Utility Locate Technician $24-$30/hr Forney, Texas

ELM Utility Services is an EEO Employer - M/F/Disability/Protected Veteran Status


ELMUtility Services, with over 1700 employees nationwide, has an outstandingopportunity as a Utility Locate Technician, working in the Forney, Texas area.You will be provided paid trainingby ELM using ELM equipment, ELM utilizes our LaunchPoint softwaresystem with state-of-the-art technology to ensure the job is as simple andefficient as possible for our technicians. ELM Technicians provide a service totheir community ensuring the gas, electric, communications systems, etc. aremaintained and dependable by performing excellent quality marking of utilitiesto prevent excavation damage to these critical facilities. Utility facilitiesthat provide heat, light, and necessary communications critical to our modernlife serves the communities in which we live.


In addition to hourly compensation, ELM offers a full benefits packageincluding:
• Companyvehicle and fuel card are provided for you to take home each day as your mobileoffice
• Medical,Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Paid-TimeOff accrual (PTO) Vacation/Sick Time (80hours per full year worked to start. Accruals go up with years of service)NOTE:
• 6Paid Holidays
• Company phone, laptop, and equipment as needed are provided to each employee
• 401(k)plan
• BootReimbursement Program
• EmployeeAssistance Program (EAP)
• Paidhands-on training
• Annualreviews with the potential for increases


Yourspecific duties in this role will include, but not limited to:
• Workingindependently outdoors utilizing your company-provided vehicle as your mobileoffice, you will work a route of locate requests to be completed each day.
• Ourmission is to correctly, safely, and efficiently locate and mark undergroundutilities including, electric and gas lines primarily, marking their properlocation using marking paint, flags, and whiskers in some cases. In some areasELM does also locate communications or other facilities as well. Localmanagement can provide specifically what utilities we service in your area.
• Completeall necessary digital documentation and paperwork
• Receivedaily route and locate requests by logging in each morning from yourvehicle/mobile office handheld smartphone. No need to come to an office everyday. The day normally will start at your residence and ends on the last locatejob completed.
• Respondto emergency calls in a timely manner as directed
• Workperiodic overtime and weekend on-call rotation may be requested


Specificqualifications for the position include:
• Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screen
• HighSchool Diploma or GED
• Validdriver's license in good standing


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