Job Description
Incumbents are responsible for performing a wide variety of tasks, ranging from unskilled manual labor to maintenance, repair and installation of electrical and electronic traffic control systems and equipment. This position exercises skilled judgment in the performance of assigned duties. Work includes heavy physical exertion, is performed primarily outside, includes exposure to hazardous conditions and must be completed during inclement weather.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Performs periodic maintenance inspections, repairs, and makes modifications to electrical/electronic traffic control equipment and systems
- Performs construction tasks of the electrical, plumbing, and concrete trades during repair, construction and modification of traffic signal and other systems
- Diagnoses equipment malfunctions and restores traffic control systems and equipment to normal operation
- Performs work using manuals, electronic schematics, wiring diagrams, construction plans, and computer software and applications
- Operates heavy equipment, hand, and power tools
- Operates electrical, electronic, and specialized testing equipment
- Prepares written and computerized documentation of work performed
- Provides location services for underground electrical facilities
- Provides emergency on-call response to signal malfunctions, failures and knockdowns
Typical Qualifications
Education and Experience:
High School Diploma or GED and two years of progressively responsible experience in the installation, maintenance of electrical systems.
OR
An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above, unless otherwise subject to any other requirements set forth in law or regulation.
Licensing/Certifications:
- Valid North Carolina Class C Driver’s License with a satisfactory driving record, or the ability to obtain within 30 days of hire.
- Class B (CDL) Commercial Driver’s License with a satisfactory driving record, or the ability to obtain within 45 days.
Additional Information
Other Requirements:
- Regular attendance is an essential function of this job to ensure continuity
- Incumbents of this position are subject to pre-employment drug screening, and post-employment random, post-accident, and reasonable suspicion drug/alcohol screening related to CDL licensing regulations
- Must have the ability to be on a rotating call schedule to respond in a timely manner to perform emergency work after hours. In the event of a weather-related State of Emergencies, 12-hour shifts
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Skilled in electrical and electronic construction and diagnostic repair work
- Knowledge of the hazards and applicable safety rules and precautions involved in equipment operation and general maintenance and construction of the electrical and electronic trades
- Ability to diagnose problems with electrical/electronic circuits and equipment
- Ability to proactively notice, recognize and make repairs as necessary within assigned areas
- Ability to perform physical labor tasks of the electrical, carpentry, plumbing and concrete trades
- Ability to make skillful, controlled manipulations of small objects, such as wiring a control cabinet
- Ability to work at heights up to 45 feet in an aerial platform
- Ability to perform very heavy work; Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects
- Ability to work outdoors at high altitude in a variety of adverse conditions, including heavy nearby traffic and inclement weather with exposure to the elements, including heat, rain, wind, cold, and snow
- Ability to perceive the full range of the color spectrum, such as working with color-coded electronic components or multi-conductor cables
- Ability to enter and manipulate data or information in a computer, signal controller or other programmable electronic equipment
- Ability to read, interpret and work from graphic instructions, such a manuals, schematics, diagrams and blueprints
ADA and Other Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to Stand, Walk, Sit, use hands to finger/handle/feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear and taste or smell.
Medium Work:
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pound and frequently lift 50 pounds. Vision requirements for this position include Close vision, Distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), Peripheral vision (ability to see up, down, left, and right while eyes fixed on a given point), Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships), Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
Working Conditions:
Regularly working near moving mechanical parts, work in high, precarious places, outdoor weather conditions and Risk of electrical shock, and occasionally working in wet or humid conditions (non-weather), fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold (non-weather), extreme heat (non-weather) and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud noise (examples: metal can manufacturing department, large earth-moving equipment).