Utility Locator - Damage Prevention Technician

Mid-Senior Level | Full-time
Craft and Skilled Trades | livermore, CA | 07/16/2025
Reference #: REF
7312F
Job Code: 538.3 Sr. Technical Coord.
Organization: Infrastructure and Operations
Position Type: Career Indefinite
Security Clearance: Anticipated DOE Q clearance (requires U.S. citizenship and a federal background investigation)
Drug Test: Required for external applicant(s) selected for this position (includes testing for use of marijuana)
Medical Exam: A job-related pre-placement medical examination may be required Apply Now

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory’s mission.

Pay Range
$50.28 - $61.57 Hourly
This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting; pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

We’re looking for a Utility Locator - Damage Prevention Technician. You will provide advanced coordination and support to LLNL projects by performing locating jobs using state of the art locating equipment to identify and map hidden substructures and buried utilities. This position is in the Infrastructure Engineering and Operations Department and may require work at Site 300 in Tracy, California.

This position requires full-time on-site presence due to the nature of the work.

You will

• Provide advanced technical coordination and support to LLNL projects by performing locating jobs to identify and map hidden substructures and buried utilities.
• Perform complex technical locates where regular decision making is needed to establish or modify guidelines, techniques, and procedures.
• Coordinate with personnel on projects requiring underground locating services, and anticipate and reconcile support problems, including technical factors affecting critical milestones.
• Provide supervisor and customer/requestor routine status updates and reports.
• Ensure that all locating tasks are performed in compliance with Environmental Safety and Health and National Utility Locator Utilize Contractor Association (NULCA) standards as well as procedures related to underground line locating.
• Contribute technical underground locating knowledge to project teams and maintenance staff and work with personnel inside and outside LLNL.
• Give locating demonstrations when needed and communicate to all levels of management within LLNL and other Department of Energy (DOE) facilities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Associate degree (AA/AS) in electronics, mechanical, industrial, or manufacturing technology or equivalent combination of education and experience in a maintenance or construction field.
• Advanced understanding and experience performing complex technical locates.
• High-level construction knowledge of how utilities are installed both inside and outside of buildings.
• Advanced skills and understanding of safety policies and procedures.
• Experience coordinating and working as a team with clients and providing technical expertise and support through compiling field documentation, digital pictures, and drawings.
• Effective written, verbal, feedback, and presentation skills necessary to interact tactfully and effectively with all levels of management, engineers, designers, and crafts personnel.
• Ability to participate in specific on-the-job…