checks.
- Perform testing procedures before and after switching operations.
- Interpret testing procedure results and action required.
- Operate switchgear and fuses making and breaking live conductor connections.
- Recognise fault conditions and identify the root cause.
- Replace components or resolve issues for example, replace high resistance joints or damaged conductor.
- Apply customer service techniques.
- Select and operate lifting equipment in overhead lines transmission work for example, cranes and winches.
- Check overhead line plant and apparatus is safe to access, install flag and check wristlets if required.
- Install access equipment for example, platforms, ladders, and spacer trollies.
- Install high voltage temporary earthing equipment.
- Carry out conductor compression jointing.
- Connect spacers to conductors.
- Test compression joints.
- Review drawings, instructions, or information to understand the task for example, work instructions, wiring diagrams, design specifications, utility plans, on-line search documents.
- Prioritise and plan work with consideration for safety, environmental impact, quality, and cost.
- Identify and organise resources to complete tasks for example, consumables.
- Identify apparatus to be worked on.
- Conduct plant or vehicle checks.
- Receive and clear a safety document (permit to work). Brief a working party.
- Identify hazards and risks and apply control measures.
- Apply health and safety procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, safe access and egress, demarcate the work area, working at height, confined spaces, COSHH.
- Respond in the event of an emergency first aid situation including situations where there is electrical risk.
- Apply measures to leave power work environments in a safe and secure condition for example, anticlimbing guards, danger notices, barriers, lighting.
- Apply sustainability principles for example, minimising waste.
- Segregate waste for reuse, recycling, and waste transfer.
- Select, check, prepare, use or operate, and store personal tools and equipment.
- Use working at height equipment for example, mobile working platforms, scaffolding, ladders.
- Select, inspect, and use personal climbing equipment to access and manoeuvre to a work position at height on overhead line plant and apparatus.
- Fit and operate a rescue device at height.
- Select, check, and prepare resources.
- Record information.
- Identify areas for improvement. For example, in relation to quality, cost, time, safety, and environmental impact.
- Communicate with others to give and receive information for example, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
- Apply team working principles.
- Report or escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
- Produce or amend documents for example, handover notes, procedures, reports.
- Use digital and information technology. Follow cyber security requirements.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
Training schedule
Power Industry Overhead Linesperson Level 3.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this employer
OCU Group is one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies, delivering complex projects across power, utilities, water, and digital infrastructure. With sales growing five-fold to £1.1bn over the last five years, we are expanding both organically and through acquisitions, including recent growth in Australia and New Zealand.
For experienced professionals, OCU offers meaningful responsibility, the chance to influence delivery, and career progression in a business that invests in capability, autonomy, and high performance.
For those starting their careers, we provide structured routes through apprenticeships, graduate programmes, and training academies, with hands-on experience on real projects and supportive mentors to help you learn and progress.
We value safety, integrity, collaboration, and doing things properly and we support people who want to make a tangible impact.
https://www.ocugroup.com/ (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Anyone looking to build a long‑term future in electrical engineering, power systems, or infrastructure networks.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
EA TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000011965.
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Closes on Friday 27 March 2026
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