Qualification details

Release 1. This is the first release of this qualification in the UET Transmission, Distribution and Rail Sector Training Package Release 2.0.

This qualification provides the skills and knowledge to work in the electricity supply industry (ESI) as a Transmission Line Assembly Worker.

This qualification covers assembling transmission towers and structures. It also includes stringing transmission overhead conductors prior to being tensioned.

The skills and knowledge described within the units in this qualification may require a licence or permit to practice in the workplace.

Additional and/or other conditions may also apply under state and territory legislative and regulatory licensing requirements which must be confirmed prior to commencing the qualification.

There are no entry requirements for this qualification.

A total of 360 weighting points  comprising:

160 core weighting points  listed below; plus 

200 general elective weighting points  from the general elective units listed below.

Choose a total of 200 weighting points  elective units from the list below, of which between 0 and 60 weighting points  can be taken from Group A; and between 140 and 200 weighting points  taken from Group B. You may select all your elective from this group.

Up to 60 weighting points of the general elective units Group A  may be selected, with appropriate contextualisation, from any relevant nationally endorsed Training Package or accredited course, provided selected units contribute to the vocational outcome of the qualification. Previously assigned weighting points are listed in UET Transmission, Distribution and Rail Sector Training Package Companion Volume Implementation Guide, if not listed, weighting points will be 10 points.

Where imported units are selected, care must be taken to ensure all prerequisite units specified are complied with. Prerequisites attached to any of the units must be obtained and are additional to the number of units required for the qualification.

Where a prerequisite is attached to a unit it is identified by the symbol ∟.

Core units  

Weighting Points 

UEECD0007

Apply work health and safety regulations, codes and practices in the workplace

20

UETDREL002

Comply with environmental requirements

40

UETDRTO002

Erect power systems transmission structures

∟ UEECD0007 Apply work health and safety regulations, codes and practices in the workplace

∟UETDREL002 Comply with environmental requirements

100

Group A: Imported and common elective units 

Weighting Points 

AHCMOM304

Operate machinery and equipment

40

CPCCWHS1001

Prepare to work safely in the construction industry

10

HLTAID009

Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation

10

HLTAID011

Provide First Aid

10

TLILIC0005

Licence to operate a boom-type elevating work platform (boom length 11 metres or more)

40

Group B: Qualification elective units 

Weighting Points 

UETDRTO001

Erect power systems transmission structure hardware

∟ UEECD0007 Apply work health and safety regulations, codes and practices in the workplace

∟UETDREL002 Comply with environmental requirements

∟UETDRTO002 Erect power systems transmission structures

60

UETDRTO003

Establish and reinstate a power systems transmission structure work site

∟ UEECD0007 Apply work health and safety regulations, codes and practices in the workplace

∟UETDREL002 Comply with environmental requirements

80

UETDRTO013

Pre-tension stringing overhead transmission conductors and cables

∟ UEECD0007 Apply work health and safety regulations, codes and practices in the workplace

∟UETDREL002 Comply with environmental requirements

∟UETDRTO001 Erect power systems transmission structure hardware

∟UETDRTO002 Erect power systems transmission structures

80

This qualification replaces and is equivalent to UET20419 Certificate II in Transmission Structure and Line Assembly