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Job Description
Job Summary
As a Utility Service Technician - INFRA Locator, you'll be responsible for locating, identifying, and marking utilities infrastructure, ensuring the seamless operation of our city's essential services. Elevate your career by providing exceptional customer service, maintaining water system mapping, and offering supervisory support. Apply today with the City of Grand Prairie!
Essential Job Functions- Locates, identifies, and marks utilities infrastructure by utilizing the resources at the plans vault in the Development Center; and researching the locations of water and wastewater mains, services, hydrants, valves, cleanouts, and manholes.
- Provides customer service by collecting information from customers regarding complaints; researching complaints in the field with leak detectors or other specialized equipment; and controlling water leaks.
- Maintains the mapping system by researching upcoming and current projects; and maintaining, verifying, and updating field information.
- Provides supervisory support by assisting with on call status; assigning work to crews; coordinating jobs for crews; ensuring work is completed accurately and in a timely manner; completing detailed work orders and other documentation of work that was finished on the job site; and completing special projects.
- Regular and dependable attendance is required.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
Minimum Qualifications- Education: Work requires knowledge necessary to understand basic operational, technical, or office processes. Level of knowledge equivalent to four years of high school or equivalency.
- Experience: Two years of related experience.
- Licenses: Class C Water Distribution License; A valid Class A Driver's License with Tanker Endorsement.
- Certifications Required: Class II Wastewater Collection within one (1) year of employment.
The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. Summary of Benefits
Closing Date/Time: 10/25/2024 5:00 PM Central - Locates, identifies, and marks utilities infrastructure by utilizing the resources at the plans vault in the Development Center; and researching the locations of water and wastewater mains, services, hydrants, valves, cleanouts, and manholes.
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Special Instructions
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Grand Prairie
Show moreWelcome to the City of Grand Prairie! We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing. Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values. We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
Raise a Family!We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:
- Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
- The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
- PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
- Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
- Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
- Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
- Lake Joe Pool
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
- Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
- Chicken N’ Pickle
- Bolder Adventure Park
- The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more
Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.
City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service. Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success. We look forward to you joining our
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