Traffic Signal Technician I
Job Description
Anticipated Salary Range: $25.53 - $30.00
Benefits: This position is benefits eligible. Please view our benefits guide here.
Job Summary:
The Traffic Signal Technician performs skilled and technical work in the installation, maintenance, and repair of traffic signal systems. Responsibilities include troubleshooting issues with signal systems, adjusting detector and controller timings, and replacing faulty components. The technician also prepares daily reports, maintains an inventory of required materials, and ensures proper functioning of traffic control devices. This role requires the ability to work with electrical systems, read blueprints, and handle standard tools. The technician will also supervise and direct some seasonal workers within the traffic signal section and perform work at heights up to 48 feet using bucket trucks.
Experience, Knowledge, Skills:
Minimum Requirements
- IMSA Level I certification in traffic signals, traffic signs, and markings, or ability to obtain certification within one year.
- Traffic Control Supervisor certification, or ability to obtain within one year.
- Class B Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) within one year.
- Valid Driver’s License and a good driving record.
Preferred:
- 1-3 years of traffic-related experience.
- IMSA Level II certification in traffic signals.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Knowledge of electrical theory and practice, including materials, diagrams, and methods used in the installation, maintenance, and repair of electric and electronic control devices.
- Knowledge of occupational hazards, safety precautions, and safety regulations related to equipment operation, electric currents, and traffic patterns.
- Good computer skills, including the ability to configure signal controllers, Ethernet switches, and other traffic signal equipment.
- Ability to read blueprints.
- Ability to follow and transmit clear written and verbal instructions.
- Ability to communicate effectively with co-workers, superintendent, and the public.
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with others.
Essential Functions:
- Make detailed checks of traffic signals to locate trouble or causes of failure and adjust detectors and controller timings, replacing parts where necessary.
- Prepare lists of materials needed and daily reports.
- Use standard hand and power tools such as saws, shovels, wrenches, blowers, and spray degreasers.
- Supervise and direct some seasonal workers within the traffic signal section.
- Climb into the bucket truck, secure in harnesses, and work at heights up to 48 feet to install radios, check signs, change signal lights, and maintain cameras.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Work Environment and Physical Requirements:
- Employee is subject to working alone, with groups, and/or attending meetings.
- May be required to conduct business in alternate locations within City buildings or field sites, sometimes in formal settings.
- May be required to work extended hours in the evening, holidays, or weekends.
- Frequent interruptions and be required to manage competing priorities with inflexible deadlines.
- Frequent participation in meetings.
- Frequent contact occurs with employees and the public, in person and on the telephone.
- Frequently is required to sit and talk or hear customers.
- Ability to manage competing priorities with frequent interruptions and an expected high level of accuracy in work is expected.
- Work is safe to having minimal hazards that are typically found in a general office environment where there is rarely little or no exposure to injury or accident.
- Must be able to work in all weather conditions.
- Must be able to work at heights up to 48 feet.
- Ability to work in high volumes of traffic.
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
- Employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data/figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading of printed materials; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices--graphs and gauges; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.
- Employee is required to have visual acuity for close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
- Employee is required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: operating machinery where the seeing job is at or within arm's reach and to operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment.
- Employee is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures for inspection purposes.
- Moderate to considerable physical effort that includes working from ladders in awkward positions, frequent use of light or medium weight objects (e.g., 30 lbs) and use of medium weight tools; walking on uneven ground or having to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and reach while performing duties; entering/exiting manholes or vaults; walking near or across rivers and ditches; working in all weather conditions at times of excessive temperatures of heat and extreme cold, working in or near moving traffic with appropriate traffic control set up;
- The essential functions of this job require frequent balancing, bending/stooping, carrying/lifting light to heavy objects, climbing, fingering, grasping, repetitive motion, hearing, sitting, standing, talking, and walking. Occasionally the employee will be required to pull, push, reach, feel temperature, and kneel.
EOE Statement: The City of Greeley provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
ADA Statement: We are committed to an inclusive and barrier-free search process. We provide accommodations for applicants requesting accommodation through the search process such as alternative formats of this posting. Individuals with disabilities in need of accommodations throughout the search process should contact the ADA Coordinator at: HR@Greeleygov.com .
Conditions of Employment: Candidates must successfully complete all pre-employment screenings and employment eligibility verification. Pre-employment screenings include a drug test, a background and national sex offender search, a motor vehicle record search, and for some positions, a physical demands evaluation. For more information about City policies and practices during the recruitment process, including but not limited to EOE, Reasonable Accommodation, and pre-employment screenings, please visit our career page HERE.
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