New hire onboarding
Entry level
Jobsite awareness, PPE, hazard recognition and stop-work authority. The first week, before anyone touches equipment.
Magellan Training Academy
The education arm of Magellan Utilities Construction. It certifies our own operators first —
and opens the same programs to contractors, utilities and municipalities across the industry.
Why us
Most safety training in this trade is generic construction content with a utility slide bolted on. Ours comes out of an operation that runs rigs every day — the hazards in it are the ones our own superintendents wrote up last month.
That is also the test of whether it works: our crews take it first. If a module does not hold up in the field, it gets fixed before anyone outside the group ever sees it.
Programs
Entry level
Jobsite awareness, PPE, hazard recognition and stop-work authority. The first week, before anyone touches equipment.
Operator
Rig operation, bore planning, mud mixing, tracking and locating, and what to do when a bore goes wrong.
Technician
811 process, electromagnetic locating, GPR, potholing and documentation.
All crews
Competent person duties, soil classification, shoring, trench entry and confined space.
All crews
Flagger certification, work zone setup and FDOT requirements.
Leadership
Inspection routines, incident investigation, documentation and audit readiness.
Who it is for
Contractors who need certified operators and do not have a training function. Utilities and municipalities that want their contractors held to a known standard. Individuals moving into the trade.
Training is delivered at our facility in Apopka and on site.
Latest from the Academy

August 24, 2026
Magellan Training Academy now has a public news page. This is where we will post what each class covered, how many operators were certified, and what our instructors are seeing in…
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