ESI Instructor / Assessor

Adrian has been practising both Transmission and Distribution Live Work for over 14 years and has been a Live Work Trainer for four years. His career has included fieldwork, method development and training. Adrian has trained and audited live work crews in every state and territory of Australia.

As well as being a member of the National High Voltage (HV) Live Work Forum, Adrian has recently been elected by his peers to sit on an Energy Networks Australia (ENA) Forum sub-committee that will be writing a national guideline for the testing and inspection of High Voltage Live Work Sticks.

Adrian attends the E-OZ Technical Advisory Committee meeting for the Transmission, Distribution and Rail sector and has been heavily involved in the writing and revision of the current nationally recognised units for live work training found in the UET12 Training Package.

Adrian’s expertise is in Distribution and Transmission Line Work, including Live Work – Stick, Glove and Barrier.

ESI Instructor / Assessor

Dennis has worked in the Electrical Supply Industry for 30 years, beginning his career at Integral / Endeavour Energy as an Electrical Linesman. After seventeen years with the organisations, Dennis joined the Endeavour Energy Training Centre as a trainer, later becoming an Apprentice Training Coordinator. In this role, Dennis trained staff in all areas of line work and safety, which included Endeavour Energy Safety Rules, Pole Top Rescue, Live Low Voltage Panel Release, Elevated Work Platform Controlled Descent Device, Elevated Work Platform Ground Rescue, Working at Heights and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).

In 2013 Dennis started his own business as a contract trainer. Dennis continued to train in the areas he’d been working in, as well as adding Working Safely Near Live Electrical Apparatus as a Non-Electrical Worker and First Aid to his scope.

Dennis also has experience working with the South West Institute of TAFE, training Apprentice Line Workers and Electrical Fitters to become Linesmen.

ESI Instructor / Assessor

Jamie has a background in the Army, truck driving and dairy farming in NZ, this is his 13th year in the industry. He has gained excellent experience in power distribution work as a dual trade Linesman/Cable jointer, including HV live stick and gloving work, HV operations and Transmission line maintenance work. After 9 years in NZ and Tasmania on the tools, he started training Apprentices in Melbourne in 2013. Having a Cert IV in ESI - Network Systems, and a Dual Diploma in Training development, design and VET, he has gained excellent experience and understanding in all aspects of training Apprentices and experienced linesmen and cable jointers.

ESI Instructor / Assessor

Fred started his career in SA with the Electricity trust of South Australia in 1984, he was a linesman/cable joiner and progressed to become a live liney. There for 10 years then went to Esperance in WA and worked for Western Power also linesman/ cable joiner and later retrained to become a live liney in WA. Fred was there for 7 years then moved to Queensland and got a job with Ergon Energy in Hervey Bay and for the last 8 years he has been a trainer/assessor with them. He has been lucky enough to see this industry change and has been able to keep up with these changes especially the safety aspect of it, from productivity being the main performance indicator to now safety being the main performance indicator. Also the inclusion of computer technology. He started his own training business in 2015 and now contract to Enersafe and train refresher training, Working Safely Near Live Electrical Apparatus as a Non-Electrical Worker and First Aid.

ESI Instructor / Assessor

Gary is a Distribution Linesman who has been involved in the Power industry in Victoria for a number of years. Gary has extensive training experience and can train Glove and Barrier, Initial and Refresher units and VESI units.

ESI Instructor / Assessor

Mark conducts training and assessment activities both in Australia and overseas. He has been in Papua New Guinea training local workers in HV Operating, Electrical Access Authorities, Pole Top & EWP Rescue/Escape, LV Panel Rescue and Cert IV in TAE . He has travelled to Ireland, the Philippines and England to assess local electrical line workers to work in Australia. He also travelled to Laos to deliver HV Industry Operator training. Live line training and assessment services in Glove & Barrier up to 33kV are the most requested services. He can also provide Live line Hot stick training for Distribution and Sub transmission power lines up to 66kV. Mark, also delivers electrical line work training for apprentices and qualified trade persons.

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Tony commenced in the Belgrave Regional Construction Gang as an apprentice Lineworker in the SECV in 1977 and moved into the training arena in 1988 at the Chadstone Distribution Engineering Department (now Federation Training). In the years since then Tony has held a variety of roles including Lineworker, Supervisor, Trainer/Technical Writer, and a number of contract service delivery positions in both telecommunications and electrical industries. Tony has a diverse background and work experience in training, electrical distribution and transmission, asset maintenance, vegetation clearance and overhead construction.