A Day in the Life: Electrician

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Instructions

Read through a Day in the Life of your new job. Use the word bank to drag and drop the missing words into the correct spot to complete the worksheet.

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You wake up excited because this will be your first day on a new job. The electrical contracting company you work for is installing the electrical systems in a food processing plant. You know that part of the reason you won the contract is because of your company’s attention to safety and its 1. ______________________  for wiring to code. As project foreperson, you are very aware that the crew must live up to the company’s expectations. The building is complex, and lengthy discussions with the electrical consultant were required to produce working 2. ______________________ . You arrive early to review the blueprints. Then, you tour the entranceway of the building, where your crew will start work in the afternoon. You mark the walls where the 3. ______________________  and switchgear will be located. By the time you are finished, you are hot, tired, and pretty dusty from crawling through the spaces where you will be installing 4. ______________________ . Lunchtime is spent scheduling your crew’s agenda for the week. You have to take into consideration the plans of other sub-contractors involved in the project. In addition to the electrical installation, there is plumbing to be installed, machinery to be delivered, and finish work to be completed. Organizing a worksite this big is not easy; everyone needs to be flexible. Being able to 5. ______________________  your crew’s labor hours accurately is important for coordinating with the other sub-contractors. After lunch, you check the power source and then direct your crew to carefully begin 6. ______________________  holes where the in-coming service will enter the building. In addition to knowing the electrical code, you and the crew have to understand the local building codes to properly wire the building. It was a productive first day on the job. Tomorrow, your crew will finish drilling in the building entrance and begin installing the conduit. By the end of the week, you should be able to install the incoming cables and set the main switchgear in the first section of the building. You are often tired and dirty at the end of a day at work, but you love having the skills and the dexterity to light up an entire building