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Fort Wayne builds full-size pickups in Roanoke, runs the headquarters of a Fortune 500 steelmaker, supports a cluster of defense electronics plants and is watching Google raise a data center campus on its southeast side. We train the electrical crews who maintain and build that work, at your facility or in an in-person class we set up in Fort Wayne when you ask.
Indiana runs its own OSHA-approved state plan. Private employers here are inspected by Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (IOSHA), Indiana Department of Labor, not federal OSHA. Every class is live, on the 2027 edition of NFPA 70E, and taught by a Certified Safety Professional. Indiana electrical safety training requirements →
Among the teams we have trained in the last year
Four ways to train your Fort Wayne crew
Crews we train in and around Fort Wayne: automotive, steel, defense electronics, data center construction, electrical contractors, healthcare and public sector.
What the class covers for Fort Wayne crews
A full-size pickup line does not wait, and electricians are expected to restore it fast. We teach how to keep troubleshooting to diagnostics and how to document energized work when it is truly justified.
Dozens of generators, paralleling switchgear and UPS systems mean multiple sources and stored energy in every building. Classes cover establishing an electrically safe work condition when power can arrive from more than one direction.
In March 2023 a Fort Wayne worker was hospitalized with arc flash burns from energized 480-volt switchgear, and IOSHA cited failure to de-energize and to use insulated tools. We use cases like it to show how ordinary tasks turn into injuries.
Indiana has no statewide electrician license, so a Fort Wayne credential means nothing in the next county. Your training and qualification records are the only consistent proof of who can do what.
Fort Wayne at a glance
IOSHA (state plan)
Indiana Michigan Power (AEP)
City/county licensing; no state license
FWA
Eastern
Indiana: what applies to your crews in Fort Wayne
Enforcement: IOSHA
Indiana runs a full OSHA-approved state plan through IOSHA, a division of the Indiana Department of Labor. It covers private employers and Indiana cities, counties, school districts and municipal utilities, and it carries its own general duty obligation.
Licensing: local only
Indiana has no statewide electrician license and no state electrical board. Fort Wayne runs its own licensing program, separate from Indianapolis, South Bend and Evansville, while the state sets the electrical code through the Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission.
Where NFPA 70E fits
NFPA 70E is not an IOSHA standard. Fort Wayne employers use it to show how they meet the electrical requirements of 1910 Subpart S and 1926 Subpart K, and IOSHA can cite general duty for a recognized arc flash or shock hazard.
Fort Wayne's electrical work environment
GM's Fort Wayne Assembly in Roanoke spreads about 4.6 million square feet across 716 acres and builds the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500. Steel Dynamics, the only Fortune 500 company headquartered in the city, began production at its $275 million flat roll mill in Butler in 1996. Body shops, paint systems and rolling mill drives give maintenance electricians a steady stream of high-energy troubleshooting.
Defense electronics is the city's other specialty. BAE Systems employs about 1,150 people in Fort Wayne, Raytheon about 950 and L3Harris about 888, alongside the Air National Guard base at the airport. Parkview Health and Lutheran Health Network run the region's hospital systems. Test labs and hospitals both depend on UPS systems and backup power that make lockout planning more complicated than flipping a breaker.
Google broke ground in April 2024 on a campus of up to 12 buildings on nearly 900 acres around Adams Center and Paulding roads. The original plan called for 34 emergency generators, and Google's subsidiary Hatchworks has asked state regulators for 143 more. Each building will bring switchgear, UPS rooms and generator paralleling gear that construction and operations crews will energize in phases.
Plants, defense sites and the Google build around Fort Wayne
These sites employ or will employ the largest numbers of electrical workers in Allen County and the surrounding area.
| Site | What is there | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Wayne Assembly General Motors | 716-acre Roanoke plant building Silverado 1500 and Sierra 1500 pickups. | Operating |
| Google Fort Wayne data center | $2 billion campus of up to 12 buildings on nearly 900 acres in southeast Fort Wayne. | Under construction |
| Butler Flat Roll Division Steel Dynamics | $275 million flat roll steel mill in Butler, producing since 1996. | Operating |
| BAE Systems Fort Wayne BAE Systems | Defense electronics operation with about 1,150 local employees. | Operating |
| L3Harris Fort Wayne L3Harris | Defense and communications electronics site employing about 888 people. | Operating |
| Fort Wayne Air National Guard Base Indiana Air National Guard | Air base at Fort Wayne International Airport with about 423 personnel. | Operating |
Indiana Michigan Power and the AEP system
Fort Wayne is served by Indiana Michigan Power, one of AEP's seven operating companies, whose territory also includes the Donald C. Cook nuclear plant. I&M has added generation as data center demand grows, including the purchase of an 870 MW gas plant in Ohio.
The bigger change for local crews is inside customer fences. The Google campus and the GM plant both take service at high voltage and own their substations and distribution, and a data center with well over 100 generators creates a complex system of sources. Arc flash studies and labels have to follow every expansion, and crews need to know how to read them.
Who we train in Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana
Maintenance electricians and controls technicians at Fort Wayne Assembly and its supplier plants.
Mill electricians at Steel Dynamics' Butler flat roll mill and processing sites around the region.
Test and facility technicians at BAE Systems, Raytheon and L3Harris.
Electrical subs and commissioning crews on the Google campus as buildings come online.
Local contractors whose crews move between Fort Wayne licensing and unlicensed jurisdictions nearby.
Hospital facility teams at Parkview and Lutheran, and city and county electricians covered by IOSHA.
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Questions from Fort Wayne employers
Our electricians are licensed in Fort Wayne. Is that the same as NFPA 70E qualification?
Does IOSHA cover our city utility or school district?
Can you train contractors working on the Google campus?
Can you train a plant crew without stopping production?
Does finishing the class make someone a qualified electrical worker?
What the people in the room say
“Virtual can never replace hands-on, but the engagement from our instructor and the class made it feel more engaging than some in-person courses I've taken.”
“Probably one of the most useful safety courses I've ever attended. Rick genuinely cares about people and their well-being.”
“This is the 2nd arc flash training course I've taken and the class was amazing. I feel like I'm leaving the training safer than before I took this class.”
Train your Fort Wayne crew on the 2027 edition.
Onsite within a few days, or private live virtual as soon as tomorrow. Need it fast? Call (813) 725-0999.