Signal Engineer

Overview

The purpose of this classification is to oversee the installation, maintenance, operation, and repair of city and county electronic/electrical traffic control equipment and devices. Supervises, directs and evaluates assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining and completing employee performance appraisals.

• Prioritizes trouble calls and assigns personnel/resources to correct equipment malfunctions with immediate impact on public safety.
• Assigns work and oversees routine repair and maintenance of equipment.
• Assigns personnel and resources to construction programs such as new traffic equipment installations, the laying of communications cable, sensor installation and vehicle and pedestrian crossings.
• Consults with traffic engineer to discuss construction progress and maintenance, new construction and resource needs.
• Studies technical literature and attends seminars to keep current on new technology.
• Communicates with computer-controlled closed loop systems connected to on-street master; maintains mainframe controlling downtown intersections.
• Coordinates outside contractors involved in the construction of traffic control equipment; ensures compliance with city and county standards.
• Writes specifications and purchase requisitions to procure vehicles, outside repair services and construction/maintenance supplies and equipment.
• Plans and executes annual preventive maintenance programs.
• Plans and submits annual division budget.
• Consults with utility companies and other city and county divisions/departments to provide information, coordinate activities, provide technical expertise, discuss problems or receive support.
• Applies to the department of transportation for right-of-way and encroachment permits.
• Attends pre-construction meetings affecting traffic control.
• Maintains equipment inventory for repair and emergency replacement.

ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS

• Associate's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, or closely related field preferred; additionally, five (5) years progressively responsible experience and/or training that includes traffic signal computer system operations and electronics preferred; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.
• Must possess and maintain a valid Georgia driver's license.
• Must be certified in traffic signalization, traffic signal operations, and management of traffic signal control systems.

• Requires the ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data using established criteria. Includes exercise of discretion in determining actual or probable consequences, and in referencing such evaluation to identify and select alternatives.

• Requires the ability to function in managerial capacity for a division or organizational unit. Includes the ability to make decisions on procedural and technical levels.

• Requires the ability to operate and control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools and/or materials requiring complex and rapid adjustments.

• Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory and/or design data and information.

• Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.

• Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or synthesis functions; to deal with several concrete and abstract variables; and to analyze major problems that require complex planning for interrelated activities that can span one or several work units.

• Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.

• Physical Ability:
  Tasks require the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).
• Sensory Requirements:
  Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, taste, odor, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
• Environmental Factors:
  Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, wetness, humidity, rain, electric currents, traffic hazards, or…