Building awareness of careers in construction, energy, and manufacturing for women.

1. WISE Pathways Women in Sustainable Employment • Building awareness of careers in construction, energy, and manufacturing for women.

2. Construction Careers

3. Construction Top Careers • Damage Prevention Technician/Utility Locator (Average Salary $xx,xxx) • Field Positions (Average Salary $15.38 per hour) • Quality Auditor (Average Salary $15.38 per hour) • Truck Driver (Average Salary $15.38 per hour)

4. Construction Worker: What do you do? Sample Job Posting: • Three years of construction experience • Driving record with no more than 2 points in the past three years • Ability and willingness to work 60 feet in the air • Ability and willingness to travel statewide • Must be able to lift 60 pounds repetitively throughout the work day • Must be able to read and write • Has to have their own reliable transportation • Must be able to secure a class “A” CDL within three months of hiring date • Must have temporary CDL license prior to hiring date • Excellent communication skills a plus • Equipment operation experience a plus • Personal tools will be required

5. Damage Protection Technician/Utility Locator: What do you do? • Close out evacuation notices both during normal hours and after hours • Read and interpret utility maps • Operate electronic detection equipment to locate and mark underground facilities • Perform light excavation • Provide accurate documentation and/or sketches related to all locates completed

6. Damage Protection Technician/Utility Locator: What do you do? • Receive and respond to excavation notices during normal and after hours • Operate company vehicle in a safe manner and maintain professional appearance • Perform manhole entry using assigned equipment and safety devices • Perform work in all weather conditions, during normal and after hours

7. UtiliQuest • UtiliQuest, LLC is a leading provider of facility locating and infrastructure protection services. UtiliQuest helps its clients focus on their core competencies while reducing damages to their underground plant and lowering their overall cost of owning distribution facilities. • For over three decades, UtiliQuest has been locating underground utility lines and offering value-added services to major utility and telecommunication companies across the United States. Over this time, we’ve been named an industry leader, nationally recognized for our prompt, accurate, and high-quality locating services. Our responsibility is not merely to meet, but to exceed our customer’s expectations for quality, professionalism, and value.

8. UtiliQuest: Benefits • Group Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (Affordable access to high quality plans, customized per employee) • 401K (Matching contributions made each week) • Life Insurance (Company-paid and supplemental available) • Short Term & Long Term Disability • Tuition Reimbursement • Paid Vacations/Holiday • On-Call Compensation

9. Field Positions: What do you do? • Comprehend specific directions, all of which must be followed to ensure safe and OSHA-compliant practices • Provide standards-compliant construction and services • Perform work in the “red zone” of heavy equipment, and in all sorts of environments, conditions, weather and seasons, and consists of medium to heavy work with prolonged and repeated: lifting (including overhead, up to 50lbs); standing; climbing; kneeling; reaching and feeling; crouching and crawling.

10. Quality Auditor: What do you do? • Ensure that all safety and quality procedures are implemented and enforced • Provide training, new hire orientations, OQ training, driver training, and customer training • Perform accident/incident investigations in the area of motor vehicle, general liability, and worker’s compensation claims • Analyze and resolve safety and quality issues

11. Quality Auditor: What do you do? • Maintain, fill out, and submit required paperwork in accordance with company and customer requirements • When there is a Quality Auditor and an Area Safety Director for one area, the Quality Auditor should spend approximately 40% of the time dealing with paperwork and conducting training and 60% of the time in the field.

12. Truck Driver: What do you do? • Under general supervision, transport construction equipment and materials, including aggregate, all in accordance with company-required policies and procedures (such as vehicle checks) as will ensure compliance with DOT regulations • Requires a valid driver’s license, CDL Class “A” license, tanker endorsement, clean driving record, and the ability to operate commercial vehicles

13. Truck Driver: What do you do? • Work occurs within the “red zone” of heavy equipment, and is performed in all sorts of environments, conditions, weather, and seasons • Must be knowledgeable of DOT regulations as well as able to understand and follow safe and OSHA-compliant practices

14. NPL • NPL is a nationally recognized leader in pipeline construction, with over 40 years’ experience in building energy-distribution systems and with nearly 3,000 highly-trained employees working across America. • Dedication to safe operations, commitment to quality and maintaining reliable equipment, striving for innovation and improvement, staying on top of the latest technology, meeting customer deadlines, and continually looking for opportunities to reduce our customers' total cost.

15. NPL: Benefits* • Pre-employment drug screen • DOT physical

16. WorkKeys: Reading for Information • Level 3: Reading materials are short & simple and include basic company policies, procedures, and announcements; tells readers what to do; information is stated clearly; items focus on the main points of the passage

17. WorkKeys: Reading for Information • Level 4: Similar to Level 3 but sentences are longer and have more details, have harder words, may include several steps; when following procedures, must think about changing conditions and how it would affect what you should do

18. WorkKeys: Reading for Information • Level 5: Policies, procedures, and announcements include all information needed to complete a task; materials have many details; includes jargon, technical terms, acronyms and words that have several meanings; application of information given in the passage to a situation no specifically described in passage; several considerations need to taken into account to choose correct action

19. WorkKeys: Reading for Information • Level 6: Reading includes elaborate procedures, complicated information, and legal regulations found in workplace documents; complicated sentences with difficult words, jargon and technical terms; most of the information needed is not stated

20. WorkKeys: Reading for Information • Level 7: Complex materials; information very detailed; complicated concepts, difficult vocabulary; uses unusual jargon and technical terms; writing lacks clarity and direction; must draw conclusions from some parts of the reading and apply them in other parts

21. Building awareness of careers in construction and energy for women. Support for this revised version of the WISE Pathways course is provided by a partnership with the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) and the Green Workforce Initiative at the Industry-Business Institute, Union County College, NJ.