Experience Affect on Average Electrician Salary
The entry level salary for electricians is 23% below the national average, however there is only a 4% change between salaries for mid-career and experienced electricians.
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So You Want to Upgrade to Wi-Fi 6?
In the first of this two-part post, we’ll discuss the new and upcoming Wi-Fi 6 standards and the performance benefits. Our subsequent post will cover how to make sure that your cabling plant is ready.
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IDEAL Networks Issues Advice on Overcoming Common PoE Challenges
As many different applications increasingly adopt Power over Ethernet (PoE) devices, such as phones, cameras, lighting, access controls, IDEAL Networks offers advice to help IT technicians handle everyday PoE troubleshooting scenarios.
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Finding a Way Forward
My feet were cold. In my haste to run out the door that night when the pager chirped and informed me that it was time to get moving, I had neglected to put socks on. So now my feet were cold, and it was both distracting and inconvenient. Of course, with everything else that was going on at the moment it would have been hard to generate any sympathy from my colleagues, but still, they were cold.
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Canadian Members Find Good Wages, Good Friends at Massive Pennsylvania Project
It’s a nearly 2,100-mile drive from his home in Newfoundland to the jobsite in western Pennsylvania. But Damian Hogan jumped at the chance to join construction crews at the Shell Pennsylvania Chemical project north of Pittsburgh.
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Will West – Top Apprentice for Canada A Region at 2019 Ideal Nationals
Will West is a first-year apprentice working in the solar industry with Hakai Energy Solutions. Will was able to qualify for the Ideal Industries 2019 National Championships as the top apprentice from the Canada A Region.
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Years of Experience for Electrical Engineers
Almost 80% of electrical engineers in Canada have less than 10 years of experience, which may bode well for the future of the industry.
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10 Worker Safety and Productivity Tips for 2020
It’s a new year, and a new decade (depending on whether you believe the decade begins with year zero or year 1), but manufacturing safety challenges keep expanding: digital transformation, fewer available workers, globalization, and how to manage safety and security risks among them.
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How to Ready Your Workplace for Communicable Illnesses Including Coronavirus (COVID-19)
As the spread of COVID-19 rapidly increases around the world, companies are beginning to prepare for the possible impact of the virus on their operations.
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Value of Canadian Building Permits Rose 4% in January
The total value of building permits issued by Canadian municipalities increased 4.0% to $9.2 billion in January. Increases were reported in six provinces, led by British Columbia (+52.1% to $2.2 billion).
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How Greenlee’s REEL-X Makes Fishing Wire and Cable Easier
With their new REEL-X fish tape line, Greenlee aimed to alleviate the aggravation and wasted energy associated with jamming and binding fish tapes when fishing wire and cable.
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Lance Giesbrecht Goes In-Depth on His Ideal Nationals Experience: “It’s Definitely the Olympics of our Trade”
“It’s definitely the Olympics of our trade,” said Lance Giesbrecht of the Ideal National Championships, “I’m one of the people who live and breathe for that competition. It’s a great thing, they’re bringing life to the trade,” he added…
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What You Need to Know About Moving to 100G and 400G Technologies
Today’s data centres need to be fast, dense, scalable, cost effective and energy efficient. The push to handle high data volume and data rates is skyrocketing as Internet traffic inside data centres grows. According to IDC, data creation has doubled every two years since 2005.
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4 Myths About Connected Lighting, Debunked
From rising construction costs to the shrinking labor force, electrical contractors’ jobs aren’t getting any easier. When you’re already juggling many challenges, keeping up with evolving technologies can feel daunting.
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Electrical Engineer Related Jobs by Salary
Among nine electrical engineer related jobs, reliability engineer ranks at the top and is $64,500 above the lowest paid job.
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Guide to the Canadian Electrical Code, Part I — Instalment 6
Often, code users encounter situations where they find themselves at odds with the rules contained in the CEC, Part I. These situations can occur for designers, consultants, installers, inspectors, manufacturers, students, instructors and standards developers alike, and these situations usually are a result of a misreading, misunderstanding, misapplication or inability to locate the requirement that is needed or that is relevant to their tasks.
