Locate Technician
Listed on 2026-01-05
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Trades / Skilled Labor
General Labor, Field/Service Technician
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Job DescriptionLocate Technicians accurately locate underground facilities including telephone communication lines, electric power lines, cable television lines, gas lines, fiber optic lines, water lines, and sewer lines. This role is essential to ensure compliance with client and state requirements. Duties involve observing, locating, marking, and documenting underground and exposed utility locations using multiple methods. Technicians are dispatched to verify locations for utility customers and can work independently or as part of a team under a supervisor.
Success in this role requires focus, skill, and the use of machinery and tools.
- Locate underground facilities by using a transmitter and hooking up to a buried facility, pedestal, etc.
- Work and walk over all types of terrain in construction zones and residential, commercial, industrial, and rural areas in all 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 needed.
- Carry out all work in a timely, professional, and efficient manner while effectively communicating and interacting with customers, co‑employees, and third parties.
- Communicate with management, contractors, and utility customers to ensure a damage‑free environment.
- Demonstrate knowledge of technology and tools needed.
- Work collaboratively and in a supervised team environment.
- High School Diploma or equivalency (GED).
- State‑issued driver’s license.
- Ability to problem‑solve.
- Ability to read, interpret, and decipher multiple types of prints.
- Vacuum truck experience (A+).
- Ability to lift over 50 lbs.
- Ability to walk/stand for multiple hours a day.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Pass a background screening (no violations within the last 5 years).
- Pass a DOT drug test.
- Complete a background check with no violations within the last 5 years.
- Pass a DOT drug test.
- Use company‑provided technology and work vehicles.
- Health Insurance.
- Dental Insurance.
- Term life Insurance.
- Short‑Term Disability.
- Long‑Term Disability.
- Vision Insurance.
- Flexible Benefits Plan.
- 401(k) Savings Plan (matched by the company).
- PTO and paid holidays for full‑time employees after 30 days.
- 10‑hour shift.
- Monday to Friday.
- On‑call.
- Weekends as needed.
On the road.
Employment TypeFull‑time.
Seniority LevelEntry level.
Grid Hawk LLC is an equal‑opportunity employer. All employees can advance within the company based on performance and satisfactory.
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