For the month of October 2024, Skyler Schoemaker has been nominated as our outstanding apprentice and student. Skyler joined the apprenticeship when he was 19 and has enjoyed his time working in the union since then. He worked for RMS electric at Norfolk international airport doing a new parking garage and a terminal. Starting his 2nd year, he worked for BCU at Amazon working on the sensors for conveyors and running the home runs to the panels. Then from end of his 2nd year he worked for Total Electric doing the renovation on the Walmart in Chesapeake. He did most of the lighting circuits and the freezers. Starting his 3rd year he worked for Plexus on the HRBT project, it was a lot of trench work for the first half of his time there, then started working nights installing the road sensors and traffic cameras for the midtown and downtown tunnels. End of his 3rd year to beginning of my 4th he worked at Saunders contracting, at the water treatment on the Portsmouth naval shipyard, it was a demo of the pump station and a new install of float switch’s and a new pump, this was his first experience working in panels having to do panel swaps and doing controls for the MOVs. Currently Skyler is at Blackwater at the Portsmouth naval hospital doing the fire alarm circuits now.
