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City of Allen · 1 week ago

Traffic Signal Technician

Allen, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$21.74/hr - $31.52/hr

2+ years exp

The City of Allen is a dynamic community looking to hire a Traffic Signal Technician to ensure the safe and efficient flow of city traffic. This role involves maintaining traffic control equipment, school zone flashers, and residential roadway lighting, as well as providing administrative support and interfacing with city employees and citizens.

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Responsibilities

Maintains traffic control equipment by running tests to ensure correct operation, performing preventative maintenance on signal hardware, troubleshooting and repairing traffic signal problems, installing new traffic signals, assisting with programming and modifying signal-timing plans, changing out controllers and implementing needed software

Maintains school zone flashers by ensuring correct operation, maintaining knowledge of flasher assembly, installation and operation, programming clocks with school meeting times, running tests on flasher equipment and conducting regular inspection of school zone flashers

Performs traffic studies by providing hand held traffic counts for phase time studies and by placing and securing moveable counting units at different locations

Maintains residential roadway lighting by troubleshooting and repairing lighting systems

Provides City signage services by fabricating street name signs, installing signs and using sign machine and computer to create signs

Maintains safe working environments for City workers by setting out warning signs, safety cones and barricades, accounting for flow and density of traffic and by routing traffic with arrow boards

Provides administrative support by processing work orders, maintaining work logs and on-call status, supervising work activities, coordinating the message board and radar trailer placement and by providing preventative maintenance on aerial lift trucks and other City vehicles

Qualification

Traffic signal operationsPreventative maintenanceTraffic study methodsValid Class C LicenseIMSA CertificationSign fabricationBasic electrical principlesTroubleshooting techniquesSafety practicesCommunication skills