Safety​/Utilities Locator Officer

Salary : $36,099.15 - $57,709.91 Annually
Location : VA 23803, VA
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Number: 01027
Department: Public Utilities
Opening Date: 01/02/2026

Description

General Description
The purpose of this job within the organization is to locate underground utilities to prevent damage to utility lines or injury to citizens, contractors and employees. This job works under close to general supervision according to set procedures, but determines how or when to complete tasks.

Duties and Responsibilities
The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this job. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the job as necessary.
Essential Functions

Essential Functions:
Responds to requests to locate underground utilities (water, sewer and storm) for the City.

Outlines the "Miss Utility" program with new construction and home owners.

Inspects job sites and equipment to ensure they are in compliance with safety standards and regulations.

Locates and marks utility lines utilizing locating equipment, maps, and plans.

Manages contractors work and assists with setting utility markings to locate underground utilities.

Enters daily work into the computer to make records and supplies copies of all work.

Provides customer service to assist homeowner's, contractors and citizens with utility issues.

Additional Duties:
Ensures crews adhere to all OSHA safety requirements.

Reads and interprets construction plans, drawings and maps.

Performs related work as assigned.

Responsibilities, Requirements and Impacts Data Responsibility:
Data Responsibility refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.

Gathers, organizes, analyzes, examines or evaluates data or information and may prescribe action based on these data or information.

People Responsibility:
People include co-workers, workers in other areas or agencies and the general public.

Serves others such as customers, attends to their requests and exchanges information with them.

Asset Responsibility:
Assets responsibility refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.

Requires minimum responsibility for only small quantities of low cost items or supplies where opportunities for achieving economies or preventing loss are negligible.

Mathematical Requirements:
Mathematics requires the use of symbols, numbers and formulas to solve mathematical problems.

Uses basic addition and subtraction, such as making change or measuring.

Communications Requirements:
Communications involves the ability to read, write, and speak.

Reads technical instructions, procedures manuals and charts to solve practical problems, such as assembly instruction for tools, routine office equipment operating instructions, and methods and procedures for investigations and in drawing and layout work; composes routine reports and specialized reports, forms, and business letters, with proper format; speaks compound sentences using normal grammar and word form.

Judgment Requirements:
Judgment requirements refer to the frequency and complexity of judgments and decisions given the stability of the work environments, the nature and type of guidance, and the breadth of impact of the judgments and decisions.

Responsible for guiding others, requiring frequent decisions, affecting the individual, co-workers and others who depend on the service or product; works in a somewhat fluid environment with rules and procedures, but many variations from the routine.

Complexity of Work:
Complexity addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, concentration and creativity, required by the job and the presence of any unusual pressures present in the job.

Performs semi-routine work, following procedures, with occasional problems; requires normal attention for accurate results.

Impact of Errors:
Impact of errors refers to consequences such as damage to equipment and property, loss of data, exposure of the organization to legal liability, and injury or death for individuals.

The impact of errors is serious - affects most units in organization, and may affect citizens or loss of life and/or damage could occur and probability is likely.

Physical Demands:
Physical demands refer to the requirements for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.

Performs light to medium work that involves walking or standing virtually all of the time and also involves exerting between 20 and 50 pounds of force on a regular and recurring basis or considerable skill, adeptness and speed in the use of the fingers, hands or limbs in tasks involving close tolerances or limits of accuracy.

Equipment Usage:
Equipment usage involves responsibility for materials, machines, tools, equipment, work aids, and products.

Handles or uses computers, tools, equipment or work aids involving…