Utility Related Work Experience definition
Utility Related Work Experience means work experience providing utility-specific services (a) to a Utility Company while employed with a company engaged in providing utility-specific services to a Utility Company; or (b) to a governmental entity while employed with a unit of such governmental entity, which unit is engaged in providing utility-specific services to the governmental entity. Such work experience must have required specialized training and/or instruction. Utility-specific services are services that are unique to the utility industry and that normally are performed by utility operating companies. For example, Utility Related Work Experience includes an electric or telephone lineman working for a construction contractor building electric transmission or utility lines for an electric or telephone utility, a task normally performed by a Utility Company; a computer programmer/analyst working for a computer programming contractor providing customer billing services to a utility, a function normally performed by a Utility Company. The following examples illustrate prior work experience which is not Utility Related Work experience: a CPA auditing the books and records of a Utility Company; a secretary employed by a construction company which performs work for an electric utility, a job category not unique to the utility industry and not requiring special utility industry training; an electrician or cable splicer working for a general contractor who contracts with the Federal Government, because the work is not provided to a Utility Company nor is the electrician or cable splicer employed by a unit of a governmental entity which provides utility-specific services to the governmental entity.