Salary Range: $23.70 - $30.81 Hourly

Hiring Range: $23.70 - $27.30 Hourly

*This position is a seasonal position, 40 hours per week, for approximately 6 months or up to 1,040 hours, whichever occurs first*

Job Summary:

This position locates Water & Sewer facilities throughout the City. This protects the City’s assets from damage during excavations, utility pot-holing, and directional boring projects. The utility locator is the contact person responsible to provide information to City employees, contractors, other utility companies, and homeowners regarding the City of Greeley policies, procedures and underground construction standards.

Experience, Knowledge, Skills:

• Specialized training beyond high school diploma or equivalent.
• Less than 1 year experience in and specific knowledge of infrastructure in locating, maintaining, and inspection of Water & Sewer facilities or a combination of related education and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organizations.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Possess valid Colorado Driver's License and good driving record.
• Ability to obtain a Class A CDL within 6 months of hire.
• Ability to obtain Colorado State Water Distribution I certification within 1 year of hire.
• Ability to obtain Wastewater Collections I certification within 1 year of hire.
• Traffic Control and Flagger certified desirable.
• Detailed knowledge of City of Greeley Water & Sewer infrastructure.
• Knowledge of the fiber locating device and portable camera.
• Ability to operate specialized equipment.
• Demonstrate experience using GIS and GPS mapping and the ability to identify Water & Sewer lines that are not in the mapping system. Once identified they are added to the GIS system in order to protect the city’s infrastructure.
• Understanding of Water & Sewer repair and installation.
• Ability to solve a variety of problems in situations where there are substantially diversified procedures, specialized standards.

Essential Functions:

• Hook up electronic locating equipment to Water & Sewer lines to trace and mark service lines for contractors, citizens, and other City departments to protect City assets from damage.
• Meet with contractors when potholing for utilities so they can locate them safely, as well as stand-by during bore crossings to verify clearances.
• Observe the crossing of City utilities during construction projects.
• Document work performed.
• Perform on-call duties.
• Use the following daily: Metrotech locating equipment, company vehicle, small tools and the internet including Outlook. Word, Utilisphere and Daupler.

Work Environment:

• Work is typically performed outdoors in various weather conditions.
• Exposure to dirt, dust, fumes and possible disagreeable odors.
• May occasionally stand on concrete for long periods of time.
• Frequent and inflexible deadlines.
• May be required to conduct business in alternate locations within City buildings or field sites, sometimes in formal settings;
• Requires ability to manage competing priorities with frequent interruptions;
• May be required to work evenings, weekends or holidays to cover events, or emergencies.
• Subject to driving City vehicle in all weather conditions.
• Frequent contact with the public-in person, via email/telephone, sometimes facing adverse or confrontational situations with internal/external customers;
• Dangerous to considerable hazards reflect a frequent exposure to conditions that are unpredictable and may lead to injury, e.g.,confined space, open trench, working on different construction sites or other sites with heavy and moving equipment, noise, high-volume traffic or all of the above. Performing field activities on un-level, rocky and slippery surfaces. Many of the City's Water & Sewer lines are underneath pavement and in busy streets, intersections, and highways putting the utility locator at risk of injury because of inattentive and distracted drivers. Exposure to all weather conditions could result in injury due to a slip, trip, or fall.

Physical Requirements:

• Employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data/figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading of printed materials; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices-graphs and gauges; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes;
• Employee is required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: operating machinery where the seeing job is at or within arm's reach and to operate motor vehicles;
• Employee is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures for inspection purposes;
• Moderate to considerable physical effort that includes working from ladders in awkward positions, frequent use of light or medium weight objects (e.g., 25-50 lbs) and use of medium weight tools.
• Employee will perform manual labor, such as lifting manhole covers, vault lids, etc., weighing up to 100 lbs.; walking on uneven ground or river and ditch banks retrieving water samples or climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and reach while operating in the field; entering/exiting manholes or vaults; walking near or across rivers and ditches; working in all weather conditions at times of excessive temperatures of heat and extreme cold, working in or near moving traffic with appropriate traffic control set up.

Conditions of Employment: Candidates must successfully complete all pre-employment screenings and employment eligibility verification. Pre-employment screenings include a drug test, a background and national sex offender search, a motor vehicle record search, and for some positions, a physical demands evaluation. For more information about City policies and practices during the recruitment process, including but not limited to EOE, Reasonable Accommodation, and pre-employment screenings, please visit our career page HERE .