Chartered Industrial Gas Consultant (CIGC)

The CIGC certification program provides representatives who sell and market to large natural gas end users the most complete array of sales and technological tools available. To meet the needs of today's marketers, the program has been restructured for 2009.The new format offers opportunities to customize your training and concentrate on the technologies and topics most relevant to your career.

Today’s sales and customer service personnel must handle a wider variety of industrial customers. To provide top-notch service,you must understand new technologies, energy efficiency programs, project financing, and regulated and deregulated gas supply issues. The new CIGC program offers a modular approach and gives those who market to both industrial and commercial customers more options. Here's how it works:

1) Newcomers to the CIGC or RCGC (Registered Commercial Gas Consultant) programs start with one or both of the following 4-day Fundamentals courses. (Both must be completed for certification.)

• Marketing Fundamentals for the Energy Industry
• Gas Technology Fundamentals

2) Next, you'll choose any two of the following 2-day courses.

• Advanced Marketing for the Energy Industry
• Energy Program Management
• Efficient Electric Technologies
• Efficient Gas Technologies

3) Then, depending on whether you are pursuing CIGC (industrial marketers) or RCGC (commercial marketers), you'll take two more 2-day courses.
For CIGC, you'll take:

• Industrial Steam Systems
• Emerging Industrial Gas Technologies

For RCGC, you'll take:

• Commercial Food Service and Space Heating
• Commercial Cogeneration and Cooling

The CIGC classes meet at GTI's downtown Chicago classroom in the DoubleTree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile. Students needing accommodations enjoy special, attractive room rates. Courses are scheduled back-to-back so that you can conveniently attend multiple courses within one or two weeks.

Download the 2009 CIGC-RCGC brochure and registration form.

From your perspective…
CIGC certification signifies to the industry that you have developed a high level of skill and knowledge about the fuel you are selling and its applications, the needs of industrial customers, and the technologies and trends that are shaping the gas industry.

From your company’s perspective…
CIGC helps to create a highly efficient and competent sales/marketing staff that provides top-notch customer service. This results in greater sales and more profitability.

Any of these courses will increase your knowledge and the value you bring to your customers.

GTI will guide you in selecting the courses in the new program that will best meet your career goals. Please contact us. (See contact information below.)

See the CIGC-RCGC chart for a clear picture of your path to certification.