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Lineworker Training

Mesa Hotline School

Each year, the first two weeks of May witness a migration to Grand Junction, Colorado, of some of the finest power lineman and experts in their field. Converging from some seventeen different states, participants learn new skills and sharpen old ones in order to increase safety and proficiency.

The Mesa Hotline School was formed in 1966 to train rural electric cooperative employees in the art of live line maintenance. Formally incorporated in 1975, the Hotline School now trains over five hundred utility employees from new apprentice  to journeymen linemen.

School Dates: May 7-10, 2012
Location: Grand Junction, Colorado
www.mesahotlineschool.com


Western Colorado Community College
Electric Lineworker Program

Students learn basic skills in electricity, line work installation, repair, cable splicing, and system testing, as well as transformer connections, underground electric installation and effective operation of digger derricks. Electric lineworkers install and repair cables or wires used in electrical power or distribution systems. They locate line trouble, climb poles, use hot line tools, and operate and maintain substations. This program prepares students to work for power line construction and utility companies.

All students are required to obtain a Red Cross First Aid card and a CPR card before a certificate is issued.

Contact: Pat Rourke @ 970-640-2562
Location: 2508 Blichmann Avenue, Grand Junction, Colorado 81505
http://www.coloradomesa.edu/wccc/lineworker.html


Trinidad State Junior College : Rocky Mountain Lineman School
Electric Line Technician Program

In cooperation with Pikes Peak Community College and the Colorado Springs Utilities Department, the Rocky Mountain Lineman School serves the El Paso County Region.  The program offers both certificate and associate degree options. Students learn basic skills in electricity and applied calculations, power theory and high voltage apparatus, safety and industry, underground and overhead procedures. This program prepares students to work for power line construction and utility companies.

Contact: Dave King @ 719-491-3469, kingd@trinidadstate.edu
Location: Main Campus: 600 Prospect, Trinidad, Colorado 81082
Valley Campus :1011 Main Street, Alamosa, Colorado 81101
http://www.trinidadstate.edu/index.php/rmls

For additional information or to register for the Mesa Hotline School please call:

Robert Peterson, Director Montrose Campus
Mesa College

234 South Cascade
Montrose, CO 81401

Phone: (970) 249-7009
Fax: (970) 249-2579

Mesa Hotline School Burn Fund

The Mesa Hotline School has set up a burn fund to assist families who have had a loved one receive a serious burn from an electrical contact or fire.

Donations can be sent to:

The Mesa Hotline School Burn Fund
c/o Larry Shutte
K.C. Electric P.O. Box 8
Hugo, CO 80821-0008

Board of Directors

  • Frank Sampson, President, White River Electric
  • Mike Wells, Vice President, Gunnison County Electric
  • Larry Shutte, Secretary/Treasurer, K.C. Electric
  • David Churchwell, Highline Electric
  • Jim Clare, San Luis Valley
  • John Cromer, Cromer Construction (Craig)
  • Rod Dunker, Y-W. Electric
  • Tom Hutchinson, City of Colorado Springs
  • Pat Oglesby, Grand Valley Power
  • Vice Rose, Yampa Valley Electric
  • Jim Shulda, Southeast Colorado Power
  • Joel Trotter, City of Longmont
  • Larry Wisecup, Tri-State Generation & Transmission
  • Lonnie Young, Holy Cross Energy
Copyright 2011 by Colorado Rural Electric Association