Installation & Maintenance Electrician

The Installation/Maintenance Electrician EWA is the assessment process to recognise occupational competence for people who have been working as an Installation or Maintenance Electrician for over five years, but haven’t been able to complete an apprenticeship, achieve an equivalent, recognised Level 3 vocational qualification or have qualifications from outside of the UK.

It’s designed for practising electricians who are working across the full scope of activity set out in the skills scan and can readily generate the evidence required. It is an assessment process, not training, and must be completed within a maximum of 18 months. Candidates who are unlikely to be able to generate the required evidence within this timeframe should take a different route such as the Level 3 NVQ.

It’s available across England, Northern Ireland and Wales from EAL and City & Guilds training centres . Scottish learners should follow the SECTT Crediting Electrotechnical Competence (CEC) or Adult Trainee routes.

Achievement of this Experienced Worker Assessment and its end assessment of competence—the AM2E—meets the criteria for an ECS gold card application. It’s also recognised in the Electrotechnical Assessment Specification as equivalent to an industry apprenticeship.

The EWA was developed by an industry group comprising ECA, JIB, NET, Unite, Certsure, ECS, NAPIT, City and Guilds, EAL and the IET.

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