Our Vision
To train the energy workforce of the future where those we educate are safe in their careers and will always be first choice for the job.
Our Mission
NLC creates and delivers world-class education and training to meet customer demand for powering the energy transition in North America and beyond.
Our Core Values – PIE
The Power Formula is Power = Intensity x Electromotive force (Watts = Amps x Volts).
We really like that formula, and our Instructors use it in class all the time. We’ve adapted it as the basis for NLC’s Core Values so now everyone can use it (and it’s easy to remember).
Passion
Revel in your skills and role, genuinely care for the vision, mission, and our students.
Integrity
Sound ethics and arrow-straight morals guide our interactions and decisions
Excellence
Always evolve and grow, be curious and informed, and deliver the very best to our customers
Safe In Their Careers
We KNOW the dangers of this trade and most of us have experienced some kind of loss related to this important work.
Take a moment . . . reflect, sit in silence, honor a memory.
We can’t turn our backs on the risks or simply wish the hazards away. Our best defenses are an understanding of human nature, continuous training, a speak-up culture, and determined efforts to create capacity for when, not if, failure occurs.
Safe in their careers, begins day one on an NLC campus. We not only teach our students The Capacity Model, but every Eagle (instructor or not) should understand and apply its concepts. Our key driver is to build this foundation of safety knowledge within our students, so they can positively impact safety on the job and return home safely every night. The Capacity Model: A comprehensive approach to how organizations plan, execute, and learn from work. It employs three main pillars: prevention, learning, and the capacity for failure.
First responders: a person who is among those responsible for going immediately to the scene of an accident or emergency to assist. A lineman’s work can be as dangerous as it is important. They serve during floods, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, so the lineman’s job is one of the riskiest around.
Lineworkers are not just technicians:
lineworkers are first responders.
FIRST CHOICE
Since we launched ELP in 1993, every student (some 45,000+ of them!) and employer (some 4,000+ of them!), had a choice. They chose NLC.
Since we launched our apprenticeship programs in 2001 and 2012, every customer (some 800+ of them!) had a choice.
They chose NLC.
Being First Choice means . . .
Our students are selected for jobs above all other candidates
Our Instructors deliver to the highest standard
Our programs and customer service are second to none
Our developers create the most engaging content
Our operations are streamlined and lean
Our people are the very best at what they do
Being First Choice is the ongoing process of improvement, innovation, and change that leads to outcomes far above anything else out there. When making decisions, always, always ask yourself, “Will this produce First Choice?”
All businesses have a language and a strategy for success. Our business is education, which means we focus on student outcomes, how the brain learns, effective delivery methods, and hiring favorite and journey-level instructors. We have terms like accreditation, certification, tuition, completion rate, and admissions; and we know graduates will return as employees or customers in the coming years.
But . . . the best educational institution would fail without strong business modeling. To continue to train the next generation of power delivery workers, we must be good stewards of our finances, develop our people, apply sound marketing strategies, and continually improve our business processes.
Ethos #1
NLC’S Business is Education
Ethos #2
Always Ask: What’s Best for the Student?
This means that we will first do what is best for the student, then second do what is best for the department, (not vice versa). When students come first, departments always win. We are doing what is best for the student when:
- We would gladly enroll our family members in NLC programs
- Leadership listens to and equips Instructors to do their magic
- Student success is supported through intentional planning and the pursuit of quality
At NLC, our hiring philosophy is simple: If you’re the best, we want you.
And because training and education is a people business, great training can only occur at the hands of the most passionate and talented people.
Once we have the best on our team, let’s grow together! We believe learning and development isn’t a box to be ticked, but a welcome part of the job.
We create learning platforms to support as you forge your professional path.
- Stretch – it feels sooo good!
- Step into opportunities
- Uplift through social knowledge sharing
- Unlock your interests and lean into your potential
- Learn faster than the world is changing!
Ethos #3
NLC Hires and Develops the Best
THE NEW FRONTIER
A Tale of Two Ambitions
John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier
The “New Frontier” was used to describe the challenges facing the United States in the 1960s. He envisioned this New Frontier as encompassing uncharted areas of science, space and unsolved problems such as war, ignorance, prejudice, and poverty.
Whew! Full plate, complicated issues, and big dreams!
Mike Daniels’ New Frontier
Mike has dreams too! His New Frontier is an open and creative environment in which we team up to better our people, processes, and products. Complacency is our enemy. We will stay flexible and receptive to opportunity, but act on data. We will work to find the best way to get things done and set the quality bar high. When we reach that bar, let’s move it and do it again!
“I am asking each of you to be pioneers on that New Frontier.”
~ Mike Daniels & John F. Kennedy
Like Kennedy’s “New Frontier”, it embodies Mike’s commitment
to renewal, change, and progress.
The Power of One
Northwest Lineman College is part of the Quanta Services family, which means we’re one of 200+ operating companies working together to tackle the most complex electric power, renewables, underground utility, broadband, and engineering projects across the globe! Though OpCos are unique in approach and services, working toward a shared vision is powerful.
Our reach is massive, our impact is human-centered.
We provide educated pre-apprentices with a safety mindset, apprenticeship training, and quality to Quanta Services and Operating Companies in a web of connected strategies. Learn more about the services we provide.
