Utility Locator

2 weeks ago


Guelph, Canada The City of Guelph Full time

About Our Organization:
When you join the City of Guelph, you join a team of 2000 full and part-time employees who deliver services the community relies on every day. Together, we are bringing to life Guelph’s vision of an inclusive, connected, and prosperous city where we look after each other and our environment.

As a regional top employer, the City of Guelph values its employees and offers competitive salaries, excellent benefit packages, opportunities for professional development, a healthy work-life balance, and many roles with flexible work options. Our corporate values are integrity, service, inclusion, wellness, and learning. Guelph is consistently ranked as one of the best places in Canada to live, work, and play—all good reasons to consider a career in this beautiful city.

Job Summary:
**Your role**:

- Accurately perform multi
- utility locates of City infrastructure using various locating methods.
- Create and follow traffic plans for working in the right of way.
- Perform maintenance and trouble shooting on field locating equipment.
- Use locating software to create, track, complete and share utility locates including electronic or manual drawings of locates.
- Use computers, laptops and or tablets to receive, organize complete and submit locates and prepare other required documentation.
- Liaise with City staff, frontline utility locate representatives, and vendors on locating issues including creation, interpretation and review of drawings.
- Communicate with members of the public about access to private property, processes and actions that locators undertake.
- Work with the Locates Technician to ensure field feedback and data is incorporated into City mapping and databases to ensure that accurate mapping is maintained.
- Represent the department with internal and external contacts by providing high quality customer service both in person onsite and by other communications methods including but not limited to customer troubleshooting and follow up as needed
- Comply with locate, health and safety and environmental regulations and conform to City policies and procedures including preparation of associated documentation.
- Complete and maintain all daily legislative and non-legislative, City and other records as they pertain to the utility locates and related work including the accurate preparation and completion of required documentation (electronic or otherwise) which may include numerical and textual information, time cards, logs and worksheets etc.
- Collect locate process data for benchmarking and efficiency and provide feedback on the development and implementation of locate standards procedures and practices for the City of Guelph.
- Responds to emergency situations.
- Other duties as required.

**Qualifications**:

- DPT 100 or equivalent certification.
- suspended or revoked under the Highway Traffic Act (HTA) or Criminal Code of Canada in the last 5 years. The City of Guelph will take into consideration the number of demerit points and/or nature of the infractions to determine if it meets our requirements.
- Ability to safely work independently in a productive manner.
- Excellent knowledge with utility locating equipment including computing devices, electronics, software and other locating hardware.
- Knowledge of underground infrastructure and locating equipment including water, wastewater, drainage, traffic signals, fiber optic, communications, electric and other systems.
- Good organizational skills with the ability to prioritize, schedule, manage multiple tasks in a demanding work environment.
- Knowledge of GIS and similar databases and creating electronic drawings with software packages.
- Excellent customer service and problem solving skills.
- Knowledge of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Highway Traffic Act and WHMIS.
- Able to perform physical requirements of position (e.g. field locates in all types of weather conditions).
- Ability to create traffic plans and work in and around traffic and construction vehicles to complete required locates
- Must be a team player with good interpersonal skills.
- Good communications skills with the ability to communicate and deal with all levels of staff, contractors, stakeholders and the general public in a courteous manner.
- Beginner skills in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word and Excel) and familiar with locating software.

**Rate**:
$29.84 per hour

**How to apply**:
The City of Guelph is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in the workplace. We are therefore happy to accommodate any individual needs in keeping with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If you require an accommodation in order to participate in the hiring process, please contact us to make your needs known in advance.



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