Utility Locate Technician - $20.60 - $32.04/hr - Three Forks, Montana

Unionposition. ELM Utility Services, with over 1000 employees nationwide, has anoutstanding opportunity as a Utility Locate Technician, working in the ThreeForks, Montana area. With starting pay from $20.60-$32.04 per hour DOQ, you will be provided paidtraining by ELM using ELM equipment, including company provided vehicle to workindependently as your mobile office. ELM utilizes our LaunchPoint softwaresystem with state-of-the-art technology to ensure the job is as simple andefficient as possible for our technicians. ELM Technicians provide a service totheir community ensuring the gas, electric, communications systems, etc. aremaintained and dependable by performing excellent quality marking of utilitiesto prevent excavation damage to these critical facilities. Utility facilitiesthat provide heat, light, and necessary communications critical to our modernlife serves the communities in which we live. Minimum starting pay willincrease to $21.22 per hour if hired after December 31, 2024. Training for thisposition will begin in early January.

In addition to hourly compensation, ELM offers a full benefits packageincluding:
• Companyvehicle and fuel card are provided for you to take home each day as your mobileoffice
• Medical,Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Paid-TimeOff accrual (PTO) and Vacation/Sick Time (80 hours per full year worked to start,Accruals go up with years of service).
• 6Paid Holidays
• CompanySmart Phone, and other equipment as needed are provided to each employee
• 401(k)plan
• BootReimbursement Program
• EmployeeAssistance Program (EAP)
• Paidhands-on training
• Annualreviews with the potential for increases

Yourspecific duties in this role will include, but not limited to:
• Workingindependently outdoors utilizing your company-provided vehicle as your mobileoffice, you will work a route of locate requests to be completed each day.
• Ourmission is to correctly, safely, and efficiently locate and mark undergroundutilities including, electric and gas lines primarily, marking their properlocation using marking paint, flags, and whiskers in some cases. In some areasELM does also locate communications or other facilities as well. Localmanagement can provide specifically what utilities we service in your area.
• Completeall necessary digital documentation and paperwork
• Receivedaily route and locate requests by logging in each morning from your vehicle/mobileoffice handheld smartphone. No need to come to an office every day. The daynormally will start at your residence and ends on the last locate jobcompleted.
• Respondto emergency calls in a timely manner as directed
• Workperiodic overtime and weekend on-call rotation may be requested

Specificqualifications for the position include:
• Abilityto pass a pre-employment drug screen.

***Please note: This is a Safety-Sensitive DOTposition that must comply with all Federal Department of Transportationregulations. The use of Marijuana remains a drug listed in Schedule I of the ControlledSubstances Act, and the use of marijuana (medical or recreational) isprohibited.
• Atleast 18 years of age
• HighSchool Diploma or GED
• Validdriver's license in good standing

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER