Job Summary:
Our Leak Detection Project Managers are more than technicians. It’s their commitment to being leaders in the industry and serving customers from beginning to end which sets them apart from the competition. You’ll join a field team that is committed to building and maintaining client relationships through excellent service.
Your primary focus will be to provide leak detection and utility locating field services. In addition, you’ll be charged with increasing the GPRS footprint in leak detection in your assigned market.
Job Goals:
- Provide leak detection and utility locating field services
- Increase GPRS’s leak detection presence in your assigned markets
- Build and maintain client relationships through excellent service
Job Responsibilities:
Leak Detection:
- Seek out client opportunities to increase GPRS’s leak detection presence in assigned markets
- Create client opportunities for leak detection
- Perform comprehensive leak detection surveys and emergency leak location services on pressurized water lines
- Prepare field report of findings including photographs and satellite images
- Utilization of technologies such as correlators, data loggers and acoustic listening devices to identify and prioritize leak locations
Utility Locating
- Locating underground utilities including telecommunications, electric, gas, water, sewer systems, and other various known/unknown utilities or structures on a variety of project types including municipal, commercial, institutional and residential.
- Properly marking the location of located utilities making comparison to previous records
- Preparing a comprehensive field report of findings including photographs and satellite images
- Utilization of technologies such as GPR, Pipe & Cable Locators, Video Inspection Cameras, GPS & Total Station
- Become proficient in utilizing industry symbols to denote buried and above ground utilities.
- Become proficient in utilizing different types of marking devices and understand their proper application.
Qualifications/Minimum Requirements:
- Educational background in construction management, surveying technology, engineering or relevant job experience, preferred.
- Direct experience in Water Leak Locating is preferred; training will be provided to those without this experience.
- Proven problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated team player
- Possess skills in Microsoft Office including Word and Excel
- Drive and ability to learn how to use GPR and other equipment to complete locating projects – we have the experts and a state-of-the-art facility to teach you, we need to know you want to learn new skills and have the drive for safety and excellence in everything you do
- Must be physically capable of carrying up to 35 lbs
- Ability to work a flexible schedule – including overnights and nights/weekends as needed.
- Able to pass a drug screen and background criteria commensurate with industry standards
- Valid driver’s license and a safe driving record
Must live within or willing to move within 50 miles of posted city
Skills Required
- Educational background in construction management, surveying technology, engineering, or relevant job experience
- Direct experience in water leak locating
- Proven problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to work as a team player
- Microsoft Office skills, including Word and Excel
- Ability and willingness to learn GPR and other locating equipment
- Ability to safely carry up to 35 pounds
- Ability to work a flexible schedule, including overnights, nights, and weekends
- Ability to pass a drug screen and industry-standard background criteria
- Valid driver's license and safe driving record
- Must live within or be willing to move within 50 miles of the posted city
What We Do
GPRS envisions a tomorrow with the capability of 100% subsurface damage prevention. We will pursue all avenues of technology, training and methodology to realize this goal of safety for our clients. Our 99.8%+ accuracy rating on over 250,000 projects leads the industry. When our newest offering of 3D Laser Scanning is combined with Utility Locating, Ground Penetrating Radar, Video Pipe Inspection, Leak Detection and Concrete Scanning - you receive the most comprehensive subsurface solutions available. We exist to provide the best opportunities and development for team members while delivering a sensational experience to our customers, preventing them from experiencing the problems associated with unknown subsurface elements. GPRS is the nation’s largest company specializing in the detection of underground utilities, CCTV Pipe Inspections and the scanning of concrete structures. GPRS has an extensive nationwide network of highly trained and experienced technicians in every major U.S. market. Utilizing GPR reduces risk and cost, promotes a safe work environment, and provides non-destructive testing by locating materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, steel, rock, soil, ice, and pavement. Our client base includes hospitals, universities, surveyors, engineers, homeowners, contractors, environmentalists, and excavators.
