The Baton Area Electrical Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee (BREJATC) is part of the largest apprenticeship and training organization of its kind in the United States, the Electrical Training Alliance (ETA), which has trained over 350,000 apprentices to journey worker status through local affiliate programs throughout the country.

The BREJATC provides the ultimate “earn while you learn” apprenticeship training program. As an apprentice, you will be assigned to one of our electrical contractors, earning a progressively increasing hourly wage (plus benefits) as you successfully gain more skills and technical knowledge in the electrical industry. Upon graduation, apprentices become full fledged journey workers and earn nationally recognized certifications that make them eligible to work out of any local IBEW union across the country.

Specifically, BREJATC services the Baton Rouge Area and 10 other surrounding parishes including: St. Landry, Pointe Coupee, Iberville, West and East Felician, St. Helena, Livingston, Ascension, and West and East Baton Rouge

 

The inside wireman installs and maintains all of the various types of electrical systems found in commercial and industrial facilities such as chemical plants, power plants, chip manufacturing facilities and automobile plants. The work of an inside wireman can vary and each type of installation has specific electrical needs and systems to support those needs. While there are many tasks associated with the Inside Wireman classification, the apprenticeship training provides all of the knowledge necessary. The BREJATC specializes in developing inside wiremen.

SELCAT – Southeastern Line Constructors Apprenticeship & Training – is a local educational program affiliated with the National Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee (NJATC) and trains a local workforce of Linemen – at no cost to taxpayers while also providing earn-while-you learn education!

SELCAT provides standardized, fully certified and up-to-date training for workers who keep the Outside Electrical Construction Industry in the Southeast United States strong and the region powered.

SELCAT is committed to administering, on a local level, the standardized Lineman training program of the National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (N.J.A.T.C.) to educate members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (I.B.E.W.) and the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA). In doing so, SELCAT provides the regional Outside Electrical Construction Industry with the most highly trained workforce possible.

SELCAT services Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.SERVICE AREA
Specifically, SELCAT services Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Outside Linemen primarily install and maintain the overhead distribution and transmission lines that move electrical power from power plants to local consumers such as businesses, homes and factories. They also install and maintain poles and towers, underground systems and sub-stations that are required to power communities.

Outside line work is important and exhilarating, but it can also be physically and mentally demanding – and dangerous. Much of the work is performed “in the air,” so it is a requirement to climb utility poles or towers, as well as work from a bucket truck.