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After completing a 4 year apprenticeship to become an industrial maintenance electrician I have found myself with a lot of industrial electrical qualifications and completing bare minimum and basic electrical work, which is therefore hindering my progression. (all quals no experience)

So have made the decision after 6 years to retrain as a domestic electrician and follow the career path I initially wanted to, subsequently needing a platform to ask my silly and most probably basic questions
 
Hi Tj, thx for quick response

I have just done another thread to see if any of my quals are transferable.

For 4 years I learned how to become an operator (readings, water samples, pressing buttons). with the only 'spark' onsite trained the same way. hence why I would like to retrain sooner rather then later

My quals are:

- NVQ level 2 (PEO) Performing of Engineering Operations
- NVQ level 3 Electrical & Electronic Engineering
- ONC Level 3 Btec Diploma Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- HNC Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- AMA advanced modern apprenticeship Electrical & Electronic engineering
- City & guilds (PAT) Portable appliance testing
- City and guilds BS7671 17th edition wiring regulations
 
Cheers Sintra, just had a look.

Can't see why he would need any training. Got loads of quals and 4 years as a ind spark. Domestic work does def require more finess with the aesthetics but the knowledge and experience should be there...im pretty surprised OP...
 
After completing a 4 year apprenticeship to become an industrial maintenance electrician I have found myself with a lot of industrial electrical qualifications and completing bare minimum and basic electrical work, which is therefore hindering my progression. (all quals no experience)

So have made the decision after 6 years to retrain as a domestic electrician and follow the career path I initially wanted to, subsequently needing a platform to ask my silly and most probably basic questions
Hi mate I am in the same boat I served my time as a maintenance electrician in a factory and so gained a great apprenticeship with plenty of qualifications and knowledge of power and control systems but only install experience was industrial although I understood domestic wiring the actual carrying out of the work was completely new to me. I always had a desire to be self employed eventually and looked for long enough on how to go about this, I’ve picked up experience from working with different people and completed select inspection and testing with initial verification which helped progress my knowledge of the way house wiring is completed. I am still not self employed but gaining experience doing extra work with others and work for family etc which I test and certificate as normal. I would say with the qualifications you have if you added test and inspection and part p you would be able to join one of the schemes NIC or such, SELECT in Scotland is different as you must be an approved electrician to register at the moment.

Hope some of this helps and all the best with your journey
 
Hi mate I am in the same boat I served my time as a maintenance electrician in a factory and so gained a great apprenticeship with plenty of qualifications and knowledge of power and control systems but only install experience was industrial although I understood domestic wiring the actual carrying out of the work was completely new to me. I always had a desire to be self employed eventually and looked for long enough on how to go about this, I’ve picked up experience from working with different people and completed select inspection and testing with initial verification which helped progress my knowledge of the way house wiring is completed. I am still not self employed but gaining experience doing extra work with others and work for family etc which I test and certificate as normal. I would say with the qualifications you have if you added test and inspection and part p you would be able to join one of the schemes NIC or such, SELECT in Scotland is different as you must be an approved electrician to register at the moment.

Hope some of this helps and all the best with your journey

Cheers ck spark, that's the sort of thing I was trying to get at just seeing if my quals would be transferable or whether domestic apprentiship courses are completely different
 

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