Escambia County Licensing Requirements

For experience qualifications, please refer to the following. Any person wishing to obtain a license shall apply in writing. A person shall be eligible for licensure by examination and/or reciprocity if the person meets one of the following:

Work Experience Requirements:

• 18 years of age
• Has received a baccalaureate degree from an accredited four-year college or university in the appropriate field of engineering, architecture, or building construction and has one year of proven experience in the category in which the person seeks to qualify. For the purpose of this part, a minimum of 2000 person-hours shall be used in determining full-time equivalency.
• Has a total of four years experience as a worker who has learned the trade by serving an apprenticeship as a skilled worker who is able to command the rate of mechanic in the particular trade or as a foreman who is in charge of a group of workers and usually is responsible to a superintendent or a contractor or his or her equivalent, provided, however that at least one year of active experience shall be as a foreman.
• Has a combination of not less than one year of experience as a foreman and not less than three years of credits for any accredited college-level courses, or has a combination of not less than two years of experience as a skilled worker, one year of experience as a foreman; and not less than one year of credits for any accredited college-level courses shall be considered accredited college-level courses.

Experience

If your work experience is outside the State of Florida, you will need to provide the following:

• If you were self-employed, we will need a copy of your license that covers a 4-year period;
• If you were employed by someone who held a license, we will need a copy of their license that covers a 4-year period and the Verification of Experience form included in this packet signed by the license holder;
• If no license was required for that particular trade, we will need a letter from a local government official where the experience was obtained, stating that no license required for that specific type of work. The letter will need to be signed by a government official, on letterhead and notarized. The letter must be an original document.

Degree in Lieu of Experience
In accordance with F.S. § 489.111, a four-year college degree may be substituted for three years of experience if the degree is in the field of engineering, architecture, or building construction. Please provide a copy of the diploma and/or transcript with your application.

Experience qualifications for Electrical Trades

Any person wishing to obtain a license shall apply in writing. A person shall be eligible for licensure by examination and/or reciprocity if the person meets one of the following:

Business & Law Examination Is Required For Trades (Except Journeymen)

Master Electrician (Electrical Contractor) & Alarm I, II and Residential

• Satisfactory proof of at least four years related working experience in the electrical or alarm construction trade by providing a completion certificate from a four-year apprenticeship program.
• A notarized affidavit from an employer certifying related electrical or alarm experience.
• Submitted an equivalent Master Electrician’s/Electrical Contractor’s or Alarm System Contractor from a jurisdiction acceptable to the Board and certification of four years related working experience in the electrical or alarm system trade as outlined in this subsection.
• A degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Technology and two years of related work experience in the electrical trade.
• In lieu of an examination, the Alarm Contractor’s license may be issued in an appropriate category as provided for in F.S.§ 489.537.

Maintenance Electrician

• Experience references to show a four-year background in the electrical trade.
• A list of the employers for the last four years with whom employed, giving specific job description and titles held, etc.

Journeyman Electrician

• Satisfactory proof of at least two years related working experience in the electrical construction trade by providing a completion certificate from a four-year apprenticeship program consisting of one of the following:
  • A notarized affidavit from an employer certifying related electrical experience.
  • Submission of an equivalent Journeyman Electrician Certificate from a jurisdiction acceptable to the Board and certification of two years related working experience in the electrical trade as outlined in this subsection.