Scope of Work information for the Electronic Technician (06 license) and Telecommunications Technician Labor Categories

It has been brought to our attention that some confusion may exist regarding the scope of work of the Electronic Technician (06 license) and the Telecommunications Technician labor categories. The Contracts now in place allow for new services to be added, but do not allow for the addition of entirely new labor categories if there are no new services connected with them that could not already be performed by the existing labor categories. The labor categories contained in the template of the RFP Labor Schedule were carefully chosen and can provide all the services needed under the contract. Therefore, for clarification, the following links are provided to Sections of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) and the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) where the scopes of work of the two labor categories above are described.

First, please refer to RCW Section 19.28.400 (“Definitions”) subsection 7 (“Telecommunications Scope of Work”), subsection 13 (“Telecommunications Systems”), and subsection 14 (“Telecommunications Worker”).

Next, please refer to WAC Section 296-46B-920 (“Electrical/Telecommunications license/certificate types and scope of work”):

• Electronic Technician (06) Scope of Work –
  Subsection (2) (e) (“Limited Energy System (06)”)
• Telecommunications Technician Scope of Work –
  Subsection (2) (m) (“Telecommunications (09)”)

See also WAC Section 296-127-01322 (“Electronic technicians”) and WAC Section
296-127-01378 (“Telecommunication technicians”).

For information regarding the RCDD labor category, please see the following links:
http://www.bicsi.org/Content/Index.aspx?File=rcddoverview.htm