Apprentice Jointer - Level 3 - Reading
OCU Group
Reading (RG7 1HB)
Closes on Friday 27 March 2026
Posted on 2 February 2026
Contents
Summary
You’ll learn how to install, joint and maintain low and high voltage distribution cables that keep homes, businesses and communities connected. Working alongside skilled jointers, you’ll gain hands‑on experience, industry‑recognised qualifications.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Power industry distribution cable jointer (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, between 8.00am - 5.00pm.
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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4
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
You’ll learn how to install, joint and maintain low‑ and high‑voltage distribution cables that keep homes, businesses and communities connected. Working alongside skilled jointers, you’ll gain hands‑on experience and industry‑recognised qualifications.
Where you'll work
Church Lane
Reading
RG7 1HB
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 distribution cable jointer (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, complex 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.
- Receive and clear a safety document (permit to work). Brief a working party.
- Report or escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
- Identify apparatus to be worked on.
- Interpret network schematic diagrams and geographic records to identify running arrangements.
- Identify hazards and risks and apply control measures.
- Apply health and safety procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Carry out visual inspection to identify evidence of overhead services and buried utilities. Use electronic locating equipment. Mark the position of services and sub-structures on the work site.
- Apply measures to leave power work environments in a safe condition.
- Respond in the event of an emergency first aid situation including situations where there is electrical risk.
- Conduct plant or vehicle checks.
- Segregate waste for reuse, recycling, and waste transfer.
- Apply sustainability principles for example, minimising waste.
- Apply security measures.
- Select, check, prepare, use or operate, and store personal tools and equipment.
- Set up spiking gun.
- Install cables and apply protection.
- Follow live working procedures.
- Joint and terminate cables (modern XPLE insulated, PVC sheathed, and paper insulated lead sheath) for low voltage cable networks using cable connectors including fitting and terminating services into cut outs. Apply system earthing connections and joint protection.
- Joint and terminate cables (modern XPLE and paper insulated) using joint kits on high voltage cables up to 11kv operating voltage. Apply joint protection.
- Receive phasing colours for HV jointing tasks and interpret phasing diagrams.
- Make and break live conductor connections on LV underground networks.
- Perform testing procedures before and after making and breaking connections.
- Identify fault. Test to find the fault condition.
- Conduct fault diagnosis on underground cable networks to identify underlying cause.
- Make recommendations for the repair or restoration of plant or apparatus based on the findings of diagnostic procedures.
- Erect and maintain signing, lighting and guarding.
- Monitor works using mechanical excavators (banksman).
- Inspect excavation arrangements before work for safe access and egress.
- Identify areas for improvement. For example, in relation to quality, cost, time, safety, and environmental impact.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate with others to give and receive information for example, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
- Record information.
- Produce or amend documents for example, handover notes, procedures, reports.
- Use digital and information technology. Follow cyber security requirements. Comply with GDPR.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
- Review drawings, instructions or information to understand the task for example, work instructions, complex 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.
- Receive and clear a safety document (permit to work). Brief a working party.
- Report or escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
- Identify apparatus to be worked on.
- Interpret network schematic diagrams and geographic records to identify running arrangements.
- Identify hazards and risks and apply control measures.
- Apply health and safety procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Carry out visual inspection to identify evidence of overhead services and buried utilities. Use electronic locating equipment. Mark the position of services and sub-structures on the work site.
- Apply measures to leave power work environments in a safe condition.
- Respond in the event of an emergency first aid situation including situations where there is electrical risk.
- Conduct plant or vehicle checks.
- Segregate waste for reuse, recycling, and waste transfer.
- Apply sustainability principles for example, minimising waste.
- Apply security measures.
- Select, check, prepare, use or operate, and store personal tools and equipment.
- Set up spiking gun.
- Install cables and apply protection.
- Follow live working procedures.
- Joint and terminate cables (modern XPLE insulated, PVC sheathed, and paper insulated lead sheath) for low voltage cable networks using cable connectors including fitting and terminating services into cut outs. Apply system earthing connections and joint protection.
- Joint and terminate cables (modern XPLE and paper insulated) using joint kits on high voltage cables up to 11kv operating voltage. Apply joint protection.
- Receive phasing colours for HV jointing tasks and interpret phasing diagrams.
- Make and break live conductor connections on LV underground networks.
- Perform testing procedures before and after making and breaking connections.
- Identify fault. Test to find the fault condition.
- Conduct fault diagnosis on underground cable networks to identify underlying cause.
- Make recommendations for the repair or restoration of plant or apparatus based on the findings of diagnostic procedures.
- Erect and maintain signing, lighting and guarding.
- Monitor works using mechanical excavators (banksman).
- Inspect excavation arrangements before work for safe access and egress.
- Identify areas for improvement. For example, in relation to quality, cost, time, safety, and environmental impact.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate with others to give and receive information for example, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
- Record information.
- Produce or amend documents for example, handover notes, procedures, reports.
- Use digital and information technology. Follow cyber security requirements. Comply with GDPR.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
Training schedule
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.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
EA TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000012367.
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Closes on Friday 27 March 2026
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