Course Details

Industrial High Voltage Electrician

Course Overview

The programme starts with an induction to the course and training facilities to fully understand the training process and requirements. This course is delivered through Instructor-led training and Workshop based practical training with various assessments to ensure that the candidate achieves theoretical and practical competencies. The training focuses on safe and healthy working practices, inspecting, maintaining, testing, repairing, operating, troubleshooting, isolating and replacing high voltage appliances, and medium and high voltage electrical distribution systems and equipment. Upon successful completion, the candidates will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to take on the job role as an Industrial High Voltage Electrician.

This course is for anyone interested in doing activities linked with the employment of an engineering operative.

The entry prerequisites are a good attitude toward learning, a solid motivation to study, and a reasonable level of language proficiency.

Candidates on successful completion of training are entitled to a ‘Certificate of Attendance’ attested by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation from NTI and a National Vocational Qualification Certificate (NVQ) from Excellence, Achievement and Learning (EAL), UK.

Other Details

Module 1:  Health & Safety

  • Introduction to Training & Facilities
  • Site tour & Course objectives
  • Evacuation Procedures
  • Health & Safety Essentials at work
  • Basic Fire Extinguisher
  • Occupational Health & Hygiene
  • Hazard Identification
  • Risk assessments & Control measures
  • Legal requirements
  • HASAWA & COSHH
  • MSDS-Material safety data sheet
  • Fire warden & First aider
  • Tool box talk, Safe cards
  • Incident reporting

Module 2:  Basic fitting skills

  • Hand tools
  • Marking and measuring tools
  • Power tools
  • Basic fitting operations
  • Drilling machine, Operation and accessories
  • Tapping and thread cutting
  • Grinding operation
  • Simple calculations –Addition, Subtraction, Division, Multiplication
  • Decimals
  • Ration & Percentages
  • Calculate Area, Volume
  • Material Science & Properties
  • Types of engineering materials
  • Laws of motion
  • Force motion energy
  • Engineering drawing instruments
  • Types of lines
  • Geometrical construction
  • Dimensioning
  • Orthographic and iso metric projection
  • Sectional views
  • Drawing reading and interpretation
  • Drawing symbols and standards

Module 3:  Work Ethics

  • Customer Needs & Support
  • Organizational structure
  • Job roles and responsibilities
  • Team work and your working relationship
  • Scheduling & Prioritizing Work
  • Time management
  • Seeking guidance and support
  • Individual development plan
  • Maintaining records
  • Omani labour law

Module 4:  English Language skills

  • Basic English Language
  • Communicating at work
  • Greetings and wishes
  • Seeking permission
  • Writing letters
  • Read and interpret technical manuals
  • Describing a scenario
  • Simple Technical Communications
  • Writing a work procedure
  • Requesting for tools/materials
  • Filling out technical details
  • Job planning / Documentation
  • Conduct a toolbox talk

Module 5:  Information Technology Skills

  • Windows operating system.
  • MS office basics.
  • MS Word basics.
  • MS Excel basics.
  • MS PowerPoint basics.
  • MS Outlook / E Mails
  • Auto CAD basics.
  • Presentation skills
  • Planning a presentation
  • Structure of presentation
  • Pit falls in presentation
  • Presentation tools

Module 6:  Basic Electrical concepts

  • Fundamentals of electrical terms
  • Units and symbols of electrical quantities
  • Concepts of ac and dc
  • Ohms law
  • DC circuits-series, parallel and combination circuit

Module 7:  Electrical safety

  • Electric shock
  • Safety precautions
  • First aid for electric shock
  • Basic hand tools
  • Electrician hand tools
  • Electrical wires, and cables
  • Types of wires
  • Selection of cables
  • Installation of cables
  • Cable joint
  • Electrical power tools
  • Safe care, and handling of tools
  • Electrical measuring instruments
  • Main classification of electrical measuring instruments
  • Moving coil and moving iron meters
  • Types of meters and their connection
  • Multimeter and clamp meter
  • Wires ,cables and insulators
  • Types of wires
  • classification cables
  • Selection of wires and cables

​​​​​​​Module 8:  Single phase AC system

  • Important terms in single phase
  • Power in single phase
  • Power factor and its effects
  • Ac circuits-resistive, inductive and capacitive circuits
  • Ac series circuits
  • Poly phase
  • Advantages of three phase
  • Important terms in three phase
  • Star and delta connection
  • Three phase power

​​​​​​​Module 9:  Electrical protection

  • Fuse
  • MCB/MCB/ELCB/RCD
  • Relays
  • Circuit breakers
  • Earthing

Module 10: Industrial installation, wiring and testing

  • Types of installation
  • PVC conduits and accessories
  • GI Conduit and accessories
  • Types of wiring in PVC and GI
  • Over current protection
  • Testing of electrical circuits
  • Main and secondary distribution panel board
  • Earthing-measurement and improvement
  • Trouble shooting of electrical installation
  • Industrial installation-wiring and estimation
  • Cable trunking PVC and GI-Installation
  • Cable tray-Installation
  • Cable ladder installation
  • Underground –cabling
  • Industrial wiring in GI

Module 11: Basics of overhead network

  • Classification of overhead lines
  • Survey high tension
  • Survey low tension
  • Overhead line materials
  • Electrical Drawing
  • Reading of area drawing
  • Survey of HT and LT line
  • Single line diagram-reading and preparation
  • LT Work
  • Survey
  • Marking practice
  • Identification of materials
  • Cut point pole installation
  • Normal stay installation
  • Out rigger stay
  • Struct pole stay
  • Stringing of conductor

Module 12: Cable work

  • Laying of cable-LT and HT
  • Cable glanding
  • Able connection in panel
  • LT-Straight joint of cables
  • LT-Termination
  • HT –Joint
  • HT- termination
  • Installation of right angle boot

Module 13: 11 KV Network training

  • Survey of HT line
  • Marking practice
  • Installation of
  • intermediate pole
  • single section pole
  • H-section pole
  • H-Terminal
  • Right angle three pole structure
  • Three pole structure –long span
  • Tapping arrangements
  • Drop out fuse assembly
  • On load disconnect
  • Lightning arrester
  • R M U Set
  • Stringing of ACSR conductor
  • Erection of 100 kva pole mounted transformer LT Cut out box
  • Erection of 500 kva transformer with 800 AMP Feeder pillar
  • Installation of mini feeder pillar

Module 14: Earthing

  • Installation of rod earthing
  • Installation of mesh earthing
  • Testing of earthing
  • Additional earthing-earth value improvement

By the end of the module the candidate will be able to:

  • Comply with all workplace health, safety and welfare legislation requirement.
  • Identify & deal with health and safety at work.
  • Communicate to productive working practices at workplace.
  • Maintain relevant records in accordance with the organisational procedures.
  • Identify Basic Electrical concepts.
  • Identify, select and use hand tools used in Industrial Electrical.
  • Identify the Basics of overhead network.
  • Carry out the Industrial installation, wiring and testing.
  • Carry out the Cable work.
  • Demonstrate the 11 KV Network training.
  • Demonstrate the Earthing
  • Report and record work done.
Instructor-Led Onsite Training