Utility Locator

4 weeks ago

Guelph, Canada The City of Guelph Full time

Why Guelph:
**What we offer**

We offer competitive wages and comprehensive benefits to meet the needs of our diverse employees. Many of our positions offer:

- Paid vacation days, increasing with years of service
- Paid personal days;
- Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, including 100-per-cent employer matching;
- Extended health and dental benefits, including Health Care Spending Account;
- Employee and Family Assistance Program;
- Parental leave top up program;
- Learning and development opportunities including tuition assistance
- Employee recognition programs.

Position Overview:
**Key duties and responsibilities**
- 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 and requirements**
- DPT 100 or equivalent certification.
- 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.

**Hours of work**

**Pay/Salary**
CUPE Local 241 Grade: 4 $31.03 per hour

**How to apply

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