Utility Technician

Job Summary

Bama Imperial Solutions is seeking an experienced Utility Technician to support underground utility construction operations in the Huntsville/Decatur area.

The Utility Technician will work directly with boring, missile, potholing, and underground utility crews. This is a hands-on field position requiring previous experience working around underground utilities, construction equipment, excavation activities, and active jobsites.

Previous underground utility, telecommunications construction, or related field experience is required.

Required Experience & Skills

Qualified applicants should have experience or working knowledge in several of the following areas:

• Underground utility construction
• Directional boring/HDD crew operations
• Pneumatic missile/bore operations
• Potholing and exposing existing underground utilities
• Identifying and working safely around marked underground utilities
• Basic understanding of utility markings and locate colors
• Excavation and trench safety awareness
• Safe use of hand and power tools
• Jobsite setup and breakdown
• Loading, unloading, and staging utility equipment and materials
• Working safely around boring machines, excavators, vacuum equipment, compressors, and other construction equipment
• Traffic-control and work-zone safety
• Setting cones, signs, barricades, and other traffic-control devices
• Following bore paths and crew instructions
• Maintaining awareness of existing gas, electric, water, sewer, telecommunications, and other underground facilities
• Reading basic jobsite plans, utility markings, and work instructions
• Completing jobsite documentation, photographs, and required timestamps
• Recognizing and immediately reporting unsafe conditions or damaged utilities
• Proper jobsite cleanup and restoration practices
• Ability to communicate effectively with crew leaders, supervisors, and other field personnel

Physical Skills & Requirements

Applicants must be able to:

• Perform physically demanding outdoor work throughout the workday
• Stand and walk for extended periods
• Bend, squat, kneel, climb, push, and pull as required
• Lift and carry tools, materials, cones, signs, and utility equipment
• Work around active traffic and heavy construction equipment
• Work in heat, cold, rain, mud, and changing weather conditions
• Safely enter and work around excavation and utility construction areas as permitted
• Maintain situational awareness in an active construction environment

Preferred Additional Skills

Preference may be given to applicants with experience in:

• Telecommunications/fiber utility construction
• Directional drilling/HDD
• Potholing or vacuum excavation
• Pneumatic missile boring
• Utility locating
• Excavation
• Traffic control
• Underground conduit installation
• Fiber or telecommunications construction
• Construction equipment operation

What We Are Looking For

The ideal Utility Technician is experienced, dependable, safety-conscious, physically capable, and comfortable working in an underground utility construction environment. Candidates must be able to follow directions, work effectively as part of a crew, arrive on time, and safely perform assigned field duties.

This is not an entry-level flagger position. Applicants should have previous utility or related construction experience.

Pay: From $15.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• Underground utilities: 1 year (Required)
• Directional boring/HDD crew operations: 1 year (Required)
• Pneumatic missile/bore operations: 1 year (Required)
• Potholing : 1 year (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)

Location:

• Huntsville, AL 35811 (Preferred)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)
• Night Shift (Preferred)
• Overnight Shift (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Huntsville, AL 35811 (Required)

Work Location: In person