Everybody starts in the same place.
Two required blocks that every single person at MBL takes, whatever they do and whoever signs their cheque. Then the track that matches the job. Then, only where the work demands it, the specialist blocks. A person's level is what they have been trained and signed off on, not how long they have been here.
The core, and it is not optional
Everyone, day one, before a track
Chase's point, and it is the right one: a new hire is expected to arrive at a level, and that level assumes Scoop. So the core is MBL basics and Scoop basics, together, and nobody skips to the interesting part.
- MBL Foundations. The two ways we work, the six delivery orgs, who actually supplies the crews, and why documentation is the deliverable.
- Safety at MBL. Why we are hard on it, Site Docs and JHAs, what happens when something goes wrong, and how safety runs day to day.
- Scoop Basics. What a scoop is, projects and phases, finding your work, filling a form, and why fields appear and disappear. To build
The first two are written and live. Scoop Basics is the next block to write, and it is the one that unlocks everything downstream, because every specialist block after it assumes the vocabulary.
The track that matches the job
| Track | Who | Surface | Blocks | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office & Admin | PMs, coordinators, admin | Web | Business Development, Project Management & Admin | Live |
| Field Operations | Techs, crews, superintendents | App | Field Operations | Live, EN and ES |
| Service & O&M | Service techs, O&M | Web + App | SRVC ticket end to end, review gate, billing tail | Specced |
| Genesis Third-Party Inspection | Approved inspectors only | App | Restricted | By name only |
Genesis third-party inspection is the one exception to everything else on this page. It is never assigned by role, by company, or by level. It goes to named people on the approved list and to nobody else.
Broken down by who supplies the crew
MBL is the general contractor and carries no field labor of its own. Crews come in through three companies, and each one brings requirements the others do not have. This is where the specialist blocks live.
Laborers, Iron Workers, Operators
Signatory to three trades, so three sets of agreements, apprentice ratios and jurisdiction rules. Specialist blocks: rigging and steel erection, trench and excavation, operator qualification.
Millwright, fab, O&M, logistics
The widest spread of any of them. Millwright and the Fresno fabrication shop, plus nonunion electrical and construction, O&M, logistics and trucking. Specialist blocks: millwright and pipe, welding and fab, driver and equipment.
IBEW electrical
All IBEW electrical work. Specialist blocks: electrical safety and LOTO, commissioning, high voltage and interconnection. This is the crew already tracked in the equipment certs workbook.
The overlap that will confuse people, so say it out loud
Millwright is one of the six delivery orgs, and the millwright team also lives inside Anchor. The six orgs are how the work gets delivered. These three companies are who supplies the crews. Same company, two different lenses. Every version of this map should carry that line.
What a level actually certifies
| Level | Name | What it clears you to do |
|---|---|---|
| L1 | Foundation | You understand how MBL is put together and what the standard is. Cleared to work under supervision. |
| L2 | Practitioner | You can run your own work without somebody checking every field behind you. |
| L3 | Lead | You own the record, you sign off other people's work, and you train the next person. |
These are meant to line up with the L1, L2 and L3 tech levels in the Service app, which turns "what is an L2 allowed to do" into "an L2 completed and signed the L2 blocks." That still needs Derek to confirm, and it is the highest-value unanswered question on this page.
Written twice or not at all
The field track ships in English and Spanish with a toggle in the header, and the choice sticks to the device. Terms that appear on the actual screen stay in English on purpose. Telling somebody to look for el Bloque when the button says Block makes the translation worse than useless.
Every block written from now on gets authored in both at the same time. Retrofitting a translation costs several times what writing it alongside does, and the seam always shows.
What gets written next, and why in this order
| # | Block | Why now |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scoop Basics | Every specialist block assumes it. Writing anything else first means rewriting it after. |
| 2 | Service & O&M | Service is the growth push this year and the newest org, so its people are the least trained. |
| 3 | Endeavor electrical | The only crew with cert data already collected, so it is the cheapest to connect to recert tracking. |
| 4 | Anchor millwright and fab | Widest spread of work, least documented, most tribal knowledge at risk. |
| 5 | Genesis trades | Three unions, three sets of rules. Most content, so it goes once the pattern is proven. |