Utility Technician

Responsibilities

• Pest Control: Conduct inspections to identify pest activity, perform pest control services for residential and commercial clients, and install and maintain termite control systems
• TAP Insulation Installation: Efficiently install Thermal Acoustical Pest Control (TAP) insulation, ensuring quality service and customer satisfaction while managing job-site preparations and clean-up
• Construction and Repair: Assist with light construction projects, including minor repairs and replacements related to pest damage
• Customer Interaction: Communicate effectively with customers to explain services, ensure satisfaction, and provide guidance on pest control measures
• Service Delivery: Perform exclusion services and wildlife removal, setting up and building exclusion traps, and ensuring safety protocols are followed
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated on industry trends, technologies, and regulations. Participate in training to enhance your skills in pest control and related services

Requirements

• Clean shaven face for safety reasons (rebreathers have to be able to seal your face)
• High school diploma or GED; related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Valid driver’s license from state of residence
• Solid reading, writing, and verbal communication skills and the ability to present information in both internal and external settings
• Basic math skills — add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• You’ll need to be able to follow instructions for mixing on product labels

Qualifications

• Licenses/certificates as required by federal, state, and/or local regulations (covered by us)
• Customer-facing experience preferred

Skills

• Working around animals, insects and termites
• Working in tight, confined spaces such as basements, attics, crawl spaces, narrow aisles, or passageways
• Setting up and building exclusion traps, cuts flashing and forms hardware cloth to specifications
• Removing animals trapped in exclusion devices
• Working in a safety harness from roof tops as needed in the performance of exclusion services and wildlife removal
• Maintaining balance when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces
• Pushing objects forward, downward, or outward with sustained force using the upper extremities to press with steady force and drag, draw, haul, or tug objects
• Moving up to 50 pounds by lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise repositioning objects
• Maintain balance when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces
• Pushing objects forward, downward, or outward with sustained force using the upper extremities to press with steady force and drag, draw, haul, or tug objects
• Maintain balance when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces
• Working both inside and outside in your local climate in company-provided weather
• Moving around — regularly sitting, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, up and down stairs, ladders, scaffolding, ramps, and poles
• Able to wear personal protective equipment (PPE), like an OSHA-compliant respirator
• Safely operate a motor vehicle and make sure it and all other equipment is kept clean

Benefits

• Professional and Personal Growth
• Training and development programs available
• Tuition Reimbursement benefits (for FT Colleagues)
• Health and Wellness
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance plus much more
• Savings and Retirement
• 401(k) retirement plan with company-matching contributions
• Work-Life Balance
• Vacation days & sick days
• Company-paid holidays & floating holidays