Career Opportunities After Completing a CAT & Genny Course

 The utility industry is an important industry and with the ongoing expansion of the industry, there is a growing need for qualified professionals. If you are looking for a promising career with great potential, then consider investigating the prospects available after completing a CAT & Genny Course.  This course is dedicated to teaching the skills required to locate underground utility accurately before excavation, construction, and maintenance operations. 

So, what are the available career prospects after you have successfully completed the course? Here are some great options:

● Cable Locator

This is arguably the most obvious career option. Cable locators are the quiet heroes of the building and construction industry.  

Cable locators employ Cable Avoidance Tools (CATs) and signal generators (Gennies) to locate and mark the position of buried cables and pipes prior to any excavation. This avoids expensive damage to infrastructure, ensures safe working conditions for personnel, and prevents service interruption. 

● Utility Surveyor

Similar to cable locating, utility surveying tends to have a wider remit. Surveyors not only locate underground utilities but also survey and record their position. This information is invaluable to the planning of new building schemes, the design of improvements to infrastructure, and the upkeep of existing networks of utilities.  Goodanalytical skills and attention to detail are a prerequisite for this role.

● Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Technician

A CAT & Genny course is electromagnetic detection-based but can be an excellent steppingstone to Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology work. GPR employs radio waves to produce images of subsurface structures and provides a complementary technique for locating utilities, especially non-metallic pipes which a CAT & Genny set may not be able to locate. Having both CAT & Genny and GPR capabilities makes you an extremely desirable employee. 

● Pipeline Inspector

Pipelines are heavily used in the oil and gas industry to transport products. Pipeline inspectors employ numerous techniques, including CAT & Genny equipment, to monitor the integrity and safety of these critical assets. They detect potential leaks, determine the condition of the pipeline, and monitor regulatory compliance.

● Site Supervisor/Foreman

Cable locating or utility surveying experience can be applied to supervisory positions. Site supervisors oversee construction sites, ensuring work is efficiently and safely accomplished. 

Outside of these particular careers, the skills learned in a CAT & Genny course are applicable in a wide range of other fields, such as civil engineering, telecommunications, and even archaeology. The skill of precise underground utility location is highly transferable and can lead to a wide range of opportunities.

An investment in a CAT & Genny Course is an investment in your future. So, if you want a challenging and fulfilling career, find out the opportunities that lie ahead for you after you have finished a CAT & Genny Course.

Why You Need Sygma Solutions CAT And Genny Training

If you are involved in construction work of any sort, then using the CAT and Genny to locate underground services is a given. These tools can help to find exactly where services run, what type of service they are, how deep down they are, and more. They most certainly are clever pieces of technology, but you need training in order to ensure that you use them in the right way. In addition, you also need to be aware of the fact that they have some limitations, and you need to know what to do if you run up against a problem. 

For instance, one limitation can be depth. You might use the CAT and Genny together (we always recommend using them in combination) and the result shows that there is nothing at the point at which you need to dig. Before you rush off and start merrily digging with your JCB, safe in that knowledge, it is also possible that you could be wrong.

What Do You Do?

For example, the result may have been because of the depth of the service. Some tools can only read to a certain depth, and so anything below that will not show. What do you do?

It’s actually very simple. You start digging, preferably by hand, and when you have got down about a foot you run another survey. This time you may find that the utility that is there shows up. These are the sorts of situations that we teach you how to handle safely when you use the training courses that we provide at Sygma Solutions. 

You may also be able to dig down if, for instance, you only need to go to a depth of two feet, while another service is at a depth of four. This is rather a question of “horses for courses”, but unless you have the knowledge you can still make mistakes. 

Our team has over 100 years of experience in the manufacture and use of the various tools that are needed to locate underground services. We also provide Mala GPR locators and have several available for hire should you need to use them. 

Our job in the somewhat mystical world of underground services is to ensure that you and your team have the knowledge and expertise that we ourselves possess by the time you have finished your course. Then you can proceed with confidence.