loss prevention officer

ARKUPS

Utility Locating at Its Best
If you're looking for a career that offers exceptional benefits, a supportive team, and a true family atmosphere, ARKUPS is the place to be. From day one, employees are welcomed into a tight-knit community that values teamwork, respect, and personal growth.

Why Work Here?
✅ Outstanding Benefits – Competitive pay, comprehensive health coverage, retirement plans, and generous paid time off ensure employees feel valued and secure.
✅ Family-Oriented Culture – More than just coworkers, the team operates like a family, offering support, mentorship, and a positive work environment.
✅ Work-Life Balance – Flexible scheduling and understanding leadership make it easy to maintain a healthy balance between work and personal life.
✅ Career Growth – Opportunities for advancement and skill development ensure employees can build a long-term, fulfilling career.
✅ Meaningful Work – Helping protect underground utilities and ensuring safe excavation makes a real difference in communities.

"I've never worked for a company that cares so much about its employees. The benefits are fantastic, and the team feels like family."
"Management truly listens and supports us. I feel appreciated every day."
"This job has given me stability, great pay, and a work environment where I actually enjoy coming in every day."
If you're searching for a rewarding career with a company that values its employees, this is the perfect opportunity. Join a team that prioritizes your success and well-being—apply at ARKUPS today!


If you are looking for a stress-free, laid-back job that feels like you have all the support you need from management and are adequately staffed up to handle workloads, run as far as you can from Arkups. The other locate companies in the state start people off with no experience at around $17/hr-$18/hr. There are folks at Arkups that are making that after 5 years in. Management thinks it's better for them all to sit at home and have phone meetings about the massive workload instead of helping the guys in the field. CYA is the name of the game at Arkups, cover your own back because management will not. Also, it seems that new hires are not told the full truth when they are interviewed. There is a mandatory callout that you do not get paid for unless you get called out but you still have to be on standby in case there is a call. When the job description says that "there may be some overtime required" they mean that you ARE required to work at least 9-hour days and one weekend day a month even though it says that it is only an 8-hour work day. Don't even bother calling your manager and asking for help because they can't keep enough new hires for hardly anyone to get more than a year's worth of experience before they see that it's a sinking ship and bail off and save themselves.
All in all, Arkups is a terrible place to work and I've wasted way too many years working for a place that would call and ask me to work at least half a day on the day of my funeral.

I have been employed at Arkups for nearly 20 years, and my experience has been overwhelmingly positive. Arkups is a company that truly values its employees and fosters a family-oriented atmosphere. This sense of community and belonging is one of the standout features of working here.

The management team is supportive and approachable, always willing to listen to employee concerns and suggestions. They recognize and reward hard work and dedication, making it clear that if you do your job well and are not lazy, you will thrive here. The company offers numerous opportunities for professional growth and development, ensuring that employees can advance in their careers.

Arkups also prioritizes work-life balance, understanding the importance of family and personal time. This balance contributes to a healthy and productive work environment, where employees feel valued and motivated.

In summary, Arkups is an excellent place to work, especially for those who are committed and hardworking. The family-oriented culture, supportive management, and opportunities for growth make it a great place to build a long-term career.

You work an insane amount of hours and you’re expected to dedicate your life to this job. Hardly any time off. Management is a joke, they continue to add new utilities to the work load and will hardly ever hire to help manage the ticket load. Managers won’t locate and hardly ever get out of their house. If you do a good job cleaning up your area, just expect to have multiple peoples tickets moved over to your screen the next day whether they’ve been delayed or not. The pay raise scale is ridiculous, they look for any reason to nit pick you just to keep from getting a decent raise. You don’t get paid enough to deal with the amount of stress and lack of management support. The only pro of the job I can find is a company vehicle. 

Arkups used to be a good place to work. But in the last few years Arkups has went down hill dramatically. The upper management doesn’t seem to care about the guys in the field anymore. You are just a number to them and they don’t try to keep their experienced employees here. If someone quits they say they’ll just hire someone else and its always a revolving door like that. Arkups could go back to being a great place to work if they offered better starting pay, and actually listened to the employees about problems instead of blowing them off and had the managers come out and help the guys in the field when work gets slammed. If you want to be overworked and have no family life then this will be a great place for you.

ARKUPS started with a mandate to prevent damage to underground utilities by marking them in 2 working days. Now it's all about a bunch of numbers. The so called managers spend all their time collecting useless data instead of training and mentoring new employees. I guess that's okay because they won't hire enough people to get the work done anyway. It's always the stick and never a carrot with our leaders. Stay away from ARKUPS. It's not a career. It's a dead end. I've been there for many years and haven't advanced one step after working my butt off. They won't tell new people that there is 24 hour on call for a week that is unpaid unless you are called. Some of our areas go on call every 3 weeks. Look elsewhere for work.

Pay could have been better to start and also better pay raises and bonuses.  Can't feed my family with bread crumbs. 

I felt like part of the mushroom club fed poo and left in the dark on a lot of things. 

Management was hired out of house.  No advancement opportunities.  All about who you know type of deal not if you have the more Experience.  

Management did not always do what they said they would.  

Down fall is they put to much on 1 guy and keept adding to the work load . Too many utilities on 1 person . 

Upside co workers were good to work with. 
And they would have a nice safety meeting about once a month where they would feed us.

They pay you just enough to where it’s hard to get started anywhere else besides another locate company pay wise. You’ll get a yearly raise but they do anything and everything they can to keep from giving you a raise or much of one if all. You have to threaten to leave for them to even consider paying you what you should be. The top out pay is way less than it should be. Top out is just shy of $20hr. Other than that it’s stressful if you let it stress you out and call out sucks. I’d recommend the job though!

I have worked for ARKUPS for a few years and don't plan on leaving any time soon. The benefits are great and the hours are great for me and my family. I'm almost always home before dark and on weekends unless I'm on call and get called out. Sometimes the job gets stressful depending on ticket load but what job doesn't come with it's own stress points. 

You’ll never be appreciated or compensated fairly for the work you do. The employees who threaten to quit are the highest paid employees at the company due to shortage of man power and massive work loads those who do last a year will realize they do not get paid nearly well enough for the amount of stress at home and at work the gruesome work hours and environment and the management is the worst excluding a few key people

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