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City of Allen · 2 weeks ago

Senior Signal Technician

Allen, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$25.16/hr - $36.49/hr

4+ years exp

The City of Allen is a dynamic community with over 100,000 residents, and they are seeking a Senior Signal Technician to ensure the safe and efficient flow of City traffic. This role involves supervising the maintenance of City signs and signals, maintaining traffic control equipment, and providing various administrative services.

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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 the traffic engineer in programming and modifying signal-timing plans, changing out controllers and implementing software needed by traffic engineer

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 inspecting school zone flashers once a year

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 making repairs, including ensuring lights are switched off during the repairs and back on post repair

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 board

Provides various administrative services by processing work orders, maintaining daily work logs and on-call status, supervising work units and their activities, coordinating the message board and radar trailer placement and by providing preventative maintenance on aerial lift truck and other City vehicles

Qualification

Traffic Signal OperationsPreventative MaintenanceTraffic Study MethodologiesIMSA CertificationSupervisory PrinciplesSign FabricationElectrical Safety ProtocolsTeam CoordinationCommunication SkillsProblem Solving