Locate Technician

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Locate Technician

Location: Toledo, OH, 43537
Job Description

Locate Technicians are responsible for accurately locating underground facilities including, but not limited to, telephone communication lines, electric power lines, cable television lines, gas lines, fiber optic lines, water lines, and sewer lines. This position is a key component to ensure that the area is complying with client and state requirements.

Service duties include observing, locating, marking, and documenting underground and exposed utility locations. Understanding of doing so, using multiple methods is required. Locate Technicians will be dispatched to locate and verify for utility customers. Technicians can work independently or in a team environment; in both circumstances, the technician will work under an assigned supervisor.

The ability to perform this job takes focus, skill, and the use of machinery and/or tools.

Grid Hawk LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All employees can advance within the company based on performance and satisfactory work.

In order to obtain employment with Grid Hawk LLC, candidates MUST complete a background check. Company policy requires no violations within the last 5 years. Candidates MUST also take and pass a DOT drug test.

All employees of Grid Hawk LLC are assigned proper technology and work vehicles in order to perform all work-related duties. We will provide you the tools you need to achieve including:

• Company vehicle
• Laptop
• Smartphone
• All personal protective equipment

Duties Include, But Are Not Limited To:

• 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, contractors, and utility customers to ensure a damage-free environment.
• Demonstrate knowledge of technology and tools needed.
• Ability to work with others and in a supervised team environment.

Qualifications

• 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 plus
• Ability to lift over 50 lbs
• Ability to walk/stand for multiple hours a day
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to read and interpret prints at a high level
• Pass a background screening (no violations within the last 5 years)
• Pass a DOT drug test

Schedule

10-hour shift Monday to Friday, on call and weekends as needed.
Education & Experience

• High school or equivalent (Required)
• Computer skills: 1 year (Preferred)
• Utility Locating: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification

Driver's License (Required)
Work Location

On the road

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