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Job Description

Overview

Join the Badger team as a Locator, where you'll conduct utility and sewer locates to research and inspect data regarding excavation on various construction projects. This role is ideal for detail-oriented and safety-conscious individuals who are enthusiastic about essential infrastructure work.

Responsibilities

  • Operate various electronic devices to assist locating and verifying underground utilities including gas, phone, and fiber optic cables.
  • Perform various reports and documentation verifying marked utilities.
  • Prepare GPS data on located utilities and related above ground features.
  • Identify and mark utility lines using spray paint or colored flags.
  • Attend safety meetings.

Requirements

  • Valid Driver’s License.
  • Preferred experience with locating utilities (3-5 years).
  • Ability to distinguish colors for marked utilities.
  • Must be willing to travel up to 50%.
  • Must be able to lift, push, pull 30+ pounds.

Additional Information

  • Candidates must undergo a physical examination and complete pre-employment screenings such as driver’s abstract review and drug and alcohol test.
  • This position is in a region that is covered under a collective bargaining agreement; the successful applicant may be required to join the union as a condition of employment.
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How this job compares in Dallas, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $20/hr, this posting comes in about 43% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs in Dallas, TX, where the middle half runs $28–$40/hr across 43 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 9% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Dallas, TX

We're tracking 115 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 83 different employers. 60 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,307 other active welding openings from 708 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.

Badger Infrastructure Solutions currently has 1 other opening live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Zachry Group (24), Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21), and Austin Industries (19). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $82/hr, Midlothian at $38/hr, and Dallas at $35/hr. Dallas is among them.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Locator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.