Lead Locate Technician

Lead Locate Technician

Join Grid Hawk LLC as a Lead Locate Technician. Lead a team of locating technicians in protecting and documenting underground utility infrastructure.

• Oversee daily scheduling of contractors and sub-contractors
• Route tickets to ensure optimized efficiency
• Game plan to achieve daily production targets, provide help if needed
• Review prior days documents and reports
• Review daily expectations and safety messages and adjust as needed
• Auditing documents
• Ensuring all documents correctly comply with client’s regulations
• Establish client quality assurance (resolve any problems if needed)
• Ensure all team members timesheets are correct and team members are accounted for
• Locate underground facilities by using a transmitter and hooking up to a buried facility, pedestal etc.
• Work in and walk over all types of terrain in and around construction zones and residential, commercial, industrial and rural areas in all types of weather conditions
• Interpret job order tickets, blueprints and maps to efficiently route and perform duties
• Perform locates and emergency/on-call locates during regular, overtime and holiday hours as necessary to meet customer needs
• Perform all work in a timely, professional and efficient manner while effectively communicating and interacting with customers, co-employees and third parties
• Communicate with management team, contractor and utility customer to ensure a damage free environment
• Knowledge of technology and tools needed
• Ability to work with others and in a supervised team environment

• High School Diploma or GED
• Multiple years of utility locating experience
• Documentation of excellent quality ratio within locating industry
• Knowledge and experience using multiple types of utility locating equipment
• Ability to problem solve
• Ability to read, interpret, and decipher multiple types of prints
• Vacuum truck experience A+
• Ability to lift over 50lbs
• Ability to walk/stand for multiple hours a day
• Excellent communication skills needed
• Ability to read and interpret prints at a high level
• Pass a Background screening (no violations within the last 3 years)
• Pass a DOT drug test

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Term Life Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Benefits Plan
• 401(k) Savings Plan (Matched by the company)

Location:

Lansing, MI

Job Type: Full-time