Damage Prevention Technician
- Ottawa, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Managing work orders and documenting locates
- Provide sketches with markings of the locates
- Utilize equipment to communicate with excavators and company personnel regarding underground facilities
- Locate buried utility lines
- Operate various electronic devices including use of a receiver wand and transmitter to assist in the locating and verifying of underground utilities
- Mark utility lines
- Prepare various reports and documentation verifying marked utilities
- Adhere to safety standards and schedules
- Communicates Effectively
- Customer Focus
- Holds Self and Others Accountable
- Problem Solving and Innovation
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Holds a valid G licence and comfortable driving in all types of weather conditions
- Must be able to navigate utilizing GPS, or maps
- Must be able to utilize a laptop computer to interpret utility maps
- Candidates must be able to squat, kneel, use hands and fingers to push buttons, hold receiver (piece of locate equipment) and use paint stick in the other hand for marking ground and roadways up to 9 hours a day
- Candidates must be comfortable walking on all types of terrain (grass, gravel, dirt and roadways)
- Candidates must be able to work days, afternoons, nights and on call coverage