⚡ Power Your Future as a GCEA Lineworker
Thinking about becoming a lineworker?
Lineworkers do more than keep the lights on, they power communities and help their neighbors. Whether you’re starting out or looking for a new path, linework offers hands-on work and room to grow.
Lineworker Scholarship
As a cooperative, we believe in investing in people and the communities we serve. That’s why we’re proud to support students pursuing a career in electrical linework by offering financial assistance to help them get started.
Lineworker Scholarship Application
Lineworker Scholarship Application PDF
Start Your Lineworker Journey: Education Opportunities
- Grand Junction, Colorado
- (970) 854-2236
- Visit the Mesa Hotline School website
Mesa Hotline School serves as a model for providing training for privately owned and non-profit companies. The program prepares students to work for power line construction and utility companies and includes instruction in just about every type of line work that will be faced on the job. This includes learning basic skills in electricity, linework installation, repair, cable splicing, and system testing, as well as transformer connections, underground electric installation, and effective operation of digger derricks. All students are required to obtain a Red Cross First Aid card and a CPR card before a certificate is issued.
- 2508 Blichmann Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81505
- Visit the Western Colorado Community College website
The Electric Lineworker program covers all areas of training needed for those who desire to become an apprentice electric lineman. Students learn the basic skills in the study of electricity, the fundamentals of electric line work and transformer connections, and underground repair and installation. The Electric Lineworker program operates within an indoor and outdoor, hands-on electric training facility with classrooms on site.
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- (800) 621-8752
- Visit the Trinidad State College website
Colorado Springs Utilities has partnered with Trinidad State College and Pikes Peak Community College to offer utility linework training to approximately 25 students each year. Students will learn the skills and values utility companies seek when hiring apprentice linemen, including a strong work ethic, good attitude, dependability, and climbing experience.
Electric lineworkers:
- Install and repair cables or wires used in electrical power or distribution systems
- Locate line trouble
- Climb poles
- Use hotline tools
- Operate and maintain substations