Video 1 Transcript
Hi there, my name is Dennis Anderson. I'm talking about the electrical trade and how some of the things that I've been able to do in there. I'm currently a master electrician and as I went through the apprenticeship I was able to get the journeyman license which is a four-year program where you will work for four years and you'll go to school for four years and when you get that four years credit of work time and school time then I was able to go and do a state licensing test which I passed the three sections of the test and then received a journeyman's license which does a couple things for you. It helps you to qualify for a journeyman wage and it also will show that you are capable of doing the work at a journeyman level. So I also have worked in maintenance and interested because I'm an electrician when I went to um interview for the maintenance stuff I was able to get hired based on knowing electrical. The other stuff I was trained in but they figured that if I had no electrical the other stuff is easier to train. So when I went to maintenance I was able to do welding, hydraulics, pneumatics, HVAC, process controls, PLC and so all these other things. When I've been trained with that then I was able to get a job with Toyota which is quite a cool thing because then I get to be involved in robots that weld parts together that build the car chassis for the Toyota cars. So it's kind of cool how the electrical came in and qualified me to be a maintenance person which I worked at a cereal plant and then the work in the cereal plant helped qualify me to work in an auto industry maintenance position. The thing about maintenance is I work for a malt milk company in Utah and I work for a Toyota company in Kentucky where they build the Toyota cars. So it was really neat experiences where you can do the things that are kind of fun like building cars is a legacy job right and so I was able to program robots and look at processes and develop processes and troubleshoot problems with the processes as they go. So because I had the electrical license that was one of the main qualifications that we're looking for.