1. Nathan Bredow WESTAR

2. MENTORS Ed Noll - Director, Field Safety & Training Stephanie Homolka – Field Training Analyst

3. WHY WESTAR? Career opportunity – Journeyman Lineman Many opportunities of advancement at Westar Location is great. Great community of employees.

4. PPE PPE at Westar stands for Personal Protective Equipment. It is required that you wear your PPE at all times when in the work zone. Pre-job Briefing must be read and signed before you do anything.

5. EXPERIENCE It was great and very helpful! Fleet/Mechanics Meter Shop Substation Crew Lineman Crew Dispatch Designers Store room Trouble Shooters Environmental Service Operators

6. PRE-QUALIFICATION BOOT CAMP 5 days long, Mon-Fri 12 hour days,Typically 5am to 5pm Held at the Westar Professional Development Center 25 people get accepted to attend On Wednesday when I attended there was only 8 remaining.

7. IN THE FUTURE I plan to attend Manhattan area Technical College AAS Associates of Applied Science Degree

8. THANK YOU!! I want to thank Ed and Stephanie for all the time they took to plan out my schedule and make this possible for me. This experience was great and I can’t wait to get this journey started.