Locates Maintenance Technician I or II (Dependent on Qualifications)

Are you someone who enjoys working outdoors, solving problems, and playing a vital role in your community's infrastructure? Join our team as our Locates Maintenance Technicianand help us keep essential services running safely and efficiently!

As a Locates Maintenance Technician, you'll be the go-to expert responsible for locating and marking underground fiber, water, sewer, reuse, and Stormwater infrastructure. You'll work hands-on with advanced detection equipment and utility maps to ensure excavation work is performed safely and accurately.

No experience? No problem! We offer hands-on training to help you develop the skills you need to succeed and advance in your career.

Work Location: Leon A Wurl Service Center (150 Bonnell Ave, Erie, CO 80516)

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  This position is 100% in-person and not eligible for remote work

  
  

Work Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:00AM - 3:30PM

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  Employee must be able to work on-call schedule as assigned and outside of normal working hours.

  
  

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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (Advanced, additional duties will exist for the Level II position):

Essential

• Identifying and marking buried fiber, water, sewer, reuse and storm water infrastructures by referencing utility prints and using specialized locating equipment.
• Operates and maintains specialized equipment and tools used to locate underground utilities.
• Reads, understands, and interprets utility maps, engineering design plans, prints, and aerial imagery to assist in identification of Town owned underground utility assets.
• Prioritizes work activities by reviewing all locate requests to determine travel routes and timelines. Conducts field meetings with contractors or customers and other representatives from outside agencies and identifies the location of each utility line.
• Operates handheld detection equipment in the designed manner. Marks the location of underground utility assets on roadways, private property, and other ground surface locations, as appropriate and needed, using required spray paints, flags, or other marking devices.
• Maintains and updates records and construction drawings to mark utility lines within accuracy requirements of State laws.
• Conducts field meetings with contractors or customers and other representatives from outside agencies and identifies the location of each utility line.
• Responsible for managing, inspecting, and maintaining permanent marking posts for all Town owned underground utilities located outside of roadways.
• Operates a computer, including a tablet, and a portable or handheld GPS unit.
• Ensures that problems are corrected in a timely and effective manner.
• Must be flexible to work in all types of terrain and weather conditions, able to succeed under stressful situations and conduct him or herself in a professional manner at all times.
• Performs snow removal activities either by hand, small equipment or heavy equipment as assigned.

Administrative and Customer Service

• Completes all proper documentation for each utility locate ticket. Actively keeps current with new utility locating equipment, GIS and mapping systems, and GPS locating technology.
• Updates staff of any discrepancies found in the field during utility locates in reference to updating the Town of Erie Utility GIS mapping.
• Performs data entry of information, maintenance logs and other data in spreadsheets and related software.
• Responds to customers and contractors inquiries and complaints.
• Prepares necessary records and reports.

Safety

• Performs a variety of duties that requires considerable knowledge of the use and wear of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
• Performs routine safety checks of equipment and minor maintenance activities on vehicles and equipment and maintains records of activities.
• Maintains a safe working environment to include working in traffic and congested areas, working in ditches and confined spaces and all work environments.
• Assists in the cleaning and organization of shop area.

Operations & Maintenance Support

• Assisting Meters with reading and maintenance, service orders, conducting turn-offs and turn-ons of residential and commercial water services.
• Assisting Streets with maintenance of roadways and signage.
• Assisting Distribution, Collections, Storm Operations tasks to include maintenance and inspection of sanitary sewer, manhole, lift stations, CCTV, water, sewer and storm lines, hydrants, valve, and PRVs.
• Assisting in Town events preparation, operation and break down.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES REQUIRED:

Knowledge of: use or learn to use hand tools and heavy equipment such as backhoe, dump truck, skid steer and other mobile machinery. Knowledge of basic math skills including how to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.

Skills in: Ability to use or learn to use hand tools and heavy equipment such as front-end loader, motor grader, sweeper, backhoe, dump truck, skid steer, and other mobile machinery. Ability to complete basic math such as how to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to read maps and drawings. Ability to trouble-shoot and resolve problems involving variables in any standardized situation.

Ability to read and comprehend simple instruction, short correspondence, and memos and carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationship with employees and the public. Ability to effectively present information in a one-on-one and/or small group situation, to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization. Ability to supervise and direct subordinates in the absence of division supervisor. Ability to work independently and demonstrate good time management skills to plan and accomplish assigned workloads as required.

Environmental Factors:

Work is frequently performed in an inside standard office environment as well as an outside setting. Frequent to constant use of a personal computer. Work may involve competing demands, performing multiple tasks, and working to deadlines. Tasks frequently require outside work with moderate to high noise levels and local travel (rarely requiring out of town travel). Tasks frequently include walking on uneven surfaces and exposure to chemicals, gases, fumes, dust, vibrations, use of light to heavy equipment operations and working in traffic; occasionally working with heights and extreme temperatures.

Physical Factors:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is constantly grasping, fingering, and handling items as well as talking and hearing. Employee will frequently be sitting, standing, reaching, or walking for extended periods of time, use of near visual acuity and constantly moving objects weighing over 10 pounds, frequently over 50 pounds and occasionally over to 100 pounds. Occasionally tasks require stooping, kneeling, squatting, climbing, balancing, use of far visual acuity, color discrimination, and peripheral vision. Employee may rarely have tasks requiring running or use of depth perception.

Town of Erie Benefits:

The Town of Erie offers a comprehensive benefit package and pays a major portion of the employee premium to make these benefits more affordable for you. Coverage of these benefits begin the 1st of the month following date of hire for benefited employees regularly working an average of 30 hours per week. Each year you will have the option of changing your elections through open enrollment. To learn more, review the benefits webpage.

Designated full time employees are eligible for the following benefits:

• Robust Medical, Dental and Vision plans including spouse, domestic partner and family coverage options
• Supplemental Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Plans
• Voluntary Life/AD&D
• Employer paid Basic Life/AD&D
• Employer paid Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Employer paid Employee Assistance Program
• Robust extended sick leave and family sick leave program
• Up to 48 hours of Colorado Sick Leave preloaded on the 1st of every year (pro-rated if hired after the 1st of the year)
• 3 Weeks of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year (increases with years of service)
• 40 hours of pre-loaded Paid Time Off (PTO) to each new employee upon hire
• Fifteen (15) Paid Holidays
• Twenty-Four (24) Hours of Paid Volunteer Leave
• Up to 12 weeks of paid Parental Leave for bonding with a new child
• Option to "sell back" PTO after two (2) years of continuous employment
• 457 Retirement Plan, with a 5% employer match and immediate 100% vesting in your deferral contributions AND employer contributions
• Education reimbursement up to $3,000 per year
• Individual free membership to the Erie Community Center and steep discounts on couple or family memberships.
• Employer sponsored wellness program, including employee-based fitness classes
• Childcare benefits which includes 10% discount to any KinderCare location in Colorado
• Half-off charging at town-owned EV charging stations
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Discount Program through Benefits Hub
• Eligible for discount Dell Computer program
• Onsite/virtual trainings for growth and development opportunities

We are a Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)-qualified employer!

EEOC Statement:

The Town is dedicated to the principles of equal employment opportunity in any term, condition or privilege of employment. Applicants, employees and former employees are protected from employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information (including family medical history), veteran status, marital status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. This prohibition includes unlawful harassment or discrimination based on any of these protected classes. Unlawful harassment includes verbal or physical conduct, which has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an individual's work performance or creating a severe, intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment. This provision applies to all employees, including directors, supervisors, co-workers, and non-employees such as residents, members of all boards and task force groups, contractors, vendors, consultants, etc.