- The Electrical Training Alliance of Gainesville offers a state-registered, four-year apprenticeship that combines paid on-the-job training with free classroom instruction.
- Apprentices complete over 8,000 hours of work training and 720 hours of classroom instruction, earning wages based on a percentage of the journeyman rate.
- The program, established in 1948, is a collaboration between IBEW Local Union 1205 and NECA, funded mainly by contractors and partially by the state.
A local nonprofit is offering individuals interested in a career as an electrician the opportunity to earn an education and gain work experience without incurring debt.
The Electrical Training Alliance of Gainesville is a state-registered, four-year union electrical apprenticeship program that trains people to become qualified journeyworker electricians through paid on-the-job training and classroom instruction.
“We were established in 1948…when our standards were registered, so we’ve been around a long time,” said Shawn Graves, who serves as the training director for the Electrical Training Alliance of Gainesville…