Apprentice Trainee Transmission Linesman
ADVANTAGE N R G LTD
Chorley (PR7 1NY)
Closes in 25 days (Tuesday 31 March 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 26 February 2026
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Summary
Trainee Lines Worker will undergo comprehensive training in the construction, maintenance, and refurbishment of high voltage steel tower transmission overhead power lines. This role is fundamental to maintaining the UK's critical infrastructure and demands the highest standards of safety, quality workmanship, and productivity.
- Wage
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£19,500 a year
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- £10.00 p/h for anyone aged 20 and under
- £12.21 for 21 and over
Subsistence lodge allowance of £35 per site day
- Training course
- Power industry overhead linesperson (level 3)
- Hours
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Site hours are 07:30 to 18:00, usually (but not guaranteed) with a 12 days on, 2 days off working pattern (every other weekend working).
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Thursday 30 April 2026
- Duration
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2 years 6 months
- Positions available
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3
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
- Attend the site safe start/ daily setting to work brief
- Be involved and sign onto the site risk assessment & other associated works documentation
- Set to work & set the working site up as per the relevant instruction.
- Inspect all personal and work equipment prior to use.
- Take instruction from the permit holder
- Identify the safe area of work as per the issued permit under supervision.
Work under direct supervision of nominated mentors to include:
- Work at height using specific harness and fall arrest attachments in line with company & health and safety policy and procedure
- Use specific access equipment including ladders, pladders & platforms for safe access to HV electrical systems
- Install conductor earthing systems under personal supervision to manage impressed voltage
- Install lifting and rigging systems on the structure to carry out tasks including; Insulator, fittings, spacer and conductor replacement in line with approved methods
- Use plant and equipment inline with any training provided under mentor and gang supervision
- Report all hazards, near misses and incidents to line management
Where you'll work
Lincoln House
Ackhurst Business Park, Foxhole Road
Chorley
PR7 1NY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WIGAN AND LEIGH COLLEGE
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
The company provided safety & technical related training for role & network authorisation as required.
Three years on site training UK wide.
Full-time hours, typically involving extended shifts and a requirement to work away from home, often for periods of time, due to the nature of site work across the UK. Specific shift patterns will be communicated by the Operations Manager.
The apprenticeship is delivered on-site with the employer, with the City and Guilds qualification completed with Wigan & Leigh College.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Due to the safety-critical nature of working on the high-voltage transmission network, all applicants must be 18 years of age or over and must successfully meet the required rigorous medical and physical standards necessary for working safely at height and within hazardous, safety-critical environments.
Working away from home when on site, home based or accommodation provided on training days.
A full driving licence is preferred, however, applicants must be actively working towards obtaining one as a minimum requirement.
While on site, you will be working outdoors regardless of the weather. However, the company will provide top-quality personal protective equipment (PPE) along with access to on-site welfare facilities.
About this employer
Advantage NRG are a specialist, labour-only, sub-contractor. We use our own skilled labour force to build and maintain electrical transmission systems.
Serving major utility contractors throughout the UK. Our staff work in self-sufficient teams of 4 to 7 men to undertake all aspects of work for the refurbishment, upgrading, re-wiring, dismantling and construction of high voltage, overhead line steel tower and wood pole supported transmission systems.
We supply managed teams of trained, competent and network authorised Chargehands and Linesman complete with tools, fall arrest equipment and experienced Supervision when required. Our staff are trained to the highest standards and work proactively with our clients to deliver work on time, safely to the technical specifications and quality standards expected. This includes administrative, technical, safety, training, competency and operational delivery.
After this apprenticeship
The Apprentice will gain a unique and comprehensive understanding of the Transmission industry. Many line workers who began in this field have advanced to global opportunities, achieving financial success that often surpasses the expectations of typical graduates.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WIGAN AND LEIGH COLLEGE
Andrew Fleetwood
a.fleetwood@wigan-leigh.ac.uk
01942 761528
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000017971.
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Closes in 25 days (Tuesday 31 March 2026 at 11:59pm)